The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-27 00:00:00

SELLING STEEPLECHASE.

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THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY
FRAUDS.

CLERK ENWELL—(THIS DAY.)
EXAMINATION OF SNELL.
This afternoon, at 20 minutes past 2 o'clock, Snell,
the clerk in the accountant's office of the Great Northern
Railway, was placed before Mr. D'Eyncourt, charged
with appropriating a large sum of money, the property
of the company, to his own use.
- The prisoner is a gentlemanly-looking young man,
about 30 years of age.
It will be recollected, from the report that appeared
in The Sun of Thursday last, that the prisoner was the
confidential clerk to Mr. Reynolds, the chief accountant
to the company, and that owing to certain circumstances
having arisen, the books of which the prisoner had
charge were ordered to be made up. On the morning
following this annoudcement Snell informed Mr. Rey-
nolds that he was deficimit to the amount of 1,0001.
The prisoner was then given into custody and under went
a preliminary examination at this court last week. The
o present case against the prisoner was the appropriation
of a cheque for 5001., .drawn in favour of the Provident
Fund, dated the 11th of July.
Mr. Huddleston appeared for the prosecution and Mr.
Hopwood defended.
The evidence of Mr. Reynolds, the chief accountant
of the Great Northern Railway, having been read over,
Mr. Hopwood asked Mr. Reynolds when he last saw
the 5001. cheque ?
Mr. Reynolds—ln the latter end of August. It was
before I left town in September. It was in the cash-box.
Mr. W. Gomm said I am a cashier at the Union
Bank, in Princes-street, I produce the cash-book. On
the 11th of July, I received a cheque for 500/. in fa-
vour of the accountans' drawing account. It was made
up by two cheques, and was accompanied by the docket
which was in the prisoners handwriting. It stated that
the cheque was drawn by Mr. Reynolds, and was far
money could get
sundries. The blue docket which accompanied the
cheque was different in colour to that of Mr. Reynolds's.
aA
docketperson
suchcoming
as t:hos th?e accompanyingh bank t o pa y in
the 5001. cheque at
the counter of the hank. The money was placed to the
credit of the accountant's fund.
Mr. J. Walbram—l am a clerk in the Union Bank
Oa the 9th Oct. I paid two cheques to Messrs. Williams
through the clearing house. They were paid by a transfer
on the Bank of England.
Inspector Williams—l am in the service of the Great
Northern Railway Company. I am an inspector
on the line. On the 19th of November the
prisoner was given into my charge. The prisoner
said he was a defaulter to 1,0001. I told him he had
better not tell me anything about it, for that being a
constable I was bound to repeat it again. The prisoner
said he did not care—he bad no defence to make. He
thought he was a defaulter to about 1,0001. He after-
wards said he had taken the 5001. cheque which had
been given him to pay into the Provident Fund, and had
paid it, with 21. 10s. of his own money, to Mr. Reynolds's
drawing account. That he told Mr. Reynolds it was all his
own money, and asked him to give him two cheques for
the amount, which he did accordingly. That he bad
afterwards paid those two cheques to Oswin and Co., 10,
A ngel-court, Throgmorton-street, to meet some of his
(prisoner's) losses for stock. He also said the docket
• • ponying Qte money he paid into the Union Bank
he bad got from the bank counter. Re said it was a bad
job, and he was very sorry for it, but the company could
take his furniture, which was worth 2501., and he gave
me a list of some other sums that were
owing to him, saying they could take them also. I
produce the list. He told me to make haste down to
Hornsey, and take possession of his property before the
Guarantee Society took it. The prisoner afterwards
altered the amount of his defalcations, which he said he
did not think would amount to above 9001.
This evidence completed the case, upon which the
prisoner was fully committed for trial.
Mr. Huddlestone then proceeded to detail another
case against the prisoner. Toe learned gentleman said
there was a certain fund called the Sick Fund, made
up of certain allowances made by the company.
The funds ought to be paid into the accountant's drawing
fluid, and none other. On the 27th of October a cer-
tain sum of money from the engineers' department—a,
contribution to the sick fund—came into the prisoner's
possession which ought to have been paid into the ac-
countant's drawing account, which he did net do. The
sum in this case amounted to about 981., and the pri-
soner was now charged with embezzling the same.
Mr. Reynolds was recalled—l am chief accountant of
the Great Northern Railway Company. There is a
fund in connection with the company called the sick
fund. Mr. Mowatt is the trustee of the fund. I dis-
burse fortnightly the sick pay allowances, and it was the
duty of the prisoner, who was my chief clerk, to get
from Mr. Mowatt cheques for the amount so paid. On
the 27th of September, 1856, I paid on account of that
fund for the previous fortnight, 201. 18s. sd. On Oct. 11
I paid fqr the sick allowances a cheque for 231. lls. 10d.
When the prisoner, in the ordinary course, obtained
these cheques from Mr. M:owatt, it was his duty to pay
them into the accountant's drawing account. I have a
book—the register of cash and values received in the
accountant's office, which I produce—l find three en-
tries in the prisoner's handwriting. _ Two were on the
27th of October last, as money received from Mr. Bry.
den, of 721. 9s. 9d., and 151. 18s., and the other is on
29th Oct., 81. 10s. Those entries represent cash,received
from the engineer's department by the prisoner,.
behalf of the sick fund. It was the pri..
goner's duty to have paid those sums into the Union.
Bank to the account of " the Great Northern Railway
That is quite a different account from
drawing account." Those entries by
an Ackvowledgment that he has received
said—l generally send
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the amount he has ad-
Mr. Henry Oakley, chief :clerk in the secretary's office
of
vanced on account a the sick and fuzieral allowance fund
thet the
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to
up to the prisoner in Mr. Reynolds's office. The
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drawn by the prisoner and signed
cheques are genera
by Mr. Mowatt. Both the cheques in my hand are
drawn by the prisoner and signed by Mr. Mowatt.
The are dated the 27th of October. The Sick Fund
account is kept at Haywood and Kinnaird's bank, The
cheques are for sick pay wages.
Mr. Gomm—l am clerk at the Union, Bank. Oa re.
ferenoe to the book I find an entry of a payment of 90.
18e, 6d. to Great Northern Railway traffic account. IL
was made up by the two cheques produced, a 501. note,
and the remainder in cash.
ined—l have looked
Mr. Reynolds re-exam through
in accounts,
and find a deficiency amounting
to
Mlmeredrawing
these. this sum of 961. 18s.
'd that everything that had been paid to
the traffic wow, wa
Mr. GOAD] .said
entered. Itnot his
duty to make the' entries properly was
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' the accountant's account.
The ledger clerk wo,.
lld be the person to prove that
present.
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That person t.
entry. didnot '
Mr. Ruddiest OAS should intend to proceed
t, °refine wish for a further
further to-day.

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The prisoner 571241 aCCOrdinlY remanded for a week.

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