The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-26 00:00:00

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EXTENSIVE FORGERY AND ROBBERY.—Stephen
Jones, formerly clerk in the employ of Mr. Isaac
L. Pulvermucher, medical galvanic chain band in-
ventor and manufacturer, No. 200, Regent-street,
was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with forgery, and
also with stealing galvanic bands and other articles,
the property of his employer.
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From the evidence of Mr. Henry Stephen Foot-
man, manager to Mr. Pulvermacher, it appeared
that the prisoner, while in the employ of Mr. Pul-
vermacher, was in the habit cf having letters sent
►,y his employer's patients given to him to answer,
tnd in November last it was found that in answer-
ing them he wrote to some of Mr. Pulver-
macher's patients requesting them to address
future letters to No. 19, Tooley-street,
stating that to be Mr. Pulvermacher's private resi-
dence. Several letters, it subsequently was dis-
covered—some of them containing post-office orders
—were sent to the address, 19, Tooley-street, and
the prisoner obtained the money for the post-office
,irders by forging Mr. Pulvermacher's name to
them. Letters reaching Mr. Pulvermacher from
some of his patients complaining of the non-execu-
tion of their orders, although they had forwarded
Post-office orders to No. 19, Tooley-street. Mr.
'Footman went there, it being the prisoner's re,i-
deuce, and saw him, he being then ill in bed; and
having told him that he had been guilty of forging
Pulvermacher's name and robbing him, he said
he had, that he was very sorry, that he did it in the
hour of temptation, but that there were only two
cases of the kind. The prisoner being ill, he
was not then taken into custody, and he subse-
quently absconded. Since then it had been dis-
covered that he had carried on the system to a
large extent, Mr. Pulvermacher having received
numerous letters from clients in Scotland, Ireland,
acd elsewhere, showing it to be the case.

The prisoner, who was apprehended last night at
East Ilam, Essex, by Shrives, divisional detective,
and who made no answer to the charge, was re-

By a telegram received from Malta it appears
that her Majesty's troopship Himalaya, which is
conveying to Alexandria Indian reliefs, en route to
Bombay, arrived at the former port on the 23d
instant, and was to sail on the night of the follow-
ing day. Her Majesty's Indian troopship Eu-
phrates arrived at Suez from Bombay, and the
Malabar left the former for the latter port on the
24th instant. All well in each case.
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