The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-25 00:00:00

POLICE INIELLIGENCE.—Sept. 24.

GUILDHALL.—ALLEGED WHOLESALE SWIN.•
DLlNG.—Leopold Shocke, a foreigner, who described
himself as a commission agent, was brought up by
Sergeant Funnell, of the City detective force, before
Alderman Rose, for final examination, relative to
the charge of feloniously uttering a forged order for
the delivery of goods to the value of £290, and
with conspiring with one Henry Cowen, who has
since fled the country, to defraud the Tees Woollen
Company, of Barnard's Castle, in the county of
Durham, of goods to the value of £3,000.
Mr. Lewis, jun., conducted the prosecution. Mr.
L. C. Lumley, of the firm of Lumley and Lumley,
attended for the Tees Woollen Company. Mr. Beard
for creditors of Cowen, the absconding bankrupt,
Mr. Morgan, of the firm of Humphreys and Mor-
gan, appeared on behalf of Mr. Venables. Mr.
Orridge, instructed by Mr. M. Abrahams, attended
for Messrs. Spielmann and Co. Mr. Wavell, from
Stubbs's Trade Protection Offices, and Mr. Pocock,
from the Merchants' and Traders' Association,
watched the proceedings on behalf of subscribers.
Mr. Buchanan defended the prisoner.
The depositions taken on the last examination
having been read over,
Mr. Lewis said he proposed calling other two
witnesses before closing his case. One of them was
a lad who had been in the employ of Cowen, and
would be able to prove that the prisoner was at the
office daily assisting Cowen in a variety of ways,
but not in the capacity of a clerk or servant. It had
been suggested that the prisoner was a servant, and
therefore innocent ; but it was well known that a
servant might be equally guilty with the master in
matters of this kind, and he would show not only
the manner in which Cowen's account at Messrs.
Spielmann's was opened and closed, but—
Mr. Martin said that could have no material bear-
ing upon the case before the Court.
Mr. Lewis said it was important, as it was part
of the evidence in support of the charge of conspi-
racy to defraud the Tees Woollen Company of their
goods. Of course, he could not connect the prisoner
with the opening of the account, but he would show
that, on the 13th of August, he was in possession of
patterns, and sold the goods at a rate very much
below the invoice prices, Cowen having previously
stated that he required them for shipment to a Paris
merchant, for whom he was correspondent, a state-
ment corroborated by the prisoner upon his appre-
hension; and on the 14th of August the goods ar-
rived. On the same day the prisoner was shown
bargaining with the carman for their delivery
to Messrs. Venables, the goods never having
been unpacked after their arrival from the
railway, and he had been previously, and is
afterwards present in the office when Cowen offers
to go and get the packer's receipt for the goods,
and accompanies him for that purpose, well know-
ing that he had already sold the goods which Cowen
represented as being at the packers. He returned
with Cowen, who gave the iorged receipt to Mr.
Walker, the manager of the Tees Woollen Company,
and eventually, after Cowen had left the country,
the prisoner was shown to have been dictating a
letter to Mr. Walker, explaining the reason why
remittances had not been forwarded to be that Mr.
Cowen had been disappointed in getting money
from his Paris house, in consequence of a delay in
the delivery of the goods at Paris. To show that the
prisoner must have known the receipt was a forgery,
he would adduce evidence to prove that on a former
occasion the prisoner had employed Mr. Southgate,
of London-wall, as a packer, and that the firm of
Bellinger and Co., packers, of Jewry-street, Ald-
gate, so far from having done business with the pri-
soner or Cowen, were in fact a fictitious firm. If all
these circumstances were not sufficient evidence of a
conspiracy to defraud, of course there would be an
end of the case.
Alderman Rose asked why the transaction of the
let of August had been introduced ?
Mr. Lewis said it was to show that the goods
were disposed of by the prisoner directly they ar-
rived, at a great reduction, and that other goods
were afterwards sold by him in the same manner,
and on the same terms.
Mr. Walker was then recalled, and said that on
the Ist of August the goods sold to Cowen amounted
to £368 14s. 5d., and that on the same day he
(Cowen) remitted him £lOO.
Cross-examined—On the day that Cowen gave
him the forged receipt he asked him, having great,
confidence in his honesty, for a receipt acknowledg-
ing that he was holding the goads to the company's
order, upon which Cowen said the packer's receipt
would be more business-like, and said, in the pri-
soner's presence, "We will go and get the packer's
receipt for the goods." The prisoner was in another
room when Cowen gave witness the receipt.
Re-examined—They made use of a " blind" to
prevent him going with them.
Edward Wm. Holland said he was in Cowen's em-
ploy for four months as errand boy. The prisoner
was there every day. About a month ago a man
from Mr. Southgate, the packer, of London-wall,
came to pack some goods, and the prisoner said he
had sent him. When Cowen left he said he was
going to Brighton.
William Farr, manager to Mr. Southgate, the
packer, proved that he sent a man by the prisoner's
orders to Union-court for some goods to pack on the
6th August. Those goods were forwarded to Glasgo w.
Messrs. Spielmann's bookkeeper prod uced Cowen's
account, and in answer to questions from Mr. Lewis
and the Court, said a person of the name of Henry
Cowen opened an account at their house on the 10th
July with a sum of £l2l 10s. Bd.
Mr. Martin said this evidence had no reference
to the present charge.
Mr. Orridge, on behalf of Messrs. Spielmann,
said it was not his clients' wish to shut out any in-
, formation that the prosecution might require.
Mr. Lewis said it was material, as his case was
that the whole of these matters connected with
Cowen were a swindle, as was apparent from the
fact that in the short period of two months he had
succeeded in getting possession of £6,000 worth of
goods.
Mr. Martin said he could not see the material
bearing of these facts on the prosecution of the pri-
soner.

......._M.
r. Lewis said Cowen's account was an import-
ant feature in the case.

The bookkeeper said the account was opened on
the 10th July with money and bills, and on the Ist
August a sum of £7O was paid to Cowen's credit,
and a cheque for £lOO paid out to the Tees Woollen
Company. On the 14th of August the balance in
Cowen's favour was £75.
Alderman Rose asked when the account was
closed.

Witness said on the 27th August.
Alderman Rose inquired the total amount of the
transactions with Cowen in that period, and what
the balance of the account was at the time it was
closed.
Witness said the total of the transactions was
£544 9s. 6d., and the balance of Cowen's account,
on the 27th August, was 4s. 104 d.
Mr. Morgan said he was exceedingly glad that
this witness had been called, as his evidence proved
that Mr. Venables had actually paid the whole of
the D. 25 for the goods, and not £25 only, as it was
assumed on the former occasion on the production
of the receipt.
Alderman Rose said that was all cleared up on
the last occasion, and it was not necessary to go
into it again.
Mr. Morgan said he was happy to hear the
Alderman say so, as it was not generally understood
to have been satisfactorily cleared up, as Mr. Ven-
ables had received from 50 to 60 letters on the sub-
ject, from persons to whom he was known, since the
last examination.

Mr. Orridge said he was also glad that the last
witness had been called, as it afforded him an op-
portunity of saying something in reference to these
transactions as far as Messrs. Spielmann were con-
cerned, and in answer to some observations made
by the Alderman upon the subject, said it was quite
evident that from the first introduction of Cowen to
the closing of his account, his transactions with
Messrs. Spielmann were of a perfectly bona fide
character. lie opened his account in a proper man-
ner, and during the time it was kept open, so far
from ever being indebted to Messrs. Spielmann, he
never overdrew his account, but on the Ist of August
had a balance in his favour of £179 95.10 d. Messrs.
Spielmann could have no notion as to the probable
duration of his account, which was kept open only
so long as they had funds of his in their hands to
meet any cheques he might draw against it. With
regard to the references, Messrs. Spielmann had
been exceedingly careful not to recommend per-
sons for credit, and the inquiries instituted were not
if Cowen could be trusted, but only if he had an
account there, and if it would be safe to buy goods
of him. It might have been extremely dangerous
if Messrs. Spielmann had said that Cowen might
be trusted to any amount—they had no idea
that he might not be trusted—but they would not
go out of their way to give him a better character
than they thought he deserved. They felt that
Cowen's was a bona fide account, and that they
were doing him only a simple act of justice in
stating merely what they knew of him. Messrs.
Spielmann's books were in court, and open for the
inspection of every one, and he hoped the worthy
alderman would say? after this explanation, that the
expression of his opinion en the last occasion with

regard to Messrs. Spielmann was a very harsh one
and undeserved, and they wouldbe only too pleased
to feel that they had satisfied his mind on the sub-
ject.
Alderman Rose said he was not called upon to
reply to the remarks made by Mr. Orridge, but he
might say that it did appear that certain swindlers
had defrauded persons of goods to a very large
amount, and the references in some instances were
Messrs. Spielmann. Now, if Messrs. Spielmann
had furnished the information to any one inquiring
the date of the account, the amount it was opened
with, the balance to credit, and the total of trans-
actions up to the time of inquiring, persons like
Cowen could not have got such large quantities of
goods, and heavy losses to some might have been
prevented. With regard to his concluding remarks
on the last examination, he begged to state that he
was not in the habit of using strong expressions,
and as it was an error in the report, he hoped the
Press would correct it. He was made to ask if all
the references to Messrs. Spielmann had resulted in
such " lies." His own observation was, if they had
resulted in such "losses."
Mr. Morgan said he had the invoice of the Tees
Woollen Company, dated that very morning, show-
ing that Mr. Venables had bought goods of them
at much lower prices.

Mr. Lewis said it was utterly untrue, as the in-
voice showed the goods had been bought of a Mr.
Taylor.
Mr. Morgan said surely the Tees Woollen Com-
pany would not deny their own agent.
Mr. Lewis, after communicating with Mr. Wal-
ker, said it was true that Mr. Taylor was the com-
pany's agent, but the goods were of a different
description.
Mr. Venables, sen., said after what had appeared
in the newspapers, it was due to his firm to state
they had bought the goods of Cowen at a price
above the actual market value, in addition to which
they had bought that morning similar goods of the
Tees Woollen Company at from 20 to 40 per cent.
discount off the price the others were invoiced at.
Mr. Lewis said Mr. Walker was present at the
time the goods were sold, but they were not of the
same weight, nor of the same number, as those sup-
plied to Cowen.
Mr. Venables said they wore the same quality
goods, and as it had gone forth to the world that
he had bought goods under price, he hoped it would
also go forth that he had bought the same manu-
facture of goods direct from the Tees Woollen Com-
pany at a lower price that morning.
Mr. Lewis said not, the same numbers or weights,
Mr. Venables said the same numbers and weights.
Atderman Rose said he could not permit any
more discussion on the subject there, and asked the
prisoner what he had to say to the charge.
Mr. Buchanan most ably summed up the whole
features of the case, and having commented upon
all the facts in evidence seriatim, as they appeared
to affect his client, contended that there was no •
thing in the prisoner's conduct from first to last
inconsistent with his innocence of anything like
participation in the fraudulent dealings of Cowen,
and confidently submitted that the only course open
to the court was to discharge the prisoner.
Alderman Rose said he had given the best atten-
tion he could to the case, and he felt he should not
be doing his dnty if he did not end it for a jury to
decide. It was urged that the prisoner was a ser-
vant, and had no guilty knowledge of those trans-
actions, but he was found, according to the evi-
dence, to have been selling the goods on the 13th
August and on the following day in company with
Cowen, the two representing that the goods were
still under their own control at the packers, and
offering to give Mr. Walker control over them by
an order on the packers, well knowing that they
had already been disposed of to Mr. Venables. He
ultimately dictated a letter, in which he makes the
clerk state that there has been a delay in the deli-
very of those identical goods in Paris, and when
apprehended, he at first denied all knowledge of
them, and then said he supposed they had be en
shipped. Under all the circumstances he could only
come to the conclusion, Cowen having escaped, that
the prisoner, wbo was about to leave the country,
intended joining Cowen to share in the proceeds of
these frauds, and he therefore had no hesitation in
committing him to take his trial for uttering a forged
receipt, and for conspiring with Cowen to obtain
the goods and to defraud the Tees Woollen Com-
pany.
Mr. Beard said every exertion had been made by
the creditors, but they could not ascertain any clue
to Cowen's whereabouts at present.
Mr. Buchanan mentioned the question of bail.
Alderman Rose said be had taken the responsi-
bility on himself of sending the case to a jury, and
he must also take the responsibility of referring Mr.
Buchanan to a judge with regard to bail.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.

[We are requested by Mr. Walker to state that
he was misunderstood at the last examination. He
did not mean to say that the Tees Woollen Company,
sold goods below their invoice prices, as it was con-
trary to their practice, except upon the usual re-
cognised trade terms for cash.]

CLERKENWELL. SERIOUS CHARGE OF
MANSLAUGHTER.—Robert Hanks, of 3, Crescent-
place, Caledonian-road, described as a carman in the
service of Mr. Jay, the contractor, was charged
with having caused the death of a man unknown,
by striking him a violent blow with his fist.
From the evidence of several witnesses it ap-
peared that on Saturday evening last two
young women, named Chantrey, left home for the
purpose of going to a concert-room in St. John-
street. On their way they saw the deceased who
requested ,them to drink with him, and they en-
tered a public-house. In the course of conversation
they informed him that they were going to a
concert-room to meet some friends, and, notwith-
standing they requested him not, he insisted upon
following them there. The prisoner was in the room
in company with a brother of the girl Chantrey and
another young man, with whom the deceased en-
tered into conversation. They all left shortly
before twelve o'clock, and on arriving at Clerken-
well-green the deceased was heard to fall heavily,
and the prisoner was seen running away. On being
picked up deceased was found to be quite insensible,
and was conveyed to the Royal Free Hospital,
where he died. Neither of the witnesses saw any
blow struck, but only heard the fall, which they
described as very heavy. It was further stated by
some that the deceased was the worse for liquor,
and constantly wishing to fight.
Police-sergeant Arthur Browning said on taking
the prisoner into custody he questioned him and
informed him of the death of the man he had been
in company with, but he made no reply.
Mr. Hill, house-surgeon of the Royal Free Hos-
pital, showed that death had been the result of
effusion of blood on the brain, caused by external
violence, which must have been very violent, either
by a blow or fall.
The prisoner, who had nothing to say in anwer
to the charge, was remanded for the production of
further evidence.

LAMBETH.—SERIOUS CHARGE.-Mr. George
Davey, clerk to one of the leading Queen's counsel,
was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott charged
with stealing from the person of Mrs. Lucy
Rutland, in the Crystal Palace, a purse containing
3s. 6d. in silver.

The prosecutrix, the wife of a cheesemonger, de-
posed that on the day before she accompanied some
friends to the Crystal Palace, and as Blondin was
about to ascend, her friends and herself seated them-
selves on the coping or ledge of the terrace leading
from the centre transept to the grounds and the top
of the wide flight of steps. While looking at Blon-
din on the rope, the prisoner, who was seated two
or three steps down, kept pulling her feet and dress.
Soon after her sister-in-law raid, "I don't like that
man's behaviour; he has been pulling my feet ;"
and she (witness) replied, "And so he has been
mine ;" and immediately after missed her purse,
containing 3s. 6d. or 4s. in silver. She mentioned
her loss to herisister and brother-in-law, and the
latter at once said he had seen the prisoner put his
hand under her cloak. She accused the prisoner of
having robbed her of her purse, but he denied it,
and was given into the custody of a constable who
had been sent for.
In cross•examination by Mr. Lewis, jun., the wit-
ness said that when`acoosed, the prisoner made no
attempt to escape or remove from where he was;
on the contrary, he indignantly denied the charge,
said he was the clerk for 10 years of Mr. —, Q.c.,
and offered to be searched. Her brother-in-law said
there was no use in searching him then, and at this
time the constable arrived and took him into custody.
In reply to the magistrate, the witness said the
prisoner kept sitting down and standing up, and
when he stood his shoulders were on a level with
her feet, and she was certain he had pulled her feet
and clothes.
Mr. Lewis—
And I suppose you thought nothing
of that ?

Witness_l beg to tell you I did.
Mr. Lewis—Did you not say to your brother-in-
law that somebody else might have taken your purse?
Witness—l did not.
Mr. Robt. Bigg, brother-in-law to the last witness,
said that on being told that the purse
.was stolen,
he charged the prisoner with taking it, and told
him he had seen his hand under the cloak of the
complainant.
In reply to Mr. Lewis, he said the accused at
once offered to give his name and address, said what
he was, and offered to be searched.
William Heath, 263 P, said the prisoner was
given into his custody, when he at once declared
his innocence of the charge, and at the station he
found nothing on himlut his card-case, his purse
and several letters relating to professional business.

Mr. Lewis addressed the magistrate, contending
that the conduct of the accused was perfectly con-
sistent with his entire innocence of the charge. His
client said he had been for ten years clerk to
Queen's counsel of large practice, and therefore
large sums of money passed through his hands, and
he was not a person likely to descend to the dis-
honesty of stealing a purse containing three or four
shillings. The gentleman whom he was serving
was at present on the Continent, or he had no
doubt he would be in attendance to vouch for his
probity and respectability, but there were present
gentlemen who would speak as to his character.
Several gentlemen spoke to their knowledge of
the prisoner as a respectable man, and amongst
those examined was Mr. James Graham Lewis, of
Ely-plsce, who deposed chat he had known the pri-
soner as clerk to a gentleman at the bar, and had
paid him many hundred pounds on account of his
master. He was perfectly surprised on entering
the court to find him at the bar, and had no hesita-
tion in saying that, from his knowledge of him, he
was perfectly incapable of having committed such
an act as that imputed to him.
Mr. Elliott remarked that the present was one of
those cases in which people jumped to too hasty
a conclusion. The witness Bigg had deposed to
seeing the prisoner put his hand under the cloak of
the complainant ; but, taking the relative position
of the parties into consideration, he (Mr. Elliott)
thought it most difficult to pick her pocket of her
purse. And after the character he had heard of the
accused, and believing also that the gentleman in
whose service he was would not keep any untrust-
worthy person in his employment, his opinion was
the complainants were, though honestly so, mis-
taken in their opinion, and that the . accused was
wholly innocent. At he same time, he (Mr. Elliott)
felt bound to say that if the statement of the con-
duct imputed to him, of touching the feet and
clothes of the females, were correct, he had acted in-
decently, but of the other offence he was discharged.
The accused here quitted the dock, and left the
court accompanied by his friends.

COUNTRY MA RAL':IIS.

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NEWARK-WEDNESDAY.

Wheat threshing has been in full operation during the
week, and the grain turns out well, To-day the prices, of
new wheat declined 2s per qr.
White wheat new, 52s to 56s Barley, grinding.. 28s to 308
Red do. sos to 54s Oats, old, .. 27s to 30s
Old white sBs to 62s New do 24s to 27s
Red do. .57s to 60s 1 Beans.. 45s to 460
Barley, malting.... 368 to 40s 1 Beans, new —s to —0
Peas, .... 37s to 395.

BOSTON—
A good supply of English n
very little old. Fine sorts w
ferior 2s to 3s per qr lower.
White wheat 52s to 565 Barley 33s to 364
Red sls to 54s Oats, new, 2ls to 240
Beans ....13s to 45s Peas 40s to 500

WEDNESDAY.
law wheat on offer to-day, but
rere is and secondary and in*

HULL--TUESDAY.
We have been favoured with fine weather during the
past week, and by far the greater part of the corn in the
fields in this locality are now safely housed. To-day home-
grown samples of wheat may be quoted fully 3s and foreign
is to 2s per qr easier.
Wheat.... Old white.... per qr ... 58s Od to 60s Od
Old red ,)
New white .. „
New red .... „
Dantzic, Konb , &c. old white 57s Od to 60s Od
Dutch, Belgian, and French. 58s Od to 62s Od
Baltic and Hamburg, red
St. Petersburg and Riga, old sos Od to 52s Od
Barley... English malting 34s Od to 37s Od
Grinding 3ls Od to 33s Oa
Saal and Oderbruck
Holstein and Danish 34s Od to 36s Od
Grinding 2Bs Od to 31s Od
Oats English, new
Archangel and Riga, per st oBl2}d to 13d
Friesland and Dutch osl3d to 08130
Swedish and Danish osl2id to osl3d
Beans ....English, old, per qr. 4ss Od to 46s Od
New pigeon 42s Od to 44s Od
New tick. 4OB Od to 42s Od
Egyptian
Peas Foreign breakers
Grinding
Tares ....Spring —s Od to —s Od
Indian Corn
Linseed, feeding s2s Od to 66s Od
crushing • 4os Od to 52s Od
Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 0 oto £9 5 0„
Foreign Bl5 oto 9 0
0u
Rape cakes 6 0 oto 6 5
Bones 5 5 oto 610 0