The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-19 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-April 18.

MANSION-HOUSE.--John Nagle, recently a
clerk in the service of Messrs. Perrin and Bremner,
of Rood-lane, colonial agents and sugar brokers,
was charged, on remand, with embezzling the sum
of £2O Os., belonging to his employer.
On the previous examination a witness proved
the payment to the prisoner of the sum referred to,
on account of the prosecutors, and Mr. Bremner
proved that the money had not been accounted for
by the prisoner, who afterwards absconded, and a
warrant was obtained for his apprehension. He,
however, remained at large some weeks, until Mr.
Bremner received the following letter :
" Sir,—Being at last left without resource-4, and
having no means of obtaining employment, I have no
alternative but to surrender myself. I ask only that
as little exposure as possible may be made, and to
further that end, I shall feel obliged by your ad-
dressing a note containing the necessary instruc-
tions to Henry Clarence, 76, Strand, which will
reach me in due course. I am, &c.,
" D. Bremner, Esq. " JOHN NAGLE."
This note was given to detective Jarvis, who re-
paired to 76, Strand (a public news-room), and there
apprehended the prisoner, when he called for IN I r
Bremner's answer. The warrant was read over to
the prisoner, who said he supposed it was all right,
only the amount was more likely to be £520 Os.
than £2O Os.

Mr. R. Newall, a grocer in Fetter-lane, now de-
posed that on the 24th December last he paid the
prisoner on account of the prosecutors, £29 ; on the
31st December, £2l 10s. 3d. ; on the 7th January
£l2 10s. 9d.; and on the 21st January, £l7 98.11 d.
Mr. Rainsbeck, grocer, proved the payment to
the prisoner in the same way of a sum of £l5 9s.
9d., and produced three receipts for other sums
given by the prisoner paid on his behalf to the pri-
soner on account of the prosecutors.
Mr. Elliott proved that on the 10th September
last be paid to the prisoner a cheque for .£ls Is. on
account of Messrs. Perrin and Bremner, and that
the cheque had since been returned as paid by his
bankers.

Mr. Dugald Bremner was again examined, and
deposed that prisoner had accounted for none of the
sums referred to by previous witnesses. lie added
that the total amount of the prisoner's deficiencies
was £432 16s. 2d.

Jarvis, detective, said the prisoner himself gave
the exact amount as being £5lO 18s. sd.
The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was fully
committed for trial.

GUILDHALL.—SamueI Hookey, an elderly man,
apparently in a very bad state of health, was placed
at the bar before Alderman Humphrey, charged
with embezzling £6O and other sums, the total of
which has not yet been ascertained, the moneys of
his master.

Mr. Humphreys, jun., of the firm of Humphreys,
Son, and Morgan, appeared for the prosecution, and
stated that the evidence in support of the charge
against the prisoner would be somewhat of a com-
plicated character, in consequence of the system of
falsification of the accounts which had been resorted
to by the prisoner to cover his defalcations. At pre-
sent they were only prepared with evidence for a
remand, but upon a future occasion every informa-
tion would be forthcoming.
Mr. James Weston, cement manufacturer, Earl-
street, Blackfriars, said—The prisoner has been in
my employ as confidential cashier about five or six
years, and it was his duty to receive from the col-
lectors all money paid to them during the day, and
having entered the amounts in a rough cashbook,
to pay the amounts into the bank, and afterwards
to carry out the entries in the rough book to the
ordinary cash-book. He ought to have paid the
money in daily, or whenever he had a sufficient
suni in his possession for that purpose.
Alderman Humphrey—What would you have
considered a sufficient sum to pay in ? Was the
minimum £2O ?

Mr. Weston—No, sir; for he was entitled to hold
a certain amount to meet payments on the petty
cash account. I find that an entry has been made
in the rough cagh•book, under the date of the 20th
July last, of £2O received from Mr. Bell, and that
amount is carried out on both sides of the cash-book
of that day. I have seen Mr. Bell, and ascertained
that the amount he paid on that day was £3O Bs.
lOci.

Alderman Humphrey—Vas that amount paid in
cash, or by cheque ?—because if he received a
cheque it would be necessary to find out he got it
cashed.

Mr. 'Weston—l am not prepared to state in what
manner it was paid.
Mr. Humphreys said he should be able to prove
that on entering the sums received the amounts in
the first instance had been represented as consider-
ably less, and after the totals had been made up,
the difference between the sums received and those
entered had been entered by the addition or altera-
tion of a figure, generally in the pounds column,
but the totals were left sadly at variance with the
addition of the amended entries.

John. Mark Bull, detective officer, sai l—l appre-
hended the prisoner this morning in the prosecutor's
counting-house, and told him the charge was for
embezzling £6O during the month of August last,
which had been received from Air. Palmer, Mr.
Powell, Mr. Brown, and Mr. Hale. He said it was
quite correct, and he must throw himself upon his
master's mercy, as his health was very bad. He
said he had had a deal of trouble, and did not think
he should live long. He gave up a balance of about
£BO which he had recently received for his master,
and I found on him besides about £lO more.
The prisoner was then remanded for a week.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. THE ASSAULT
ON THE POLICE ARISING OUT OF A DOUBTFUL
CHARGE.—Mr. James Darcy, licensed victualler,
of 18 George-street, Grosvenov-square, charged with
being drunk and creating a disturbance in Davies-
street on the morning of the 17th ; and Mr. Henry
Govier, of No. 1, Clifton-street, Finsbury, lour-
ance agent, with assaulting C 122 (Stevenson) in
the execution of his duty, attempting to rescue the
other defendant from custody, and subsequently
assaulting other constables at the station-house,
were again brought before Mr. Beadon, in discharge
of their bail and for decision in the case.

Mr. Beard, of Basinghall-street, as before, ap-
peared for the defence.
On the last examination it was alleged, not
alone by the defendants but by witnesses called on
their behalf, that the policeman, Stevenson, 122 C,
had directly perjured himself in denying that he
was at Weipperts's Rooms, were the defendants
were, or had accepted any description of drink or
refreshments preceding the defendants' arrest, either
from them or others; the witnesses for the defence
swearing, and the defendants asserting, that he was
in the rooms more than once during the night, and
had partaken with another constable of spirits, and
in the way of eating a portion of a pork-pie. It
was in consequence of this conflicting evidence that
the magistrate granted a remand, and it is due to
the police to state that Inspector Webb, of the C
division, expressed himself anxious for this course.
On the case being called on, Mr. Inspector Webb
said he wished to stat 3 at once that Stevenson,
the constable, was not in court. He made strict
inquiries after the last examination, and ascer-
tained beyond any question of doubt that the con-
stable, notwithstanding his repeated and deliberate
denial on oath that he was in the rooms at the time
the ball and entertainment was going on, that he
was there, and had partaken of refreshment, and
this while on duty, and the place off his beat. In
consequence of this discovery, and clear confirma-
tion of evidence in this court, the constable was
taken before the Commissioners of Police the next
morning, who immediately dismissed him.

Mr. 'Beadon said he 'felt sure a fair inquiry
would be instituted by the police authorities, and
that dismissal would be the result.
Mr. Webb—As far as the assault on the police
by the defendant Govier is concerned, I now, on
the part of the police, with the permission of the
court, wish to withdraw the charge.
Mr. Beadon said the assault was certainly
brought about by very aggravated circumstances,
and he felt sympathy for the position in which the
defendant Govier was placed. He had been greatly
ill-treated. Anything more disgraceful than the
conduct of the now dismissed constable, could
hardly be conceived. It was a truly cruel thing to
the force and the public that a man should so per-
jure himself in the character of a policeman as
Stevenson had done. He would take the oppor-
tunity of saying that it was the duty of conductors
of rooms taken for public entertainments as well as
that of the public, to refrain from giving drink to
constables in uniform while on duty. Giving them
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