The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-16 00:00:00

THE ABDUCTION OF MASTER VANSITTART

(From the Norfolk News.)

Up to the moment of our going to press, the
Italian priest has not been found.
Inquiries have been made in the neighbourhood
of this city and at Rackheath, with the view of
ascertaining whether any person answering the
description given by Master Vansittart had been
seen by any other person, and at present these in-
quiries have led to no practical result.

The chief constable, OR Tuesday morning, went
to London, and having communicated with the
authorities, passed on to Brighton, where he found
that a " Father Euguine" (a Spaniard, we believe),
was known to have been not long since, but whose
present whereabouts is not yet discovered.
Returning to London, he found a priest whom he
believed to answer, in every respect, to Master
Vansittart's description, and he accordingly sent
for the lad, who went up to town accompanied by
the Rev. F. G. H. Hodgson. Master Vansittart
stated, on seeing the prest, that he was not the
man of whom he had spoken.

The following is a Copy of the police notice, is-
sued by the chief constable :

POLICE NOTICE.

Description of Eugene, a Roman Catholic priest, of the
Jesuit persuasion :—He is a foreigner, between 40 and 50
years of age, stout, about five feet two inches high, greyish
hair, occasionally wears a wig, deep black eyelashes, black
small eyes, Roman nose, canonical dress, and dark blue
velvet cloak.

Was on Tuesday, thesth inst., dressed in dark blue cloak,
check trowsers, and Italian hat.
The said Eugene stands charged with conspiracy, and a
warrant is granted for his apprehension.
Any person giving such information as shall lead to the
apprehension of the said Eugene will be handsomely re-
warded.
Information to be given to

MR. ROBERT HITCHMAN,
Chief Constable, Norwich.

Norwich, June 11, 1860.
Mr. Hitchman returned on Thursday night, but
we believe that while pursuing his investigations
ho became possessed of some important facts which
rendered a longer remand of the case highly advis-
able. Under these circumstances, Mr. Atkinson,
on the part of the prosecution, made an application
to the magistrates this (Friday) afternoon, that the
further hearing of the case should be postponed
till next Monday week.

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OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.)
Eve Bennett, 40, was indicted for wilfully, mali-
ciously, and feloniously setting fire to a house, with
intent to defraud the Phoenix Insurance Company.
Mr. Baron Bramwell summed up the evidence
with great clearness and impartiality, and the jury
found the prisoner guilty, but recommended her
strongly to mercy.
Mr. Sleigh informed the Court that about two
years ago the premises of the prisoner' L ind
were destroyed by fire, and the prisoner made a
claim of £220 upon the County Fire Office, but the
circumstances were so suspicious that the claim was
resisted, and it was eventually compromised by the
husband receiving the sum of £9O.
Baron Bramwell, in passing sentence, said that
he agreed with the verdict, bu he at the same time
thought it was probable that she was merely the
instrument of another. He could not, however,
treat such an offence lightly, and the sentence on
her would be that of four years' penal servitude.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
Peter Hardouin, 37, leather merchant, was in-
dicted for forging and uttering an order for the de-
! livery of goods, with an intent to defraud Leon
Durant and Co.
Mr. Giffard and Mr. F. H. Lewis prosecuted, and
Mr. Orridge defended.
The prosecutors are leather merchants in Paris,
and were acquainted with a gentleman in this
country, named Stockhill, also in the leather trade,
and who had obtained a prize medal for some im-
provements in leather. Mr. Stockhill's place of
business is 37, Long-lane, Bermondsey, and all his
trade circulars have at their head an engraving of
of the medal. The prisoner, in May, took a room
in the house of a person living at No. 7, Long-lane,
Smithfield, and from there wrote the prosecutors in.
the name of Stockhill, upon a circular resembling
that gentleman's, giving an order for boot fronts
and other articles of leather am unting in value
to £2OO. The prosecutors thiaking they were
dealing with Mr. Stockhill, whom they knew,
sent the goods, and they were fetched from the
railway station by a man named Cornelius Reding,
who had been in the service of Mr. Stockhill, but
was now an associate of the prisoner.
The jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced
to 10 years' penal servitude.
Cornelius Reding was then placed on his trial
for the part which ho took in the fraud, and ac-
quitted. Mr. Dickie defended; _ _

This case ended the business of the session.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—,Tune 15.

MANSION-HOUSE.—John Lee, a man who was
on Saturday taken into custody by Webb and Hug-
gett, detective officers, upon a charge of going into
several banking-houses in the City for an unlawful
purpose, was brought before Alderman Hale for re-
examination.

Mr. Mullens, the solicitor to the Bankers' Asso-
ciation, attended to prosecute ; Mr. Pearce, the bar-
rister, instructed by Mr. Beard, appeared on behalf
of the prisoner.
It will be remembered that at the former exami-
nation it was prived that Webb and Huggett saw
the prisoner in Lombard-street, and they watched
him into the Union Bank, Messrs. Robarts and Co.'s,
and Messrs. Glyn and Co.'s, and he came out with-
out making any inquiries of the clerks, or transact-
ing any business, and his conduct was altogether so
suspicious that the officers took him into custody,
and in his possession they found a cheque for £lO,
drawn by a firm in Paris upon the Union Bank,
which turned out to be a genuine instrument; but
although the prisoner was seen to go twice into that
bank, he did not present it for payment, and he
evidently had some other object in view.
Mr. Mullens now stated that in consequence of
the report that appeared in the newspapers he had
felt it his duty to make inquiries and to take up the
case, and he was now prepared with additional evi-
dence in support of the original charge, and also to
establish a fresh charge against the prisoner.
Mr. C. B. Robinson, one of the cashiers in the
Union Bank, deposed that on the 11th of May he
saw the prisoner in the Union Bank in company
with a female, and his attention was called to him
by Smith, the detective officer. On the 12th May
witness saw the prisoner again in the bank at half-
past three o'clock in the afternoon, and when there
were a good many customers present. He was stand-
ing close to a clerk to whom he was paying bank-
notes for a cheque for £7OO. He watched the pri-
soner as well as he could, but did not see him do
anything, an d he made a communication to the clerk
cautioning him to be careful, and the prisoner im-
mediately left the bank. He did not see the pri-
,soner transact any business on the 12th May.
Cross-examined—The female who accompanied
hilt on the 11th presented three genuine cheques,
two for £lO and one for £2B, drawn by the same
firm in France as the £lO cheque that was found
in the prisoner's possession. _ _

Mr. Mullins said it had been ascertained that five
or six similar chcques had been paid by the Union
Bank. Only one of them was in favour of John Lee,
the name the prisoner had given, and all the others
were in favour of a Mrs. or Miss Manley.

Mr. John Scott, a clerk in the service of Mr.
Wright, a dealer in china and glass in Tokenhouse-
yard, deposed that on the 12th of May he was sent
to the Union Bank with a cheque for £7OO, and the
clerk paid him in bank-notes, several of which were
for 1:1(10 each. These he separated from the others,
and placed in his left-hand trousers pocket, and
while he was counting the others he felt a sensation
as though a hand was at his pocket, and he put his
hand down immediately to it, and looked round
and saw the prisoner, who was holding up a bill-
book, standing close to him. The cashier then asked
witness whether he had lost anything, and at the
same moment he heard a voice close to him utter
the words, " You are watched," and he immediately
lost sight of the prisoner.
Cross-examined—l am quite sure the prisoner is
the same man. I have not seen siace him until this
morning in the cell, but I am sure he is the same
man. I felt The hand on my person, but I was too
quick, and stopped it before it could get into my
pocket.
Mr. Pearce—Why did you not at once seize the
party whom you suspected to be attempting to rob
you ?
Witness—lf I had done that I should have lost
the rest of the money that was on the counter.
Smith, a detective officer, said he was in the
Union Bank on the 12th of May, and saw the pri-
soner come in, and observed him make his way to
the counter. Ile heard the cashier say something,
and the prisoner immediately ran out of the bank.
Witness followed him, and observed that he had a
book in his hand. He had not heard what had taken
place in the bank, and therefore he did not consider
himself justified upon this occasion in taking him
into custody.
Cross-examined—Witness saw the prisoner in the
bank on the 11th of May. He had no book with
him then.
Alderman Hale—Was it in consequence of any-
thing that occurred on the 11th that you were in-
duced to watch him more particularly on the fol-
lowing day ?
Smith—lt was, sir.
Mr. Mullens said that was all the evidence he pro-
posed to offer on the present occasion, but he should
ask the worthy alderman to remand the prisoner
for another week, when he believed he should be
able to produce additional evidence.
Mr. Pearce submitted that there were no grounds
to justify the further detention of the prisoner.
There was no evidence that it was the prisoner's
hand that was upon the person of the witness Scott.
Mr. Scott said it must have been the hand of the
prisoner that was withdrawn, and, from his position,
it could not have been the hand of any other person.
Mr. Pearce then applied to the Court to admit
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night. One of the prisoner's companions was now
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Alderman Hale refuseu the application to admit
the prisoner to bail, and remanded him till Wed-
nesday next.

1)1:P ARTI:RE OF HEENAN FOR AMERICA.--Heenan
is off for the New World on the 4th July, in the Vander-
bilt, attended by Jack Macdonald, his fidusAchates, adviser,
and second in the great mill at Farnborough on the 17th
April. The engagement with Messrs. Howes and Cushing
for a series of provincial exhibitions, in which the rival
champions were to " show," proved a failure, and has been
cancelled by mutual consent Heenan is about to trade on
his pseudo-champion's belt, abandoning his match with his
challenger, Thomas Hurst of Staleybridge, and forfeiting
the £25 down for the match between them. The Staley-
bridge " infant," as our gigantic countryman is called, has
been in " tears" at this downfall of his hopes of meeting the
big American, and testing him with a man of his owe
inches. Some consolation, however, may be edraintte27
to him by the information that Tom Paddock, ha!,lo`w
backers, and is prepared to make a match. !nth him on
equitable terms, and within a reasonable penoch