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London, England, 1859-07-21 00:00:00

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE-dl4 20.

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GUILDHALL.--MYSTERIOUS AFFA.
Daley was brought up, on remar d, befor
derman Phillips, charged with having fraudui pAltlyn s
transferred certain stook, to the value of £152
9d., with intent to cheat and defraud the.GOver Irc‘r
• and Company of the Bank of England.
Catherine Daley said—l live at 12, Little-0, r-
mond-yard, Queen-square, Holborn. I had £36 '0
in the Bank, which my uncle left me. My brothel *,
the prisoner, had a similar sum left him. My money •
was in our joint names. On the 13th of January
last I sold out £124, since which I heard from se-
veral persons that my brother had sold out the ba-
lance of my stock. I heard this several months ago,
but I did not believe it, because I did not believe
my brother would serve me so. I went about a
week ago. to Mr. ,Bingham, the stockbroker, in
Copthall-chambers, and he tooki me to the Bank and•
ascertained that niy brother had taken a female
with him to personate me and sold out the stock
standing in our names on the 30th of January last.
Mr. Freshfield said that as on the 13th of Jan.,
the prisoner and his sister had sold out stock to the
amount of £l3olls. 4d., and, on the 50th, £159 7s.
3d., and on both occasions the stockbrokerhad iden-
tified the female as the holder of the stock, it ap-
peared inconceivable to him how the present charge
could be sustained. He thought the woman must
be labouring under some mistake, for he could not
imagine that Mr. Bingham, a respectable stock-
broker, would be so negligent as to identify
two persons as one in the same week. Under •
these circumstances he asked. the magistrate if
it was not the complainant's duty to satisfy:
the Court that she was not present at the
second transfer. Mr. Bingham was present,
as well as two clerks from the Transfer-office, whb
were the attesting witnesses to the transfer of
'the,
stock in question, it being customary to require two
witnesses instead of one in all cases where the
stockholder had to put a mark instead of signing
the name in full.
Mr. Alfred Bingham said—l believe the com-
plainant to be the Catherine Daley that I saw On
the 13th of January. The prisoner came to me on
the day previous to arrange about the transfer of
£l3O in the Three per Cent. Consols, and the fol-
lowing day it was effected by prisoner and his
sister.
Complainant—That is quite true. I was there;
and my brother gave me X 124, which he received
from the stockbroker.

Mr. Bingham—l had seen the prisoner several
times before, but not his sister. About a week
after he came again to arrange the transfer of the
remainder of the stock standing in their joint
names, and on the following day, the 20th of
January, the prisoner, and to the best of my belief,:
for it is now six months ago, his sister, who is now
present, came, and the transfer was made. I mct
them at the Bank of England. I was in the trans-
fer office, and the prisoner brought in his sister.
He signed the stock receipt, and she put her cross
to it. I gave him a cash cheque on Prescott's for
the amount. To the best of my belief the com-
plainant was the woman with the prisoner.
Alderman Phillips—What do you say to this
gentleman's evidence ?
Complainant—l never was in the Bank after I
received. the £124 until I went there to make in-
quiries about the transfer of the balance about a
week ago. _ _

Mr. Martin, the chief clerk—Did your brother
speak to you about selling out the balance of the
stock ? ir"

Complainant—No, sir ; for about that time he
left me to go and live with a woman of the name
of Margaret Donovan.
Mr. Martin—How did you find out that the
stock had been transferred ?
Complainant—l was told so by several persons,
and among the number by a man named Concon-
niss, and a young woman of the name of Catherine
Henessy. They told me so two or three months ago,
but I could not believe them.
Mr. Phillips—Did you not know that Henessy
had been to the Bank about this matter ?
Complainant—No, sir. Margaret Donovan-was
the woman who personated me. She lives with my
brother. lam confident she is the person, as she
had a black eye at that time, for the gentleman at
the Bank told me so. _

Alderman Phillips—Did you not go to the Bank
with her lately ?
Complainant—Certainly, sir ; for I gave her into
custody, and she was taken there instead of going
before a magistrate. She has helped my brother to
spend my money, and she says she will never leave
him until she has had all I have left. I have £2O in
St. Margaret's Bank, and. an uncle of mine has £3O
besides of mine.
Alderman Phillips—Where did you get that
money ?
Complainant—lt was all I had left of the £124. I
have no money elsewhere.
Mr. Martin—Have you had any quarrel ilith
your brother lately ?
Complainant—No, sir-. but I gave him into cus-
tody a week ago for stealing £2 from my room, and
he was remanded at Clerkenwell for a week and
then discharged.
Mr. Martin—Then the magistrate did not be-
lieve you, and therefore diScharged your brother ?
Complainant—l told the magistrate about the
transfer at the Bank, and he said that was a more
serious affair, and told me to go to the Bank and in-
quire about it. Ever since my brother has known
Margaret Donovan he has treated me very badly,
but he has not beaten me lately.
Mr. Martin—Oh, then he has beaten you. Did
he ever give you a black eye ?
•
Complainant—No, sir.
Alderman Phillips—How did you get that cut
on your nose ?
Complainant—That is where Julia Donovan
struck me, and she stabbed me also in the breast.
She is the cousin of Margaret Donovan, the woman
who went with my brother and got my money.
Mr. Martin—Did you have a black eye then ?
Complainant—l did, sir ; I had two black eves.
Mr. Martin—How long ago was that ?
Complainant—About a month or six weeks ago.
Mr. Martin—Are you sure it was not six months
ago?

-Complainant—l am sure of it, and the doctor
who dressed my 'wounds can prove it. The magi-
strate could not punish them for it, because I could
not swear which of the Donovans stabbed me.
Mr. Martin—Had you never a black eye before ?
Complainant—l might have had one 12 or 18
months ago.
Mr. Martin—Will you swear that you had not a
black eye in January last?
Complainant—Certainly, I do swear I had not,
and I can bring plenty of witnesses to prove it. I
can also produce witnesses to prove that*Margaret
Donovan had a black eye at that time, for she
showed it to me, and said my brother had done it.
Prisoner—Did you not, on the 13th of January,
stop outside the office because you had a very bad
black eye's
toh
that black ye when you went there on the 20
of the same month ?
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black eye when he saw me on the 13th.
Mr. Bingham—You had no black eye on the 13th
of January. On the 20th the prisoner accounted
for the black eye by stating that his sister had met
with an accident. She had two very bad black
eyes at that time. and her face was scratched and
swollen.
Mr. Gregory, a clerk in the Transfer-office at the
Bank of England, said—l was one of the attesting
witnesses to the transfer, on the 20th of January,
of stock then standing in the names of Catherine
and William Daley. The female who attended
to
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complainant,
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seen her before, but I was more struck with her
attitude than her features, as they were very much
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lectiox the complainant is the same woman, but I
did not take particular notice of her.
Complainant—Would you like to see Margaret
Donovan ?
Witness—l certainly should, in order that I might
see what difference there is between her and you.
Mr. Arnold (the other attesting witness) said-1
am certain I have seen complainant before, and my
opinion is that it was at the Bank of England.
Mr. Freshfield, after consulting with the alderman
and Mr. Martin, here said—As far as the Bank was
concerned, he felt it his duty to place before the
e sahPfiPevrl deisdew°anPl t .
Court all the information in their possession rela-
tive to these transactions, and he was bound to state
that if a case had been made out which would haved
called for a prosecution, the Bank would undoubtedly
have taken it up ; but, in the present instanecg; there
was was not only no ptinza facie case,
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the conclusion
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soner.
The complainant, who had remained remarkably
calm throughout the inquiry, on hearing pea dem,
gave way to a violent fit of crying, reptedly
how she was to get her money. and denying
siasniltnihnegmost energetc manner that she had ever con-
sented in any way to the second transfer. -