The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-31 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

William Jackson, who describes himself as an inva.
lided soldier of the 81st Foot, was brought before Mr.
Alderman Hughes Hughes, on suspicion of having
obtained charitable contributions, under false pre-
tences, from the Bishop of Llandaff.
John Hill, the butler to the Bishop, stated that the
prisoner presented himself to his Lordship as a person
reduced to great distress by the failure of his hearing,
and the stoppage of a pension of 6d. a day he had
obtained from the Government. The Bishop gave
him a coat, half a dozen shirts, and as many cravats,
and 11. 1 ls. 2d. Subsequently the Bishop gave him
21., and he undertook to intercede with the authorities
at the Horse Guards for the renewal of his pension.
The issue of that interference was that no such per-
son as the prisoner was known.
The prisoner, in answer to the charge, insisted
that he had been a soldier in the 81st, and had been
discharged for deafness with a temporary pension,
which had ceased. He called upon the Bishop and
stated his distress.
Mr. Alderman HUGHES HUGHES asked where he
lived now, that some inquiry might be made about

him.
The prisoner gave some particulars, and was re-
manded till Saturday.
WORSHIP-STREET.
A tall, stout, elderly man, of respectable exterior,
named Thomas Cullum, was charged with
Counties
with committing
a robbery at the terminus of the
Railway, Rhored.itch.
in the employ of the company, stated
Patrick he platform of the ter-
thatct
he was i•v upon t
on n.
e seven o'clock last evening,
minus, at about hallos. -
lurking and looking
when he perceived the pritting, him unper-
suspiciously about. Witness Wel,- into the
cuived, and presently he espied hinl •iekly
first-class waning-room, from which he
emerged, and darted into the second-class ditto. Frot►
the latter he again also made a quick exit, and with
the agility of a youth entered the office of Mr. Grim-
shaw, the superintendent. Here he stayed about three
minutes, and, on his re-appearance, witness perceived
that he had a bundle under his arm, with which he
was making a precipitate retreat, but halted, under
the impression, as witness imagined, that he was
being watched, and mide towards the water-closet,
which he entered and fastened himself in by the bolt,
of the door. Witness waited, and in a short time he
came out and proceeded towar(2,s the street in Shore-
ditch, but without the bundle. Witness now took
him into custody, and accompanied 11:_m to the water-
closet, and upon looking through a wk.. dow therein
he perceived the bundle upon the parapet of a wall
n
underneath. The prisoner said he knew .."°thing
whatever of the bundle, but acknowledged having
gone into Mr. Grimshaw's office for .the purpose, 12e
said, of ascertaining what it was o'clock. The bundle
now produced was a feather pillow, tied tip in a cot,
ton handkerchief, which witness had previously seen
in the prisoner's possession.
Mr. Grimshaw said that the pillow in question had
been lent to an invalid lady, who had come up by .the
train, by one of the officials at one of the termini.
He had seen the prisoner before the present time.
The prisoner stoutly denied the charge imputed to
him, and assured the Magistrate that he was a most
respectable man, but
Alderman, one of the officers of the court, claimed
him as an old acquaintance, and added, that notwith-
standing his plausible manner, it was not 12 months
since that he was convicted of felony. _ _

➢lr. HAMMILL said he should remand the prisoner
in order to give time for the production of the neces-
slry witnesses.
EMBEZZLEMENT AND FORGERY.-- Rowland Scroggs
Herring, late secretary to the Lodges 11 and 12 of
the United Friends' Gift Fund, was placed at the bar
before Mr. Hammill, for final examination, charged
with various acts of embezzlement, and also with
having feloniously uttered a large number of forged
orders for the payment of money to the treasurers of
that institution.
The prisoner bad held the situation of secretary to
the society for four years, and was always believed to
be a person of the greatest integrity and respecta-
bility, until he absconded in the early part of Septem-
ber last, and it was then discovered that he had
drawn and received the amount of numerors cheques
upon the treasurer in favour of persons purporting to►
be entitled to relief from the funds, but who were.
in fact altogether unconnected with the society.
In the course of the investigation it was further'
ascertained that the prisoner had embezzled the amount
of various subscriptions he had received from different
members.

Mr. Ballantine attended for the prosecution, and
intimated to the magistrate that in addition to severia
cases of embezzlement, he was prepared with owl
and documentary evidence to establish the offence oi
forgery, which, he contended, might be sustained ma.
each of the fictitious cheques for which the prisoner
had obtained payment from the treasurers.
Messrs. Gibbons and Sturdy, two of the treasurers
and trustees, produced the cheques for the various
amounts drawn by the prisoner, and proved that the
whole of the signatures to them were in the prisoner's
handwriting.
The prisoner was fully committed to Newgate for
trial.