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at the result, which, however, was severely depre-
cated by the learned judge. •
The court then adjourned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—May 27.

MANSION-HOUSE.—John Groves, 17, who
was recently a clerk in the Long Sutton branch of
the National Provincial Bank of England, and who
on Monday last was committed for trial from this
court on a charge of having defrauded the. Peter-
borough branch of the same bank, by forging and
uttering a cheque for £l,OOO, was brought up again
for examination on any further charge that might
be preferred against him, it having been stated by
the counsel for the prosecution at the close of the
previous examination that there was good reason to
suppose the prisoner had committed other forgeries.
Mr. Itees was now present on behalf of the pro-
secutipn, and Mr. Slocombe (of the firm of Elcum
and Slocombe, Bedford-row) appeared for the pri-
soner.

Mr. Rees—There was a cheque for £2 10s. 6d.
found on the prisoner, which at the timeof the last
examination was supposed to be a forgery. It turns
out, however, that it is not a forgery—that is to
say, a legal forgery—for, although it is in the pri-
soner's handwriting, it is in another name. We do
not intend, therefore, to proceed upon that charge.
Mr. Slocombe —I think, my lord, that as the
charge of forging a cheque for £2 10s. 6d. is not to
be pressed, it is a pity that the parties were in-
structed on the last occasion to pronounce it a
forgery.
The Lord Mayor—He was at that time committed
for trial.

Mr. Slocombe—Yes, on the graver charge.
The Lord Mayor—Yes, on a charge of obtaining
£l,OOO by means of a forgery, and it was then
stated that he had committed another forgery ; but
that statement can do the prisoner no harm, unless
it be followed up by an indictment. You now hear
the solicitor to the prosecutors say that they do not
intend to prefer any other charge, and that ought
to satisfy you.
Mr. Slocombe—l think we have cause of com-
plaint. That draught for £2 10s. 6d. was granted
by the bank, and Was paid for with the prisoner's
own money ; and yet it was here positively pro-
nounced to be a forgery.
The Lord Mayor—lt was the duty of counsel to
state the fact if the draught was supposed to be a
' form6ery and it was my duty to remand the prisoner
.
for inquiry. That inquiry has taken place, and, as
' the result, no new charge is to be pressed. What
more can you require ?
The prisoner was then removed.
Thomas Clark was charged with committing an
extensive robbery at the Old George Hotel, in the
city of York.
At the end of February last the prisoner, who is a
well-dressed gentlemanly-looking young man, by no
means likely at first sight to be suspected as a thief,
made his appearance at York, and was committed
to prison for six weeks for petty robberies perpe-
trated at two hotels where he had slept for a night,
under circumstances which led to the suspicion that
he had been implicated in more extensive transac-
tions of a similar character. After his release from
'prison, which took place in the middle of April, he
—or some one marvellously like him—presented
himself at the Old George Hotel, York, engaged a
bed, and passed at least a part of the night there,
for next morning he was found to be wanting at
the breakfast table. while a discovery was at the
same time made that a commercial traveller, while
sleeping in a contiguous room, had been robbed of
his purse, containing a banker's draught for £lO,
about £6O in Bank of England notes, and about
£2O or £25 in gold. A reward was offered for the
apprehension of the prisoner, whose personal ap-
pearance was well described in the Hue end Cry,
but nothing further was seen of the man until
Tuesday evening last, when Mr. Snow, landlord of
a temperance hotel at York, whom the prisoner had
visited and robbed, met him unexpectedly in Cheap-
side, and gave him into custody. He endeavoured
to prove that he was the wrong man, but Mr. Snow
asserted the contrary.
Mr. R. Chalk, chief constable of York, now ap-
peared in court, armed with a warrant signed by
the Lord Mayor of York for the prisoner's appre-
hension. That warrant was backed by the Lord
Mayor of London, and the prisoner was then de-
livered over to Mr. Chalk to be conveyed to York
for full examination on the charge of robbery.

GUILDHALL.—Mr. James M'Clean and Mr.
Terence Charles M' Lean, wine-merchants at 9,
Skinner-street, appeared in discharge of their bail
to answer a charge of conspiracy to obtain, by
means of false pretences, a bill of exchange for
£250, with intent to cheat and defraud Mr. Samuel
Bowles Bigg, a gentleman in the employ of Messrs.
Leaf, Sons, and Co., of 39, Old Change.

After the whole of the evidence had been read
over,

Alderman Mechi, in delivering his decision, said
—This is a charge of conspiracy to defraud by means
of a fictitious promissory note. In this great com-
mercial city, where millions change hands daily
upon the faith of bills of exchange, cheques, and
promissory notes, it is of the utmost importance
that a charge of such serious consequence should
undergo the most searching investigation. Owing
to the death of Mrs. Southgate the case rests mainly
upon the statements of the defendants themselves,
on which alone I should have hesitated to commit
them for trial, but when I find them corroborating
those_ statements by acting as agents for Mrs.
Southgate in the action against her, and,as it were,
pleading their own wrong act as a justification for
her non-payment of the promissory note, I feel it
my duty to send this case for the decision of a jury.
The defendants therefore stand committed for trial,
but I will take substantial bail for their appearance
at the Central Criminal Court,—their own recog-
zances in £2OO each, and two sureties of £lOO each.

The defendants, after;receiving the usual caution,
said the charge was not true, and reserved their
defence.

SOUTHWARK.—John Sparrow, a middle-aged
man, who has been transported and suffered penal
servitude, was charged with stealing a pair of
trousers and 10s., the property of William Sparrow,
his nephew.

The prisoner admitted his guilt and begged for
mercy.

The Magistrate told him he appeared to be an
old offender. In 1838 he was transported for
seven years, and since then he had suffered four
years' penal servitude.
The prisoner said that was for a misdemeanour,
but since then he had been honest.

The Magistrate told him that, as those offences
had been committed so long ago, they should not
militate against him now. He must•be imprisoned
six months with hard labour for this offence.

LAMBETH.—WiIIiam Jones, who has been in
custody since Saturday last on a charge of being
concerned with another person not in custody in
breaking into the dwelling-house of Mr. William
Potter, the Greyhound Tavern, in the Clapham-
road, was re-examined and committed for trial.

James Spencer, alias Abbott, John Young, alias
Lisle, and Emily Everett, alias Lyon, charged with
the commission of sundry burglaries and robberies
in the vicinity of Peckham and Walworth, were
brought up for final examination.
A portion of the plunder in three or four rob-
beries was found in an apartment occupied by
Abbott and the female prisoner, and the evidence
established three distinct and clear charges against
all the prisoners.
Mrs. Walker, the prosecutrix in one of the cases,
complained that the prisoners had most wantonly
cut and injured a sideboard in her parlour.
All the prisoners were committed for trial on
each of the three charges.

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