The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-21 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

rec'EssruL SmNDLEus.—.Aremarkable case of swindling
is 'now under investigation at the Marlborough-street
Police-court. A gentlemanly-looking man, named Alfred
Howard, who has passed as Captain Howard and Captain
Herbert, and a woman, named Nicholson, who passed as
his wife, have pursued a system of fraud. In the metro-
polis and in several watering-places and provincial towns
they have obtained an immense quantity cf property of
various kinds. The library of the police-station at Marlbo-
rough-street presented the appeal ance of a bazaar, the misc?.l-
- gcods taken from tho prisoners' lodgings and obtained
by means of the duplicates found upon them being spread
out for identification. Property was pawned to the amount
of £6OO, its actual value being at least double that amount.
Howard is said to have obtained a medal in the Crimean
war, in which he served as a private. The prisoners were
remanded.

THE EFFECTS OF DRINK.—A young man named
Plummer has teen sentenced at the Mansion House to
four months' imprisonment for embezzlement. He was a
cashier in the employ of Mr. Kerby, a wine cooper, who
placed great confidence in him. Latterly he had given way
to drinking habits, and was discharged. A deficiency was
found in his accounts amounting to /200. The prosecutor
stated that the prisoner had now produced memoranda of
certain payments which reduced that sum to 189, and as
beforele gave way to drinking habits great trust had been
reposed in him, he asked for a lenient sentence.

MERCIFUL EMPLOYE-MS.-A respectable man named
Glover, employed as a commercial traveller by Messrs.
Lyle and Gilbert, was charged with embezzling £3D. The
case was heard at the Mansion House. The prosecutors
asked to be allowed to withdraw the prosecution, as on
inquiry they found the prisoner had a large family, and
two of his children were ill with scarlet fever. His wife
had also been turned out of her house. Sir Robert Carden
agTeed, solely on the condition that no money should pass,
and the prisoner, who wept bitterly, was discharged.
CHARGE OF STABBING.—Joseph Welsh, a journeyman
painter, was charged at Greenwich Police-court, with
stabbing a man, named Abrahams. A day or two since the
prisoner summoned Abrahams for a sum of twenty-six
shillings, for work performed. The summons was dis-
missed owing to a dispute about the value of the work.
Unfortunately they met the same day in a public-house,
and a quarrel arose, which ended in Welsh's drawing a
knife and stabbing Abrahams so severely that he died
next day at Guy's Hospital. After some evidence,, had
been taken the prisoner was remanded.

ROBBERY BY A DRAGOON.--A private of tl-„,e sth Dragoon
Guards has been charged at Leeds stealing a silver
spoon and fork from the barracks of the regiment. He
was engaged as assistant orderly -room clerk, and had access
to the pantry. An ap;.ter.tiee, named Suddaby, was
charged with pledgin6 the plate, but as Stephens, the
private, admitted 'having given it to him, :,2,3ddal-7 wap
dismissed and Stephens committed for trial.

THE LIVG OF HONITON.—We
the Rev. Edward Austin, of Broughton, in the parish of
Hawarden, has been approved by her Majesty as suc-
cessor to Mr. Maekarness in the rectory of Honiton upon
his approaching accession to the see of Oxford.—Chester
Chronicle.

SHOCKING MUDDED AND StrICIDE.-At Dundee,
on Wednesday, David Dick, a fanner, livingnear Arbroath,
while at dinner rose and took a gun from the kitchen,
went back to the dining-room, locked the door, and shot
his wife dead. He then shot himself ; but the shot proving
ineffectual, he cut his throat and died immediately. They
were each about 40 years of age, and five children are left,
the eldest aged 13.

THE BALLOT IN AMERICA.—it is suggested that
Lord Hartington, as chairman of the Election Practices
Committee, may, perhaps, find some light thrown on the
Ballot and popular voting by the publication thus
announced in the .217 en, York Tribune :—" The Wig and
the Jimmy : A Leaf from the Political History of New
York," may now be obtained at the Tribune office.
It is an elucidated synopsis of the evidence taken
before the Committoo of Congress who visited our city last
winter and took testimony as to the gigantic frauds whereby
General Grant was swindled out of the Electoral Vote of
New York, and John T. Hoffman made Governor. Briefly
the Judicial and E::eenti le magi ;trates of this city were
the projectors and responsila authors of the frauds in
:.\-aturalisation, Recistration, and Repeating whereby seine
tliiety thousand votes were illegally yelled here,
with soveeal thousands more in the adjacent
counties, expressly to produce the results above set forth,
The people cf the raral districts ought to know by
iviiat barefaced villany this city is ruled, and this pamphlet
will show why every Democratic journal and politician
opposes registry laws and all other devices fur preventing
frauds at elections, If this exposure were in every voter's
hands we are confident that the reformed Constitution
would be ratified, and a check thus put upon all sorts of
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