The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-20 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-110 USE.
Harrison and Pryke, the two men who were seve-
ral days ago charged with having appropriated a letter
of credit for 501. 7s. 9d., which was enclosed in a
letter, addressed to a gentleman of the name of Har-
rison, after having forged the name of the owner to it,
was brought up for final examination.
A clerk from the office of Messrs. Bush and Mas-
ters, solicitors to the Committee of Bankers, for pro-
tection against felony and fraud, attended, and said that
the bankers had determined to prosecute.
It will be recol'ected that all the money, with the
exception of a few pounds, was delivered to Peak, the
Post-office officer, when he went to the house of Har-
rison, in Lambeth, by that person and his wife, who
seemed to regret deeply that they had meddled with the
contents of the letter. The solicitors to the Committee
of Bankers, upon the first examination, allowed the
wife of Harrison to be discharged, on account of her
children, although she was involved in the offence, and
there was a strong feeling manifested towards the male
prisoners on account of the extent of the temptation to
which they had been subjected. It was indeed sup-
posed, and so :heir solicitor stated yesterday, that they
would be discharged. The bankers, however, found
it necessary to prosecute, even in this case, as they con-
sider it indispensable in cases of forgery to show that.
the offence admits of no alternative.
There was no additional evidence, sad the deposi-
tions having been read over,
The LORD MAYOR said that he had no alternative
but to commit.
The two men were then committed ; Pryke for felo-
niously forging, disposing, and putting away as true, a
false acquittance or receipt, signed W. Geore Harri-
:on, for 501. 7s. 9d., with intent to defraud Matthias
Attwod and others ; and Harrison for ;'eloniously aid-
ing ting Pryke in cammitting the felony and
forgery.
:nd
~set

Isaac Cliff, alias Isi:fic
frey Clift, was brought up Godfrey, alias Isaac God-
g:7 re-examination upon sus-
picion of having committed a forge 7.
Mr. Dimsdale, saddler and harness-make'." stated that
the prisoner applied to him for two sets of har-
ness, ant gave him a bill for 241. 10s., which purporteJ
to be accepted by a person named Cornish. One se:
of harness was sent home, but witness having heard a
very bad character of the prisoner, did not part with
the other set. The bill when due was not paid, and
witness was informed that Cornish denied that he had
accepted it. Upon further inquiry, witness found that
he had got into the hands of a regular nest of swindlers.
The prisoner said that the bill was a regular legal
instrument, and accepted by Mr. Cornish, whom he be-
lieved to be a person living on his means, and that the
complainant satisfied himself about it before he took it
The LORD NIAYOR—IS Mr. Cornish here ?—The
prisoner said that he did not see the gentleman, nor
had he seen or heard from him since the bill became due.
The LORD AIAYOR (to the prisoner)—Pray who are
you ? The prisoner—I go about selling slays, and
linen, and shoes, to market towns, and I keep a shop in
High Wycombe.

Mr. Harmer, a solicitor, of High Wycombe, said
that a client of his bad let a house in that place to the
prisoner, and was so oonvineed of the mode of dealing
practised by the man, that all he wished was to be once
more put in possession of his house. The prisoner al-
tored his 010108 by transposing them to suit his pnr-
posec. sad no doubt several persons would have come
forwani it the first charge had been publicly stated.
An Insii•ctur of the C division of Metropolitan Po-
lice stated, upod being called upon, that be had caused
inquiry to be made n the neighbourhood of Feather-
stone-street, St. Luke's, where the prisoner was known,
as to the man's character, atO been informed it was a
very bad one. The prisoner ha.l upon one occasion
charged a person with having robbed Lim, and witness,
who investigated the case, was convinced th,7l. 00 r"b-
I !wry at all took place.
iir. Jones, from the office of Mr. liosson the solici-
tor, appeared fur the prisoner, and submitted that there
was no pretence for the charge of forgery, the bill,
whatever might be the value of it, having been bona tide ;
accepted.

The Linty MA yon ordered that the prisoner should
be brought up again on Monday next.
rue prisoner, for whom a Sheriffs' officer was wait-
ing, was then remanded.

PARIS POLICE.

EcoNomicae amt.—One of the forest-keepers of
the Bois de Boulogne, on gong his rounds, about day-
break, a few mornings since, observed what he consi-
dered some two-legged animal, without feathers, which,
on seeing him, made its way into the thick underwood.
The guardian immediately followed its track, and was
close to it, to find that it was a
own species in a complete state of
male surprised,
afimoani coof mhi nfsg
nudity, but who, on finding he was noticed, began put-
ting on his trowsers. The officer immediately took him
into custody for an outrage on public decency, and car-
ried
colloquy took place :
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Gluart—lt 1,71. e for the benefit of my health that I
acted so. De me the Evour to cast your el,7a over ;I:is
certificate—(iialidieg a paper to the Alagizitrate).
President—What can your certificate have to.do with
your outracing public decency as you have done
Gluart—ltead it, if you please, you will there see
why I am obliged to roll mysclf on the grass ; my
healths demands it.
President—This is a singular means of cure you have
adopted.
Givart—l have not the means of going to the baths of
Vichy and Bagneres to take the waters.' God has, in
his goodness, placed the means of cure within the reach
of the poor as well as the rich, and there is nothing so
beneficial as the morning dew for the health. If you will
look at 'my certificate—
President (to the Forest keeper)—Did you remark
that the prisoner, when in a state of nudity, was exposing
himself to the view of passers-by ?
Forest-keeper—There was no person pa-sing at the
time, and the moment he saw me he made hi; retreat
into the wood. I certainly took him more for a mad
man than for an indecent one.
then:cidaseerinWa hse
Gluart—l have a sense of decency, Sir ; thank God
I have. When I first began my operations, I looked
round to see if I was observed, and I did not begin to
take my 1.
dew-bath " until I was assured that I should
not offcrid public decency.
The tribunal were inclined to admit his defence, and
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further punishment.
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ANTEAU."---ThiS description of robbery
merits a particular classification in the innumerablo
ca-
tegory of Parisian schemes for depredation on the pub-
lic. The performer in this trick is usually a young man,
of good address and fashionable exterior, and his scene
of action is generally in the aristocratic quarters of the
city where routs and grand balls are common, and at
the doors of the principal theatres. His plan of ope-
ration is, when
carriages are arriving in the greatest
number, and the municipal guards find it difficult to
keep them in their proper rank, to approach as near
as possible to the door, and lend an attentive ear to
the orders given by the parties descending from their
vehicles to their respective coachmen. If the order
is given to return in three or four hours, that coach is
of no use to the dexterous thief ; hut the moment it is
s;gmfied to one of the charioteers that he is to wait, as
the master or mistress will be ready in an hour or two
to proceed to some other parte, that coach is made the
object of his depredations. Ho feels assured that the
moment the coachey has dropped into his regular file be
will quit his box to seek refreshment, or otherwise, to
beguile the time of waiting,
and, watching that time, lie
immediately contrives to ialroduce his arm through the
window of the vehicle, and lay hold of all within his
reach. It is very rare that this robbery is detected ;
but u few nights since a young OM"' named Narcisse
A—, was not so fortunate ; he was caught infil-
grante delieto, and handed over to the police, anti by
them locked up for the night in the guard-house of the
quarter. While there he attempted self-des:ruction,
by suspending himself to the gratings of the window by
means of his neckcloth but he was discovered and cut
down before life was extinct, and conveyed to a place of
greater safety.

in Loic:ReDounCtyAßorDitiGuAntNin-g
writes us—" The Earl of
2. Correspondent resident
:
Cardigan must be exceedingly galled by the newspaper
attacks, for he is very sensitive on that score. Some
years since (when Lord Brudenell), he met the editor of
the Stanford News on the racecourse at Stamford, and
thrashed him for some comments he had made in his jour..
nal. Mr. Drakard prosecuted him, and got the Peer
mulcted in 100/. damages.—lnverness Courier.