The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-21 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Nov. 20,

MANSION-llOUSE.—William Smith, Alfred Bart-
lett, and Thomas Frederick Wharton, three men well
known to the police as card and skittle sharpers, were
brought before the Lord Mayor charged with having un-
lawfully in their possession a number of foreign bank
notes.

Detective officers Smith and Smart were together in Cut-
ler-street, Houndsditch, on Thursday afternoon, and Smith
saw Wharton and another man not in custody at the en-
trance of the Cutlers' Arms. Smith thinking from their
manner that there was something going on that was not
altogether right, drew the attention of Smart to them. They
saw them go into the Cutlet s'Arms, and followed them into
a room at the back of the house, where there were three
other men, two of whom were Smith and Bartlett. The
five men wore seated round a table, and the officer Smith
heard Bartlett say, "These are worth —," the remainder
of the sentence he could not catch. Both the officers went
into the room, and saw Bartlett with some foreign bank
notes in his hand, and the other two prisoners also had
some looking at. The officer Smith seized the notes from
the prisoner Smith, and from one of the men that escaped.
Bartlett at the same time crumpled up some notes in his
hand. Smith took them from him, and asked him what he
had, and he said it was all right, they would go quietly
with them, and the prisoner Smith said they had made a
mistake this time. The officers secured four of the men,
but on the road to the stati Al-house the fourth managed to
make his escape. When at the station, Bartlett said they
had had the notes for six weeks, and they were duffers, and
ho knew where to get sacks full of them. The prisoner
Smith remarked that it was not as though they were
" buzzed" (a term for picking pockets). : When at the
station a quantity of coins resembling sovereigns and some
metal guard chains, with a number of odd cards, were
found on the prisoners.
A witness named Carl Theodore Bendton, a native of
Norway, was called, whose evidence put the prisoners
somewhat at a nonplus. They had not been told that be
would be called, and evidently did not expect him, From
his statement it appeared that he was in lloundsditch on '
the previous afternoon, and lost his pocket-book, contain-
ing, as near as he could say, five 100 rix-dollar notes, seven
of ten, and about 30 dollars in email notes. He could not
say, however, how or where he lost them, but he missed
them just by the railway station. He identified all the
notes—four 100 rix-dollars, seven ten ditto, five one ditto,
as being part of the notes he lost.
When asked what they had to say, the prisoners Smith
and Wharton said they owned they were known to the
police as gamblers, but that was all they knew against
them. The notes they had nothing to do with. They met
Bartlett, who asked them to go and have something to
drink, and when ho went in he showed them the notes, and
they were looking at them when the officers came in.
Bartlett varied his statement somewhat to what he had
originally said about having had the notes six weeks. lie
repeated what the other prisoners had said, and added that
he picked up the notes in a purse, and was showing them
to the other " gentlemen," under the impression that they
were " duffers," and would do to put in their banks.
The Lord Mayor said there was no doubt the prisoners
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were in illegal possession of the notes, for which an owner
had been found, and until then nothing had been said by
them as to finding them, and sentenced them each to two
months' hard labour.

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