The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 20,. 1867.

L AW INTELLIGENOE—This Day.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
YELVERTON, OTHERWISE LONGWORTH, AND
YELVERTON.

This long-pending case, which has so long oc-
cupied public attention, was put down for rehearing
this morning, but, in consequence of the indisposi-
tion of Mrs. Yelverton, was postponed for a week.

man, a corporal.in the Ist battalion of the Grena-
dier Guards, quartered in the Tower of London,
vas brought up, on remand, bofore Mr. Paget,
charged with stealing £145 in Bank of England
notes and two gold rings, the property and monies
of Capt. IL M. C. Legb, of the same regiment,
who now attended for the first time.

The prosecutor stated that on the morning of
Tuesday, the 11th of the present month, he placed
a small pocket-book, containing two £5O and nine
15-notes and two gold rings in a drawer in his
dressing•room. He missed the notes and rings the
3ame night between 11 and 12 o'clock. The drawer
and the door of the room were not locked.

i\lr. J
armyolml'illaiigtn agents,
tsa,rton, clerk to Messrs. Cox
and Co.,
identified two £5O notes
which he rail to Captain Legh on the 27th of last
month.

Mr. Henry Etubledon, steward of the Guards
Club, Pall Mall, said that six £5 notes produced
were a portion of ten he paid to Captain Legh in
change of a £5O note.

Mr. Richard Adyo Burley, a clerk in the Bank
of England, produced two cancelled notes for £5O
each, and six cancelled notes for £5 each, all paid
into the Bank on the 12th of June.
Jacob Posner, a Jew outfitter, of No. 22, White-
chapel-road, received one of the £5O notes and three
of the £5 notes from the prisoner on the 12th June,
and obtained £65 in gold for thorn at the Bank.
The prisoner endorsed the notes " Gordon Ca-
meron," and said he had won a good deal of money
on the Derby race at Epsom. He gave the whole
of the gold to the prisoner, who paid him £5 13s.
for clothes he purchased, and took them away. On
the previous day, June 11, the prisoner paid him
30s. for two shirts and a waistcoat he purchased.
The prisoner cross-examined Posner, who denied
that he bad received £2O of him to take care of.
The prisoner insisted that be had deposited £2O
with Posner, which the Jew stoutly denied.

Mr. Alfred Knight, watchmaker and jeweller, of
No. 83, High-street, NVhitechapel, sold a lever
watch, gold chain, locket, and ring, to the prisoner
on the 12th of June, for which the prisoner ten-
dered in payment three £5 notes, and after deduct-
ing £l2 65., the price of the goods, retained £2 14s.
The prisoner endorsed the notes " Cameron Gor-
don," and said he came from Yorkshire, and won
£2OO at Epsom on the Derby day.
In answer to Mr. Paget, Posner and Knight said
the prisoner was in his soldier's uniform when he
came to their shops and made purchases.
Geo. Clarke, detective sergeant, said he accosted
the prisoner on Monday last in the Tower, and on
letting him know the charge, he said he did not steal
but was guilty of passing the notes ; and that he
had found one £5O note, six £5 notes, two rings,
and a cigar case under a stone near the Tower ditch,
He found 10a. Sd. on the prisoner. He ascertained
that the day after Captain Legh missed his notes
and rings the prisoner invested £3O in a savings
bank.

Mr. Paget—Two 150 notes which have been
identified were paid into the Bank of England on
the same day. One was paid to Posner, while
the other was passed by the prisoner.

Clarke—The second £5O note was indorsed
" Webb." I have my suspicions where it was
passed.

The whole of this evidence having been read by
Mr. Harm, the second clerk, the prisoner was
called upon for his defence, and after receiving the
usual caution ho said, "No defence, not till my
trial."

Mr. Paget committed the prisoner to Newgate for
trial, and said—lt's an unfortunate piece of care-
lessness for a gentleman to put £145 and two
gold rings in a drawer that was unlocked, and in
a room the door of which was unfastened. I
cannot too strongly reprobate the system which
enabled a private soldier in uniform .to obtain
change for a £5O note and three L 5 notes, all
stolen, at an outfitter's shop, without any in-
quiries being made. It is perfectly monstrous.

l'H lit 1) EDITION .

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'GLocE.