The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-26 00:00:00

Another Great Robbery by a Confidential
Clerk.

MANSION-HOUSE—THIS DAY.
This morning John Loosemore, of No. 1, Park-
crescent, Regent's-park, until yesterday a confiden-
tial clerk in the employ of Piere Tinarde and Co.,
provision merchants, of 17, Gracechurch-street, was
placed at the bar before Alderman Carden, charged
with stealing a bill of exchange for £2,500, the pro-
perty of his employer.
The prosecutor said that the prisoner had been in
his service for 13 years as clerk, and in him was re-
posed the utmost confidence ; and also the respon-
sibility of managing his (witness's) London esta-
blishment devolved upon him, he himself being
more frequently in Paris than in London. In
August last he handed the prisoner a bill
of exchange of £2,500, drawn by the Merchants'
Bank of Mauritius on the Merchants' Bank in
London. It was accepted, and he handed it to the
prisoner to pay it into his account in the Bank of
England, he having endorsed it for that purpose.
Yesterday-, on looking into his pass-book, he saw
among the various ite.ns this bill of exchange for
£2,500 entered in the prisoner's handwriting,
and not in that of the clerks of the Bank of
England. This excited his suspicion, and he
went to the Bank, and there discovered that the
bill had never been paid in. He taxed the prisoner,
who at once admitted stealing the bill, and said he
had converted it to his own use, and lost the whole
of the money in speculation.
A clerk from the Bank of England proved that I
the bill had never passed through that establishment,
and also that the entry in the pass-book was
fictitious.

Alderman Carden remanded the prisoner for a
week.

London and St. Katherine's Dock Company.

MEETING THIS DAY.

The ordinary general meeting of the proprietors
was held this day at the Dock House, Tower-hill.
In moving the adoption of the report, which
was of a highly favourable character, the Chair-
man alluded to the late great fire that had
taken place in St. Katherine's Dock. He said
he had no doubt that it was the general desire that
he should state the amount of loss the calamity
would occasion the company. (Hear, hear.) He
had the greatest satisfaction in informing them that
the loss would be almost insignificant, as the pre-
mises were well and fully insured. The loss to the
company would not exceed £l,ooo—in fact, he
thought that about £7OO would be the sum.
There would be no loss as far as reinstating
the building was concerned ; the loss would arise
from want of stowage room. Messrs. Cubitt had
undertaken the rebuilding, and the whole was to
be rebuilt within ten weeks. There had been a
rigid inquiry into the casues of the fire by both
their solicitor and the person deputed to attend by
Sir R. Mayne, and he felt gratified to say that there
was no one point in either of these gentlemen's
reports to show tho fire was wilfully done through
malice. The best feeling, he assured the meeting,
existed between the directors and the hands em-
ployed in the docks.

The statement of the chairman appeared to gin
great satisfaction.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

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BETTING AT MANCHESTER-THURSDAY.

CHESTER CUP.
33 to 1 agst Blithfield (taken freely)

THE DERBY.
7to 1 agst Rustic (taken and wanted)
11 to 1 agst Student (taken)
100 to 6 agst Janitor (offered, take 20 to 1)
40 to 1 agst Bribery colt (taken)
WATERLOO (COURSING) CUP.
25 to 1 agst Mr. Bartholomew's nomination (taken:
25 to 1 agst Mr. J. Jardine's nomination (taken)
25 to 1 agst Mr. Spinks's nomination (taken)
33 to 1 agst Mr. Brocklebank's nomination (offered,
take 40)
40 to 1 agst Mr. Clark's nomination (taken)

RACING FIXT'

rRES FOR 1866.
JARY.
Nottingham Spring .
,C 11.
Croston Park l6
Northampton 2O
Windsor Spring
Newcastle Spring 2B

FEBR
Lincoln

MA.
Derby Spring 1
Liverpool Spring
Warwick Spring
Doncaster
Lewes Spring

AR
Newmarket Craven 2
Durham
Blackheath & Woolwich 2
Catterick Bridge
Abergavenny 5
Lichfield Spring
Chelmsford Spring
MA
Ascot Spring
Salisbury
Bath B
Harpenden lO
York. Spring

Thirsk lO
Epsom Spring
Newmarket Ist Spring l6
Liverpool Hunt Cup 2O
Chester
Curragh 24

Epsom Summer..
Uxbridge •..
Manchester
Ascot Summer

JU
Windsor Summer 5
Newton
Hampton 7
Odiham
Bibury l3
Stockbridge
Chelmsford l9
JU:
Carlisle
Newmarket July
Pontefract
Abingdon
Reading
Nottingham
Down Royal Corp lB
AUG
_ _ _

Liverpool
I Beverley 2O
Ipswich
Hungerford
Newcastle on-Tyne 26
Curragh 26
Worcester
:Y.
Stamford l9
Radcliffe 23
Winchester 24
Southampton 25
Huntingdon
Goodwood 3l

Brighton
Brighton Club
Lewes lO
Egham l4
Wolverhampton l4
Stockton l5
Oxford l6
Hastings 2l
SEPT]
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Warwick September --
4
Curragh
Leicester 6

Doncaster