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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

.MANSION-HOUSE.—STRIKE OF LIGHTERMEN.—
Robert Savage was summoned for having assaulted John
Wilkins. The affair was connected with a strike among
the lightermen, and, as a matter of course, excited a
great deal of interest.
Mr. Hobler attended for the prosecution ; Mr. Bu-
chanan for the defence. The justice-room was crowded
by operatives in several trades and callings. Alderman
Sir J. Musgrove presided.

John Wilkins said—l am a lighterman, in the em-
ployment of Mr. Charles Lucy of Fresh Wharf. lam
a free waterman. The defendant is in the employment
of Mr. Joyce, a master lighterman. There has been a
strike am,lng many of the men in the business. I have
not struck at All for wages. None of our men have
struck. The defendant and all the rest of Mr. Joyce's
men have struck. .At 1 o'clock on Tuesday I met the
defendant and many more of Mr. Joyce's men in Fresh
Wharf gateway. My brother was in the defendant's
company. He said, "What is the reason you have not
turned out ?" I said, "I am very well satisfied, and I
do not intend to turn out." He said, "Go on." The
defendant then turned round to me and said, " You was
up at the meeting." I said, " I had not been there, and
to no meeting at all." He said, "He would be hung for
the —," and struck me twice with his fist on the nose
and cheek. It cut my cheek. I said, "I'd take the
law of him." Nothing was said about my leaving my
work.

Mr. Buchanan said, the dispute had arisen from a
conversation upon the unfortunate subject of a strike,
but his client, who had accused the complainant of hav-
ing been the first to propose the strike and not to have
had pluck enough to carry out the proposition, was the
first person assaulted, and, that if it had not been for the
interference of others, he would have been actually
'flan/18 an ear in consequence of the savage vindictiveness
of the complainant.
William Wells, a lighterman, said, in cross-examina-
tion, the complainant admitted that he called Savage
a liar, but denied he gave him any other provocation.
He heard the complainant say, "If I can't fight a man
I can bite him, and that he struck the first blow."
Sir J. Musgrove.—l regret this very much. I believe
you to be both excellent, industrious, hard-working
men, and it seems to me, from the evidence I have
heard, that there has been provocation upon both sides.
The magistracy deplore these strikes extremely, and I
fear that those who join in them, and are, I am con-
vinced, instigated by interested and wrong-headed men
to pursue such a course, will be severe sufferers. Now,
it appears to me that notwithstanding all that has been
said upon the subject, the men who strike are not aware
of the law. The act most strongly alludes to the con-
duct of those who attempt to influence others as to the
performance of their duties. Threats, or anything
tending to interference, are punishable by three months'
imprisonment, and it ,would give me great pain to sub-
ject to the disgrace of a gaol a man like the person
before me, who seems to me to be just the sort of man
who would do anything to avoid such a stigma. If
lightermen feel aggrieved, they can meet together and
quietly resolve upon applying to their employers for
redress ; but they have no right to call upon those who
form a different idea of the amount of remuneration to
which they may be entitled to join in the confederacy
to compel employers to raise the rate of wages. It is
quite clear that the complainant believes that it would
be an act of great ingratitude in him to leave his em-
ployer ; and what can we call the conduct of those
who would endeavour to force him to perform such an
act ? (Suppressed applause.) I am sure that the man
before me would never, from his own feelings and judg-
ment, attempt to exercise so unworthy a power as he
may think he has, and I merely call upon him to enter
into his own recognisance in the sum of 201. to keep the
peace towards the defendant for six months.

130 W-STREET. —EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CLERK.—
Williant Sturges, clerk and cashier to Mr. C. J.
Stewart, theological bookseller, of 11, King William-
street, Strand, was brought before Mr. Hall for re-
examination on several charges of embezzlement and
forgery.

ft Was stated at the previous examination that the
prisoner had admitted having appropriated upwards of
6001., and, some additional evidence being now taken to
complete a third case of embezzlement, the forgery
charges were proceeded with.

It was then proved that the prisoner got cash for two
book•orders—one for 101. 75., and the other for 51. 7s.—
to which the signature " Charles J. Stewart" was
attached.

The prosecutor stated that they were both forgeries,
and that he never received either of the sums.

Mr. Mullens—Did you ever authorise the prisoner to
receive moneys in your name ?

Mr. Stewart—Certainly, as my servant he had a
general authority to do so ; but not to sign my name.
Mr. Mullens—But if one of these cheques had been
handed to you by the prisoner, and the money duly paid
to you, should you have said anything about it ?
Mr. Stewart—lf I had seen an attempt to imitate my
signature I should have complained of it, of course.
The prisoner was only authorised to sign his own name,
on my behalf, in the ordinary way of business—just as
he has signed some of the receipts now before you, " for
C. d. Stewart."

Mr.. Mullens—l wish to know, should you not have
taken the 10/. 7s. in the ordinary way if it had been
paid to yon.? _

Mr. Hall—Pray answer the question, it is a very im-
portant one,
Mr. Stewart—• Undoubtedly, I should have received
the money, without knowing that he had imitated my
signature. I knew nothing about it. He was authorised
to open my letters and to collect moneys. I could not
have complained of the signature to the cheque if I never
saw it.

Mr. Mullens—The question is, did you not give the
prisoner a general authority to receive moneys in your
name ?

Mr. Stewart—Yes, in the ordinary way of business.
Mr. Mullens—Then the case falls to the ground.
There is no forgery at all.

Ur. Hall---Iquite concur with Mr. Mullens, who is a
gentleman of great experience, having had more expe-
rience in these cases than any man in London.
Mr. Stewart—There must be some misunderstanding.
Surely, there is a distinction between allowing a servant
to sign his own name on my behalf (which is the com-
mon practice in business), and allowing him to imitate
my signature—to sign my own name. The one is usual,
the other is a forgery.
Mr. Hall—There is no use in arguing the point.
There is the " general authority," which, as Mr.
Mullens has shown, is fatal to the case. It could never
stand.

Mr. Dunn, who conducted the prosecution, publicly,
and in a private argument subsequently, endeavoured
to contest this point, but without effect, and the pri-
soner was committed on the embezzlement charges only.

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