The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-07 00:00:00

THE SWINDLING CASE AT CHELSEA. I T HI It D J T 1 ON

Thomas Higgins, middle-aged, and of unpre-
possing appearance, attired in a semi-naval uni-
form, and George Davis, of low statute, with a
profusion of whiskers, the former residing at No.
19, Gloucester-grove, Brompton, and the -latter at
No. 2. Tiorapton-terrace' Brompton, were brought
up on re-examination, at Westminster Police-court,
yesterday, charged with conspiring to defraud Mr.
Chas. Gruneberg, proprietor of Ashburnham nursery
grounds, Chelsea, of the value of various bills of
exchange and other documents.
Mr. Lewis, jun., as before, conducted the prose-
cution, and Mr. Solomons, vice Mr. Ady, who had
' retired from the defence, appeared for the prisoners.
Mr. Gruneberg's statement has been already de-
tailed at length.
Previous to proceeding with the case Mr. Paynter
WHITEHALL, DEC 7.
questioned the prosecutor regarding the impression
under which he entered on these negotiations with The Queen li
and county of Berwick, vacant by the
fence submitted him to a lengthened cross-exami- tf Y
aeath of Dr. John Stevenson.
the prisoners, after which the solicitor for the de- Drobioefeahe church and parish of Ladykirk, in the presby-
nation. ,
Mr. Panter remarked, as none of the bills were -
at that time due, it could not be urged that they Council- for Trade and Plantations received,have
a ofr a
furnished sufficient notice for the bill of sale. the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,. copy
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, DEC. 6.ri
through
Mr. Solomons would not say his clients had acted The Right Hon.
is,tihaejeslt.oyrd.sscohfarthgee,
dAmffmaiirtetseenottfhGroPu
despatch flrosi.n her
o t that )111 el; una e,a twoyla one
in perfect consistency with the law, but Highins m, I
had not made away with the furniture. He did Guatemala of tobacco is prohibited, except cigars, cigarettes,o
not think the prisoners had conspired to defraud and snuff which articleseofinlthpoe Grtoavtieornnmienntot
will be admitted at axdutrytaotfiofnuorf
hd iecehr e et
hs
prosecutor. The £5O bill was taken to the Bedford reels per'pound. By the other decree, therhibieter Persons
pbe allowed to carry
otfwov;
clients would restore the whole of the furniture.
Loan Society, and was there at that moment. His ilionamougthhtesiter and oftlivelfocwoeivneir,
WAR-OFFICE PALL-MALL, DEC. 7.
me to come to terms with such people.
Mr. Gruneberg—Nothing on earth shall induce
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with them silver coin toowthe amount of twenty-five dollars.
Knollys to be Colonel, vice Lieut.-General Thos. Light-
. enent. The learned gentleman added : The mo- 62d Regiment of Foot-31ajor-General William Thomas
foot, C. 8., deceased.
Mr. Lewis No ; we will come to no arrange-
Royal En • eers—Lieut -General Griffith George Lewis,
e
iRA .1. they made off, and he never got a farthing,
C. 8., Colonel Commandant,•• e Lieut.-General Edward
h_ vice 'ea prosecutor signed the bill of sale for
---'' -440 n to being cheated out of a £3O, £5O, Fans awe, C. 8., deceased.
in addle • It was all very well to say that the ',WAR-OFFICE,.PALL-MILL, DEC. 7.
and £9 bill. .
_ :
e given to seem the three bills of 2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieut.-Colonel C. Pyn-
bill of sale wa.. goner got him to Ahalf-pay Unattached, to be Lieut.-
exchange. The pr.. "ding it over, atei .
he hexer Colonel, paying Hylton B •
I,rn the £3OO der B. Walker,
differenceloenivalry, vice risco, who exchanges, receiving the
Ca-
bill of sale without re... - ' they would be glat. to same. between Infantry and. C
got a sixpence. No doubt,
give up the furniture now that. e 4- .s. ' • ,'diug Master, vice Llewellyn, deceased.
'• they were in cus- ''th Dragoon Guards—William James Hessey, Gent., to be
in the
world. The
Twhaseyahpaaduaplesro ;chheeahteadu
t4l'4le6e.tZ;Ziiii.; i, • "'gall' '
I
~,..aig,l-it Dragoons—Captain. the Hon. Augustus H. A.
from the 10th Light Dragoons, to be Captain,
creditor. eageons—Cornet Parry de Winton to be
vice e
I l •-eiee who exchanges.
Lieu-
Prosecutor (by Mr. Solomons)—Two of the bills . -.Ube, vice Sawbridge, promoted.
Bth Light .I,_
were given to Dennis, the other to Goddard. They tenant, by pa.. • vice the Hon. A. H.
might have put anythingbefore me ; I should have 10th Light Dragooe, q--tattaii
Captain,Frederick Coates, from the
signed it •; I trusted so much to their honesty. 7th Light Dragoons, .., -"chase, vice Fife promoted.
By Mr. Lewis—The furniture is in Higgin's A. Anson, who excange.,
e•• ; Cornet Crofton Toler Van-
i'leynold A. Clement to
house. The whole of his own furniture is not worth deleur to be Lieutenant, by pi. .ssau:ll,►erlayne, who re.
£lO. One of these bills is just due. The other is 13th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant
be Captain, by purchase, vice C.._
not yet due. Higgins bas not paid a farthing to- tires. •.
wards the bills. lam liable for them all. 16th Light Dragoons—Cornet James 111
Mr. T. Dennis. timber merchant and builder, at been permitted to resign his Commission.
Chelsea, said—ln the month of August last I was Grenadier Guards—Captain and Lieutenant-
the holder of a bill of acceptance by Mr. Gruneberg i.orßrevet-Colonelvithout Fr:dr:lV:eke,
vilyo. Hamilton,revet_ (~
Brevet-Colonel .
—it was endorsed to me in the name of Goddard, Auilus'tus Frederick Foley, who retires; Capta.
who had worked for Mr. Gruneberg. It was not Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel the Hoi
paid at maturity, and proceedings were taken Lindsay to be Major, without purchase, vice the II
which ultimate,y ended in an execution being put R. Bruce, who retires upon half-pay Unattached, vie,
into Mr. Gruneberg's . house. After the execution Briseo ; Lieutenant and Captain Cameron Neville Hoggo
had been in a fortnight the two prisoners came to tieint ?thapntalieanntdenLaineftiro
Lieutenant-Colonel
ityliteol;l3Yripacoui7fharosent,lefe_
my house on the 25th of Oct., and said they wanted pay Unatt'ached, to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel,
Captain,Lieute
to settle the matter, Higgins said he was going to vice the Hon. J. Lindsay ; Lieutenant and Captain John
get some money from Gruneberg. A- meeting was A. Digby to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, by
then agreed upon at Gruneberg's house, when Hig- ranthP:Avil lrilsfuellewrhteo retires
gins proposed I should take a bill for part of the by purchase, EnsignLieutenant anddd
vice Hogge ; Ensign and Lieutenant A. H.
amount and cash down for the remainder. I said I D. Pennant, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Digbv ;
would agree, if they paid all the cash and went Ensign Henry Walter Hope, from the 19th Foot, to be
with me to my solicitors to settle it. Imet them on Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Buller.
the next day, and it was. agreed that I was to take
g,t!)riojienolendsign,
4tlii3oßgunent offikl'oott----Itteichard Aer all?, Knox, Gent., to
bills to the amount of .£66 175., but that the costs 9th Foot—CharlesEnsign, wlenGe3ourge. Kane,sevi Gent.,n
were to be paid with cash down. Davis then without purchase, vice Cox, appointed to the 27th Foot,
drew up three bills for Higgins (the drawer), and The appointment of Ensign Dunn, on 29th October,
Mr. Gruneberg having accepted them, Higgins 1858, was vice Bradshaw, promoted, and not vice Lynne
endorsed them. Higgins said he had got some
12th Footir-Edward fromh the 50th Foot,
as then stated.
Lieutenant, by eyes PuErNaifen,
money for Gruneberg, but could not let him have it
till the execution was out of his house. After the Selwyn Valentine Page to ?re'
bills were drawn I said I would not settle it unless vice a. F. Napier Hewett, who retires ; Ensign William
they went to the lawyers and paid down the costs, Albany
.Feet4herfetontehaued.to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase,as they had promised. They put the bills on the
18thi'oovit—e Ensign Wilkie, promoted.
F. Thaker to be Lieutenant,by
table and said I might as well take them to the purchase, vice Baker, promoted. The Commissions of
lawyer's, where they would meet me and pay the Lieutenants William Thomas Le Brun and Malcolm J.
costs as required. I took the bills and went to the R. Macgregor to be antedated to 23d April, 1858.
lawyer's, but they never came there and paid the 19th Foot—Ensign Frederick George Frith to be Lieuten-
costs, having got me to take the bills in the way I
221:InkboyPEnsign
lase•jvoltenaWNebsterwhe retires.
from theWexford Militia,
have be described. They then took proceedings before to Ensign, ,I
without purchase, vice Plunket, promoted.
a judge in consequence of my having the bills, and 23d Foot—Paymaster Thomas Newton Young, from the
got the execution taken out of the house. 22d Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Aston, removed,
Mr. Solomons observed that the judgment was to 24th Foot—Ensign Thos. Pierce Butler to be Lieutenant,
stand as security for payment, and Higgins was by purchase, vice Godwin-Austen, promoted.
liable to be arrested. 37th Foot—Lieut. Frederick John Nash Ind to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Harrison,
wick to be Lieutenant, by p AM, vice
Higgins, who was not worth twopence. Mr. Ind.
..,,C_aptain, by purchase, vice Daubeney, who retires, .
Gruneberg was the man who would have to pay. 44th Foot---Lieut, A. de Montmorency Pleating to be
Witness resumed—ln about a week afterwards I
sent a man to fetch my scaffolding from Mr. Grune- auPoFet°,°tto—beM
ajor Francis Gilbert Hamley, from the 12th
54th Foot—Brevet-Colonel Chas. 'Herbert, C. 8., from th
. Major, vice Hibbert, who exchanges.
berg's, when Davis came to my house and gave me
into custody for stealing it, and he said he was a 75th Foot, to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Moffatt. who retirees
solicitor acting for Mr. Gruneberg. I was taken to upon half-pay Unattached, vice Lieut.. Colonel Radcliffe,
the police station upon the charge. appointed to the 75th Foot.
By Mr. Solomons—One of the bills is due ;it has 56tfi. Foot—Thomas Durell Sullivan, Gent., to be Ensign
without purchase, vice Swinhoe, promoted in the 15th
not been paid by either the acceptor or endorser. Foot.
Davis gave me into custody. I had lent the seal.- 63d Foot—The appointment of Bernard Hermon, Gent.,
tbe.,?otoh Nov., has been cancelled,
folding to Goddard to enable him to do the work. to an Ensigney, by purchase, as stated in the Gazette f
65th r t—Lieut9nant F. Stansfield Herries to be Captain,
y purchase, vice Meyler, who retires Ensign George
It was by the prosecutor and Davis that I was
given into custody. I think it was Davis, though,
who made the charge against me—they were both Pennefather to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
• on the 24th September, 1658, has been cancelled .
present, Davis being Mr. Gruneberg's legal adviser. Ensign George Robert Chevalier to beievilieteenHanett;
ntona Chevalier.nt_e 0 1 n e
Mr. Paynter observed that Mr. Gruneberg, in pgureanchta-Islea,il•ireelvLilloanamrdm, wexanhosdeerp
rotomboetiolEin F,biy, purchase
this transaction, was no doubt acting, as he sup-
posed, under the advice of his solicitor.
Mr. Lewis now. proceeded to exhibit a charge 75t 75th purchase,F Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel o t vice.----L ie
against the prisoner Davis for defrauding Mr. half-pay Unattached, to° be 1
Gruneberg of £8 upon a cheque. The testimony Brevet-Colonel Herbert, romovedeh vice
in support of this charge proved that on the Sun- 78th Foot—Lieutenant George Digby Barker Foot. .
to be Adju-
day next after the 29th of October Davis called at taut, vice Bogle, promoted in the 13th Foot.
Mr. Gruneberg's, and stating that he had urgent 81st
eFoot--Ensign Michael Curry to be Adjutant, vice
need of £8 on the following morning before bank- tani
cuyteonnar. Walter Musgrave, who resigns the Adju-
ing hours, induced Mr. Gruneberg to take his 82d Foot—Charles Worthy, Gent.,•
to be Ensign, without
(Davis's) cheque for £8 to Mr. Cordy, of 346, Purchase, vice Lock, promoted.
King's-road, Chelsea, grocer, and obtain cash for it. 85th Poet—Lieutenant 'Waller Ashe to be Captain, by pur-
When the cheque was presented two or three days chase, vice Couismaker, who retires; Ensign Chester
, Doughty to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ashe.
afterwards, it was found Davis had no effects. Ist West India Regiment—Ensign Cornelius O'Cd.iiagh
A long explanation of a most unsatisfactory de- to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Murphy, an
pro-
scription was here. entered into, showing how the meted, without purchase, to an Unattached Company.
execution on the bill for £lOO, upon which the exe- HOSPITAL STAFF.
cution had been put in, was reduced to the amount To BE INSPECTOR-oexenees OF HOSPITALS UNDER THE
for which the three bills were given. ROYAL WARRANT OF OCT. 1, 1858.
Mr. Lewis, in allusion to the proaeedings before Local Inspector-General A. Fergusson, M.D.
the judge upon these bills, repeated that it was Local Inspector .General A. Melvin.
part of this disgraceful fraud, and that Higgins and Locale Inspector-General William Bell, M.D.
Davis, instead of paying the execution creditor the Ihaveen Officers Lieutenant-Colonel,Nrilliane itadelif;:hfrohSocurmi
having retired upon half..
pay to , a step of Honorary Rank under the provisions
costs, had gone before the judge and sworn that the of the Royal Warrant of Oct. 1.
bills included the costs: TO BE INSPECTOR-GENERALS OF HOSPITALS.
Mary Ann Barrow, Mrs. Gruneberg's servant, Deputy Inspector-General Dr. James Henderson.'
proved that during the absence of her master and Deputy Inspector-General Dr. John W. Halahan, Royal
mistress Higgins came to the house, and having Artille
ry.
asked to be allowed to write a note to Mr. Grune- T 2 BE DEPUTY INSPECTOR-GENERALS OF HOSPITALS.
berg, went into the parlour, but immediately after- Surgeon-Majorsor Stewart Chisholm.
wards called in eight men, 'and took away every Surgeon-Major .1
m4Corr James Connell. ?anLieo.,
.11'
article. of furniture in the house. He showed her Surgeon-Major Edward Brareama"..
a paper before he took them ; said he should do the Surgeon-Major William Lucas.
same if her master and mistress were at home, and Surgeon-Ma in' Thomas Fox, M.D.
that he would have broken windows and doors open Sureecat.Ma or Thomas Mostyn,
in the house if she had nbt quietly admitted him. Surgeon-Major John Stewart Graves.
Mr. Goddard, builder, residing at Norwood, was TO BE ASSIFiTANT.SURGEONS TO THE FORCES.
James Joseph McCarthy,
called to prove that he received the £lOO bill from Henry Harrison, Gent. y M.D
Mr. Gruneberg, and endorsed it to Mr. Dennis, and James Martin, Gent, .
said that on Oct. 26 he was present when Davis, Wilton Everet, Gout.
who represented himself to him as a surveyor, took James Wintersoale Lougheed, Gent.
the lead in the conversation. After the three bills Andrew Thomas Carbery, Gent.
had been given as described, Davis said ho was BREVET.
going home for a cheque, and would meet them at TO BE COLONELS IN THE ARMY.
the lawyers to pay the expenses. Lieut.-Colonel C. Lawrence D'Aguilar, C. 8.,
,Royal
By M. Lewis—l have not received one shilling Artillery
on account of the bills. Lieut.-Colonel Julius Augustus Robert Raines, 95th
Prisoners'were then remanded till Tuesday week Foot.
9 Lieut.-Colonel A. Inglis Lockhart, 92d Foot.
and upon Mr. Solomons soliciting that they might
be bailed, Mr. Paynter said that he would not take Major TA7 PIE iiiIELTS-soC
nOL;C;li%onti. THE ARMY.
bail to any amount for Davis, but would accept two Major G. W. T. Rich, 71st Foot.
sureties in £2OO each, with 24 hours' notice, for Brevet-Major E. Thomas Gloster; 38th Foot.
Higgins, if he could procure it. Major G. C. Vialls, 95th Foot.
Theywere both sent to gaol. Brevet-Major John Ross, Rifle Brigade.
Major Charles N. North, 60th Foot.
Major Wm. Drysdalet C. 8., 9th 1,-10.ht Dragoons.
Brevet-Major X. H. 1.. Elktgton, &h. Foot.
Major Barry Blenneilassett, 71st Foot.
Brevet-Major Thomas Fenwick, Royal Engineers.
TO BE MAJORS IN THE ARMY.
Captain and Brevet-Major Pearson Scott Thompsen,
14th Light Dragoons, to have his Brevet-Majority an-
dated to 20th July, 1858.
Captain John Augustus Todd, 14th Light Dragoons.
Captain T. Hugh Cockburn, 43d Foot.
Captain Francis 31. 31. Ommanney, Royal Artillery.
Captain William M'Mahon, 14th Light Dragoons. -
Captain Charles E. Johns, 17th Foot.
Captain Henry Foster, 95th Foot.
Captain Clement W. Heneage, Bth Light Drago
Captain Robert Poore, Bth Light Dragoons - osn,
Captain Arthur C. 'Parker, 71st Foot.
Captain Robert Bethune, 92d Foot.
Captain Sir William Gordon, 17th Light Dragoons.
Captain John H. St. John, 92d Foot.
ragoons.
The Christian name of Colonel McQueen,
Unattached, whose Commission was antedated on
to htlakelfriK November, 1854, is James, and not J
Gazete of the 26th October, 1858, John as stated in the
The Commissions of t•-• d
itoyal
o Marines
to
in
anteci n
td ennentioned Officers of tile
under the pre-eiehlii of the R to 28th NovembeT, 1844,
bee, 1848 Royal Warrant of I.4th °do-
AlAllbf Thomas Hurdl
Queen. e, C. 13,1 Aide-de-Camp to the
Colonel Thomas P. Dwyer.
Colonel Henry "William Parke.
Colonel Anthony B. Stransham.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
North Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Francis Cavalr—
y Esq., to be Captain, vice Saville, re-
signed.
Ist or Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—En-
sign Charles Francis Simms to be Lieutenant, vice Steiii.e
resigned ; Ensign William Thomas Croft to be Liegteuce4,
vice Elliot, appointed to the Ist Dragoon Geerde '
Rent Artillery Regiment of Miiitil,-=W4I. aanley
'
Dalison Gent., to AM I:IA*1041AI; liee Beauclerk
promoted. ?
"' •
Royal Cateen'Vensbire Militia—C;:piain Jahn Vincent
Hawksley Williamk to be Melee (ee tram the 25th day of
August last), vice John lieccionaltl, promoted; Lieutenant

SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The following appointments were made this afternoon at
the Admiralty:—

-
Captain—Arthur P. E. Wilmot, R.N., C. 8., to the Nile,
to be Flag Captain to Rear-Admiral Talbot.
Lieutenant—C. E. K. Brett, to the Orion, vice Liaidet.
Assistant-Surgeon—Thomas E. Georges (acting), to the
Victory.

LONDON GAZETTE-(THIS EVENING).

has

Colong, Liza
' 8., to be
*he lion.
:n and

THIS DA 3 'S SITIPPIXG.

LONDON, Dec. 7.—Wind this day at noon, N, ;
moderate breeze, and cloudy.
HOLYHEAD, Dec. 6.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Southern
Cross, for Calcutta.
POUTSMOUTH, Dec. 6.—Wind N. to N.E.—Arrived—
Lew Chew, from Callao. . .

OFF FALMOUTH, Dec. 3,—Arrived—Saracen, from Callao
for Cowes.

RAMSGATE, Dec. 6.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Petra,
from Bi'boa.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesdu Morning.

Wind N., frosty.
Arrived—London, from Hamburg ; Le Coq and Georges,
from Cherbourg; Wonder, steamer, fromVersey ; Alliance,
steamer, from Havre.
Sailed—Ripon and Havre, steamers, for Havre ; Ata-
lanta and Despatch. steamers, for Jersey.
LxvEnpooL, Tuesday Morning.

Wind S.S.E.
Arrived, Dec: 6.—Mary, from Bonny; F. C. Clarke,
from Rangoon ; Crystalline, from Barbadoes ; Berbice, from
Venice.
Arrived, Dec. 7.—Albion, from Demerara ; Donuts Brim-
drite, from Iquique.
Sailed, Dee. 4,—Saladin,. screw steamer, for Jamaica.
Sailed, Doo. s.—Unrestricted, and Marie, for Buenos
Ayres ; Etiwan. for Charleston ; Lorenzo, for New York.
Sailed, Dec. G.—Jessamine, for St, Michael's ; Rosalie,
for Sovannah ; Turris Davidisa, for Barcelona; Nonville
Union, and Georges, for Bordeaux.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Wind E. by S. ; tide, 11 hour flood; foggy.
No arrivals. _ _

DEALT lueliclay
Wind t. by S.; fresh.
No arrivals.
The Eclipse sailed for Londo4