The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-26 00:00:00

EMBEZZLEHENT BY A COLLECTOR.

Yesterday, at the Hammersmith Police Court,
Thomas Humphrey was re-examined on the charge
of absconding with a large sum of money belonging
to his employers, Messrs. Fuller, Smith, and Turner,
brewers, of Chiswick.

Mr. G. Lewis conducted the prosecution; Mr.
Martin defended the prisoner.

Mr. 11. Smith, one of the partners, stated that the
prisoner had been in their service as collector for
about three years. The money and cheques which
he received in the course of his collection weekly
were kept in a safe at the office, the key of which
was under his sole charge, until each Friday, which
was the regular day for banking in the Union Bank
of London, Argyle-place. On the 12th inst. he
went to Barnet, in Essex, but he never returned to
his duties, neither did he
k
during the week on the followingban the
day.money
Tchoel collected
deficiency was £1,349 2s. 4d., which was exclusive
of a sum of £llO odd, which he had embezzled.
Witness next saw the
prisoner
Oxfordshire, on the 19th inst., wa t Banbury,
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charge of the superintendent of the constabulary.
When the prisoner saw witness he started, and said
" I was driven to it."
Mr. Lewis then read a letter which Mr. Smith had
received from the prisoner while he was in the House
of Detention. It was to the effect that the act was
a momentary one, which he never thought of com-
mitting until ho found himself intoxicated and very
late in returning home. The thought of being dis-
charged drove him to act so desperately. He wished
to make all amends in his power, and asked to be
dealt with as leniently as possible.
It appeared that the prisoner's whereabouts was
discovered in a somewhat singular manner. Ou the
7th inst. ho deposited the sum of £664 6s. 6d. at
the Banbury branch of the London and County
Bank, in the name of Thompson. This sum in-
cluded two of the cheques which had been stopped,
and on their being sent up to the London branch
they were at once detected, and information of their
recovery was forwarded to Mr. Smith, who hastened
to Banbury, and communicated with Mr. W.
Thompson, the superintendent of the constabulary.
The prisoner was found at the Town Hall Tavern,
and on being taken into custody the sum of £1,393
3s. 2d., which included the deposit at the bank, was
recovered.
Mr. Lewis said the embezzlement had been going
on from January last.
Mr. George MlNaughton, of the Red Lion,
Chiswick ; Mr. R. Grigsby, of the Rose and Crown,
Hammersmith ; and Mr. W. Warren, of the Cla-
rendon Arms, Broadway, proved three payments to
the prisoner on account of the prosecutors, the
payment in the case of the last-mentioned witness
being on the 22d of January in the present year.
That sum, together with the one paid by Mr.
M‘Naughton, had not been accounted for ; but in
the other case he accounted for the receipt of £5O,
though he had paid £6O.
Mr. B. Dowsett, of the Waggon and Horses,
Kew Bridge ; Mr. Thomas Hartley, of the Star and
Garter, Kew Bridge; and Mr. Edward David
Matthews, of the Coach and Horses, Turnham-
green, proved three other payments in the pre..ient
month, and which formed part of the money the
prisoner ought to have banked.
The depositions were then read over, when
Mr. Dayinan fully committed the prisoner for trial
at the next Middlesex Sessions on both charges—
embezzling and stealing'

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ARIUS.

ettr:rract.lW.E ii
3onsolldated, 6 per cent. stock,
,to, Bristol and 131 rm., 6 per cent., -..
tto, 411 per cent. rd., 931

PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.
London, Chatham, Ice., Metrop. Ext. B, 6 per cent., 46

LINES LEASED AT FIXED IiENTALb,
Brkenhead,
Ditto, 4, per cent. pf., 100
London, Chatha►n. &c., 44 per cent., 67i
London and G;reenwich,
Ditto. Pref., 107
South York. and River Dun, 974

FOREIGN tiAILWAYP.
'labia and San Francisco. 11. n., Rua. 7 per cent., 13j 1
San Paulo, 11w.., gua. 6 per cent., 161

14'011E10N MINNS.
Auglo BrazilianGoll, 0-1621
United Mexican, iiin., 2

13ANSIG

Alliance, ~ '5
imperial Ottoman, Um., 9
Land Mortgage Bank of India, lien.. 11
London Chartered ban K of Australia, z3I
London and County, f,41
Ditto, new, 29
London Joint Stock, 37
London and estininster, 68
71
Ditto, Scrip, 3Gf
Union of London, 376

MISCELLANEOUI3;
Anglo-American Telegraph, liin.,7lTl
Bombay Gas, Itm., 41
Commercial Onion, Insuran3e, 41
Credit. Voncier of Engtan.t. lint.. 21
East India Irrigation and Canal. 131
Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavourt,
Ditto, 0 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1,,70, issued 50, 42
London tieneralOninibus Company, aim, 2 ti-16
Madras Irrigation and Canal (guaranteed, 5 per cent. by
Indian Government). 101
Notional Discount t.ompany, 1(1
Peninsula and Oriental steam, 48
Ditto, new, 18:i5,162
Rio dc Janeiro tins, 231
Thames and Mersey Marine, Insurance, lim., 5 9-IS
Viceroy of Egypt (Mortgage) Loan, 721

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKE7—This Day.

The Market opens flat and irregular, with ten-
dency still downwards. Sales probably 10,000
bales.

BIRMINGHAM AND TIIE BoUNDART COMMISSION.—
Lieutenant-Colonel Ward, li.E., and Mr. John L. Wharton
have given notice of their intention to visit Birmingham
on Wednesday next for the purpose of inquiring into the
boundaries of the borough, with the view to ascertain
whether the same should be enlarged so as to include
within the limits of the borough all premises which ought,
due regard being had to situation and other local circum-
stances, to be included therein, for the purpose of con-
ferring upon the occupiers thereof the Parliamentary
franchise such borough.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MANSION-HOUSE.

ROBBERIES AT THE CA:MON-STREET STATION.—Amide
Briffant, a ferocious-looking foreigner, was charged by the
South-Eastern Railway Company with having stolen a
bag from the waiting-room of the Cannon-street Station.
It appeared that the bag was the property of Mr.
Benthall, a draper residing at Farnham, in Surrey. Mr.
Benthall was sitting on the table with the bag beside him,
when a gentleman told him that the prisoner had taken it
up. He follow3d him and sail, " Why did you take my
bag?" He ropliod, " I am a foreigner." Witness then
milk' the detective ofd:or attached to the station and gave
him iuto cu,tudy. _

Sergeant Moss said that he was called to take the pri-
soner into custody, and found him with the bag. ll,r took
him to Bow-1 tne Police-stuiou. s..arching him he
found a few dirty things up m 11,1 had for a long
time been hanging about the station, and was suspected
by the witur.ss, who was a detective sergeant attached to
the Cannon-street Station, of the numerous robberies
which have taken place there lately, and the personal ap-
pearance of the prisoner Wing peculiar he had been
specially remarked.
Mr. Lewis, the. solicitor' to the South-Eastern Railway
Company, said he appeared to prosecute on behalf of that
company, and as they must necessarily have many suspi
cious characters amongst the number of persons travelling,
and as they had reasons for suspecting the prisoner beyond
others, ho would ask the Lord Mayor to grant a remand.
The prisoner, who professed no knowledge of English,
said nothing—the evidence being communicated to him
through one of the ushers, who acted as interpreter—was
then remanded till Tuesday next.