The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-05 00:00:00

P 0 LICE INTELLIGENCE.— Oct. 4.

NIANSTON-HOUSE.— Robert Richardson, of
23, Union-street, Spitalfie:ds, cap manufacturer,
was charged with feloniously receiving 100 caps,
value 110, which had been stolen from the premises
of Mr. Poulter, Watling-street, manufacturer.
A man named Garrott, formerly in the service of
the prosecutor as porter, had been remanded from
this court, a few days before, on a charge of steal-
ing the same property.

-Mr. Lewis, jun., appeared for the prisoner.
Police-constable, 9 G, said—From information I
received I went to the prisoner's residence in Union-
stroet, Spitalflelds. He keeps a hatter's shop. I
was in uniform at the time, and had another officer
with me. I asked the prisoner if he knew a mart
named Garrott, and he said he did. I saw seve•
ral caps of the same description as those which had
been stolen from the premises of Mr. Poulter. I
told him those caps were stolen property. He
told me he had bought some duplicates, and pro-
duced four. One was for two dozen caps, which I
find to be the ones Garrott was charged with steal-
ing ; two were for ten caps, and the others did not
relate to this charge I then went for the prose-
cutor, leaving a constable in the shop. When I
came back with the prosecutor he identified about
100 caps. which the prisoner produced, as his pro-
perty. I asked him (prisoner) how much he gave
for them. He said he did not know, but he had a
receipt, which he and his wife looked for, but
which they said they could not find. The prosecu-
tor then gave him into custody for having the caps
in his possession.

Sophia Doddridge—l know Garrott. Garrott
had some caps at' the pawnbroker's, and said ho
would get them out if the prisoner would buy
them. This he agreed to do, and I took the caps
to the prisoner's shop. I do not know what he gave
for them. There was no concealment in con-
veying the caps to the prisoner. I did not know
they were stolen.
Mr. F. D. Poulter—The caps produced I believe
to be my property. He offered £5O yesterday for
me not to lock him up.
Air. Lewis—That was as a security.
The prisoner was then remanded, but admitted
to bail.

GUILD HALL.—Mr. Joseph Schlesniger, ammu-
nition manufacturer, of George-street, Birming-
ham, was charged with obtaining, by false pre-
tences, a bill of exchange for the sum of £37 16s.
10d, with intent to defraud Wm. Poole, of King's
Head-court, Beech-street, Barbican.

The prosecutor said—iam a dealer in emery cloth
and black lead. On the 16th of December last I
had an office in Albion-hall, London-wall, when the
prisoner came to me and said that as I was recom-
mencing business he would help me with an advance
of money. It was arranged that I should accept a
bill for £ll, of which I was to have £lO, and the
other £1 was to cover the interest for three months.
He then got me to accept a bill in blank, which I
afterwards found he had filled in for £37 15s 10d.
He promised to get it discounted at his banker's,
and to bring me back the money. The bill was
drawn at four months, and made payable at the
office of the prisoner's brother, in Basinghall-street,
so that the bill when due was never presented to
me, although I was sued upon it about a fortnight
after. The holder of the bill was a man named
Harrison, occupying a garret in Birmingham, at is
per week. I have not paid the bill, and they have
not gone on with the action.
Cross-examined—l travelled for the prisoner
about 18 months. I never paid any rent for the
office in Albion-hall, of which the prisoner holds the
lease, as I was to live rent free, and receive a com-
mission of S per cent. upon all goods I sold for him.
I ceased selling for him at Christmas last. I col-
lect ed moues' for him afterwards, and accounted for
the whole of it, about £7. I had transactions with
him for three months after the bill fell due. I gave
notice at the bank that the bill had been obtained
from me under false pretences, and the prisoner in
consequence drew it out of the bank the day before
it became due. I brought an action against him in
the Court of Queen's Bench for goods sold and de-
livered and commission. It was for £l5, and on the
trial the bill in question was referred to, and the
whole matter in dispute between us was referred to
arbitration, and the award was in the prisoner's
favour, the amount awarded carrying costs against
me. I have not been out of the way to avoid an
execution for £42, the amount of the costs, but I
have not paid them. I did knock the prisoner
down in the street about four months ago, but he
struck me with a stick on the hat. I have not
had £1 per week of him for two or three years.
He first agreed to give me £1 per week, and
after getting the benefit of all my connexion
he took away the salary, and gave me a commission
of five per cent. I cannot say if I have ever ac-
cepted any other bill, because he was going to Ger-
- many once and got me to sign a paper, which he
said lie would get filled up as a power of! attorney,
to enable me to collect money in his absence, and I
afterwards ascertained that it had been filled up as
o bill of exchange, but I have not seen anything of
it. I asked for the paper I had signed, and was
told it was de3,troyed. ,
The prisoner said--I have been for the last nine
months annoyed by thie man. We have an execu-
tion against him for the costs in the action, and he
there:ore collects a large crowd round me wherever
I go, calling after me, " There goes the swindler
and the thief." About three years ago he came to
nie without a boot or stocking to his feet, and hav-
ing known him previously, I took compassion on
him, and gave him £1 per week, and allowed him
to live in Albion-hall, at a rent of 6s per week, on
the understanding that he should not be required to
pay rent while he could not afford it. We found,
however, that he damaged us seriously with our
customers, and during the three months he sold for
us, we had bad debts to the amount of £3OO or £4OO,
for lie could only get orders of swindlers and such
as would or could not pay. But when I found he
was carrying on business of his own behind my
back, I paid him by commission, and afterwards,
when I was in the country, he collected and ern-
bezzled about £2O instead of £7 which he has men-
tioned,
and I therefore got this bill from him to
hold as security for his honesty, as I told him, as
long as he remitted the money for the goods w.'
supplied him with, I would not enforce paymemt of
the bill ; but when I found him embezzling the
money he collect( d, I instructed my solicitor to sue
him on the bill. I have given him hundreds of
pounds in charity, and this is the way he serves me.
If I had discarded him at first I should never have
been in such a position. I was obliged to discharge
him. because I found his commission for the last
three months he was in my employ did not exceed
255, and I told him I could not afford to help him
in that way any mors.
Alderman Hale said as the bill was not forth-
coming nothing could be done, and the charge was
therefore dismissed.

CLERKENWELI THE STRIKE.— Patrick
Lovett, aged 23, a labourer, residing at 8, Morgan's
yard, Islington, was brought before Mr. Corrie on
a warrant by Randall, 172 N, one of the warrant
officers of the court, charged with assaulting
George M'lntyre, by striking him on the face 1% ith
his fist.

The court was crowded by various workmen who
are interested in the strike.

The complainant, who appeared in the witness
box with his face bruised and a very bad black eye,
slid the prisoner came to a house in the Dawnham-
road, at which he was at work, on Saturday last,
and asked hini what he (complainant) had ileon
saying about him. The prisoner asked him if he
said that he (prisoner) had asked for work at.
Eburv's, and who, the prisoner said, was a " docu•
meat" man. The prisoner is not a " document"
man. Complailfant told the prisoner that he had
said nothing about him, and asked him to leave the
building, but he refused to do so. The prisoner
then gave him a blow in the face and cut his eye,
but whether it was done with his fist or his hand
he could not say. The prisoner was very violent
and his language very abusive.
The prisoner, in defence, said that the com-
plainant struck him first with a piece of board,
and then he struck him. The complainant had
told his (the prisoner's) master that he had asked
for work at Ebury's, and that was the reason why
he had gone to him.

Mr. Corrie said that if this assault had been