The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1.862,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(774IB Day.)

,BOW-STREET,

EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CLERK.—John William Nichols
was charged with embezzling various sums of money, the
prcperty of his employers, IViesa-s, Firmin, button-makers,
in the Strand.

Mr. Dalton, who appeared for the prosecution, said the
prisoner had up to Monday last tilled the office of collecting-
clerk to the Messrs. Firmin, the extensive button-makers.
of the Strand. From eirenertanecs that had transpired
suspicion was entertained that something was wrong in his
accounts. On being questioned by the manager of Messrs.
Firmin, he admitted that he was back in his accounts to a
considerable sum, and at the same time he gave in an
account of the money he had appropriated to his own use.
The embezzlement appeared to have extended over the last
18 months.

Mr. Blayney, tailor, of Charing-cross, said—l transact
business with the Messrs. Firmin. In the last year there
was en account due to them, and the prisoner called on me
for payment in the month of October. I believe it to be so,
as I find there is no date on the receipt he gave me. I
paid him £5 14s. in cash. I knew him to be in Messrs.
Firmin's employ, from his having called upon me several
times for them.

Mr. Fredelick Lach said—l am an outfitter, car-
rying on business at 90, Strand, and deal with
Messrs. Firmin. In the month of January I owed an
account to them, and the prisoner °ailed upon me for it on
the 30th of the scime month. I paid him £4 lls. 4d. He
gave me the receipt, which I produce.
Mr. Samuel Clay—l am manager to the Messrs. Firmin,
of the Strand. They are button manufacturers. The pri-
soner was in their service as collecting clerk at a salary of
170 per annum. His duty was, on receiving money out of
doors, to enter it in a book called a receipt book. The
money paid by Mr. Blayney and Mr. Lach has never been
paid in. On Monday last I had a conversation with him.
I said there had been a great neglect of duty on his part
in not collecting the accounts, and also I expressed an
opinion that some of them had been paid. Tho prisoner
said, "I am a defaulter." I asked him to what amount),
and he replied, "£104." He then gave me a list of the
accounts he had received and never paid in.
In answer to questions put by the prisoner's solicitor,
Mr. Clay said—l do not recollect anything else that occur-
red on the Monday. I did not givo him into oniatody nn
that day, as I wished to see his father and acquaint him
with the circumstances.

JUSTICE.

Sergeant Holmes—l was instructed to take the prisoner
into custody, but I was informed that I need not take any
further trouble, as he would give himself up this morning.
He did so. He said "I shall not oppose the case." His
father was with him when he surrendered.

Mr. Wilson—l should like to know what course your
worship intends to adopt in this court.
Mr. Henry said the last Act of Parliament passed pre-
vented him from dealing with cases of embezzlement; he
could have done so had it been one of larceny.
The witnesses were then bound over to prosecute, and
the prisoner was fully committed for trial.

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Bowles, of the C division, of his permitting drunkenness
in his house.

The case was proved by Sergeant Appleton, who said
that on visiting the defendant's house he found 11 prosti-
tutes and men drinking in front of the bar, some of them
being drunk. He called the defendant's attention to the
circumstance, and then left, and on again visiting the
house, found the same conduct going on.
The sergeant being asked for a definition of drunkenness,
said
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himself up.
Inspector Bowles said the defendant had kept the house
two years, and it was very bacll?, conducted. The defendant
had had his attention called to it over and over again. He
(Mr. Bowles) bad visited the house, and seen prostitutes
and men of a low grade drinking there. The house was
kept open till five in the morning, and the persons turned
out of other houses were admitted to the defendant's.
Though no previous conviction had taken place, there were
many complaints from the inhabitants. He wished also to
state that two robberies had taken place in the house.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said if the defendant kept a night-house
for the sake of night• house profits, he must not be astonished
at a case like this being brought against him.
Fined 405., and costs.

THIS DAY'S MARKETS.

Mr. Theodore Francis Eastcott, surgeon, of 21, New-
castle-streV, Strand, and Mr. Henry Wilson, of 7, Skisiner-
s treet, Euston-road, were charged with being drunk, dis-
orderly, and assaulting John Dodsworth, 338 A.
D odsworth said that a little after two the defendants
were in Oxford-street drunk and making a noise. He spoke
to them and left, and directly after a dog came up to him
and bit his trousers. He took out his truncheon to drive
the dog away, when Eastcott struck him en the breast and
Wilson poked at him with his umbrella, and at last the
defendants were obliged to be taken into custody.
One of the defendants said it was a little dog.

Mr. Tyrwhitt asked whether he supposed because it was
a little dog that it was to be allowed to bite people.
Dodsworth having been corroborated,

Mr. Tyrwhitt fined Eastcott 108. or 14 days, and Wilson
ss. or 7 days.

THAMES.

EXTENSITE BURGLARIES.—IMPORTANT CASE.—Frede-
rick Wells White, late a labourer in the employ of the
North London Railway Company, at their factory, in Bow,•
aged 40, and dwelling at the time of his apprehension at
No. 12, Violet-street, Bow-common, who has been in cus-
tody since the 4th instant, was brought up on remand and
for final examination and committal, charged with the
commission of several burglaries and robberies in Bow and
Bromley, and with attempting to enter the premises of
Mr. Sundley, a merchant, in the New-grove, Bow-road.
Mrs. Abrahams, an elderly wcman, and Charles Ben-
jamin Abrahams, her son, late steward of the Earl of
Auckland steamer, trading between Rotterdam and
London, were charged with feloniously receiving a
portion of the stolen property, they well knowing it
.to
be stolen.

Mr. Wm. Taylor, aged 50, a table cloth manufacturer,
of Croydon, was charged at this court, on the 10th inst.,
with receiving four pieces of cloth which his wife had
bought of her sister, Mrs. Abrahams, and three of which
Mr. Taylor ordered to be burnt in his furnace on hearing
that Mrs. Abrahams and her son were in custody.
Mr. Taylor, who is a very respectable and wealthy manu-
facturer, was alarmed for the consequences of his wife's
indiscretion when he heard his sister-in-law was in custody,
was discharged, the magistrate remarking that he had acted
very foolishly.

John William Redway, a watch jeweller, of Rose-court,
Tower-street, City, and formerly a police-constable, was
arraigned with ,Taylor on a charge of receiving some of
the stolen property and remanded until Friday last. He
was then admitted as a witness for the Crown, and gave
evidence to-day implicating Mrs. Abrahams, to whose
daughter he is married, and her son. White is also mar-
ried to another daughter of the woman Abrahams.
Inspector Korressey, of the K division, whose exertions
in recovering the stolen property and establishing the case
against the prisoners is deserving of great praise, said he
had now 12 cases of burglary to prefer against White.
They were all committed in Bow and Bromley, near the
North London Railway line, which he often crossed and
re-crossed in the night-time to effect his plans. Mr.
Kerressey then produced a large quantity of valuable pro-
perty found at the lodgings of the prisoner White, in
Violet-street, or traced to Mrs. Abrahams and her son.
Tho Inspector also found 11 pawnbrokers' duplicates in
the dwelling of White. They related to stolen property.
Mr. Selfe decided on committing the prisoner White for
trial, on the following four charges of burglary. The house
of Mr. John Timberlake, of No. 3, Archibald-street,
Bromley, was burglariously entered on the night of the
10th May last, and 10 pieces of cloth for table covers, value
525. each, three coats, and three pairs of gloves, were stolen.
The cloth was traced to Mrs. Abrahams and her sister,
Mrs. Taylor, and Ridway, and one piece, which had been
dyed aad converted into a cloak, was produced by
Miss Redgrove, niece to Mr. and Mrs. Taylor,
of Croydon. The house of Mr. John Roger Watkins of
No. 1, Portland Villas, Bow-road, was entered on the night
of the 10th of December last, and two silver pepper-castors,
taasbille cloths stolen. stjouleng,
.silvTehresuregsairdetnocnegosf Mr. James Morton
Dunstan, 15, Mornington.road, Bromley, was broken into, a shawl, and three
on the night of the 27th of December last, and a gold
brooch, silver sugar tongs, a ladies' companion, two coats,
a silk pocket handkerchief, and a small prayer-book, carried
away. The dwelling of Mr. Francis Furnan, of No. 1,
Tredegar- place, Bow road, was burglariously entered on
the night of the 4th of February last, and two coats, a green
cloth, a table cover, a silver watch guard, and £2 16s. ab-
stracted.
Inspector Kenessy produced nearly the whole of the pro-
perty stolen from the above houses, which he found in
the possession of White, Mrs. Abrahams, and her son. A
pair of boots stolen from one of the houses was discovered
on board the Earl of Auckland steamer, of which Charles
Benjamin Abrahams was the steward. He had presented
them to the second mate.
Evidence was then given of White's apprehension on
the morning of the sth inst., by a police constable named
Atkins, No. 483 K, as he was attempting to enter the resi-
dence of Mr. John Mustley, Grove, Bow-road, Bromley.
The depositions having been completed by Mr. Pyer,
the chief clerk; the prisoners were committed to Newgate
for trial, and Mr, Selfe ordered the property of those wit-
nesses not bound over to prosecute to be delivered to them.

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY IN
SCOTLAND.—The
Edinbuegh Courant learns that Lord Ivory has resigned his
gown as one of the Lords Commissioners of Justiciary, to
i
which he was appointed n 1849, in room of Lord Medwyn,
who at that date retired from the Justiciary Court. Lord
Ivory was the senior judge in the Justiciary Court, as he is
still in the Court of Session, in which he took his seat in
1840, nine years before he received his commission for the
High Court. It is rumoured that Lord Jerviswoode, who
has had much experience in criminal cases, will succeed
Lord Ivory.

TILE PROT.ECTOR ENDOIPMENT, LOAN, AND
ANNUITY COIEEPANY.

The ordinary annual general meeting of the
shareholders in this company was held yesterday
afternoon at the offices of the company, 34, King-
street, Cheapside—William Smee, Esq., presided.
The manager (Mr. Beadnell) having read the report
(which will be found in out advertising columns),
the chairman rose to move its adoption. He re-
marked upon the great benefits that had been
accomplished through the instrumentality of the
company, which held out to those who stood in
need of immediate pecuniary assistance the greatest
facility of having their wants supplied. The re-
payment of the money lent by the company was
spread over one, two, and three years, and the
interest paid for accommodation was as low
as possible to afford remuneration to the
shareholders. The company possessed the confi-
dence of the commercial world, and was then in
a position to make immediate advances to those
who required them. There was no expensive ma-
chinery to be set in motion previous to a borrower
getting that which he required ; on the contrary,
all he had to do was to lay his proposals on the
counter of the company, and if the representations
contained were true the money was immediately
advanced. The report was unanimously adopted,
the retiring officers re-elected, and the proceedings
terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman.

A FISR A WITNESS A COURT OF

A singular incident occurred at the Stafford
Assizes, last Tuesday, in the cause " Timmins v.
the Birmingham and Staffordshire Gas Company,"
in which the plaintiff sued the gas company for
damages caused by them in allowing the tank gas
water from their gasometer to flow into the plain-
tifils well. Dr. Letheby, the analytical chemist,
and officer of health of the City of London, being
engaged as one of the scientific witnesses on the
part of the gas company, he sought to prove that
gas water could not have entered plaintiff's well
because he found animalcule in the water. Mr.
W. M. Williams and Mr. Bird, the chemical wit-
nesses for the plaintiff, suspecting that the learned
doctor would advance the theory that animal life
cannot exist in water tainted with gas, determined
to give a flat contradiction by producing in court
a live fish, swimming in a mixture of half an ounce
of the gas task water with 25 ounces of pure water,
having about the smell and taste of the water in
plaintiff's well. Accordingly a fine healthy gud-
geon was caught in the river at Stafford, put into
a basin, the basin filled with the above mixture,
and slipped under a seat in court, ready for the
doctor, should he advance his theory, which upon
his examination he soon did, asserting most posi-
tively that the least taint of gas water would de-
stroy animal life, when, to his evident surprise, and
amidst a general roar of laughter, in which the
learned judge heartily joined, the basin with the
fish swimming in it was lifted up and placed on the
centre of the table, full in view of both judge and
jury, and proving by his healthy movements that
though the water was not agreeable, animal life
was still possible in it. When the trial was over
(which was in favour of tha plaintiff), the fish was
taken back to the river, and returned to his native
element apparently none the worse for his short
visit as a witness to the Stafford assizes.