The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-23 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONEON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER. 23, lEf...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

BOW-STREET.

THE ROBBERY AT PROFESSOR HOLLOWAY'S.—This morn-
ing Spooner, Sellen, and Litton, the former a cashier, and
the latter two clerks in the employ of Mr. Holloway, of the
Strand, were placed before Mr. Flowers, on remand,
charged with robbing their master of various sums of
money.

Mr. Sleigh said all he should do at tho present examina-
tion was to prove the handwriting of the prisoners to vari-
ous entries in the books of Mr. Holloway, with respect to
the charges for postage stamps. He did not then pro-
pose to go into any other matter connected with the case.
Mr. Henry Holloway said he was manager to his brother,
Mr. Thomas Holloway. The defalcations were discovered
in consequence of his brother remarking upon the large
amount charged for: postage, which led to a thorough inves-
tigation of the books by the accountant. Ho called Spooner
on receiving the accountant's report, and told him he
charged him with robbing the house, and afterwards he,
with the other prisoners, was given into custody.
Mr. Mitchell referred to the cash-book, and on the 4th
of January ho found an entry in Spooner's handwriting
for £6los. for postage stamps. On referring to the ledger,
folio 489, for the same transaction, he found the entry in the
handwriting of Sellen as for 10s. only. On the 6th January
there was an entry of £4 for postage stamps in Spooner's
handwriting, and in the corresponding entry in the ledger
it was entered as 10s., he believed by Utton. There was
also other entries of a similar description in the cash-book,
and where £7 had been entered for postage stamps, which
was posted in the ledger by Sellen as 10s.I
In cross-examination by the solicitor attending for one
of the prisoners, the witness said there were a number of
erasures in the ledger, but more in the cash book. The
erasure was in the £ column, as if a certain figure had
been entered and afterwards removed.

Mr. Pater (who appeared for one of tho prisoners)—By
whom no one can tell.

Mr. Sleigh—That will be a question for a jury.
Mr. Willes applied that some of the property taken from
his client, Spooner, might be given up to his wife, who
was now, in consequence of the incarceration of her hus-
band, nearly without the means of living.
Mr. Sleigh, after conferring with Mr. Holloway, said he
was obliged to object to the application, as it was felt that
the property had been purchased with the stolen money.

Mr. ilolloway said he had discovered 'that Spooner
had spent £9O in jewellery in the space of two months,
his income from his situation not at all justifying such an
outlay.
The application was refused.

Mr. Taylor, who attended to watch :the case on behalf
of Mr. Locke, the landlord of the nolyrood Palace Tavern,
in tho Strand, complained that his client had been brought
here on two occasions by a summons, calling upon him
to produce his books, and that on neither occasion had
he been examined. Such a course was excessively
inconvenient, as it took him from his business. If there
wore any charges to be made against him, he thought they
ought at once to be gone into.
Mr. Sleigh said it would be thought to frustrate the
ends of justice if he was compelled to say what was going

on.
lir. Flowers did not think that the witness had any
cause to complain.
The prisoners were then remanded.