The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-07 00:00:00

WOODSTOCK.

A crowded meeting of Mr. Henry's supporters was held
in the Town-hall on Tuesday, Mr. Golden in the chair.
Mr. Henry gave an exposition of his political views, which
was enthusiastically received. Addresses were delivered
by Messrs. Parker, Noble, Banbury, Money, Mr. Rogers,
Professor of Political Economy in the University of Ox-
ford, and Mr. Underdown. Resolutions in favour of Mr.
Henry wero unanimously carried.

Charge of Embezzlement.

CANTERBURY, Thursday Afternoon.

Mr. S. Greaves, late secretary and actuary to the Canter-
bury Sayings Bank, was this morning brought before the
city magistrates, charged with embezzling certain moneys,
the property of the trustees of that institution. The calling
in of the depositors' book has led to the discovery that the
defalcations greatly exceed the amount at first stated, and
that instead of being about £5,000 they will probably reach
£lO,OOO. Since the stoppage of the bank Mr. Greaves has
been allowed to remain in his own house, but under sur-
veillance, until yesterday, when, after a meeting of the
trustees, he was given into custody. This morning, when
placed in the dock, he had a very careworn and haggard
appearance.

Mr. Callaway, of the firm of Frubery, Callaway, and
Frubery, appeared for the prosecution ; the prisoner was
undefended.

Mr. Callaway said he only proposed to tender evidence
of one act of embezzlement, and then ask for a remand. So
far as the investigation had proceeded the prisoner had
pursued the same system of fraud in all cases. The money
paid into the bank had, in the first instance, been correctly
entered, both in the depositors' pass books and the ledgers;
but sums were afterwards entered in the ledgers as having
been withdrawn, when no withdrawal actually took place,
the prisoner appropriating the money to his own use.
Sarah Prett, a domestic in the service of G. Gipps, Esq.,
one of the trustees of the bank, said she had been a deposi-
tor since 1845, and had never drawn out any portion of her
capital during that time. She had drawn out the interest
on two occasions. Her pass-book showed £167 6s. 9d.
standing to her credit on the 20th May last. She did not
draw out or authorise any one to draw out.£Bo on the 20th
November, 1862, or £65 on the 20th December, 1862.
Wm. A. Abram, clerk in the savings bank, produced a
ledger in which Sarah Prett's account was kept. On Nov.
20, 1862, the balance in her favour was £156 6s. 9d. On
Nov. 29, 1862, there was an entry of the withdrawal of .£BO,
and on Dec. 20, 1862, another entry of the withdrawal of
£65. The entries in Sarah Prett's pass-book (produced),
from May, 1862, to the present date, were in the prisoner's
handwriting, and those in the ledger were made by witness
from a pass-book (not the one produced) given him by the
prisoner. In the pass-book produced the interest was cal-
culated on the larger sum, but in the ledger it was calcu-
lated on the balance after the withdrawal of the £BO and
the £65. The pass-book from which he made the entries
in the ledger he returned to the prisoner, and he had not
seen it since.

Mr. Callaway said he did not propose to call further evi-
dence on the present occasion.
The prisoner, who declined to say anything, was re-
manded for a week.