The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-30 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-July 29.

MANSION-HOUSE.—John Laitato and Morris Carey
were brought before Sir R. W. Carden, charged undue
the following circumstances :
Mr. W. Rawlinson, cashier at Messrs. Win. Deacon
and Co.'s banking-house, said—We are bankers to the,
South-Eastern Railway Company, and are in the habit of
paying the dividend warrants of that company. Yester-
day the dividend warrant produced for 161. 19s. 7d., for
the 23d divividend, payable o❑ the let September, 1855,
was presented to me by the prisoner Lahow. It being a
back warrant, I told the prisoner to take it to the secre-
tary of the railway, for him to certify that it was all
right, and he went away with it. *About an hour after-
wards he came back with a gentleman from the office
of the solicitor to the company, who asked Lahow
how he came possessed of the warrant. He said he bad
taken it in the way of business down the country. He
said he could tell from whom be had it, but did not
mention the name. I asked him the residence of the
proprietor, and he wrote " Bexley, Kent," under the
signature which was there when he brought it, viz., " J.
Dashwood, Esq." Lahow tore off the counterpart of
the warrant and handed to me the original, which I gave
back. I saw nothing of the other prisoner.
Mr. Robert J. Cox, transfer-clerk to the South-East-
ern Railway Company, said the dividend warrant pro-
duced was a genuine warrant, and was issued with the
counterpart. In consequence of a communication which
we received from Mr. Dashwood a duplicate of the war-
rant was issued upon a letter of indemnity on the 26th
of April, 1856, and that warrant has been paid. Ido
not know the prisoners, but yesterday one of them
(Lahow) called on me and produced to me the original
dividend warrant. I asked him what lie wanted,
and he said he had been sent by the bankers to
have it certified, as it had been overdue six months.
I found a duplicate had been issued. I asked
him if he was Mr. Dashwood, the proprietor 3f the war-
rant. He said, "No." I asked him ho A he came to have
it. He said, "for work done as a plasterer for a Mi
Hill, at Watford." I told him to remain in my office til
I communicated with the secretary, to whom I subse-
quently explained the matter, and in whose hands I left
it. The warrant would not be payable without the sig-
nature of the claimant. My suspicions were aroused by
the circumstanc,

Mr. F. Dashwood, of 9, Seymour-place, May-fair, and
Bexley, in Kent, said, "The dividend warrant produced
has been, I believe, in my possessb a. It was sent to me
by pest in the beginning of September, 1855. I did not
sign the warrant. I had it at Bexley. The last time I
saw it was when I placed it in a leather envelope in my
pocket, about the 10th of September. I was then in a
railway carriage coming to town, and just as I was leav-
ing the North Kent station I missed the envelope which
contained the dividend warrant and other property. I
cannot tell whether I dropped it or whether it was stolen
from my pocket. I communicated my loss to the railway
company immediately, and upon my letter of indemnity
I received the amount of the dividend warrant. I know
nothing of the prisoners. The signature, "F. Dash-
wood, Esq.," is not my handwriting, nor was it written
by my authority.
George Scott, the detective officer, said—Lahow told
me he had got the warrant from Jas. Hill, a builder, of
Watford, for work he had done ; but, finding that I was
determined to go there, he said, "I did not get it di
reedy front Mr. Hill ; I got it from another man. Ido
not know his name or address, but I think I can find
him." I went with him to Chancery-lane, where we
found the other prisoner (Carey) Lahow said, " That's
the man I got it from two or three months ago, and
I've had it in my possession ever since." Carey said,
in answer to my questions, that he had given the paper
some time ago to Lahow, with whom he had been at
work ; that he (lid not steal it ; and what if he had found
it ? He said, too, be had looked at the notice-board of
the police-station to see if there was any reward,
and finding there was no mention of such a thing he had
given it to Lahow to do what best he could with it, but
with a hint to be careful, as he did not know what it
was, or whether it was of any use. At the station-house
Carey said he believed the paper was exactly the same
as he had delivered it to Lahow.
Carey—l didn't understand anything about such a
document. How could I ?
The prisoners were remanded till Saturday.

GUILDHALL.—CharIes Wm. Norman, of 12, Belle-
vue-terrace, Cleveland•strret, Mile•end, but kamerly