The Sun.
London, England, 1825-07-20 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET. (EMBEZZLEMENT.) -- Mr. William
Christmas was brought before the sitting Magistrate, and exa-
mined privately on a charge of embezzling a number of Exche.
quer bills, with which he had been entrusted by his employers,
Messrs. Hoare and Co. This is the Mr. Christmas with
whose fame, as being connected with a certain beautiful and
well-known actress, the public is already very well acquainted.
The splendid stile in which he had lived for a consider-
able time at East Acton was long the topic of remark,
and the object of surprise to the friends of the above
banking-house. His villa, his furniture, and splendour,
were all totally incompatible with the remuneration and
salary of a clerk in a Banking-house, and therefore,
though reluctantly, his employers were induced to dismiss him.
This reluctance arose from a conviction that although appear-
ances were against him, his conduct must be unexceptionable,
since his accounts were always correct. At length, however,
this conviction proved ill-founded, and a defalcation to the
amount of 1,0001. in Exchequer Bills was discovered. He was
in consequence apprehended last Monda', by Salmon, one of
the head officers, and brought before the sitting Magistrate,
and privately examined. He was committed for further ex,
ami nation.

IIIARr,I3oItOUGH•STREET.--(A Rejected Lover. )--One
R;cleard Cox, a tall raw-boned tailor, was charged by a young
female named Mary'Andril; with not only stealing her silver
watch, but with carrying his violence to that length that she
declared her life was in danger. Mary, who resides with her
parents in Carnaby-street, is tall, well proportioned, and pos-
sessed of rather an agreeable face. With some embarrassment
she informed the Magistrate that it was her lot to haVe been
seen by the prisoner, and after visiting her a short time, he in
due form declared his passion. The fair complainant was
moved to compassion by the sighs and protestations of her swain,
until he took to drinking, and then her love cooled; she denied
him admission to her presence. lie followed her; she rejected
his love, but that did not avail, still he pleaded his passion.
She declared, that go where she would, he would follow, her,
and caused so much disturbance at her house and other
placcs, that her character had been injured in the eyes of her
friends. When he found that his conduct had created disgust,
he attempted to poison her ; he threatened to shoot her with tt
pair of pistols, and then terminate his own existence. On
Sunday last he called at her house, begged her to accompany
him on the water, unprovided with a waterman, and when she
refused, lie snatched up her watch from the table, and said,
that unless she accompanied him, he would never return it.
Schofield the officer, who had the prisoner. in charge, said, when
he apprehended him, he said he knew nothing of the watch,
but he found it on his person.—Sir GEORGE FARRANT said
he was inclined to believe that the watch was not taken with a
felonious intent. The complainant then said she was desirous he
should be bound over to keep the peace. He had once pre-
sented his pistols at her, and threatened to shoot her. She be-
lieved he had intended to drown her ; and last week lie offered
her a pot of porter, with four pennyworth of laudanum in it.—
" I did not offer it you (said Mr. Cox); I told you I had
mixed four pennyworth of laudanum with the beer, and that
I would drink it unless you behaved more kind to me. With
respect to the watch, that I only took to wear for the day, same
as you know, Mary, you have taken other men's watches."..._
" Oh ! you wicked story-teller (said the complainant), I never
had any man's watch in my life ; you know you said you'd
kill me." The Magistrate asked her if she was in fear of her
life ? The complainant replied in the affirmative, and the de-
fendant was ordered to finsl

MARY LEBONE-OFFICE.—On Monday Mr. Stockdale, the
bookseller and publisher, came to this office anti complained to
Mr. RAWLIN SON that his country-house at Notting-hill had
been broken into and plundered of a quantity of his own and la-
dies' apparel. Mr. Stockdale said, that on Sunday afternoon
he took his family on an excursion, and on their return he dis-
covered that his house had been broken into from the rear, and
a variety of things were stolen. He had suffered to an
enormous amount by robberies at different periods, and he com-
plained that the depredators appeared to make him " a mark"
to practise upon, .and as he thought he had some idea who
had received his property, and where it was concealed, he
requested a warrant might be granted to search the premises of
a neighbour of his.—The Magistrate immediately acceded
to Mr. Stockdale's request, and Hooker and Gibbs were
dispatched with a search-warrant ; but those officers having
most minutely searched the house of the suspected person
(who is a labouring rnan) could find nothing by any means out
of the common way, and from their report to the Magistrates,
it appears they could not find any thing to justify Mr. Stock-
dale's suspicions.—Among the articles stolen was one upon
which Mr. Stockdale placed particular value—namely, his
" great grandmother's satin gown."