The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-27 00:00:00

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'Other fills ese were given up and caneellef.CJZ,
bills the prisoner had drawn on witleC4'a:ao4:l.4.-z.
count amounted to £11,913 10s. 4d. They haid.tee,a;
accepted by different -.firms, payable_ to liiiard4e-:.
the same as the others: He mule use of the:giAnta
sq: them discounted. The per week Wainaet
consideration for accepting bills to the-a1:66,11A -de -1. S
111,000. His nominal salary was £1 per week, but t K. 30
he used to get twice as much. He used to rinks IT!
prisoner allowances and find him almost -all hi* eJloiasaliza
clothes. There were no other bills drawn by tfiiiter 117,7
prisoner for witness's accommodation than those ha-?r9_6llmxt erit cue c
had stated ; but those for other people's accommo• ViErin9Vl ct
dation were no business of his. The prisoner had'•
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not put his name to upwards of £lOO,OOO of billi , •
for witness. All he had done was in the bill boak.
and amounted to abont £15,000. He had intended
to send the prisoner out to Constantinople, and, in
anticipation of doing so, had induced him to sigh
'blank bills, as though there was a house at that
place. He requested the prisoner to sign themo
and he had dis Counted several Of them here..
The bills were printed on blue paper at
but he afterwards changed the colour. One colour
did not represent one- country and one another.
He contemplated setting the prisoner.uP in busi-
ness, either at Hull or Newcastle, or some other
place in. England; but he had not decided whioh.
In November, 1858, he contemplated sending hits
to Constantinople, and. the two bills prodUCed, one
for £l,OOO and one for rl5O, purported to bedrawi-
by a house there on his house in London. He nevek
told the" prisoner to draw bills from Hull on liia
account, and he was not aware he had done so. Ile
could swear ho never endorsed bills drawn by the
prisoner and dated from Hull, nor had he accepted
them. The only person he knew by the name or:—
Wolf was the prisoner. He had never hid any
bills drawn in the name of Wolf from Hull. He .
might have had in his hands bills dated from Hull •

in the name of Wolf, but not on his own account.
He had seen only one bill, and that was nevernsed.-
The prisoner was now under liabilities for witness
and his connections, at his request, to the amount
of about £lOO,OOO. There were very few bills
running now on witness's account, and they all re-
presented goods which were in the hands of parties
who had made him the advances.

Mr. Wontner then made a speech in defence of
his client, contending that he was a partner and
that it never could be supposed that he would take
upon himself liabilities to that enormous amount if
,it were not that he was to share the profits if their
speculations were successful.
The prisoner, having been cautioned in the usual
way, said he should leave his case in the hands of
his solicitor. He was then committed for trial.
Mr. Sleigh said he wished to state that Messrs.
Barker took only LS per cent. discount on these bills,
and the other gentlemen for whom he appeared
gave goods for all the bills they had taken. from the
prosecutor.

130 W-STREET.—Stanley Charles Selwell and.
Wm. Samuel Selwell, whose examination at this,
court on Tuesday, the 19th inst., was reported in
The Sun of Wednesday (this day week), and Jas.
Wynne, who had been apprehended subsequently,
were brought up on remand before Mr. Jardine,
charged with having committed a murderous .a.S-
sault on Mr. Dear, picture dealer, 49, Essex-street,
Strand, and stolen a cashbox containing £1 ss. 6d.
Mr. Dear was now in attendance, having insisted
on being brought to the court againk the advice of
his medical attendant, Mr. Digby, of Fleet-street.
He was carried into the court in a chair, being in
so infirm a state that he could not,without assistance;
stand up, or even alter his position in the chair. Ile
trembled violently, and appeared so extremely
feeble and helpless as to excite the commiseration
of the spectators. He, however, gave his evidenci
in a clear, firm tone of voice, and seemed to under:,
stand perfectly well all that took place around hini.
Mr. Dear repeated the statement which he had
made to Mr. Emmerson on the day of the occur=
rence, and identified Wynne as the boy introctaCid"
by Stanley Selwell as a candidate for emploYinent
in his place. After telling Wynne that he would
not suit, he (Mr. Dear) said he might call again the
next day if he liked. At that moment Stanlek
rushed to the cupboard, forced it open, took out AA
cashbox, and made off with it. At the samemoment
Wynne struck him a violent blow with some instru-
ment. He saw the instrument in Wynne's hand;
it was something black. Wynne struck him a second
time in the face, but not with the instrument, which
he had dropped over and behind witness's head.
The next thing he recollected was finding himself
on the floor in the shop, some distance from the
sofa in the parlour, in which he was sitting when
the outrage was committed. He must have moved
himself by a very violent effort, for at another time
he would have been utterly unable to rise from hii
seat without aid. Previous to the introduction of
Wynne, Stanley Selwell had been cutting some
deal backboards for pictures into ovals, under the
direction of witness, who was sitting in the shop.
Stanley was very inattentive, looking out of win-
dow apparently in search of some person who was
whistling in the street. Witness cautioned him to
attend to what he was doing; or he would either
cut himself or split the boards, and he did split
one of them. At this period William Selwell passed
down the street, but witness could not say whether
it was he who was whistling. Witness told Stan.
ley that " only dogs come to a whistle." After this
Stanley made an excuse to go out, and during his
absence 01,3 servant girl helped witness into the
parlour and placed him on the sofa, where he was
sitting when Wynne and Stanley came in.
Anne Turner, the servant, stated that, hearing
her master cry out " Murder," she entered the par-
lour and found him bleeding, and Wynne standing
near him. She then gave an alarm, which led to
the apprehension of Stanley and William Selwell,
but Wynne got away. She afterwards found be-.
hind the sofa, where her master was sitting, a steel
chisel, now produced. [lt was a mason's chisel,
such as is used to cut inscriptions on stone, consist-
ing entirely of steel, about seven inches long, and
of considerable thickness.]
Mr. Edward Digby, surgeon, of Fleet-street, said
the wound was a lacerated wound, jagged, and in the
shape of a " T." It was such a wound as the chisel
would produce. It was a serious wound, and Mr.
Dear had been in considerable danger from it.
Even now he did not think the congestion was
Deneartire,slycocmurinedg.
to Htheehcoadursttrotongbelyexoparisneded, Mr.btit
Mr. Dear insisted, and said he should be better
when the excitement was over. Mr. Dear's face
was also bruised.
Mr. Collar, an ironmonger in Wych-street, stated
that when Stanley was in custody of the
young man Scudmore, William Selwell was edging
up to him, and apparently trying to get something
from him. Witness turned William away. Stan.
ley had the cashbox under his arm. Afterward
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William was very busy among some boys who had
got into Mr. Dear's passage, and witness, of el them out, called the attention of the pone.
to him, and he was taken into custody.
Mary Anne Homan, the wife of a dairyman in.

Middle Serle's-place,' Temple-bar, deposed 01thI
Wynne lodged with her, and had for some time had
in his possession a chisel similar to that producaoL
William Selwell used constantly to call on ,h_ime ~
The last time be called was the day before the 014- , •
rage. Wynne took the chisel withihim on Tuestbty .
morning.
Inspector M'Kenzie apprehended Wynne On
Wednesday at the House of Detention, where he
had called to see the Selvrells. He said he " onlj
gave the old man one blow of the chisel." He
also inquired why the police had taken " Samivel,"
who was not there at the time, though, he added,
" he gave some advice about it."
Sergeant King, F 6, corroborated.—Wynna also
said " that he did not mean to hurt the old INIaI
only to stun him ; but the chisel slipped out of hit
hand." Witness said, " You must have struck hat
more than once, as his face is marked." He 1O
plied, " Oh, that was holding my 'lauds over 11"`
mouth to stop him from calling out." He stated
that he picked the chisel up about vii months:two
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on Tower-hill.
wilt wnefosrtaftoerdl
forgery, but its an
wasoothuetr
ofehtharegcelisagtreicillait. -
as
Samuele
hd. had
Wynne joys he only meant to
Pal‘lrlira.mjenardit.sntreetT.hisWisyvery much like the case in
stun Mr. Dear, but if he had done something more
he would have been hanged for it.
and said
Wynne pleaded guilty,
The others reserved their defence, and the three
nboadthtinhge
chisel
!si.e ol wsixithmiotnt‘hsat. the time."
were committed for trial.

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the same extent, £ll
to ill per cent. being the extreme
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however, are wonderfully firm under
the circumstances. In the market for all other securities
the transactions may be reported as altogether nominal.
the actual business done being of an exceedingly limited
character. A feeling of sympathy with the decline in the
Government funds has manifested itself, and almost all
securities quoted, as well as many in which there have not
been any dealings, are offered for sale.
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