The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1866.

Central Criminal Court—This Day.

OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder,)

THE CHARGE AGAINST THE CASHIER OF THE LEEDS BANK.

An application was made on the part of Edward Green-
field, lately cashier in the Leeds Bank, for a postponement
of the indictment against him until next session.
The application was granted.
FELONIOUS POSSESSION OF FORGED STAMPS.

Charles Sitzler, was indicted•for having in his possession
a quantity of forged stamps.
It appeared that a short time ago advertisements ap-
peared in the Manchester papers offering to lend trust
money out at interest. An application was made
by a person named Alker to the address stated, and
in return ho received an answer, signed 11. Canton, in-
forming him his terms, and also informing him that he
would be required to send £6 for the first year's interest
and Is. for the stamp, and, from circumstances that tran-
spired, it was believed that the whole proceeding was an
ingenious contrivance to procure the advance of the inte-
rest without the slightest intention of the parties advertis-
ing transmitting the amount of the loan. Letters after-
wards appeared in the London papers of a similar nature,
the address given being Charles-street, Hatton-garden,
and about 80 letters were taken to that address. Three
letters miscarried, and on being opened at the Post-office
it was discovered the promissory notes they contained had
forged stamps upon them. The three letters were taken to
Charles-street, and the prisoner signed the receipt for them
in the name of "H. Canton." The detective officers then
went in and the prisoner denied that his name was Canton,
but that ho was authorised by that person to sign his name.
When he was formally charged with having the forged
stamps in his possession he denied all knowledge of the
matter. He did not in any way attempt to account for the
possession of tho forged stamps, and no explanation as to
how he got possession of them was given by the prisoner.
Evidence having been adduced,
Mr. Sleigh contended that there was no case to go to
the jury.

Mr. Poland contended that there was.
The Recorder thought there was evidence sufficient to
go to the jury.
Mr. Poland then replied on the case, and
The Recorder summed up the case to the jury, and said
the question they had to determine was whether the pri-
soner was in possession of the forged stamps, knowing
them to be counterfeit.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty.

Mr. Lewis then informed the Court that the prisoner had
_ previously been convicted for attempting to obtain money
by false pretences from a loan office, and on that occasion
ho was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment with hard
labour.

The Recorder told the prisoner he had beenfound guilty
of a very serious offence, and, to deter others from a repe-
tition of it, he should sentence him to ten years' penal
servitude.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant).

Thomas William Sidell pleaded guilty to an indictment
charging him with feloniously uttering a forged acceptance
of a bill of exchange for the sum of .£35, with intent to
defraud.
The Common Sergeant sentenced him to 18 months'
imprisonment with bard labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. This bay.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ROBBERY.—HEARTLESS CON-
DUCT.—Frederick Augustus Wright, a young man, de-
scribed as an agent, of 61, Chester-street, Kennington-lane,
was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt on suspicion of stealing
a lady's velvet jacket, a moire antique dress, and other pro-
perty, belonging to his brother, Mr. Thomas Travers
Wright, a literary agent, residing at 60, Waterloo-place,
Kennington-road.

The prosecutor said that some time ago he was charged
at that court with obtaining a mantle from Messrs. Swann
and Edgar's by fraud, and was committed from that court.
On the 25th of Juno the prisoner (his brother) came
to .hint in prison, and from that day to the 28th July
he obtained from hiS (prosecutor's) wife several sums of
money, in all about o£4. Ho entrusted the prisoner
with a parcel containing a velvet jacket, a moire antique
dress and the property to Mr. Oddy's in Argyle-street, to
be delivered to Mr. Sayer, the solicitor engaged. for him,
and the prisoner took it there, but subsequently fetched it
away, and he had seen nothing more of the property The
prisoner had also, although he received the money for the
purpose, failed to get his witnesses to character in attend-
ance on the trial. He (prosecutor), however, was dis-
charged. He had ascertained that the prisoner had•been
using his cards for a most improper purpose, and he had
received letters addressed to him but intended for the pri-
soner, from servants who complained of the prisoner rob-
bing them. To one female the prisoner had represented
himself as a clerk in Somerset House with a salary of £9OO
a year, and to another as possessed of £3OO a year, and he
hdd offered both of them marriage.
Mr. Oddy, refreshment-house keeper, of Argyle-street,
said the prisoner brought a parcel to his house for Mr.
Sayer, and subsequently sent a lad for it. He refused to
give the lad the parcel and the prisoner came himself, and
he gave him the parcel.

The prosecutor said the prisoner, although married and
having two children, was carrying on.a correspondence
with different females with the view to marriage. In one
of the letters sent to a female was one of his (prosecutor's)
cards which the prisoner was using, and round it was
wrapped a piece of blue silk, sent as a specimen of the in-
tended wedding dress.
Mr. Sayer said the parcel was intended for him to be
handed over by agreement to Messrs. Swann and Edgar.
The prisoner, when taken into custody by Sergeant
Cole, of the C division, was in company with a young
woman whose acquaintance he had formed in Hyde-park,
and to whom he was paying his addresses. The follow-
ing is a specimen of the letter forwarded by the young
woman:—" My own darling Sarah—l could no longer
conceal the resolution which I have taken to
love you all my life, and bear the character of your
love eternally. I have three times attempted to
give you a verbal relation of the contents of this note, but
my poor heart has failed me. Darling, I am not precipi-
tate, nor would I desire your hand if your heart did not
accompany it. I declare to you, with all the sincerity
of a man of honour, that I have a most sincere passion for
you, but I have seen gentlemen led such dances when they
have given up their affections to the lovely tyrants of their
hearts, and could not help themselves, that I had no
courage to begin an address to you, of whose good sense
and generosity I had, nevertheless, a good opinion.—Your
lover for ever, 'FRANK."

The prisoner was remanded.
ROBBERY OF VALUABLE PROPERTY FROM A CAP.—Yes-
terday afternoon, while a gentleman was in the shop of
Messrs. Godfrey and Cook, chemists, in Old Bond-street,
a black leather bag, containing jewellery and other
valuable property, which he had left in the cab which was
waiting for him, was stolen. Amongst the articles in the
bag were a brilliant diamond ring, in case, directed
"Countess Amherst ;" a garnet necklet, directed "Mrs.
Emma Barbara Percy ;" some bracelets, composed of an-
tique intaglios in various stones, directed "Mrs. Isabella
Lockwood ;" some orders on Messrs. Hoare and Co.,
bankers, one for £5OO, to the credit of H. Day, Esq., and
another for a similar amount to the credit of Lord James
Murray, both signed Lord Powis and Sir Hugh Williams.
The man who is supposed to have stolen the property is
described as being about 30 years of age, tall, and wearing
at the time a shabby suit of black clothes.