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London, England, 1851-11-26 00:00:00

EVENING-, NOVEMBER 26, 1851.

WEDNESDAY

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Nov. 25.

(Before Mr. TURNER, Deputy Assistant• Judge, and
a Bench of Magistrates, at the Guildhall, West-
minster.)
CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD A LOAN SOCIETY.

John Johnson, aged 39, was indicted for having
conspired with a person named Hill (not in cus-
tody) to obtain by false pretences from one James
Dwyer the sum of 41, 143,, with intent to cheat him
thereof.
Mr. Parry conducted the case for the prosecution,
and Mr. Payne appeared for the defendant.
Mr. PARRY, in stating the case, said that he ex-
pected to be able to prove that he defendant then
standing at the bar of that court was one of a gang
of persons who availed themselves of the means by
which advances of money were made by loan
societies to defraud the members of such societies,
the plan being for one person to make an application
for a loan and refer to an accomplice, who became
security, when, the money having been advanced, it
was divided between them or among as many as
were in the conspiracy. lie believed that it would
turn out that the prosecutor of this indictment,
which was one of several of a precisely simi-
lar character which he had preferred against other
persons, was a money lender, and the fact of his being
so would be urged no doubt by the Learned Counsel
for the defendant against his credit; but so long as a
money lender did not avail himself of the circum-
stances of necessitous men to extort extravagant gain,
but contented himself with a moderate interest for the
sum lent, he, for one, could see no more harm in that
man's course of business than in the trade of any
other person in that metropolis, where goods were
bought and suld for a profit. The Learned Counsel
then called
James Dwyer, the prosecutor, who deposed that he
was a money lender, and had an office in St. Martin's-
lane, and resided at 9, Brewer-street, "Woolwich. A
person named H.ll applied to him for a loan of 51.,
and referred to a Mr. Johnson, of No. 3, Belvidere-
place, Cambridge-road, Bethnal-green, as security.
Hill filled up the usual form and gave it to him.
(It was produced.) In consequence he went to
Johnson. That was on the 4th of November.
He saw the prisoner at the address given by Hill,
and asked him if he was the tenant of the house.
He replied that he was, and that he had been
so fourteen months ; and witness asked if he
had any objection to show the receipts for his rent.
He said he had not, and produced four pieces of paper
purporting to be receipts, stamped, and signed by a
Mr. Bull. He said they were the receipts for rent
he had paid for that house. He looked at them and
believed them to be genuine receipts, and was quite
satisfied with the reference. He showed the prisoner
the form, in which his name had been written by Hill
as a security, and the prisoner consented to become
security for the repayment of the loae. The prisoner
and Hill went to the office in St. Martin's-lane, and
signed a promissory note for the amount. The money
was paid to Hill by the clerk. Hill had absconded.
Search had been made for him, but without success.
When he went with an officer to Johnson's house, for
the purpose of giving him into custody, he asked to be
shown again the receipts. The prisoner said his wife had
them, and as she was not at home he could not show
them, but, when he saw the policeman, he said he
had never shown receipts at all. He advanced the
money to Hill believing that the representation of the
prisoner, that he had lived in the house for fourteen
months, was true; and certainly should not have done
so had he known that he had lived there since Michael-
mas last only.
In cross-examination, the prosecutor said the loan
society consisted of himself only. It was called the
" Railway Loan-office." He had not a betting-office
at the present time, but he had had one. It was
closed a very few hours after the race for the Chester
Cup in May last. At that time there were liabilities
upon the office amounting altogether to 8,000/. He
had paid a large sum off that amount, but he consi-
dered these questions quite irrelevant to the matter
before the Court. He had not paid the whole of the
money ; he had paid 1,8001. His losses on the Derby
were included in the 8,000/. He did not lose that
sum upon the Chester Cup only. He had 4,6001.
owing to him at the " Corner" (Tattersall's). Never
advertised for holders of his tickets on the Chester
Cup to appear at Worship-street Police-court. An
advertisement to that effect was published, but it
was a hoax. He was not there, and could not tell
whether the ticket-holders wore there. He kept the
office for three years. In the loan business he had
not rejected more than five applications out of 170.
He had been the " Loan Company" for three months.
In Si. loans 4/. 14s. was advanced, a year's interest
being deducted, and the borrower had to pay the costs
of the inquiries as to the security. In the present
case there was another security beside the prisoner
It was a person named Taylor. The prisoner was
given into custody before the first instalment of the
loan was due from Hill. He was given into custody
on the Friday evening, and the first instalment would
have been due ou the following Monday.
Re- examined—The parties who held his tickets had

been quite satisfied with what he had done. He had
give❑ them 100 per cent. on the money they had
placed in his hands. For instance, if he received 51.

frorn a person he had returned 101. It was his inten-
tion to liquidate the whole of his liabilities. He should
obtain the 4,600/. owing to him at Tattersall's, if he
could clear up his tickets. He had no doubt he
should receive it.

Michael Ryan proved the advance of the money to
Hill, and the signature of the prisoner to the pro-
missory note.
James Bull stated that he was a rent collector, and
lived at No. 4, Belvidere-place, Cambridge-road,
Bethnal-green. The prisoner lived at No. 3. The
prisoner never paid him any rent. None was due, for
he only entered upon possession of the house at Mi-
chaelmas last. Was confident he bad never given him
any receipt, and that the prisoner had not lived there
for fourteen months.

Police-constable Brown, 421 K, said he took the
prisoner into custody. When Mr. Dwyer asked him
to produce his receipts he said he could not as his wife
was out, and she had them. Did not hear him deny
that he had ever shown receipts to Mr. Dwyer, but
he might have done so.
Mr. PAYNE then addressed the jury. He said the
prisoner had got into his present situation through
serving a friend who had taken him in, and that he
was a man more sinned against than sinning. The
Learned Counsel then proceeded to comment in a vey
strong manner upon the prosecutor, and the facts which
had come out in his cross-examination, and in refer-
ence to betting-offices, he said they were the greatest
curse that ever befell this country, for to them thou •
sands, not only individuals, but families owed their
ruin, for men who possessed ample fortunes had lost
every penny, and reduced themselves and those who
were dependent upon them to beggary and ruin, by
only one half-hour's speculation upon the Derby, at
these pests of betting-offices. The prosecutor had
talked about having paid 100 per cent. to those who
held his tickets ; but, though he had paid 101. each to
those who had put 51. in his hands, and so on, he no
doubt owed them hundreds, and of all persona in the
world he was one of the last who should have pre-
ferred a charge of fraud like the present. The pri-
soner, unfortunately, had become surety for Hill, but
he had been asrested and charged with conspiracy to
defraud actually before the first instalment was due,
so that the prosecutor had not waited to see whether
the money would lee repaid by the security or not.
The DEPUTY-JUDGE, in summing up, told the jury
that in his opinion the case was tolerably clear, if they
believed the prosecutor's evidence ; so far as the evi-
dence went, there appeared nothing to show that he
was a person not to be credited on his oath.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Mr. PARRY said there were, as the Court were
aware, indictments against three other persons for this
same offence, and against a fourth, named lon, the
grand jury had found a true bill for forgery, and that
case would be sent to the Central Criminal Court for
trial. He did not know, therefore, ivnether the Court
would at once pass sentence, on the prisoner, or defer
doing so until the other persons were tried; but if
the Learned Chairman thought of sentencing the pri-
soner at once, he had to say, that from information
the prosecutor had received there was no doubt but
that the prisoner was one of a number of persons who
systematically practised this plunder on loan- offices,
and he was well known to several of those institu-
tions. A more mischievous system of fraud could not
prevail.
Inspector Brennan said he knew the prisoner.
For the last three or four years he had been the con-
stant associate of skittle sharpers, and persons who
imposed upon the public by fictitious and plausible
stories.

Mr. PAYNE desired to know why Brennan inter-
fered in the matter. He had done so without any
solicitation.

Mr. PARRY said Brennan was very properly dis-
charging his duty as a public officer, and he was not to
be censured for so doing by Mr. Payne.
The Inspector said such attacks, ifcontinually made
upon the police, would hare the effect of deterring
them from fully performing their duty to the public,
but would not as far as he was concerned.

The DEPUTY-JUDGE said Brennan was quite right.
The COURT sentenced the prisoner to six months'
imprisonment.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

James Donnell, aged 18, and Ellen 111.Carthy, aged
12 years, were charged with having been concerned
in working an illicit still.
The LORD MAYOR—The case is perfectly clear; It
is evident that the little girl was concerned in the
offence, not only from the condition in which her
clothes were, but from her anxious advice to the male
prisoner to " run." It is, I regret to say, my duty
to commit her, as well as the male prisoner, but I
request that she may be taken before the ladies who
so hpreanely inquire into the cam of, and administer

relief to, poor unprotected children, and that the Board
of Excise be petitioned to agree to the commutation
of her punishment. It is deplorable to think that the
defendants must have been engaged in this serious
breach of the law by experienced persons who have
kept out of the way to seeure themselves, no doubt
calculating upon the lenity of the chief magistrate in
such a case. It is my duty to fine each of the defend-
ants 301., or to send them to prison for three calendar
months.

defendant rested upon the testimony of Duncan,whoge
extraordinary story was utterly unworthy of belief.
Ile should consequently dismiss the case, forbearing
to make any remark upon the conduct of the police-
men engaged in the affair, which should be the sub-
ject of investigation in another quarter.
Inspector Marsh stated that he had been kept in
ignorance of the circumstances deposed to in evidence.
The defendant was dismissed.
MAR YL EBONE.

Charles Frederick Krohn was placed at the bar for
further examination, on the charge of having carried
on a system of depredation at hotels and other places
to a very considerable extent.

The Marquis of Granby, the Rev. Mr. Hughes,
and another gentleman, who had been sufferers by
the nefarious practices of the prisoner, were accom-
modated with seats by the bench.
Mr. Hann%nt, the inspector, who has been actively
engaged ever since the prisoner's apprehension in
sifting thoroughly the system of robbery carried on
by the accused, was now prepared to go into other
cases.

The Marquis of Granby, 5, Hyde-park-gate, de-
posed that on Saturday night, the 3d of August, he
slept at an hotel at Dover, and that early the next
morning he mused his gold watch, guard, and some
seals, also three sovereigns. He had not locked his
door before be went to bed. He (the Marquis) bad
understood that a foreigner had slept in the next
room to him, and had gone away in the morning very
early.

Mr. Suffell, a pawnbroker, in Commerce-place,
Brixton-road, produced a gold watch and guard
which bad been pledged at his shop on the 4[ll of
September, for 91., in the name of " Hermanson."
These articles were identified by his Lordship as
being his.

Mr. Legge, a surgeon, residing at Cambridge
House, Clapham-road, stated that the prisoner came
to lodge and board with him on the 27th of August,
bringing with him two portmanteaus. He said that
he was from Denmark, and had a great deal to do in
the shipping business. After staying some time, he
went away 151. in debt, and witness heard nothing
more about him until he saw an account of his ex-
amination in the newspapers He came in the name of
Hermanson, and left behind him his boxes, which
had in them articles of very little value.
Some evidence of the most conclusive nature was
gone into as to the prisoner being the person who had
occupied a room at the Prince of Wales Hotel, and
who had left in his sleeping apartment the bag con-
taining a Mr. Gunning's property.
Frances Doubleday, chambermaid at the Mount
Hotel, Grosvenor-street, deposed that on the 21st of
June last the prisoner came to the establishment and
inquired if he could have a bed for nine nights. He
was told that he could only have it for three nights,
and he was shown up into a room No. 24. In about
an hour afterwards he went away, saying that he was
going to the Custom-house, where his luggage was
detained.

The Rev. Mr. Hughes, Asburst Rectory, Sussex,
deposed that on the 21st of June he was staying with
his wife at the Mount Hotel, and that he lost a silver
flask, jewellery, and other property to the value
of 541.

Mr. John Wombwell, 44, Eaton-square, said that
he was staying at the hotel at the period in question,
and that he lost a watch.

Mr. Folkard, pawnbroker, Wandsworth-road, pro-
duced a silver flask and a gold bracelet, and also a
watch, pledged by the prisoner, the whole amount
advanced to him heing 6/. 15s.

Mrs. Sarah Anne Routledge,6, Cambridge-terrace,
Clapham-road, said that the prisoner came to her
house on the 9th of May, and lodged with her nine
weeks. He behaved himself well while with her,
and paid great attention to her daughter, to whom
he gave a watch, but they had a quarrel, and he took
it from her.

Four cases were completed against the prisoner,
and Inspector Hannant has still in his possession se-
veral duplicates relating to valuable articles, the
owners of which are not yet forthcoming.
The prisoner, who had nothing to say in answer
to either of the charges, was remanded till next
Tuesday.

Mr. Hudson, of the firm of Maples and Pearce, at.
tended to watch the case on the part of the Great
Western Railway Company, as did also Mr. Collard,
the superintendent of the company's police.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, Nov. 25.
GENERAL ORDER.
HORSE GUARDS, Nov. 24, 1851.
Her Majesty does not require that the officers of the
army should wear any other mourning, on the present
melancholy occasion of the death of Field- Marshal his
late Majesty the King of Hanover, than a black crape
round the left arm, with their uniforms.
By command of Field-Marshal the Duke of
Wellington, Commander-in-Chief,
G. BROWN, Adjutant-General.
ADMIRALTY, Nov. 24
Her Majesty does not rt quire that the officers of the
Fleet or Marines should wear any other mourning, on
the present melancholy occasion of the death of his late
Majesty the King of Hanover, than a black crape round
the left arm, with their uniforms. J. PARKER.
ADMIRALTY, Nov. 25.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Colonel Charles Menzies, Roy al Marines, and Lieute-
nant-Colonel Thomas Wearing, Royal Marines, to be
Aides-de-Camp to her Maj.-sty. Nov. 20.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 22.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Creswicko Rawlinson, 0.13.,
now her Majesty's Consul at Bagdad, to be her Majesty's
Consul-General at that city.
DOWNING-STREET, Nov. 25.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant-
Colonel Robert Henry Wynyard, Companion of the Most
Honourable Order of the Bath, to be Lieutenant-Go-
vernor of the Province of New Ulster, in New Zealand.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Captain
Edward Frome, of the corps of Royal Engineers, to be
Collector of Customs for the Island of Trinidad.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
MICHAELMAS TERM.—IN THE 15TH YEAR OF THE
REIGN or QUEEN VICTORIA.
Monday, the 24th day of November.
This Court will, on Friday, the sth day of December
next, hold a sitting, and will proceed to give judgment
in certain of the matters that will then be standing over
for the consideration of the Court.

J
WHITEHALL, Nov. 19 OHN JERVIS..
The Right Honourable Sir John Jervis, Knt., Lord
Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Com-
mon Pleas, at Westminster, his appointed Ed-
ward Utithoff, of Knaresborough, in the county
of York, Gentleman, to be ono of the Perpetual
Commissioners for the taking of acknowledgments of
deeds to be executed by married women, under the Act
passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and for
the substitution of more simple modes of assurance, in
and for the West Riding of the county of York, also in
and for the North Riding of the same county.
BANKRUPTS.
H. Pinhorn and R. Pinhorn, tailors, Southampton,
to surrender Dec. 5, at twelve, and Jan. 6, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee;
Sturmy and Co., Poilpot-lane, Fenchurch-street.
J. Spalding, ironmonger, Cambridge, Dec. 5, and
Jan. 2, at half-past one, at the Cuurt of Bankruptcy.
Stansfeld, official assignee; Paxton, Bloomsbury-square;
Taylor, Cambridge.
R. G. Rudel, merchant, Devonshire-street, Queen-
square, Bloomsbury, Dec. 9, at eleven, and Jan. 15, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official
assignee, Basingball-street; Bush and .111uliens, St. Mil-
dred's-court, Poultry.
H. Adams, hardwareman, Hastings, Sussex, Dec. 5
and Jan. 10, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall•street; Goddard,
King-street, Cheapside.
J. J. Hatch, wholesale furrier, Friday-street, City,
Dec. 5, at one, and Jan. 13, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane,
Lombard-street; Lawrence and Co., Old Jewry.
F. E. Rigby, sen., and F. E. Rigby, jun., plumbers,
Birkenbead, Cheshire, Dec. 8 and 29, at eleven, at the
Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official assignee,
Liverpool; Atherton, Liverpool.
R. Allen, wine merchant, Truro, Dec. 4, at one, and
Jan. 6, at eleven, at the Exeter District Covrt.
official assignee, Exeter; Tamplin, Fenchurch-street;
Bishop and Pitts, Exeter.
A. Cansh, provision dealer, Liverpool, Dec. 4 and 26,
at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
_Turner,
official assignee, Liverpool; Bremner, Liverpool.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS.

Anthony Bernhard Von Rathen, engineer, Holder's

Hotel, New-road.
William Money, Myddelton-square, Clerkenwell.
W. B. Tribe, clerk, Merron-street, Walworth-road.
J. H. Stocqueler, author, St. Alban's-place, St. James's.
Richard Reily, jun., auctioneer, Seymour place West,
Brompton.
J. W. Ellis, warehouseman, Arbour-terrace, Commer-
cial-road East.
William Giles, baker, Cheltenham.
Samuel Augustus Hayes, clerk, Lewisham.
James Talbot Davey, journeyman butcher, Alfred-road,
Paddington.
Andrew Murray, clerk, Holly Mount, Hampstead.
R. Broad, commission traveller, Swan-street, Dover road.
J. Tapson, licensed victualler, Palace-street, Pimlico.
J. Copeland Bell, attorney, South-square, Gray's Inn.
Benjamin Crompton, chemist, Manchester.
Abel Andrew, broker, Liverpool.
Thomas Lord, beer seller, Pendleton, Lancashire.
Robert Churchman Hulley, doctor of medicine, Huhne,
Manchester.
Henry Stratton, builder, Newbury, Berks.
Richard Fairbairns, auctioneer, Lee Bank, Edgbaston,
Warwickshire.
W. Whitehead, licensed victualler, Holm, Yorkshire.
Thomas Taylor, beer seller, Mouton-lane, Lancashire.
Edward Holder, retailer of beer, Kenn, Somersetshire.
Charles Henry Woodley, saint Exeter.
Charles Barker, currier, York.
Samuel Brooke, cotton warp dyer, Pudsey, Leeds.
William Hinchcliffe, publican, Barnsley, Yorkshire.
George Min toft, publican, Castlegate, Yorkshire.
Samuel Pearson, razor manutacturer, Sheffield.
George Smith, journeyman boot maker, Cambridge.
George Thornbory, linen draper, Ripon, Yorkshire.
Ryoe Davies, brewer's agent, Bristol.
James Tanner, Chalgrove, Oxfordshire.