The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-26 00:00:00

POLICif INTELLIGENCE.-April 24.

MANSION-HOUSE.—ALLEGED FORGERY.—At
the conclusion of the business the Rev. George
Radcliffe was brought from Salisbury, in the cus-
tody of an officer, upon the charge of having forged
a transfer of stock to the amount of 1,0281. Gs. 3d.
on the Bank of England, standing in the name of
George Radcliffe and Robert Raxworthy.
Mr. Freshfield said he felt great pain in stating
that the prisoner was a clergyman of the Church of
England, and rector of St. Edward's, Salisbury,
and that he had forged a certificate, stating that
Mr. R•+xworti;y was dead, and thus got into his
hands the stock. M. Fre6hfield said he should be
obliged to require a remand, and would only pro-
duce evidence to justify it.

GUILDHALL. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY BY A
B•Y• —CUarles Pullin()' a lad about 14 years of ago,
was placed at the bar, before Alderman Hale, charged
with stealing 60 pieces of challies, value 501., the
property of his employers.
George Russell, a City detective officer, said, yes-
terday afternoon, in consequence of information I
received, I went to the warehouse of Messrs. Jor-
dan and Co., 26, Noble-stieet, where the prisoner
is employed. I there saw the prisoner, and told
him I was a detective, and that he was the party
who had been stealing the goods which had b.-.en
missed from the warehouse, and giving them to a
man to pledge. I had this mar, whose name is Willis,
called in, and told the prisoner lie was the man to
whom he had given the goods to pledge, and I
asked Willis if such was the case, and he replied it
was. I then told the prisoner I must take him
into custody on the charge of stealiug 60 pieces of
challies, 10 pieces Wore Christmas, and 50 pieces
since. I then took him to the station, and he said
One of the duplicates relating to the property was
in his coat pocket in the warehouse. When the
charge was read over to him he said he was guilty.
Alderman Hale—What is the ,value of the GO
pieces
Russ .311-About 501., air.
Alderman dale—This is a very wholesala rob-
bery for a lad like the prisoner to be engaged in.
Russell—l &mad a duplicate in the prisoner's
coat for a watch, and another for three pieces of
eh:lilies pledged on tie 17111 of April at Messrs.
Pickford and Roberts's, in the Old Kent-road. I
also found in the same coat-pocket a sealed paper
parcel containing six new neck-tie. There was
another neck-tie loose in the pocket. I showed them
all to the prisoner, and asked him how he became
possessed of them, and he said, "They are the
governor's ; I teok them this afternoon." I wish
for a remand, sir ; but as the man Willis is here, 1
hope, sir, you will caution him to be careful in
letting me know where he has pledged the goods.
Edward Willis was then called to the front of
the magistrate's [table, and ordered to enter into
his own recognisances in 401. to appear at the next

hearing.
The prisoner was then remanded.

WESTMINSTER. —SINGULAR CHARGE AGAINST
THE WIFE OF' A TRADESMAN.—EmiIy Hodges, a
young, well-the-sod, and childlike woman, was
placed at the b ir, charged with obtaining money
under false pretences.
From the evidence of Mr. Sowerby, pawnbroker,
of Grosvenor-row, Pimlico, it appeared that the
prisoner, who is the wife of a jeweller, residing in
St. Julie's, Clerkenwell, pledged a gold locket at
the house of the prosecutor, on the 9th March,
stating that it was good gold, and obtained 4s. on
it. On March 22, April 9, and April 23, she again
appeared, on each occasion stating that she had
brought the same locket, which she said had been
redeemed. Oa the fourth visit the pawnbroker bad
considerable suspicions, on account of her having
been there so many times, and on looking over his
things he found that he had four lockets in his pos-
session. They were all exactly like each other, and
hitherto he had not doubted the truth of her repre-
sentation. On each occasion she gave a different
name, and it could not be remembered she had done
so. It might also follow that differaet assis-
' tants in the shop might have returned the
locket, so that pro ecutor wt uld not be able to
ay whether he bad three loekets in his posses-
sion, or whether she had tenderer the same one
each time. On her deceit being discovered she re-
fused to give an account of herself and rushed out
of the shop. W tness caught her, when she scratched
his face. Presuming the lockets to be gold they
would each be worth 103. Witness assayed the
lockets and found them to be spurious. Prisoner
was given into custody.
*Mr. Archibald Douglass, n, Sloane-street, Chel-
sea, working jeweller, had assayed the lockets, and
said there not above three grains of pure gold in
each ; altogether they were not worth more than
is. 6d. The value of the articles if pure gold would
be about half-a-eminea in the trade.
aNeate, conducted the prosecu-
tion, said there was a regular system of fraud of this
kiwi being carried on iu London, and if the wore
remanded he could bring forward several other
pawnbrokers who ha-1 been similarly duped. The
husband of prisoner was in the habit of making
these things at Clerkenwell.
t, from
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be3ihlrope.Ad would
said it was quite evident thaappearancethe extreme youthful appearance of the prisoner,
she was the dope of some person, whom it was to
priced
evidenceb t by
hero
The case was, therefore, remanded till Friday next.
remand side.
her
there was sufficient

GREEN wit-IEL —THE LATE MANSLAUGHTER
BY A
13°Y.—COMMITTAL OF THE YOUTH AND AN
INSPECTOR OF THE THANIES POLICE.—Wm. S,l.liS,
a lad 12 years of ago, of respectable parents, re,id-
ing at No. 1.0, Wynforditerrace, Rotherhithe, was
brdught up en remand before Mr. Trail, chargerl
with causing the death of another lad named John
m
Thoas Buil,
n about the same age, while fighting
in Wellington street
; and Henry John Hambrooir,
an inspeAor of the Thames police, was placed iu the
dock charged with beiig an accessory. Mr. Supt,rintendent Evans attended to watch the
case on the part of the Thanes plilice, and Mr.
S ilemon appeared for Hambr,:ok ; the father of
S•llis was present for his son.
A melical cerificate of the cause of death was
read, and sevaial wiqies4cs,
the
particulars of whose
evidence have airearly appt are 1, were examined.
Jam is 11:ancis and James Bowle swore that Ham-
brook was tie person who offered the fa'al sugges-
tion to " hit him under the ear."
Mr. Solomon, on the part of Hambrook, begged
the magistrate to tike a merciful consideration of
the case ; and after stating his unfortunate position
pen ion entreated
to the effect that he had many years in the
and in
niines
dailypolice
exf;m,
ion
Novfasano w upon sick leave
him to hear some witnesses in his behalf.
Mr. Trail' said there was no necessity for it. He
intended to bind him over to appear at the sessions