The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-28 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—George Manning was brought
up, charged with having fraudulently obtained a cask of
white lead from Messrs. Robertson and Co., of Old
Swan Wharf, Upper Thames-street, plate-glass merchants.
The clerk to the prosecutors said, the defendant came
to us on the 17th of August, between 5 and 6 o'clock in
the evening, and asked if we could send a cask of lead
that night to Mr. Bowick's. I said the carts were all
out, and he must get a cart or truck for the purpose,
and he accordingly procured a truck and man, I knew
the prisoner as a person employed by Mr. Bowick, who
is a customer of ours, and I told him to write an order,
which he did, and I then wrote a receipt note for the
lead, which I delivered to him, and he signed it. I pro-
duce that receipt. I placed the order on the side of the
desk, but when I subsequently looked for it, I could not
find it.

Mr. Bowick, of Paul-street, Finsbury, said, the de-
fendant was in my employment, off and on, for two
years, and he left me the latter end of July, or beginning
of August, I did not authorise him to obtain the lead.
The policeman who apprehended the defendant said,
when I took the prisoner into custody, he did not deny
that he had obtained the lead, but declared that he had
intended to pay for it when able, and that he had dealt
in a similar way upon former occasions.
The defendant said he had nothing to say, but to
repeat that he meant to pay for the article.
Committed for trial.

GUILDHALL.—CharIes Bennett, lately a clerk in
the service of Messrs. Hutton and Co., of Newgate-
street, was brought up on remand before Alderman
Salomons, upon a charge of embezzlement.
It appeared that the prisoner had been discharged by
the prosecutors about ten days or a fortnight, and that
ho subsequently sent for one of the clerks and told him
he had received various sums of money, in all about 7/.
or Si. from several of Messrs. Hutton's customers, while
in the employ of the prosecutors, and had not accounted
for them. Evidence was given of the above statement,
and a solicitor attended and said the prosecutors had no
wish to press the charge any further, and produced a
medical certificate, that the prisoner's father, who was
a highly respectable man, was in such a precarious state
of health that any sudden excitement would be exceed-
ingly injurious to him, and might prove fatal. Under
these circumstances Messrs. Hutton would rather not
offer any further evidence, and hoped the worthy alder-
man would deem the few days' imprisonment the pri-
soner had suffered since the hearing of the case, a
sufficient punishment.
Alderman Salomons said if the Messrs. Hutton were
willing to take the young man back into their employ,
he would have no difficulty in entertaining their view of
the case ; but he thought, as they charged the prisoner
for the sake of example to others in their employ, they
ought not to seek to throw the whole responsibility of
discharging a prisoner upon the magistratel
Mr. Hutton said they could not take the prisoner into
their service again.

The solicitor said the father would send the prisoner
abroad if the alderman would liberate him from the pre-
sent charge.
Alderman Salomons said a similar case came before
him on the day previous, and although it was extremely
painful to his feelings to act in opposition to the recom-
dation of the prosecutors, he felt it his duty to send the
unfortunate prisoner for trial. The same difficulty pre-
sented itself to his mind in this case, and the only way
he could see of meeting it was by the father undertaking
to carry out the arrangement proposed, and to take care
of him in the interim.
An undertaking was readily given to that effect, and
the prisoner was accordingly discharged.