The Sun.
London, England, 1833-07-01 00:00:00

EASLEY V. CROCKFORD.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a retired
stockbroker, against the defendant, the proprietor of the
splendid Club House in St. James's-street, to recover a
Bank of England note for 2001., which had been stolen
from the plaintiff, and traced to the possession of Mr.
Crockford. _

The plaintiff, in September, 1830, went to the Rotunda
in Blackfriars-road, in company with a friend, to hear
one of Mr. Cobbett'a political lectures, at .-Erich place he
was robbed of 580/. in bank notes, which he had got that
day from his stockbroker. On discovering his loss he itn-
mediately stopped payment of them at the Bank, and caused
advertisements to be inserted in the public papers, as well
as circulated throughout the country, uffeting a reward of
100/. for the restoration of the property. Ail trace of the
notes were lost -until last Ally, when a 2001. note was
found to be in. the possession of a Mr. Allen, who said that
-he received it from the defendant, Mr. Crockford, at Tat-
tersall'4, in payment of a bet for a favourite of his. Oa M
Crockford being applied to, to ascertain from whom be
had got it, he could not tell, for it was not his habit, so
large were his transactions, to endorse the flumes of the
parties from whom he got the notes ; but at the same time
be refused to restore the note, and to recover which the
p:e,,Lnt ::coon was biou:i;ht.
For the plaintiff, the loss of the money was proved, at
well as the identity of the note, and the public advertise-
ment.
For the defendant, it was submitted that the plaintiff
bad lost his money throgh his own negligence, in going
to such a place as the Rotunda with so large a sum of

money.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for 2001.
HARMER V. ROBINSON. _

This was an action brought by Alderman Harmer, to
recover the sum of 4/. 48. from the defendant. Alder•
man Harmer had been in the habit of receiving an annual
contribution of 21. 2e. from each of several Jew pawn-
brokers in the neighbourhood of Hatton -garden, for which
he undertook to defend them when they were called into
courts of justice. The defendant/had been a clerk with
the Ald rman, and had been employed by him to go
among the pawnbrokers and raise the contribution. The
defendant had, however, quitted the Alderman's service,
and set up in business for himself ; but subsequent to thit
he had continued to raise the money as usual, without the
Alderman's knowledge, and forgot to account for the
money so received. The Alderman, on going among his
clients, and finding this to be the case, demanded the
contributions received (which amounted to four guineas)
from the defendant, and the demand being refused, he
brought the present action.
One witness was called who proved the practice, but
same difficulty occurring,
The LORD Crater JUSTICE said that neither party ap-
peared to be well prepared upon the case; and, etter in-
timating that it ought never to have been brought into
Court, sugg-sted that it should be referred. The case
was accordingly, with the consent of both parties, referred
to a Gentleman at the Bar.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANBION-HOUSE.

A young woman of very respectable appearance applied
on Friday, in great agony of mind, to the LORD MAYO!,
foraeaiatairm her b
in a aeoarn No. 1
i acterl: whocerotcthagiled.,lane,Commer-
cial-road, bad been
missing.
cial-road, since the Bth of June. The wretched mother
was scarcely intelligible in her account of the disappear•
slice of the child, whose name was John Matthew Carter,
and who is nine years old. The boy had been playing in
the garden at half-past three o'clock on that day, and when
his mother called he never answered, and never had been
beard of since. Both parents bad been all over :Le town
in-s.urch I the poor child, hut i. vain.
The Lo":1AY011. said that all he could do was to re-
commend to those who had the power to inform the pub-
lic in the mo.t eff,ctual manner of the loss of the child.

The poor woman wept exceedingly, and appeared to be
quite broken-hearted.

B O W-STREET.

A CHARACTER BY FRAUD.—Saturday Charlotte Hurd
was brought to this office upon a charge of having oh•
iiino admission into the family of Miss Combe, sister of
the ce4rated brewer, in the character of housemaid, by
fratidulOot means.
Ttrikisoner, in her defence, ascribed her conduct to
distress, and expressed her regret for what she had done.
Sir F. A ROE informed the prisoner that the Act was
peremptory, and that, as she had no circumstances to
offer in mitigation of her conduct, he must fine her in the
Onalty of 201. and the costs of bearing, amounting to
ten shillings, or in default of payment, ordered her to be
committed to the House of Correction for three months
with hard labour.