The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-15 00:00:00

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THE SUN, LONDON, THORSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1861

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MANSION HOUSE.

ROBBERY BY A CLERK.—Henry Thornton Tubbs, of
10, Cornwall-villas, Dalaton, clerk in the firm of Messrs.
Dalgetty, merchants, Gresham-street, was placed before
Aldermen Abbis and Hale, charged with stealing a letter
containing four £5 Bank of England notes, the property of
his employer.
It appeared that the prisoner, who was highly respect-
ably connected, was a clerk in the house of Dalgetty and
Cc., and in that capacity, on the 29th of September, he re-
ceived a cheque for £2O from the chief clerk, who was a
relative of one of the firm, with directions to proceed to the
Bank and get it changed for 4 £5 Bank of England notes,
which, after having taken the numbers, he was to place in
the letter and leave in the usual manner for postage.
The letter never reached its destination, and this
occasioned some inquiries to be made at the
General Post-office, when an officer was instructed
to investigate the matter. lie inquired at several jewel-
lers shops in Cheapsido as to whether any £5 notes had
been taken, and he then discovered that three notes had
been changed in payment for a watch and chain, a ring and
pin. On arriving at Messrs. Dalgetty's, the prisoner was
questioned about the letter. He said he did not post it him-
self, as it was not his duty to do so. He was then asked
whether he had recently purchased a watch, &c., when he
replied that he had, and upon being further questioned as
to whether he had paid for them in notes, he replied that he
had, and eventually confessed to the robbery.
Mr. Decroz, chief clerk to Messrs. Dalgetty, said he
directed the prisoner to proceed to the bank and get a
cheque cashed for £2O, which ho was directed to enclose in
a letter, and send as directed, in the usual manner. He saw
the letter afterwards, directed in the prisoner's handwriting.
The letter never: reaching its destination, an inquiry was
made respecting it, The prisoner denied all knowledge of
it, after he had directed and left it for the porter to convey
to the Post-office, The prisoner was not suspected of the
robbery, and remained in the employ of Messrs. Dalgetty
till yesterday, when, in consequence of a communication
from a detective officer, he was given into custody.
The bank clerk proved the payment of the cheque for
£2O in four five-pound notes of the corresponding numbers
to those produced by the police.
George Russell said he was a detective officer, and yes •
terday he went to Messrs. Dalgetty's, and saw the prisoner
in the presence of his master, who handed the witness a
silver watch, a gold chain, a ring, and pin, and said
the prisoner had given them to him, stating that they
had been purchased with the stolen notes. He said to
the prisoner, " You hear what your master says ; is that
true ?' to which he replied "Yes." He was then taken
into custody and charged with stealing a letter contain-
ing four five pound notes, the property of Messrs.
Dalgetty and Co.

The prisoner pleaded guilty to the charge, and at the
prosecutor's wish it was disposed of summarily.
Alderman A bbiss sentenced:him to four months' im-
prisonment with hard labour.

handed the bag of stolen wool to Vickers, who started off to
Rosemary-lane, where there are so many receivers of stolen
property. Mr. Prestige lost sight of Vickers in the lane,
and immediately returned to the van, of which Gooch
was in charge. Vickers soon returned with the bag
empty. Mr. Prestige took it from him, and called the
police to arrest both men. Gooch was taken on the spot.
Vickers eluded the search made after him until Tuesday
last when he was taken into custody by Uriah Haserly, a
police-constable of the H division. He (Mr. C. Young)
should now make out a complete case against him, and
asked the magistrate to commit the prisoner for trial.
Several witnesses were called by Mr. Young, who clearly
made out the case against Vickers. It was also proved that
19 bales and three bags of wool were put into Messrs.
Seaward's van on the 13th of August in good order, and
that the bag when seized by Mr. Prestige contained frag-
ments of wool.

The prisoner, who conducted himself in a most impudent
manner, and frequently contradicted and abused the wit-
nesses, said he was quite innocent.

Mr. Partridge committed the prieoner for trial.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.

IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. —Wheat, 41s Od ;
barley, 34s 7d ; oats, 19s 4cl; rye, 31s 5d ; beans, 87s Od ;
and peas, 36s 4d.
THE SIR WEEKS' AVERAGES. Wheat, 43s 4d ;
barley, 35s Od ; oats, 20s 7d; rye, 31s 10d; beans, 38s 7d;
peas, 36s Bd.
ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LASTWEEK.--wheat, 110,596 ;
barley, 82,649 ; oats, 14,574; rye, 239; beans, 4,701; peas
1,974 quarters.

The Livingston Expedition,

In a letter to Sir R. Murchison, dated " Murchi-
son Cataracts (on the Shire), April 25," Dr. Living-
ston says—" With sorrow I have to communicate
the sad intelligence that Mr. Richard Thornton
died on the 21st current. He performed a most
fatiguing journey from this to Tette and back again,
and that seemed to use up all his strength, for,
thereafter, he could make no exertion without pain-
ful exhaustion. His object was to connect his
hearings of the hills at Tette (on the Zambesi) with
the mountains here. I knew nothing of his re-
solution till after he had left. He had resolved to
go home after he had examined Z imba and
the Melanje range, but on the 11th he was
troubled with diarrhoea, which ran on to dysentery
and fever. We hoped to the last that his youth and
unimpaired constitution would carry him through,
as he had suffered comparatively little from fever,
but we were disappointed. An insidious delirium
prevented us learning aught of his last wishes. All
his papers, &c., were at once sealed up, and are sent
home to his brother at Bradford. He is buried
about 500 yards from the foot of the first cataract,
and on the right bank of the Shire." After allud-
ing to the depopulation of the valley, and the pro
bability of his being obliged to take to pieces the
steamer, and screw her together, with the view of a
sale, Dr. Livingstonthus concludes :—" Dr. Kirk and
Mr. Charles Livingston now go home. The scene of
desolation around us reacts on my health badly."—
In a letter to the 7itnes, Sir R. Murchison says
Earnestly hoping that the great South African
explorer may now come home to his motherless
ebildren and numerous friends, and not expose his
valuable life to further risks, I must, in justice to
the memory of young Richard Thornton, say a few
words upon his labours, in anticipation of what may
result from the publication of the papers he has left
behind him. Educated in the Royal School of Mines,
and greatly distinguished by the professors under
whom be studied, he was much attracted by the ex-
ploits of Dr. Livingston, and, having volunteered to
go out as the geologist and topographer of the second
expedition of my eminent friend, I had no hesitation
in recommending him for that purpose. After
making plans and sketching maps of the banks of
the Zambesi, illustrated by geological observations
and sections, he quitted the Livingston expedition,
and repaired eventually to Zanzibar, with a view
(,f extending his surveys in equatorial Africa. There
he fortunately met with the energetic Hanoverian
traveller, the Baron C. von der Decken, with whom
be passed into the mainland, and ascended the flanks
of the lofty, snow-capped mountain Kilimanjara,
making maps of this equatorial region, accompa-
nied by geological notes. At the close of that ad-
venture he wrote to me, unfolding the desire he

felt to traverse Africa from east to west, and thus
determine the true physical structure of the centre
and flanks of the southern map of the great conti-
nent. In the meantime, returning to his original
duties on the Zambesi, to correlate his observations
in the two eastern regions which he had examined,
he has fallen a victim to the treacherous climate,
which had previously carried off, in too rapid suc-
cession, the good Bishop Mackenzie and his arch-
deacon, as well as the exemplary and devoted wife
of Livingston."