The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-22 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Dec. 21•

WORSHIP-STREET.—AIfred Purl, an acui.:-e,
respectable-looking man of 35, was charged with
fraud.
Mr. Beard stated the case for the prosecution,
and called Mr. Richard Beall, a Yorkshireman and
tailor and draper in Bishopsgate-street, whose
statement, in substance, was that on the Bth of
October last a person called upon him and asked
him to wait upon a gentleman the next day at a
tavern in the Shrubland-road, Dalston, and measure
him for a suit of clothes. Witness accordingly
went there, and while waiting for the gentleman
in the parlour the pritoner popped his head in at
the door and asked him if a young lady had been
in the room. The witness ileplied that she had not
while he had been there, and .fhe prisoner seated
himself, called for some sherry, and said that the
lady had agreed to meet him there that he might
take her to see some rifle matches shot off in Vic-
toria Park. He then took out his pocketbook io
pay for the wine, and accidentally exposed to sight
a number of £2O, £lO, and £5 notes, and inciden-
tally mentioned that he had at last succeeded to
what he had been expecting some time, an uncle
of his in the country having just died and left him
£12,500, of which he had as then received, how-
ever, only £2,500, the other £lO,OOO being pay-
able afterwards, awl he at the same time carelessly
drew his notice to a sheet of parchment looking
like the will, and which the prisoner said was so.
Two other gentlemen also came into the room, and,
it being proposed to see some shooting at a rifle-
gallery at Hoxton, the witness was asked to go
with them, and did so. On reaching there, how-
ever, as in almost all these cases lately, there
was no rifle-gallery, but there was a skittle-
alley, and, as is also always the case in these
frauds, the prisoner professed an utter ignorance
of skittle-playing, and thought the ball must be
iron, and not wood, and lost sixpence upon that
opinion to the prosecutor, and paid him the money.
A game of skittles was then proposed, and, strange
as Mr. Beard said it was, considering the number
of times this kind of fraud had been exposed in the
papers, the prosecutor was asked to make a friendly
bet or two, and agreed to do so. There was
one slight impediment, however, and that was, that
as he had come out upon business only, he -had
come out without money, but this was got over by
the gentlemen suggesting he had a gold watch,
which he could pledge if he liked, and upon a little
pressing he agreed to this also, and pledged it for
£5 ss. This was speedily lost, bat it was disagree-
able to be disappointed at winning back a loss, and
it was next suggested the prosecutor should go home
for a little more cash, and one of the gentlemen
kindly offered to go with him, if he liked, an offer
the prosecutor accepted, and, having thus provided
himself with £4O more, they returned to the ground,
where he was induced to make a bet of £2O that
the prisoner could not knock the pins down in seven
times. The prisoner talked so largely, and was so
careless about his money, offering to bet £5O, £lOO,
£5OO, and even £l,OOO upon his own abilities that,
large as the £2O bet was, the prosecutor did not like
to object, and having made the bet and deposited
the money in the hands of one of the others, the
prisoner succeeded in winning it by knocking them
down in six. It was then proposed that the pri-
soner should do it in six times, and against this the
prosecutor betted £20155., that being all the money
he had, and the prisoner's luck was so abundant on
this occasion that he won that also, by fortunately
getting all the pins down in five throws. He was
now entirely " cleared out," as Mr Beard suggested,
and the prosecutor assented, but still the sport went
on, and the bets being raised to £5O, a game was
played for that amount, the prosecutor giving a
note of hand for the stakes in default of the ready
money; this, of coarse, was soon lost in the same
marvellous manner, and then, when it was too late,
and the prisoner had pocketed his note of hand, it
struck him suddenly that he had been swindled all
through ; he told his late friends so pretty plainly,
and went out to seek a policeman. A constable is
said never to be found when urgently wanted, but
the prosecutor's luck turned now, and having
found an officer almost directly, he rushed back to
the house with the policeman, but only to find the
ground empty, and all the men safe out of the
house.

Sergeant Evans, the detective, said, in consequence
of the prosecutor giving him a description of the
man who had defrauded him, he knew at once it
must be the prisoner, whom he had known for ten
years as an habitual skittle-sharper, frequenting
the termini of railways to pick up" country sim-
pletons, and he therefore kept on the watch for him,
but unsuccessfully until Thursday evening, when
he met him on Holborn-hill. The prisoner said it
was an entire mistake—he had got the wrong
man ; but he took him to the station and searched
him, and on him found a pocketbook with seven
Bank of Elegance notes in it, and a copy of the
will, a double set of trick cards—the prisoner say-
ing he was a professional gambler—and four flash
sovereigns, the prisoner's personal appearance
being also considerably added to by an ivory headed
Malacca cane and a massive watchguard, but which
turned out to be only plated.
The prisoner said that the coins were whist-
markers only, and that any one might as well take
a horse for a sovereign as one of those. He made a
long, impudent, and ingenious defence, trying to
make it appear that the prosecutor had willingly
led the prisoner to take it, instead of the reverse,
and asked to be admitted to bail, but Mr. Knox
refused it, and remanded him.

LAMBETH.—Dupont de Nemours, alias Count
de Nemours, and Jean Baptiste Mathieu, fashion-
ably dressed young Frenchmen, were charged with
stealing various articles of furniture and other pro-
perty, belonging to Mr. Martin, described as a gen-
tleman of property residing at Lanark-house,
Queen's-road, Peckham.
• Mr. Fletcher attended for the presecution, and
from the opening statement and the testimony of
the witnesses it appeared that about 18 months since
Mr. Martin, the prosecutor, met the prisoner De
Nemours, who then represented himself as a Count,
and, the latter being in great distress, Mr. Martin
took him home to his house, and, according to his
own account, fed, clothed, and kept him in pocket-
money. In the beginning of November, 1859,
the prosecutor, in order to provide employ-
ment for De Nemours, established an institution,
which he called the " British Institute of Uni-
versal Genius," and installed him as its secretary.
The objects of the institution seemed shrouded in
perfect mystery, and all that could be elicited from
Mr. Martin and the prisoners themselves respecting
it was that it had 25 to 30 members, the major part
if not all of whom lived abroad, that medals were
to be given as awards, and that about £l2O had
been received since its formation, and that the pre-
sentation of one medal was all that could be
accounted for. Some three months ago the second
prisoner Mathieu made his appearance, and being
in distress he was at the solicitation of De Nemours
taken into the institute as a clerk and assistant-
secretary, and the concern was kept going until
Monday evening last. On the Tuesday Mr. Martin
proceeded to the institute, which was held at No.
18, Chatham-place, Peckham; when he found it
closed; but obtained an entrance, collected and
locked up several letters and documents, and closing
the place requested the policeman on duty to have
a look out about it. The prosecutor's visit on the
Tuesday was occasioned by the prisoner De Nemours
not coming to his house on the Monday night to
sleep there, as had been his custom, and on Wed-
' nesday it was discovered„,44t the whole of the
furniture in the place, the 'accounts, and other
things had been removed, and the furniture was
traced to Taylor's Repository in St. George's•road,
where it had been taken by the prisoner Mathieu.
The prisoners were apprehended on Thursday night,
when £4 odd were found on Mathieu, and on De
Nemours were found in an envelope two French
banknotes of 100 f. each and other property, and
the former accounted for his possession of the fur-
niture by saying he had purchased it from the latter
out of £l2 he had been paid by De Nemours for
his three months' service as clerk. De Nemours
assumed the right to dispose of the property, and
the owership of all the things in the institute, as
its principal. The prosecutor, however, denied his
assertion, and said he had purchased the articles
before the opening of the institution, as he could
show by bills in his possession.
A printer in the Walworth-road said he had
done printing for the institute to the amount of
£l4, and had not yet been paid the money. He
also said that on Tuesday evening the prisoner
Mathieu called at his house and asked him if he
knew where he could get change for a 100 f. note ii
a hurry, He (witness) directed him to the shop of
a tobacconist in the neighbourhood, where he
thought he would be able to get it, but he after-
wards learned that he did not get it, and went to
Leicester-square.
At the conclusion of an examination of three
hours' duration, Mr. Norton remarked that the
institute appeared to him to be one of the most
extraordinary he had ever heard of, for, though it
had been in existence 14 or 15 months, and £l2O
had been received, £35 of which had reached the
prosecutor, it was without a president, a committee,
a board of mana
or gement of any kind, and coo
prize of £3 10s. all that was accounted for. The
cue was one requiring further inquiry, and he
should therefore remand the prisoner for a week.

The remaining 50,000 of the Four per Cent.
Joan authorized to be raised for Jamaica, with the guaran-
tee of the home Government, was offered yesterday at the
Treasuryr%
for public tender, and taken by the Guardian
Assurance Co
deben-
ture will any at 105. The dividend on these deben-
date em the Ist proximo.

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LOUN TR Y MARKETS.

LIT ERPOOL-DEC. 21.

There was a good attendance of town and counfry buyers
at this morning's narket, and we had a brisk demand
for wheat and flour, which may be quoted at an advance
of ld to 21b per 1001bs and Ad per barrel and sack. Indian
corn attracted a mocler ate demand. Oats and oatmeal gill
active, and at more mot •ey. Beans and barley unaltered in
price. Peas easielv to lx IY.

wAK-Rim:LD—DEc. 21.
The supplies of wheat were fair, but the trade was of
retail character. Good old and i;ae dry new met a tolerable
demand at is per qr advance on F:riday's rates. Fine par-
cels of barley an fair request, at ,higher prices. Beata,
oats, and shelling unchanged.

EXETER—Mo. 21,
A fair business was done in the corn mar.ket to-day, at
last week's prices :
Wil white.. 7s Od to 8s CNd :Barley.. 40 6d to 5s 6d
Ditto red Os Od to Os Od CPAs ..... 3e Onto 3s 61
New white wheat, 7s 9d ; red, 6s 6d t‘, 7s.
Flour, fine, 47s to —s ; seconds, 45s to -s per ,sack.

CATTLE.
There was scarcely any cattle driven in, nor any Ursine°
doing,
Fat bed,p,,score, lOs to 10s6d Ewes, per lb 6d t0.13r
Pork carcaseo,do lOs to 1056 d Wethers, do 6d to 74 ,
Sheep, per lb— Od to --d Fat calves, d0....60 to
Rough fat, 41d per lb.

BRISTOL SUG.AR—Dxc. 21.
The market is dull, and there are no sales to report. The
offices were closed yesterday fat • the Christmas holidayo?
and business will not be resumed l, .efore the lst proximo.