The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-12 00:00:00

REMARKABLE CASE OF FRAUD.

Application was made a few weeks ago to Sir R. W.
Carden, as a magistrate of the county of Surrey, by a
clergyman. for advice and assistance in a case of exten-
sive fraud, and we have the satisfaction to state that the
me %sures adopted by the energetic magistrate were com-
pletely successful. The information upon which the
rev. gt n'leman grounded his application was as follows :
—The brother of the gentleman who waited upon Sir
R. W. Carden was, it appears, the sole surviving trustee
in a trust account, and it was discovered that he had
sold out from time to time the whole of the stock,
am tenting to about 9,0001. Console. As soon as suspi-
cion was entertained that so important a trust was vio-
lated an investigation was commenced, and it was ascer-
tained that at as late a period as October last he bad
rlriwn from the Bank, in his character as trustee, the
large sum of 5,8001., having acted at that time as
solicitor and co-trustee of the property bequeathed by
the father to the children. The depredations had
been commenced in the year 1850 by a small sale of
2007. Consols, and from the middle of that year till
last October the person in whom such implicit re-
liance had been placed had sold out gradually upwards of
3,0001. of the stock, and appropriated it to his own pur-
poses. After s' me difficulty, bank-notes paid for the
stock sold-out to the amount of 5,6001. were traced from
the Bank of England through a variety of channels to
the house of an agent at Boulogne, who, by the direc-
tion of his principal, invested the whole of the money in
the French Rentes, payable to bearer. The moment the
communication was made to Sir R. W. Carden an able
officer, who had been some years c!erk to the English
Consul at Ostend, and was well acquainted with the lan-
guage as well as the police regulations and mode de( mm.
mercial business of the French capital, was despatched to
the continent, after having received particular directions
and recomreeedations from the magistrate. This officer
on the day of er his arrival at Boulogne conferred with
the police authorities on the subject., but could obtain no
intelligence of the person he sought. Nobody could
tell bins whether any person of the name or description
given was at the time or had been at all in the town.
Armed with more full instructions from Sir R. W. Car-
` den, the officer pursued the inquiry in the most earnest
( manner, and at last succeeded, not only in finding the
addeess, but in becoming the constant and confidential
companion of the person he sought, and thus became
acquainted with all the transactions in which the man
was concerned. The trustee remained at Boulogne for
three days, and then proceeded to Paris for the purpose
of selling thel French stock in which ho had invested the
propErty of which he had deprived his relatives, calcu-
lating upon a considerable profit in consequence of the
improved state of the market. Two days after the
arrival of the officer at Paris the delinquent was
arrested by the police at the instance of the
English constable, who bad watched his steps, and
there was quite information enough found in his
pockets to justify his detention. An attempt was made
by a solicitor, who was employed by the accused, to
obtain his immediate discharge, upon the ground that
" no offence had been committed ;" but those to whom
the appeal was made refused to take any notice of it, and
the officer employed by Sir R. W. Carden, after having
astonished the delinquent by stating the exact nature cf
his calling and mission, had the gratification of receiv-
ing from his hands the whole of the securities, amount.
ing to about 6,0007., of which the family bad been
plundered since the month of October. The sum trans-
ferred from the English to the French funds had been
increased greatly by the political events which had
recently taken place, so that the very act of robbery
proved advantageous through the energy of the magis-
trate, the intelligence and activity of the officer, and
the admirable: manner in which the French police acted
throughout the whole business. There had been three
trustees originally, in whose names the property of the
family bad been invested ; but two having died—the one
before, and the other in the year 1850—the surviving
trustee had the sole control over the property, which in
a few days would have been swept away f.r ever, as the
plunderer had made preparations to leave Europe. The
legatees would have had to encounter greater difficulties
in obtaining satisfaction if the depredator had been de-
tected at home, for before anything could be done to-
wards the recovery of the money an application to the
Lerd Chancellor for an order would have been indi,pen-
sable, and the tardy operations in equity would l.a'-e
postponed anything like vigorous action for several
weeks. In France the offence, which is here delicatele
called " breach of trust," is designated flat robbery, and
the delinquent i 4 not only heavily fine], but sentenced
to undergo two years' imprisonment.

THE BOOMEHANG.—LivEnron, April 11.—The fol-
lowing appears on the slate in the underwritera'-rooms :
—" Further particulars have been received relative to
the loss of the Boomerang. It appears that her masts
wcr,! c.A away, but it was of no u,e as she was settling
down. All the crew were taken off by the Helen, except
the mate and carpenter, and four men (belonging to the
Helen) were drowned in endeavouring to cave them.
' The Helen remained near the place two hours."