The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-25 00:00:00

2PORTI.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—Thomas lames Lee was charged
with obtaining money under false pretences.
The prisoner wrote to the Rev. Ralph Lindsay, of
Loughborough, offering to communicate "something to
his advantage," on the receipt of one guinea, and at the
same time represented that there was certain property
to which the rev. gentleman was entitled through his
uncle, Mr. Lindsay, of St. Thomas's-street, in the
borough of Southwark, and who, the Rev. Mr. Lindsay
was led to believe, was not at present in the land of the
living. The prisoner's letters were, however, answered,
and afterwards forwarded to Mr. Ralph Lindsay, of
Basinghall-street, the gentleman supposed to be dead,
who paid the prisoner the fee he demanded, and received
in exchange some written information that there was
money in stock and unclaimed dividends lying dormant,
which might be recovered by the clergyman, as nephew
and next of kin to the complainant, who therefore gave
the prisoner into custody.
Mr. Lind. ay said he was not yet dead, as the prisoner
had represented, neither had he any interest in stock or
unclaimed dividends. He remembered many years back
having 5101. in stock, but he sold out 500/. of it twenty
years ago, and left the other 101. to go to the Commis-
sioners for the Reduction of the National Debt.
Sir R. W. Carden said there was no false pretences
proved yet, for the prisoner might have obtained the in-
formation he gave from an old unclaimed dividend book
in which the name of Mr. Lindsay appeared for the
amount he had not sold out. From what he knew of
the prisoner, he did not helieve he had any fraudulent in-
tion, for he was mainly instrumental in the matter of
Miss ITardwick's charity in recovering the sum of about
4,000/. stock, and unclaimed dividends, which had been
standing in the bank-books from the year 1827. On
that occasion he required a guine-a for his information,
and on its turning out "greatly to the advantage" of
the party to whom it was communicated, the prisoner
was rewarded with a gift of 251., and it was remarked
that, although he was following in the line of Joseph
Ady, he appeared a shrewder man, inasmuch as he
did not trouble the wrong parties. The alderman then
lectured the prisoner upon the impropriety of obtaining
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WESTMINSTER. —Two well-dressed men, who
gave the names of James M`Mullen and Gcorge Wilson,
were charged with picking ladies' pockets at the confir-
mation held by the Bishop of London at the new church
in Rochester-row, Westminster.
The two prisoners were seen by a detective officer
outside the church in close conversation just before the
termination of the service, and when the doors of the
church were opened they went in and mixed with
the crowd coming out. Each was seen to take a purse
from the pockets of ladies, and both were at once secured
by the detective officer, who was in plain clothes watch-
ing them.
The prisoners were committed.
Besides the above robberies, one lady lost a gold
watch ; another lady lost 251. ; and a third her purse
upon the occasion in question.

GUERNSEY LIGHTHOUSES.—A Parliamentary paper,
printed on Friday last, contains an estimate of the erec-
tion and expense of maintenance of an iron lighthouse
on the west end of the island of Guernsey, obtained by
the Admiralty from Mr. Alexander Gordon. The ex-
pense of constructing the tower is estimated at 5,600/. ;
but, if with a green stone tower, the work would not
cost less than 10,0001., and could not be finished in less
than 18 months' time. Mr. Gordon also states that the
cost of maintenance ought notto exceed 500/. per annum.