The Sun.
London, England, 1836-02-01 00:00:00

CROYDON PETTY SESSIONS.

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LAturday, a man, named Iltilliam Hartlett, was ihni::::.
WWI being concerned in the desperate ''*!-ac'a.. made on the
residresidence 9 ICaptain 11,,,,1- ' • dwhen of
ence .....in, of Clupsten , one the
Au...uers was shot. Coleman, the constable,
charged
the
prisoner with being eoneernsui in silvers felonies in the
Ccounty lir ,surrev and, yilclil& PALM,. cif the burglary at
91443 Itavikni;4l Re irad been in search of the prisoner

MANSION-HOUSE.
Mr. H. Wheeler, of the Stock Exchange, applied to Al-
derman Pirie, who sat for the Lord Mayor, for a warrant or
an attachment to seize a steam-vessel, the property of
Stephen Lakeman, who had been clerk or assistant clerk to
the Hungerford Market Company, and had absconded with
a large sum of money, the produce of,several Spanish and
Colombian Bonds, procured under false pretences from the
applicant. The fact of the robbery has made a great noise
in the City.
Mr. Wheeler had had several dealings with Mr. Lake-
man in stock of various kinds, and the utmost regularity
had been observed until Friday, when the accused person
disappeared, taking with him, amongst other money to
which he had no claim, eight Bank of Ligland notes, value
5001. each. Mr. Lakeman had directed tbe applicant to
purchase a quantity of Spanish and Colombian Stock to be
delivered on Friday. The commission was executed, and
the applicant handed the stock to Mr. Lakeman, who gave
his check at once for the amount on the appointed day.
The check was crossed, and the amount could not of course
be obtained oa the lirst clearing hour, but not the most
distant doubt was vntertained that the effects were suffi-
cient. It was, however, soon ascertained that Lakeman
had cleared his account at his bankers on Thursday. The
check was dishonoured, and it was discovered that Lakeman
had sold all the bonds immediately after he had received'
-them from Mr. Wheeler. Amongst the money given for
the bonds to Lakeman were four Bank of England notes,
value 1,000/. each, which notes he afterwards changed at
the Bank of England for eight bank-notes of 5001. each.
lie also received a bank-note for 3001., a note for 10/., and
a note for 51., all the numbers'of which notes were known.
The 5001. notes were numbered from M 79 to 5,686, 19th
January, 1836, inclusive ; the 300/. note was numbered
7,670, 6th .Thnuary, 1836 ; the 10/., 19,115, 14th De-
cember, 1835 the .51.f24,461, 15th December, 1835.
The applicant obtained the attachment.

taketiuln, it is said, obtained on the same day, by frau-
dulent means, stock from one party for 6,200/., from another
for 5,950/., and from a third for 2,0001., all of which he sold.
It is rather curious that this is the person who induced
Lord Bexley-, the Earl of Devon, and the other proprietors
of the Hungerford Market, to make a wholesale fish-market
of that large concern, and to go to such ruinous expense in
endeavouring, by hiring all the fishing boats to Ply to
Hungerford Market, to destroy Billingsgate Market. The
steam-vessel, too, of which Lakeman is said to be the sole
proprietor, happens to be the very vessel which ho prevaile,l
upon the Company' to purchase,to convey salmon from ire.
land, the first- batch •of which was condemned as ;-sinking
fish by Mr. Goldham, the clerk of Billingsgate,

Q UEEN-SQUARE.
Captain Tadman, who has been charged with committing
frauds on the public to an immense extent, under the pre-
text of giving an excursion up the Mediterranean to a
party of ladies. and gentlemen in a vessel called the Coquette,
was brought up for final examination.

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- Mr. King, the solicitor of Gray's Inn-square, who had
been the referee of the prisoner, attended in order to ex-
plain his part of the transaction. stated that he had
been acquainted with Captain Tadman about six years.
He was tiist introduced to him by a Mr. Johnson, but he
had lost sight of him until August last,-when he applied to
.him to raise 3,5001. upon mortgage, and showed him one
,of the excursion circulars.-
In reply to a questh*from Mr. Bunagr.t., he said that
up to the present time h. believed the Captain to be -a
highly respectable man.
Mr. llthonatEs—Are,you not aware that the Captain
was a bankrupt in 18307 Mr. -King—l do not know, but
I believe he was.

A Gentleman in the office stepped forward and said that
Mr. King had given the prisoner a reference to him in the
name of Gray.

This 11Ir. King most positively-denied, as also did the
prisoner.

Mr. Jeffreys, a coachbuilder, in Gray's Inn-road, pre-
ferred a charge in addition to those heard at the former ex-
amination. He deposed that upon the reference of Mr.
King he was induced to let the prisoner have a gig, worth
20/., upon a note of hand payable at Mr. King's, which had
never been taken up. Shortly after the bill transaction he
obtained another gig and harness, upon the pretext that he
had made up the number for the sea voyage, the greater
part of whom were Noblemen, and he merely wanted the
gig for a day or two to see some of the parties and draw a
large sum of money on account. He had since ascertained
that the gig had been taken to Robinson's Repository, Little
Britain, by the prisoner, on the same day that he had ob-
tained it, and pledged for-51.
The prisoner, who declined offering any defence, was
fully committed to Newgate.
A number of other extensive charges were ready to be
gone into, but the Magistrates left the parties to prefer bills
of indictment against him at the Sessions.