The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-16 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—June 15.

MANSION-HOUSE,—J— ohn Lee, a man who was
on Saturday taken into custody by Webb and Hug-
gett, detective officers, upon a charge of going into
several banking-houses in the City for an unlawful
purpose, was brought before Alderman Hale for re-
examination.

Mr. Muliens, the solicitor to the Bankers' Asso-
ciation, attended to prosecute ; Mr. Pearce, the bar-
rister, instructed by Mr. Beard, appeared on behalf

of the prisoner.
It will be remembered that at the former exami-
nation it was prived that Webb and Huggett saw
the prisoner in Lombard-street, and they watched
him into the Union Bank, Messrs. Robarts and Co.'s,
and Messrs. Glyn and Co.'s, and he came out with-
out making any inquiries of the clerks, or transact-
ing any business, and his conduct was altogether so
suspicious that the officers took him into custody,
and in his possession they found a cheque for £lO,
drawn by a firm in Paris upon the Union Bank,
which turned out to be a genuine instrument ; but
although the prisoner was seen to go twice into that
bank, he did not present it for payment, and he
evidently had some other object in view.
Mr. Mullens now stated that in consequence of
the report that appeared in the newspapers he had '
felt it his duty to make inquiries and to take up the
case, and he was now prepared with additional evi-
dence in support of the original charge, and also to
establish a fresh charge against the prisoner.
Mr. C. B. Robinson, one of the cashiers in the
Union Bank, deposed that on the 11th of May he
saw the prisoner in the Union Bank in company
with a female, and his attention was called to him
by Smith, the detective officer. On the 12th May
witness saw the prisoner again in the bank at half-
past three o'clock in the afternoon, and when there
were a good many customers present. He was stand-
ing close to a clerk to whom he was paying bank-
notes for a cheque for £7OO. He watched the pri-
soner as well as he could, but did not see him do
any thing, and he made a communication to the clerk
cautioning him to be careful, and the prisoner im-
mediately left the bank. He did not see the pri-
soner transact any business on the 12th May.
Cross-examined—The female who accompanied
him on the 11th presented three genuine cheques,
two for £lO and one for £2B, drawn by the same
firm in France as the £lO cheque that was found
in the prisoner's possession.

Mr. Mullins said it had been ascertained that five
or six similar cheques had been paid by the Union
Bank. Only one of them was in favour of John Lee,
the name the prisoner had given, and all the others
were in favour of a Mrs. or Miss Manley.
Mr. John Scott, a clerk in the service of Mr.
Wright, a dealer in china and glass in Tokenhouse-
yard, deposed that on the 12th of May he was sent
to the Union Bank with a cheque for £7OO, and the
clerk paid him in bank-notes, several of which were
for £lOO each. These he separated from the others,
and placed in his left-hand trousers pocket, and
while he was counting the others he felt a sensation
as though a hand was at his pocket, and he put his
hand down immediately to it, and looked round
and saw the prisoner, who was holding up a bill-
book, standing close to him. The cashier then asked
itness whether he had lost anything, and at the
same moment he heard a voice close to him utter
the words, "You are watched," and he immediately
lost sight of the prisoner.
Cross-examined—l am quite sure the prisoner is
the same man. I have not seen since him until this
morning in the cell, but I am sure he is the same
man. I felt the hand on my person, but I was too
quick, and stopped it before it could get into my

pocket.
Mr. Pearce—Why did you not at once seize the
party whom you suspected to be attempting to rob
you ?
Witness—lf I had done that I should have lost
the rest of the money that was on the counter.
Smith, a detective officer, said he was in the
Union Bank on the 12th of May, and saw the pri-
soner come in, and observed him make his way to
the counter. He heard the cashier say something,
and the prisoner immediately ran out of the bank.
Witness followed him, and observed that he had a
book in his hand. He had not heard what had taken
place in the bank, and therefore he did not consider
himself justified upon this occasion in taking him
into custody.
Cross-examined—Witness saw the prisoner in the
bank on the 11th of May. He had no book with
him then.
Alderman Hale—Was it in consequence of any-
thing that occurred on the 11th that you were in-
duced to watch him more particularly on the fol-
lowing day ?
Smith—lt was, sir.
Mr. Mullens said that was all the evidence he pro-
posed to offer on the present occasion, but he should
ask the worthy alderman to remand the prisoner
for another week, when he believed he should be
able to produce additional evidence.
Mr. Pearce submitted that there were no grounds
to justify the further detention of the prisoner.
There was no evidence that it was the prisoner's
hand that was upon the person of the witness Scott.
Mr. Scott said it must have been the hand of the
prisoner that was withdrawn, and, from his position,
it could not have been the hand of any other person.
Mr. Pearce then applied to the Court to admit
the prisoner to bail.
Mr. Mullen said that before the alderman decided
upon the application he should wish himtooohnesatrabtlhees
statement one of the metropolitan police
had to make with reference to the character of the
prisoner
Mr. Pearce objected to this course being taken.
Alderman Hale said he should certainly hear
whit the officer had to say.
Thomas Maveety, a police-sergeant of the N di-
vision, was then sworn, and he stated that he had
known the prisoner five or six months in the neigh-
bourhood of the Kingsland-road and Shoreditch,
and he was the constant associate of convicted
thieves, both menand
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Alderman Hale refuseu the application to admit
the prisoner to bail, and remanded him till Wed-
nesday next.

EP ARTURE OF HEENAN FOR AMERICA.--Heenan
is off for the New World on the 4th July, in the Vander-
bilt, attended by Jack Macdonald, his fidus Achates, adviser,
and second in the great mill at Farnborough on the 17th
April, The engagement with Messrs. Howes and Cushing
for a series of provincial exhibitions, in which the rival
champions were to " show," proved a failure, and has been
cancelled by mutual consent, Heenan is about to trade on
his pseudo-champion's belt, abandoning his match with his
challenger, Thomas Hurst of Staleybridge, and forfeiting
the £25 down for the match between them. The Staley-
bridge " infant," as our gigantic countryman is called, has
been in " tears" at this downfall of his hopes of meeting the
big American, and testing him with a man of his owl!
inches. Some consolation, however,
may be admmter
to him by the information that Tom Paddock. has
hon
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equitable terms, ancl within a reasonable period.