The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-08 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—May 7.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Henry Francis Richard-
son, who some weeks ago was committed from this
court upon a charge of having defrauded the coun-
cil of the London Rifle Brigade of various sums of
money, was brought up from:Newgate, by habeas
corpus, to meet a further charge of misdemeanour,
to be preferred against him on behalf of the same
prosecutors.

Mr. Humphreys appeared on behalf of the coun-
cil of the brigade, and Mr. Bartley, of Bartlett's-
buildings, who was not, however, present when the
prisoner was placed at the bar, appeared for the
defence.

Sir It. Carden—Have you retained any solicitor,
priconrir ?

Prisoner—Yes, I have, but he is not here, yet I
never knew of this until Saturday evening, al-
though I have been ten weeks in waiting for my
trial, and now this involves the necessity of new
briefs and new counsel fees.

Mr. Humphreys—That is untrue, as the prisoner
had notice of it a week ago.
Sir It. Carden—l think you have no cause of
complaint, for if you are not yet ready to answer
the charge the judges will adjourn the case, I dare
say, as they often do.
Prisoner—But I have already been in prison ten
weeks, and am not anxious to bo there five weeks
longer.

Sir R. Carden—Well, it is not a very great hard-
ship, as the judges will, I have no doubt, listen to
any reasonable application you make. You are,
perhaps, aware that this charge is brought under a
new act of Parliament, as under the old act the
indictment might have been preferred without the
necessity of this course being taken.
Prisoner—What I complain of more particularly
is that as notice was given to ine on Tuesday last I
was not brought up on Wednesday or Thursday,
which would have given me time to prepare for
my trial.
Mr. Humphreys—Under the old act an indict-
ment might have been preferred against the pri-
soner without notice, but he received notice of
this particular case last Tuesday, and was also
informed of the exact nature of the evidence
that would be brought against him. The present
charge, which is brought against him by the advice
of counsel, is of having, by false pretences, obtained
six small sums of money, amounting in the whole
to £lO, from the council of the London Rifle Bri-
gade. The learned gentleman then proceeded to
state the precise circumstances under which the
charge had arisen, and which are detriled in the
evidence below.

Mr. Alderman Rose, Alderman of the City of
London—l am vice-president of the council of the
London Rifle Brigade, of which the prisoner was
acting secretary. Among other books he had charge
of the petty cash book produced. As a member of
the finance committee 1 admitted his ace9untzl, and
among them this petty cash book. I audited it on
the 25th October, 1859: There is an entry in that
book " Paid for advertisement a sum of
Mr. Bartley (who had now arrived to defend the
prisoner)—l must object to the production of that
book unless the entries to be referred to are in the
prisoner's handwriting.
Mr. Alderman Rose—The book was kept by him.
Mr. Humphreys—And he produced it to Mr.
Alderman Rose.

Mr. Bartley—He never did produce it. You have
not proved that.
Mr. Alderman Rose—The book was kept by Mr
Jeffery, but it was in the custody of the prisoner,

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and all the amounts which it containfiNro 4:-ZAric-6
rented to .have been paid by him. The mOdl of
auditing *as this. The secretary took his place at
the desk, when ho called in Mr. Jeffery with the
book, who handed it to me in his presence, and by
his desire, as his (prisoner's). petty cash book.
Prisoner—No, no.
Mr. Humphreys—The book was handed to you
either by him personally or at his desire ?
Mr. Alderman Rose—The book was handed to
me either by him manually or by his desire. On
the 3d of October I find entered an item, "-Paid ad-
vertisement in Times, subscription £1 195.," which
was there when I audited the books. He presented
a book containing vouchers at the same time,
and among the vouchers I have no doubt was
the one produced for that amount as paid to
the :limes. I also found an item of 14s. for
two advertisements for adjutants, paid to the•
Times in the same way, on Oct. 5 ; but it is entered
on the 10th. I believe he gave me a voucher for the
amount. On Oct. 10 I find an item for advertise-
ments in the Times (six insertions), £2 Bs., for
which also I believe he gave me the voucher Fo-
dueed. Oil the same day there is an itcm for ad-
vertLinrr "subscriptions" in the limes, 1:1
for which also he gave me a voucher. On Oct. 18
I- find an entry for payment to the 7intes for three
insertions of another advertisement, £1 11s. Gil. ;
and on the 19th I End an entry, " Paid for adver-
tisement of donations in the Times, £2 25.," and for
which I produce the voucher. According to the
petty cash book I find the prisoner expended over
• and above his cash, £l9 14s. 2d., which I reported
to the council on Oct. 25, I believe in the presence
of the prisoner, and on the same day a cheque was
drawn for £2O, payable ,to the prisoner, and was
signed by me and the late Lord Mayor, Mr. Alder-
man Wire, to cover that sum of £l9 14s. 2d. It has
been returned from the bank, and is endorsed by the
prisoner. That cheque was handed to the prisoner,
on the faith of the entries in his book, and upon his
statement that the sums had been paid as repre-
sented.. ,The. accounts.jrednepd„ hstse wlaieh
-were baked tip Messrs. Sirett Brothers to the
council of the brigade, at least to the best of my
belief, and the cheque produced, for £167 Bs. 3d.,
was paid to Messrs. Street, our advertising agents,
on April 10, in settlement of those accounts. I was
not aware that the six items which make up the
present charge against the prisoner were entered in
those accounts.
Cross-examined by Mr. Bartley—The prisoner
was to have 5 per cent. upon his collection, and it
was for the council to determine whether he was
further to receive any particular sum.
Mr. Bartley—Allow me to ask you whether there
was not a resolution passed at every council meet-
ing requesting him to act as secretary pro tern. ?
Mr. Alderman Rose—Certainly not.
Mr. Bartley—Was not "such a minute entered ?
Mr. Alderman Rose—No:
Mr. Goodman (chief clerk)—Where do you, wish
to lead to ? This has nothing at all to do with the
question of a servant. If he had been a complete
stranger, and had said he made these payments,
and so obtained the money by a false representa-
tion, it would have been all the same.
Mr. Bartley—But he has not said so.
Sir R. Carden—Alderman Rose has said he handed
in the book as his own.
Mr. Humphreys—And at all events he received
the cheque.
Mr. Bartley—But the evidence is not that the
entries were made by him, but by Jeffery, and un-
less he had been Jeffery's master he was not respon-
sible for his entries.
Mr. Humpbreys—lt was all done at his desire,
and that is a false pretence in law.
Mr. Bartley—From whom did you receive the
book at the audit, Mr. Alderman Rose ?
Mr. Alderman Rose-Jeffery, I believe, brought
the book in, but I am perfectly ready to swear that
on the day on which I made that audit the books
and vouchers were produced by the desire of the
prisoner.

Mr. Bartley—You will swear that ?
Mr. Alderman Rose—Yes.
Mr. Bartley—ls Mr. Jeffery here ?
Mr. Alderman Rose—l do not see him.
Mr. Bartley—Do you know whether he is ex-
pected to be here ? _

Mr. Humphreys—l can answer that Ido not
intend to produce him.
Mr. Bartley—Well, whose handwriting is that
bcok in ?

Mr. Alderman Rose—Jeffery's, but the books
were in the prisoner's own charge, and Jeffery was
only brought in at his own request to assist him
manually.

Mr. Bartley--Do you know whether he had any
authority from Richardson to enter those advertise-
ments in that book ?

Mr. Alderman Rose—l can't say that; I can only
swear that account was presented to me by the
prisoner as a true statement of his petty cash at
the audit.

Mr. Bftrticy—Will you swear that he looked at
that book at all on that day ?
Mr. Alderman Rose—l will swear that he pro-
duced it.
Mr. Bartley—Or Mr. Jeffery ?
Mr. Alderman Rose—That book is in Jeffery's
handwriting, but the money for payment of the
various items which it contains was entrusted to
Richardson alone.

Mr. Bartley—Do you know whether he autho-
rised Jeffery to make those entries?
Mr. Alderman Rose—l can't say, but the council
did not.

Arthur Street, clerk to Messrs. Street Brothers,
of Serle-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, advertising
agents, deposed that ho knew the prisoner as sec-
retary to the London Rifle Brigade ; took his
orders for advertisements to be inserted in the
Times—paid for those specially referred to by Mr.
Ald. Rose at the Times office, and subsequently
handed the vouchers to the prisoner, at his request,
for the prisoner to get the money from the council.
Witness several times asked him for the money
without receiving it, the last time being a day or
two after the 20th October, when the prisoner told
him to include those items in Messrs. Street's ac-
count to the brigade, and witness did so.
Cross-examined—l banded the vouchers to the
prisoner at his request, that he might get the money
ter us. He told me he brought the advertisements
to us because he had not time to go to the Times
office direct.
Mr. Humphreys said his case was complete, and
The prisoner being asked what he had to say to
the charge, replied—l can only state that I deny it
most distinctly. I shall leave my defence of course
to my counsel, on my trial. But I think that, to
show the animus with which these proceedings have
been conducted, I may be allowed to state one thing.
I am charged with obtaining £lO by false pretences
in the month of October, when I had founded the
London Rifle Brigade six months before, working
night and day in its service, and have never received
one guinea in the shape of salary for the perform-
ance of those ; and yet I am held up to public
scorn for having obtained £lO by fraud—and I
deny it.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.
Henry O'Meara was charged with stealing 120
yards of cloth, value £BO, the property of his
employers, Messrs. Earle, Fryer, and Co., No. 1,
Ironmonger-lane, Manchester warehousemen.
Jarvis, detective, said—l went to
_Messrs. Earle's
warehouse, saw the prisoner there and said to him,
"I understand you have confessed to stealing the
cloth." He said, " Yes ; I stole it, and have pawned
it." I said, "What have you donewith the tickets ?"
He said, " I destroyed them as soon as I got out of
the shop." He then gave me a list of 23 pawn-
brokers, with whom he had pawned the cloth. Mr.
Earle then gave him into custody.
Two pawnbrokers who Went present produced
pieces of cloth about two yards m
ad a half in length,
and identified the prisoner as the party who pawned
them.
Jonathan Carter, manager to Messrs. Earle and
Co., said—The prisoner has been with us about
three months. It ;was his duty to open and close
the warehouse, and he would have access to the
cloth. We have missed cloth from time to time
during the last few weeks. The cloth produced I
believe to be our property. The quality is the same
as the roll from which pieces have been cut.
The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was re-
manded for the attendance of other pawnbrokers.

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