The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-24 00:00:00

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY).

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron GURNEY.)
EMBEZZLEMENT.—DanieI Rutter was indicted for
embezzling various sums of money, the property of
Sarah Beck and others, his employers.
Mr. CLARKSON having addressed the Jury for the
prosecution, called the following witnesses.
Lewis Beck—l am a glass dealer carrying on business
in partnership with my mother, Sarah Beck, in Crown-
street, Finsbury. The prisoner was in our employment
as collecting clerk ; his salary was 11. per week, and his
commission. His duty was to account for the sums be
received every evening. He has never accounted to
me for the sum of al. received from Mr. Walker, for a
sum of 1/. Ils. 61. received from Mr. Wills, for a sum
of 31. 1 Gs. received from Mr. Coxall. He was autho-
rised by me to deduct his commission of '2l per colt.
from the monies received.

Cross-examined by Mr. PHILLIPS —He paid me
81. 3s. on the 21st July, but that was not on a general
account. The witness then stated the various accounts
to the liquidation of which the 81. 3s. was to be applied.
Mr. Walker, Mr. Wills, and Mr. Coxall proved va-
rious payments made to the prisoner on account of
Messrs. Beck and Son.

They were cross-examined by Mr. BODKIN for the
prisoner, but nothing material was elicited.
Michael 13eck—I was cushier to my mother during
the time prisoner was in her service. He never ac-
counted to me for the sums received from Walker,
Wills, or Coxall.

Police Constable Maddox.—The prisoner was given
into my charge for embezzling various sums, by Mr.
L. Beck. Ile said, " I have some of it, which I can
give up now," and when at the Station-house he said,
" It was my difficulties which brought me to this."
Mr. C. PHILLIPS for the defence said, that it would
ill become him after the evidence they had just heard, to
attempt to deny the prisoner's guilt, but the fact was
he was in distressed circumstances ; he had a wife and
two children to maintain, and his salary was only one
pound a week.

Several witnesses were called to character, some of
whom had previously employed the prisoner ; and one
of whom expressed his willingness to employ him again
if he should be discharged.:
Mr. Baron GURNEY summed up, and the Jury found
the prisoner Guilty.
The prisoner was again indicted on another charge
of embezzlement from the same parties, and again con-
victed.

Mr. Baron GURNEY said that 6.3 offence of which
the prisoner had been convicted was a great and grow-
ing one, and persons in his situation must be taught to
live within their incomes. Nothing would do this so
effectually as severity of punishment, and therefore he
felt it his painful duty to sentence him to fourteen
years' transportation.
STEALING TALLOW.—Santuel Baker, J. Tippett,
Samuel Tyke, and Walter Tyke, were indicted for steal-
ing a quantity of tallow, the property of Mr. Wyatt, on
the 21st July last.
Mr. ESPINASSE stated the case to the jury. A ser-
vant of Mr. Wyatt proved the receipt of certain
quantities of tallow by his master on the 20th July.
On examining the casks on the following day four cwt.
of tallow was gone from one of the casks, its place
having been filled up with rubbish and a quantity of
tallow incited over it. Two casks were also missing.
Baker had formerly been in the employ of Mr. Wyatt.
While Baker was there the key of the factory was lost.
The factory had been entered by unlocking the door,
not by breaking open the door. Samuel Tyke was ac-
quainted with the prisoner.
Police Sergeant Terry was on duty in Old Gravel-
lane the morning in question, and saw two men with
two trucks. There was something in one of the trucks,
but it did not seem bulky enough for four cwt. of tallow.
The two Tykes were with one of the trucks.

Cross-examined by Mr. CHAMBERS-1 did not speak
to the men.

Mary Ann Laver—Witness's husband has a truck.
The prisoner Baker hired it, at half-past seven o'clock,
on the morning of the 21st of July. He kept. it two
hours and a half. It appeared more greasy when he re-
turned it than it had done before.

C. Tripp—ls a tallow-chandler in Rosemary-lane.
At ten minutes to eight o'clock, two men came to his
house with two casks of tallow. Cannot swear that
either of the prisoners were the men. They asked
him if ho bought ships' fat. He said yes. The tallow
was brought in and weighed. It weighed four cwt. A
stave was put in to exarn:ne it, and witness found it was
Cron n tallow, and that it was warm. He told the men
he would not buy it under any consideration, as it was
Crown tallow, and he thought it was stolen. They
then took it away, and said they must find another mar-
ket for it.

Mr. Baron GURNEY—The next time that anything
is offered you that you think stolen, stop it, and do not
let the parties go away.
James Noble, the servant of the last witness, corro-
borated his testimony, and swore to Baker as one of
the men.

Cross-examined—Was not certain as to Baker when
he first saw him.

George Laver, son of the witness Laver, when going
to school on the morning in question, saw his father's
truck standing in the street, and two men running down
Old Gravel-lane.
Inspector Fell of the Thames police saw the two
Tykes and another man, Tippet, at about ten o'clock
on the morning of the 21st of July. There was no
truck standing there at the time.
Cross-examined by Mr. CHAMBERS-Walter Tyke
is a green-grocer.—A person who keeps a house of call
in the neighbourhood of the docks recollects Samuel
Tyke coming to his house on the morning the tallow was
stolen. Two other persons were with him—believes
Tippett to have been one of them, but will not swear.
Cross-examined by Mr. JONES—Had said before he
thought Tippett was one of them.
R. Crutchley keeps a beer-shop. On the 27th July,
about seven the morning, Tippett came and asked if
any party had been inquiring for him; as he was to meet a
person at six that morning.
Mr. Rogers, the landlord of the Red Lion in Gravel-
lane, proved that some of the prisoners were at his
' house on the 20th of July, and some one asked for a
newspaper to ascertain the price of tallow.
Police Constable Squires apprehended the prisoner at
a coffee-shop in Rosemary-lane. The Tykes and Tip-
pett denied any knowledge of the transection, and Tip-
pett said he knew nothing of any of the prisoners. He
found some money on one of the prisoners, and on
Walter Tyke a Lean Society hook.
J. Major packed two puncheons and a hogshead of
tallow for Mr. Wyatt oa the 10th July. It would re-
tain its warmth for five days.
Mr. Baron GURNEY said he did not consider there
was any case against Tippett.
Mr. CHAMBERS addressed the Jury for the other pri-
soners, and contended there was not evidence sufficient
to convict env one of them.
Witnesses. were examined as to the character of
Baker.

Mr. Baron GURNEY having summed up, the Jury
found the prisoners Baker and Walter Tyke Guilty,
and acquitted Samuel Tyke and Tippett.
It appeared that Samuel Tyke had been before con-
victed. The Judge cautioned him as to his future con-
duct, and sentenced Baker and Walter Tyke to seven
year's transportation.

NEW COURT.
The COURT was occupied the whole morning in
trying cases of indecent assault ; the particulars of
which are unfit for publication.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, AUG. 22, 23.—Wind, W. S.W., moderate.—
Arrived, the Hopewell, from Jamaica. Sailed the Duke
of Argyle, Webb, for Calcutta ; Raymond, M`Kay, Ho-
bart Town ; Diana, Garrick, South Seas ; Robert
Newton, Mosay, Sydney ; General Hewit, Sellers, Que-
bec ; Fair Arcadian, Rogers, Demerara.
LIVERPOOI„ AUG. 22. Wind N. N. W. ; 23 W.—Ar.
rived the Richard Watson, from Laguna; Roman,
Hopner, New Orleans; Galen, Snow, ditto; New Eng-
land, Crocker, ditto; Claudius, Mobile; Montezuma,
Philadelphia ; Europe, Marshall, New York, sailed Ist
inst. ; Hannah Kerr, Linnott, St. John's, N. B. , Spartan,
Knight, New Orleans. Sailed the Mary Queen of Scots,
Kiliby, for Pernambuco ; Carthaginian, Davis, Quebec;
Alexander, Johnstone, Montreal ; Eagle, Griggs, St.
John's, N. B. ; Earl Grey, Bell, and Washington, Thurtic,
Calcutta ; Falcon, Mairs, Mauritius ; Tamerlane, Fisher,
Montreal ; Pharsalia, Winter, Boston. Off Port the Ma-
tilda, Rueve, from Calcutta, left Sand Heads, March 18,
and St. Helena, June 25.
PLYMOUTH, AUGUST 23.—Wind variable.—Arrived the
Royalist, Seaward, from Demerara.
FALMOUTH, Auousr 21. Wind variable. 22.—Wind
S. W. to W. S.W.—Arrived the Spey packet, from Rio
Janeiro, sailed June 21, Bahia Ist ult., Pernambuco Bth ;
Tyrian packet, Vera Cruz, sailed 7th ult., Havannah 22d,
with 350,000 dollars ; Mutinc packet, West Indies, sailed
St. Thomas's 22d ult., Porto Rico 23d, Cape Hayti 27th.
DOVER, AUGUST 22.—Arrived off, the Eagle, Donkin,
from Quebec.

GUERNSEY, AUGUST 21.—Sailed the Harmony, Robins,
for New York ; Albion, Rigby, Charlestown.
DEAL, AUGUST 23.—The Gretry, Gambier, from Ant-
werp to Liverpool, got on shore on the Goodwin Sand
about noon, and capsized, crew saved.
LowitsroFF, AUGUST 23.—The Argus, Pain, from Ham-
burgh to London, sprung a leak off Heligoland 14th inst.
and sunk ; crew saved.

7 FlRES.—Saturday morning, between one and two
o'clock, a destructive fire broke out in the lower part of
the house of Mr. Tucker, residing at No. 10, John-street,
Tooley-street, Southwark, which entirely destroyed the
premises and furniture. On Saturday a fire broke out
in the extensive workshops of Mr. Hurley, carpenter and
builder, Albion•street, Hyde Park, but by the prompt
arrival of the firemen, it was subdued, but not before con-
siderable damage was sustained. On Saturday about one
o'clock a fire broke out in the second floor of the house of
Mr. Meadows, hatter, No. 21, John-street, Webb-street,
Bermondsey. Engines were shortly in attendance, and
the flames were speedily subdued. The damage sus-
tained was very considerable; the whole of the second
floor being completely destroyed, and the staircase and
banisters much damaged. Mr. Meadows is insured.