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
101. and 51. notes, was brought up for final examination.
John Rockhain, 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 bad. 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 Si. note for him. I took the
note produced 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 he 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 5/. 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 Townend, 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,
thing ?____

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

Ifinry 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
having attempted to utter a forged cheque, with intent
to defraud the Royal 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 go to Tokenhouse-yard, No. 16, and get cash
for the cheque. He toll me 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 tl ie 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, " Well !" when he was taken bold 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 save 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—l was employed by another person to
present the cheque, and he gave me the c'aeque 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.
Gustavus Frederick Maynor was charged upon suspi-
cion of having stolen a large sum of money ( according to
the police-sheet 2,500/.), the property of gb gentleman
connected with the Russian Legation.
Mr. Mullins (of the firm of Bush and MI allins, solici-
tors), said the case was one of an extraon linary 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 sun of money
in his possession. The prisoner, it appear id, had not
been able to resist the temptation to appropr i.ite part of
that money, which had been placed in his crt,r e, and had
come to this country with it. The departure of the pri-
soner from Berlin, however, had excited susT icion, and
that suspicion was rapidly communicated to London,
and here the man was apprehended. The police had,
with the assistance rendered by the solicito engaged,
got hold of the prisoner before the money h: ec 1 been dis-
posed of, and an immediate and almost oomph !te restitu-
tion had been made. The international arr; ingements
were not, it was to be regretted, made with a 11 the cau-
tion in such a manner that the offence could be recog-
nised in England, and the Lord Mayor woul d deal with
the case according to his own judgment. It: was satis-
factory to know, however, that the prisoni?r had re-
stored all the stolen property he had been po es essed of.
The Lord Mayor said that Mr. Mullins w a.,9 very for-
tunate in obtaining so much of the property )1 '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.—.Tantes Collins and Jane 83 Middleton
were charged with robbery in Smithfield.
William James, a cowkeeper, said he was in the
market, buying a horse, and while in the cm 'ad collected
round him, he felt a hand at his pocket, a od missed a
black bag containing 81. He immediately tr tr ned round
to see who was the thief, when the prisoner • Middleton
put his hand before his face to prevent him 'teeing Col-
lins.

A lad of the name of Crickett said he saw Di )11ins take
a black bag from prosecutor's pocket, and pz is 3 it to one
of his " pals," who made off with the booty.
The prisoners were searched, but, as n el ,ping was
found on them relative to the charge, the were re-
manded for the officer to make further inquiry .

BOW-STREET.—George Clement, a lett 43 r carrier,
was charged with stealing a letter, containingc !ash.
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 prig oner was
employed in sorting letters at 12 o'clock on Saturday.
While he was thus occupied, Mr. Harper n o' deed that
he was running a small envelope through b is fingers,
with the view, apparently, of ascertaining if i t contained
any money. He then placed it under the pa aket of let-
ters in his hand, and held it there some tiny 3, instead of
sorting it in the usual manner: After this be took out
his pocket handkerchief and raised it to his nose, at the
same time contriving to shift the letter in to it. The
handkerchief, with the letter inside, was then 113 turned to
his pocket. During the whole transaction, t h e prisoner
kept his eye rigidly fixed on the senior insp, 2tor, Mr.
Edwards, having no suspicion that he was 1 ieing nar-
rowly watched by Harper. When the sorting was over,
the prisoner was taxed with having put a letter into his
pocket, upon which he put both hands into his coat, and
drew out the handkerchief with one hind 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 lie professed to knovi, nothing
whatever about it, and declared that the letter 1 which he
took out with his handkerchief was one addr eased to
himself.

The letter in question, which had never been d slivered,
was now opened in the presence of the magists ate. It
was addressed to a Mr. Ellary, of Westminster, and con-
tained half a sovereign. It was proved that it did not
belong to the prisoner's walk.
Mr. Jardine committed him for trial.

A NEW WAR ROCKET.—We understand ' that an
extensive order has been received by the authie rities of
the Royal Arsenal for the completion of a la rl ;e quan-
tity of war rockets, on an entirely new prin .c pie, and
which are expected to supersede those former i y in use.
In consequence of this, a number of hands 41,re to be
entered in the course of the next week.—Ke7 i 1 iBh Men.
cury.