The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-19 00:00:00

POLICE IIiTELLIGENOE.—May 77.

MANSION-HOUSE. —J oAn Mackenzie, clerk to
Messrs. M'Andrew and Co., was brought before the
Lord Mayor, charged with having feloniously stolen
upwards of 2001., the property of his employers.
Mr. Mullen-, the solicitor to the committee of bankers
for protection against forgeries and frauds, attended for
the prosecution ; Mr. Binns for the defence.

Mr. H. S. Baker, of the firm of M'Andrew and Co.,
Allhallows Chambers, Lombard-street, merchants, said
—The prisoner was a clerk in our servico from February,
1835, and kept the petty cash of the office. Money was
given him occasionally for the purpose of being applied
to petty disbursements. He had a cashbox, in which it
vas his duty to keep the money intrusted to him, for
which he was to account whenever called upon. He
Also kept a book in which he male the entries of the
Payments, and it was the duty of the cashier to check
the book from time to time, and see the entries. The pri-
-.oner did not draw money for petty disbursements when
as had money in hand. On the 15th inst. I had occa-
:ion to refer to the book, and noticed that the columr.
,nding the 31st Dec. last had not been cast up. I cast
it up, and found a balance of 89/. lls. 51. as being in
he prisoner's hand to that time, and that balance was not
carried forward. The prisoner was then out, and on his
return I pointed out the omission to him, and I then of -
served that the account had not been brought forward
from April to May, and I told him to close up his h ,ok
and I would strike the balance. I waited with him whilst
ne did it, and I found a deficiency of upwards of 100/.
once Christmas, exclusive of the tormqr balance. \V
counted the money in the cash-box, and found it was 09/
t,=7. Bd., and after allowing for that sum there was a de
ficiency with the former sum at Christmas of 2031. 13
3d, The prisoner said he could not account for the deft
ciency. It was an awkward thing for him. Upon beitia
interrogated, he said that he had taken out nal-a-sove-
reign and a sovereign at a time occasionally, and that he
knew he had taken out to the extent of 501., it might
possibly be 1501., and it might possibly be to the amount
of 2081. 134. 3d. He said he thought he 'night have pail
money which he had not put down. I told him lie might
refer to every receipt and document in the office, to as•
certain if that was so. Ho looked over receipts and
everything he wished in my presence, but did not disco-
ver anything to put down. The prisoner came again to
the office yesterday and this morning, and as no satin
factory answer was given he was placed in custody.
The prisoner was then remanded till Saturday next.
Thomas Brodie, a most impudent thief, was charged
with having CD:P miteed three robberies.
The prisoner went. to the shop of a clothier in Shore-
ditch, fitted on a coat, and desired the foreman to take
it with him to Great St. Helen's, where the price would
be instantly forthcoming. When they got to St. Helen's,
'he prisoner went into a house, returned with some
papers in his hand, said to the messenger, "Give me the
farce!, and I'll bring you out the cash directly," took
the coat, retired inside, and no doubt slipped out the
neck way, leaving the person who accompanied him in
the passage in vain expectation. The foreman, upon
hearing of the robbery, went to the station-house, and
thence to Petticoat-lane, where he saw and apprehended
the prisoner.
In the second case, the prisoner selected a ring at the
shop of a jeweller in Bishopsgate.street, told the shop-
man to send the errand boy with him to Great St.
Helen's, where the amount would be paid, left the boy
at the gate, slipped into the house with the ring, and
out at the back door, and then ran off to a shoemaker's
shop, where he fitted on a pair of shoes, and ran away
in them the moment he saw an opportunity. When the
prisoner was taken into custody for stealing the coat,
the shoes he had stolen a week before were found upon
his feet. _ _

The prisoner admitted to the officer that he bad done
the clothier out of the coat, and said he had sold it for
15s. The rapidity of the felonious movements of the
man caused some astonishment. He ran from robbery
to robbery as if one success necessarily prompted a fresh
attempt.
Tne Lord Mayor said that so ingenious a thief must
go before a jury, and committed him for trial.

BOWSTREET.—Mr. Charles Hoole, of the firm of
Charles and Arthur Hoole, grocers, &c., 44, London-
road, attended on his own part and his brother's to
answer a summons, charging them, at the instance of
the Commissioners of Excise, with selling for genuine
coffee a mixture containing 27 per cent. of chicory.
Charles Reeves, an Excise officer, proved the purchase
of the article from a young man in defendants' shop.
He asked for pure coffee. On opening the packet be
found the words, "This is sold as a mixture of chiccry
and coffee," printed on a part of the paper which was
folded in, and, from the size of the papers, that part
must always be inside if they were folded in the usual
manner.
The defence set up was that, on Christmas eve, the
day the purchase was made, an extra band was engaged,
and that he had given the mixture instead of pure coffee,
by mistake.
As it was the first offence, Mr. Henry mitigated the
penalty to 251.
Mr. H. R. Pulbrook, grocer, &C., 100, Blackfriars•road,
appeared to a similar summons, for selling a package
containing five per cent. of carmel, or burnt sugar.
The defence was that the sugar had been mixed with the
green coffee by accident, and so had been roasted with it.
A similar penalty was inflicted.

WORSIIIP-STREET.—The attention of the magi-
strate was occupied for a considerable time in the investi
gation of a charge of burglary, preferred against two con-
stables of the G. division, named Joseph, Pargiter and
Abraham George Pcllatt.
Mr. Martin, the superintendent of the division, at-
tended to watch the case, and the court was crowded
with tradesmen and other inhabitants of the district,
who manifested a lively interest in the proceedings.
The first witness examined was Police-constable Man-
sey, G 102, who deposed as follows :—About a quarter
past 4 this morning, on reaching the end of my beat, at
the corner of Tabernacle-square, Finsbury, T saw the
prisoner Pargiter, who was manifestly intoxicated,
standing in front of the Angel and Crown public-house,
the door of which was partly open. I directly crossed
over to him, and inquired if anything was the matter, to
which the prisoner carelessly answered that he believed
some one Lad got into the house, but that I had no right
to interfere about it, as that was his beat, and I had bet-
teri mind my own business. After telling him that
tconaidered it was w busies to exauliria the place, 1