The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-03 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

B OW-STREET.
Yesterday, a respectably dressed man, who gave the name of
Richard White, was charged before Mr. MINSHULL, by a pub.
lican named Savage, who keeps the sign of the Coach and
Horses, Charles-street, Drury-lane, with having run up a score
amounting to Ns. sd. at his bar, and afterwards absconding to
evade the payment.

The defendant, having by some means learned that the com-
plainant was about to dispose of his business, came to the house
and pretended that he was looking out for a public-house, and
would have no objection to treat with the complainant for his.
He subsequently called again, and spoke in high terms of his
property and connections. He then went over the premises
with the landlord and his broker, examined the stock, fixtures,
&e., appeared mightily pleased with every thing he saw, and
finally ordered beef-steaks, porter, gin, &c., with which he libe.
rally regaled the broker and another party, taking good care
however not to forget himself. The landlord, deceived by his
appearance, and hoping to find in him a liberal bidder for the
house, supplied him with every thing he called for. The sus-
picions of his wife, however, being at last excited, he made out
the defendant's bill, but on going to the parlour to request pay-
ment of it, he found that his customer had bolted. He subse-
quently met him in the city, and had him taken before the Jus-
tice at Guildhall, who referred the matter to this office.
The defendant, in a broad Scotch dialect, and with a most
plausible manner, declared it was all a mistake, that he would
scorn to cheat any man, and that the Rev. Mr. Irving, the man
of the unknown tongue, would willingly speak to his character.
Mr. MINSHULL—What business do you follow? Defen-
dant—l am engaged in the Scotch whisky and ale trade, and
have an establishment at Leith, and another in Pinners'-hall,
Broad-street, city.

Mr. Savage, the publican, had made inquiries at Pinners'.
hall, and found that no such person lived there, and moreover,
your Worship, he added, when I gave the prisoner in charge,
the city officer knew him well, and said that he had had him
,aenthcoeupldefrinahkies ndoutel:inagndofshpeimak.
before for '2.s. 7d., he having bilked another publican by a simi.
lar trick.
The defendant, raising his eyes in apparent astonishment,
and dropping them suddenly again, as if in submission to his
fate, exclaimed, " Awed, awed, ye are a' against me, but ye
could not get to say one word to his
tkrillle.asinhalaopui:kedrnseodcweuatfedun,eemsesai,ln}o.ur Worship, at Guildhall, rejoined
the
Worship the Alderman, you dragged me away in sic an unqua.
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M r. Savage,Defendant—Hoot

Hovendon, the police inspector, here. came forward, and
said that there was reason to believe the prisoner had stolen!
Is. fid. from a prisoner with whom he had been confined in the
cell at the station house, on the preceding night. The inspect
for stated that on being taken to the station, on the charge of
Mr. Savage, he was searched, and no money whatever was
found upon his person. In the morning, however, he produced
a shilling to procure some refreshment, and a sixpence was sub-
sequently found in his possession. One of the prisoners had
complained in the morning of having been robbed of the exact
sum.

The prisoner accounted for his possession of the money, by
stating that he had borrowed it from one of the constables.
This was flatly denied, however, by the constable himself, and
the prisoner was ordered to be remanded.
LAMBETH-STREET.

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Thursday,
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real name is Michael M'Donough, was placed at the bar before
Mr. TICKLE, a county Magistrate, charged with having
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fraudulently obtained a cheque from Messrs. Exley, Dimsdale,
and Co., extensive merchants, of Trinity.square, for 2'ol.
In the course of Thursday, the prisoner called at the count-
ing-house of Messrs. Exley, Dimsdale, and Co , and presented
to one of the firm a strong letter of recommendation, purporting
to be from their correspondents, Messrs. Ewing, May, and Co.,
a highly respectable house at Glasgow. He also presented a
bill of lading for 100 casks of tallow, represented to have
peen shipped by Thomas Greer and Co., on board the Mary, of
Bristol, at Belfast for London, and consigned to Messrs. Exley,
Dimsdale, and Co. The prisoner at the same time represented
himself as the principal in the firm of the consigners, and re-
quested 2201, advance on the property, connoting of Course to

place the bill of lading in their hands, and requcAcd that they
would ensure the property in the usual way. Messrs. Exley
and Dimsdale believing his representations, and that the cha-
racter given of him by their correspondents at Glasgow was
quite correct, at once wrote a cheque on their bankers, Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and Co., for 2201. and handed it to the prisoner,
In a very short time after leaving the office some suspicion
arose as to the correctness of the prisoner's representations,
which led to a more minute examination of the bill of lading,
and it was discovered that it bore an English anti not an Irish
stamp. On this discovery a clerk was at once despatched into the
city, with instructions to make the necessary inquiries among
the ship-brokers engaged in the Irish trade about the prisoner,
and, if the account he got was not satisfactory, to proceed at
once and stop the payment for the cheque. The result of the
inquiry was, that there was no such vessel as the Mary, of
Bristol, known, nor was there any such firm as Thomas Greer
and Co. in Belfast ; and the clerk, in consequence, lost no tun(
in proceeding to the bankers, where he had the good fortune to
arrive a few moments before the prisoner, and on the latter pre-
senting the cheque for payment he was detained and given into
custody.
Mr. I'ursall, clerk to Robert Farrand, Esq., M.P., identified
the prisoner who, a few years since, swindled Mr. Farranu out
of a large sum of money. He added that the prisoner was
most respectably connected.
The prisoner was remanded to give the prosecutors an oppor-
tunity of hearing from their correspondents at Glasgow, Messrs.
Ewing, May, and Co., whose signature there is no doubt the
prisoner had forged to the letter of recommendation which he
presented to the prosecutors. There is no doubt also but that
the bill of lading for the Iv° casks of tallow is merely fictitious.

• FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 2cl day of March, 18:32,