The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-17 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.— William Mason, the cripple,
who was charged with having uttered several forged
10/. and st. notes, was brought up for final examination.
John Rockham, shopman to Mr. Cavern, of Stock-
well-street, Greenwich, said—On Wednesday, the 14th
of September, the prisoner came to our shop, and asked
for some calico, the same as his wife had purchased pre-
'viously, at 64d. per yard. I had never seen him before.
I sold him 14 yards, at 6d. per yard. He then choose
other articles, the amount of the whole being 10s. 6d.
He put his hand in his pocket, and pulled out silver and
pence to the amount, as it appeared to me, of 9s. 6d.,
and said he had not enough of change, and he asked me
whether I could change a 51. note for him. I took the
note prodnced from him, and handed it to the cashier,
who changed it. I wanted to send the articles for him,
seeing that he was lame, and -he agreed to that propo-
sion, but he afterwards said that he would take them
hiMself, as he would get into a cab, and be driven home
to Deptford, with them.

The prisoner said he had good authority to prove that
the note lie had given on the occasion had got into other
hands, and he expressed surprise that the case had not.
been brought forward on the first day of examination.
There was a mystery about the business which he did
not at all comprehend, but, added he, "It is not for
me to open my mouth too wide yet." (Laughter.)
Mr. Wybeard, inspector of bank notes at the Bank of
England, said the 51. note produced was a forgery, and
had been struck off from the plate which had been used
in striking off the other 51. notes which had been iden-
tified on the first examination.
D. Evans, 459, said that on the 7th of October he
apprehended the prisoner at the White Hart, White
Hart-street, Drury-lane, while sitting at cards with seven
or eight others. He said to the prisoner, " Mason, I
am an officer, and I take you into custody for uttering
forged Bank of England notes." He said, " All right,
lam coming. Don't take me for the Windsor job. Do
it for Towneud, in Bread-street, as I do not want to go
out of town." (Here the prisoner laughed.) Witness
then put the prisoner into a cab, and cautioned him not
to say anything particular, as it might be used against
him. The prisoner said he was aware of all that, and
he then said that he had done a job at Greenwich, and
one in Oxford-street, and one at Woolwich, but he had
not heard anything about that."
The Lord Mayor—Prisoner, do you wish to say any
?
_ _

The Prisoner—Not at all, my lorJ.
The Lord Mayor—You are committed to take your
trial upon this charge as well as upon all the former
charges.

lfirtry Bartley, a shabby-looking, dark, curly-headed
young man, was brought before the Lord Mayor, in the
custody of Daniel Forrester, the officer, charged with
ham.- attempted to utter a forged. cheque, with intent
to defraud the Royai British Bank.
Mr. Mullins, assistant-cashier at the Royal British
Bank, said—At 12 o'clock this day, a boy, named
Fletcher, presented the cheque I produce for payment
at the counter. The cheque is signed " John Dickin-
son," and is for 8/. 4s. We have a customer John G.
Dickinson and Co., but no John Dickinson. I imme-
diately found that the signature was not genuine, de-
tained the boy, and informed the senior cashier.

George John Fletcher, who is 13 years old, said—As
I was going to Lemaner's to-day for a loaf, I saw the
prisoner in Lothbury, who stopped me, and asked me if
I would L:o to Tokenhouse-yard, No. 16, and get cash
for the cheque. He tol Ime he would give me 3d. for
my trouble, and I consented, and took the cheque and
presented it at the counter. I was to bring him the
money to the place in which he had given me the cheque.
I was detained for some time in the banking-house, and
I afterwards went to meet the prisoner, under the direc-
tion of Mr. Forrester, and he met me on the spot and
said, " Weil !" when he was taken boll of. I swear
that he is the man who employed me. I never, to my
knowledge, saw him before.

Daniel Forrester—l was sent for to the Royal British
Bank and informed of the forgery, and I saw Fletcher,
heard his statement, and took the prisoner into custody
at the corner of Princes-street. The prisoner told me
that he thought something was wrong about the cheque,
with which he had been sent by another party to the
bank, who promised him sixpence to go and get it cashed,
and that he had employed the boy to do the business. I
found in his possession a cheque-book of the Royal
British Bank, and a cheque-book of the Union Bank, and
several papers.

The prisoner—I was employed by another person to
present the cheque, and he gave me the cheque books
and papers that were found upon me by the officers. I
know the party well who gave them to me.
The prisoner was then remanded.

Clustvas Frederick f a,ymor was charged upon suspi-
cion of having stolen a large sum of money (according to
the police-sheet 2,500/.), the property of a gentleman
connected with the Russian Legation.
Mr. Mullins (of the firm of Bush and Mullins, solici-
tors), said the case was one of an extraordinary kind.
The prisoner was the keeper of an hotel at Berlin, at
which some of the members of the Russian Embassy had
put up, one of whom had a considerable sum of money
in his possession. The prisoner, it appeared, had not
been able to resist the temptation to appropriate part of
that money, which had been placed in his care, and had
come to this country with it. The departure of the pri-
soner from Berlin, however, had excited suspicion, and
that suspicion was rapidly communicated to London,
and here the man was apprehended. The police had,
with the assistance rendered by the solicitors engaged,
got hold of the prisoner before the money had been dis-
posed of, and an immediate and almost complete restitu-
tion had been made. The international arrangements
were not, it was to be regretted, made with all the cau-
tion in such a manner that the offence could be recog-
nised in England, and the Lord Mayor would deal with
the case according to his own judgment. It was satis-
factory to know, however, that the prisoner had re-
stored all the stolen property he had been possessed of.
The Lord Mayor said that Mr. Mullins was very for-
tunate in obtaining so much of the property of his clients
as had been given up by the prisoner, whom the laws of
this country could not detain in prison, but who cer-
tainly deserved a very heavy punishment.
The prisoner was discharged.

GUILDHALL—James Collins and James Middleton
were charged with robbery in Smithfield.
William James, a cowkeeper, said he was in the
market, buying a horse, and while in the crowd collected
round him, he felt a hand at his pocket, and missed a
black bag containing 81. He immediately turned round
to see who was the thief, when the prisoner Middleton
put his hand before his face to prevent him seeing Col-
lins.

A lad of the name of Crickett said he saw Collins take
a black bag from prosecutor's pocket, and pass it to one
of his " pals," who made off with the booty.
The prisoners were searched, but, as nothing was
found on thin relative to the charge, they were re-
manded for the officer to make further inquiry.

BOW-STREEr.—George Clement, a letter carrier,
was charged with stealing a letter, containing cash.
Mr. Peacock, Post-office solicitor, attended to prose-
cute.

It was proved by Harper, inspector of letter carriers
at the branch office, Charing-cross, that the prisoner was
employed in sorting letters at 12 o'clock on Saturday.
While he wis thus occupied, Mr. Harper noticed that
he was running a small envelope through his fingers,
with the view, apparently, of ascertaining if it contained
any money. He then placed it under the packet of let-
ters in his hand, and held it there some time, instead of
sorting it in the usual manner After this he took out
his pocket handkerchief and raised it to his nose, at the
same time contriving to shift the letter into it. The
handkerchief, with the letter inside, was then returned to
his pocket. During the whole transaction, the prisoner
kept his eye rigidly fixed on +he senior inspector, Mr.
Edwards, having no suspicion that he was being nar-
rowly watched by Harper. When the sorting was over,
the prisoner was taxed with having put a letter into his
pocket, upon which be put both hands into his coat, and
drew out the handkerchief with one hand and the letter
with the other, placing the latter upon the.sorting table.
Mr. Harper immediately picked up the letter, saying,
" this is the one," but he professed to know nothing
whatever about it, and declared that the letter which lie
took out with his handkerchief was one addressed to
hi rnself.

The letter in question, which had never been delivered,
was now opened in the presence of the magistrate. It
va,4 addressed to a Mr. Ellary, of Westminster, and con-
t :Lined half a sovereign. It was proved that it did not
b Tong to the prisoner's walk.
Mr. Jardine committed him for trial.

NEW WAR ROCKET.—We understand that an
oxbeil.sive order, has been received by the authorities of
the, Royal Arsenal for the completion of a large quan-
r of war rockets, on an entirely new principle, and
wb ich are expected to supersede those formerly in u 4.
Ili consquelice• of this, a number of hands are to be
';ered in the-course of the next week.—Kentish hi er.
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