The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-03 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

FORGING A POST-OFFICE ORDER. —Henry Gillott and
Richard Oldacre were placed at the bar charged with
stealing a Post-office order and forging the name of Mr.
Scully, their master.
William Miller, 148 G, said yesterday, about 11 o'clock
is the morning, ho was in the money order-office, Bunhill-
row, and saw the prisoner Oldacre come in and present an
order for payment, saying that he came from Mr Scully, of
Gee-street, Brick-lane. He took hold of Oldacre and asked
what he bad presented for payment, and the assistant
handed him a post-office order for £5. He told the prisoner
that he was a police officer, and that he should taken him
into custody for stealing the order from Scully. He said he
got the order from a short, young man, who was in a
publichouse in the neighbourhood. Witness went there,
but could not find the person the prisoner had descrited,
and he then conveyed Oldacre to the station-house.
James King, the assistant at the post-office in Bunhill-
row, said the prisoner presented the order in the usual
course, and answered the questions he put to him correctly.
He afterwards was told by the constable that the order had
been stolen.

Mr. R. Scully said he carried on business in Gee-street,
Brick-lane. The order produced bore his signature, but it
was a forgery. He never authorised Oldacre to sign his
name or receive money; in fact, he did not know him.
The order produced had been stolen, together with the
letter in which it was enclosed. It came from a customer
of his, but it had been intercepted in its delivery.
Miller then said he apprehended Gillott yesterday on a
charge of stealing the letter containing the Post-office
order. He at once admitted it, and said he had taken two
letters beside, and that he had given them to a companion
to get changed.
The solicitor to the Post-office said he was unable to
proceed further with the case at that time, and the pri-
soners were remanded for a week.

PICKING UP A FRIEND.-00rItaiillS Rush was charged
with being at the Charing-cross Railway Station for an

illegal purpose.
Monckton, the police-constable on duty at the station,
said yesterday he saw the prisoner in company with
another person leading in a gentleman who was very
drunk. They went into the refreshment department, and
having partakenof some wine, they left thebar and went on
to the platform. He, observing the gentleman wore a yery
valuable Albert guard, and ether articles of jewellery, and
that he was quite incapable of taking care of himself, he
went up to him, telling prisoner he was a police constable,
and, on telling theprisoner to leave the station ho violently
assaulted him. He afterwards took the prisoner into
custody.
Prisoner said the gentleman was a friend of his. He
sold him walnuts daily in Cannou-street, and that meeting
him a little bit intoxicated, he had made up his mind to see
him to the railway station. There he was taking sherry
with the gentleman, when Monckton came up and ordered
him off. He did not feel disposed to go at his bidding,
and therefore objected, and the result was he was taken to
the station-house.

A warder from the House of Correction said the prisoner
had been eight or nine titat33 in prison, and that he was a
well-known thief.

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Mr. Vaughan said he had no doubt but that for the
vigilance of the police-constable the gentleman would have
been robbed of everything ho possessed. Hs, therefore,
committed the prisoner for three months with hard labour.