The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-15 00:00:00

COLCHESTER ELECTION..--This Day,

At 12 o'clock Mr. Karslake, the Conservative
candidate, had obtained a majority of 63. Bribery,
it is said, is going on very extensively.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

STEALING BANK NOTES AND GOLD.—liVilliam Edwards,
a young man, porter to M. Marcel Masse, agent for French
manufacturers, 4, Chapel-place, Cavendish-square, was
charged before Mr. Knox with stealing a £5 bank note and
a sovereign, belonging to his employer, and he was further
charged with stealing a £5 bank note, £5 in gold, and Hs.
iu silver, belonging to Madame Vigniard and another,
Maddox-street.

It appeared from the evidence that on the 3d December
Mr. Masse called on Madame Vigniard, when she asked
him is he was going into the city, as she wished to pay a
bill. Mr. Masse said that ke was not, but that he wanted
to send himself, and, after some further conversation, loft
a £5 note and a sovereign with Mm.Vigniard, promising to
send his porter to Madame Vigniard for it, and for any
money she wished to send into the city. Mr. Masse sub
sequently sent tho prisoner —his porter—to Madame
£ .£
Vigniard, and she gave tho prisoner Mr. Masse's
money, and also a 5 note, 5
gold, and 16s.
in silver, her money, telling the prisoner that he was
to pay a bill for Mr. Masse, and one for her, but the pri-
soner never did so, and never returned. The matter was
then placed in the hands of Police-constable King, 76 .D,
who apprehended the prisoner last night at No. 50, Upper
George-street, Bryanston-square, and on his telling the
prisoner the charge he said that he had not paid the bills,
but that if Mr. Masse would wait, he (prisoner) would see
his father and see that he was paid. King told the prisoner
that he know nothing about it, and took the prisoner to the
station. Tho prisoner further told King that Mr. Masse
would have been paid before but he (prisoner) had been
robbed of all his money and clothes.
The prisoner asked Mr. Masse whether he had not
written him a letter promising to pay him ?
_ _

Mr.Masse said ho had received a letter which he belieyed
was in the prisoner's handwriting to that effect.
Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner.

THAMES.

ALLEGED KLEPTOMANIA.—MItnOW Wilson, `alias Chris-
tian, aged 46, was brought up on remand before Mr. Par-
tridge, charged with stealing one book, " Lady Flavia,"
valued at 25., the property of Messrs W. 11. Smith, the
publishers, booksellers, and newspaper agents, from their
stall at the Bow station on the North London Railway.
The case was a very singular one. The prisoner is a
Bromley.and he gave his
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Bromley. He has been
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A m steady-lookingmulistreet, man,
a shepherd in ;Australia, and it was represented by Mr.
Stoddart, solicitor, on the first examination that the pri-
soner had amassed some riches in the colony, and
that he came to the country in May last,
and had been living much respected iu Bromley,
and paid for his passage back to Australia on
the very day ha took the book from Smith and
Son's book-stall, that he was partially intoxicated at
the time, and that the prisoner was a man in good circum-
stances, not likely to steal a book. It was a decided case
of kleptomania under the influence of inebriation.

fir. Partridge could not look upon the case as anything
else than theft. A felony had been committed, and he
should remand the prisoner.

Mr. Stoddart then asked that bail should be taken, and
said the prisoner was very respectable, and had lived for
five months iu one house in Bromley.

Mr. Partridge said he should treat the prisoner as he
Would the poorest individual, and refused to accept bail.
Mr. Stoddart said the prisoner intended to pay for the
book.

Mr. Partridge did not believe anything of the kind, and
remanded the prisoner.
This day the evidence given on last occasion was road.
In consequence of information, Joshua Aburn, book-stall
keeper, went to the prisoner, who was holding a book in
his hand some distance from the stall. The prisoner said
ho was very sorry for taking the book, and offered to pay
for it; he also implored him not to give him in charge.
J. A. Smith, railway messenger, said ho saw the priso-
ner go to the book-stall while the last witness was attend-
ing to a gentleman, and take a book from the stall and put
it in his outside coat pocket. The prisoner walked back to
the passage leading from the platform. Ho (witness)
followed him to the end of it, when the prisoner turned
round, and asked the way to Shoreditch, to which
ho replied "You don't want Shoreditch; you have stolen
a bcok." The prisoner immediately took the book from
his pocket and offered to pay for it.
Joseph Simmons, police-constable 427 K, said that since
the last examination he had made inquiries and ascertained
that his representations were correct, that he had been a
shepherd iu South Australia, and had paid his passage
money fur Australia on the very day he was captured.

Mr. Partridge asked if it was iuteud.,l to press the case
against the prisoner.
Mr. J. E. H. Taylor, from the establishment of W. H.
Smith and Son, 18G, Strand, replied in the affirmative.
The young men at the railway station book-stalls through-
out the kingdom were responsible for all the property in-
trusted to them by the gnu, and in justice to them he felt
bound to ask for a conviction.
The prisoner said he was very sorry for what he had
done. He would elect to be tried by the magistrate.
Mr. Partridge had no doubt the prisoner stole the book,
that ho know what he was about, and that he intended to
take the book away. lie had nothing to do with klepto-
mania, and should treat the prisoner like any other person
charged with crime. lie sentenced the prisoner to one
month's imprisonment and hard labour. He thought
Messrs. W. H. Smith and Son had acted quite right in the
xnatter, and ought to protect their servants.