The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-14 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
THE CADMAN. AND THE COMMON COUNCILMAN.—A
cabman was charged by a Member of the Common Conn-

eil, under the following circumstances :
The Common Councilman said that as he was riding a
valuable mare along the streets there was a homnibus be-
fore him and a cab behind him, and there was two fellows

the driver in the cab, and one on 'em was laying across

the splinter bar, seemingly drunk and very mach intossi-
cated indeed. So, the cabman which was driving, driv vita
an infamous :velocity up against the hind quarters of his

(the Common Councilman's) beast, and as she was a spi-
rited beast she was much annoyed ; for a hanimal as had
spirit did net like for a cab to poke her behind, and so the
danger was most infamous, and might have proved fatal
bar: to -man and beast. So he (the Common Councilman)
in course called out to them to mind what they was about ;
but instead of doing so they set up a horse laugh all on
'cm at him, and they driv on and seemingly didn't mind no
consequences either to him or his mare. " It's dreadful to
think of such wiilainous conduct, my Lord Mayor," added
the gentleman, who appeared while he was .describing the
painful scene as much agitated as if the poked mare was
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under him and the cab behind him.
The LORD MAYOR every day received fresh proofs of the
necessity of a strong measure for the regulation of cabs and
omnibuses.
The cabman said that be had emplOyed another cabman
to drive, and-that the person be employed gave the job to
a third, who wasn't up to the manner of driving, and drove
out of the line bang against the beast.
The Cummon Councilman—My Lord Mayor, I'm- sure
they was wishing to have me down off the mare for to rob
me, or somebody else. Its a shame and a very bad busi-'
ness, that Gentlemen can't go quiet along the streets with-
out being tossed off their mares by cab fellows, or driv

into homnibuscs.
The LORD MAYon—The danger is certainly very great,
but these fellows, as you may perceive from their language,
are persons of the lowest description. When the cabman
is so bad, what can we expect from the cabman's deputy's
deputy ?
The Common Councilman—True, my Lord Mayor, it's
most aggrawating. I assure you, my Lord Mayor, that I
would net take 120 guineas for my mare, and there we was,
you see, within a pip of eternity both on us.
The LORD MAYOR then fined the cabman 10s. and costs.
A young man named Charles Winter, was charged with
having aided andassisted another person in passing a bad
live-sclilling piece.
A poor shopkeeper, named Ann Starborough, stated that
the prisoner and another man walked into the shop toge-
ther, and looked at several articles that were for sale in the
marine-store line. The companion of the prisoner, upon
being told that the price of a file was sevenpence, handed
a five-shilling piece to the witness, and received four shil-
lings and fivepenco change, when witness was ringing the
money on the counter the prisoner, who had been going on
with a good deal of by-play, began to sound a chimney-pot,
no doubt, to smother the jingle of the five-shilling piece.
The companioli ran out of the shop just at the moment the
witness discovered that the money was base ; and the pri-
soner, who was evidently an old hand, very coolly looked at
it, and said, "Itis a bad un ! Sure enough it is a bad no.
How could you take such rubbish with your eyes open ?"
(A laugh.)
The prisoner, who said it was a -- shame to treat
him so unfairly, and that the magistrate ought to see that he
was not to blame, was remanded.

EXTENSIVE FORGERY ON DRUMMOND'S BANK.—An
elderly female of very respectable appearance, named
Catlu Hillier, was brought up, charged under the fol-
lowing circumstances :
On the 9th of October Messrs. *DrUmmond and Co. re-
ceived the following letter from Weymouth, cnclosinm* a bill
upon the house, purporting to be the bill of Lord Strad-
broke, for the sum of 4631. 14s.:—
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" Weymouth, Oct, 8, 1834.
" Gentlemen, I shall feel much obliged by your remittance
of the enclosed amount by return of post.—Yours obediently,
" CATHERINE HILLIER."
Address, Mrs. Hillier, No. 9, Augusta-place, Weymouth.
The following is a copy of the bill : '
" To Messrs. Drummond, London.

" London, Sept. 20, 1834.

" Fourteen days after date, pay to this my order the sum of
four hundred and sixty-tl- ree pounds fourteen shillings value
received, 46 : " STRADBROKE."
Endorsed Stradbroke, Catherine Hillier.

The signature Stradbroke was immediately seen to be a
forgery, and not at all a (rood one, and Mr. Bush, the soi-
citor to the Committee of Bankers for protection against
forgeries and frauds, immediately sent Daniel Forrester
the officer, to Weymouth to apprehend Mrs. Hillier.
In order to excite no suspicion, the bankers wrote the
following letter to their new correspondent.
" London. Oct. 9, 1834.

" Madam—We have received the favour of your letter of the
Bth instant, enclosing a bill to us for 4631. 14s. In reply, if
you will call on Messrs. William Cox and Co., bankers at
Weymouth, with a receipt, they will have advice respecting
the payment by this night's post.—We remain, Madam, your
most obedient servants, " DRUMMOND AND CO.
" P. P. WILLIAM RUSH."
" Mrs. Hillier, No. 9, Augusta-place, Weymouth."
Daniel Forrester upon arriving at Weymouth, went to
the banking-house of Messrs. Williams, Cox and Co., at
Weymouth, and at the expected time Mrs. Hillier called
for the amount, and produced the receipt. Forrester asked
her how she would have the money, and she replied " In
bank notes." Upon being told that the name of Lord
Stradbroke was a forgery she did not appear to be at all
dismayed, but said " That she had received it of a person of
the name of Percy on the 16th of September, at Nantes,
in France, in a transaction about some pictures.
The prisoner said that she was ready to answer any
questions which might be put to her, but as the bankers
did not reside in the city Mr. Bush requested that the case
should be removed, which was accordingly done.
It appears that the prisoner had about her papers which
countenanced the statement that she had been in France.
It also is believed that an elderly female, the description of
which corresponds with that of the prisoner, bud purchased
a stamp for a bill not exceeding 500/. some days before the
orgery was detected.