The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.
Joseph Beak, a warehouseman at Mr. Lloyd's, printer,
Salisbury-square, was charged with robbing his em-
ployer of a quantity of cheap publications, and Thomas
Harman, a shopman at Mr. Berger s, a bookseller, in
llolywell-street, was charged with receiving them, know-
ing them to be stolen. _

The prosecution was conducted by counsel. The
Learned Gentleman (whose name we did not catch)
stated that his client issued a number of cheap pe-
riodicals, and the prisoner was employed in delivering
them to the trade when they came to purchase at the
premises, another person taking the cash, to facilitate
business and to prevent embezzlement. The evidence
would show that, on several occasions, Mr. Berger's man
had come with a list of periodicals, and had been served
with them, it was supposed, by the prisoner Boak, who
then called out to the cashier to take a sum less than the
actual value of the books. It was presumed that the
two prisoners subsequently shared between them the
difference between the real value of the goods and the
price actually paid, though this could not be shown.
Mr. J. G. Berger, of 19, Holy well-street, Strand,
stated that, as clerk to his father, it was his duty to
make out the lists of periodicals wanted, and to send for
them. On the 9th instant he sent the prisoner to Mr.
Lloyd's for publications of various kinds, to the amount
of 11. 11s., and he brought them home correctly. On
the 16th he sent him for goods to the amount of 11. 4s.
Bd. ; on the 23d to the amount of 17s. Bd. ; and on the
24th to the amount of 105. lid. He brought them home
correctly.
To prove that by the direction of the prisoner Boak,
smaller sums had been paid, the cashier, Anthony Ber-
ridge, an aged deaf man, said on the 16th he received
11. 2s: from-the persottewho paid in,Thename.of-Berget!
Mt*. Aldermati Wocin aeked himiiritivitas the prisoner
HaFmaiii-Vho-pilid Mat thal money? The-wittess said he
could not recollect. He knew the prisoner, as he did a great
many more, by sight, but without knowing in whose
employ they were. The prisoner was not the only per-
son who delivered goods.
Mr. Alderman WOOD said there would be a legal dif-
ficulty in prosecuting, in such a state of things. It
might not be the prisoner Harman that received the
goods, nor Boak that delivered them. It was not shown
that Beak received any money.
The counsel said he could go farther.
Charles Wilson, in the service of Mr. Lloyd, deposed
that on the 9th and 16th he watched Harman from
Holywell-street to Mr. Lloyd's, and back to Holywell-
street, and saw that he neither bought nor sold any
books on the way.
Mr. Lloyd stated that he was watching the prisoners
on the 9th. As soon asHarman left the premises with
the publications, Boak followed him, and they went
together into a public-house round the corner. He did
not know what passed between them there, for he re-
turned to see what sum Harman had paid to Berridge,
knowing he could ascertain as precisely the sum he
ought to have paid.
Mr. Alderman WOOD said the evidence was incon-
clusive. The difficulties had not been removed, and he
Aldermanand orordered woman about 40 years of
a
age, was charged with begging in St. Paul's Churchyard,
she having at the time a savings' bank book in her
eWr hper comaintenance m
pocket,wlth deposits to her account to the extent of 361.
Mr.
m commuted her toto Bbre d
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fer lalyfeodr
month,
out of her deposits.
MARLBORO UGH- STREET.
George Dickens, aeh • ert, was charged with having
stolen bank notes and
l A , oof the value of 551, the pro-
perty of Mr. Ferdinanrundel.
The prisoner and
in Great Titchfield-street. prosecutor lodged in the same house
Bristol, The prosecutor received a
sum of money from Br
bag, in his apartment. pi; which he placed in a carpet
ment was entered, the lock rifng th his absence the apart-
o
the money taken away.
Thee bag forced open, and
prisoner left his lodgings
suddenly, and at the time was
prisoner was traced to havein arrear for rent. The
t
and gold, at the house of a absum of money, in notes
which sum he afterwards drewm i out of linan,
in High-street,
hands. It was presumed that th the publican's
portion of the property stolen froth is
money
formed a
carpet-bag. the prosecutor's
The explanation of the prisoner
in-law had sent him recently a was that his father.
sutra
and that this was the money which of upwards of 301.,
hands of the publican. had been left in the
The prisoner's father-in-law was called, and he said
other he had sent some bank notes and
money to the
prisoner.
This witness prevaricated in his statement on cross-
examination, and gave such contradictory accounts of
the circumstances under which the alleged remittances
took place, that Mr. Bingham said he should not place
the least dependence
on what the witness stated. He
did not believe a word of the evidence of the witness
about his having sent money to the prisoner, and there-
fore the defence fell to the ground.

police.constable, who had been to Derby, where
the prisoner's mother lived, said that the prisoner and
his father in•law had been at variance for some time.
The prisoner's mother had remitted him a pound or two

Mr. Robinson, who attended for the prisoner, said he
should call witnesses to prove that the prosecutor was
never in possession of the sum of money which he stated
he had lost. In that case he presumed the Magistrate
would not detain the prisoner.
Mr. BiNottam said he should certainly commit the
prisoner for trial. If it were shown that the prosecutor
could not have lost the money, he should still commit
the prisoner for having property supposed to be stolen in
hiss possession.
Mr. Robinson then proceeded to question Mr. Arundel
with respect to tho money ho said he had lost.
Mr. Arundel stated that ho had formerly been iu