The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-24 00:00:00

THAMES,

EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CLERK.--Richard Hirstwood, a
clerk, aged 28, and dwelling at the time of his apprehen-
sion at No. 3, White Horse-street, Stepney, was brought
before Mr. Yardley, charged with embezzling various sums
of money he had received for and on account of his em-
ployer, Mr. Richard Francis Tindale, auctioneer and up-
holsterer, of No. 1, Portland-place, CommerciaLroad East.
Mr. Fearnley, solicitor, conducted the prosecution, and
said the prisoner had been for some time in the service of
Mr. Tindale, at a salary of 21s. per week and five per cent.
commission upon all goods that "he sold. Mr. Tindale,
feeling satisfied the prisoner was a dishonest servant, dis-
charged him a few days ago, and since then had discovered
that he had embezzled various sums of money to an enor-
mous amount. Mr. Tindale had also discovered a large
deficiency in his stock of goods, which could only be
accounted for by the prisoner having sold them
and appropriated the money to his own use. It would
only be sufficient for him (Mr. Fearnley) to prove
three cases of the prisoner having feloniously
embezzled money he should have accounted for to his em-
ployer to enable the magistrate to commit for trial.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lockwood, of No. 5, Brunton's cottages,
Limohouse, said Mr. Tindal() was her landlord. In May
and June last she paid to the prisoner two sums of £1 12s.
each for rent, and took his receipt for the same on both
occasions.

Elizabeth Elliott, and Mary Ann Elliott, her daughter,
of No. 12, Limehouse Causeway, proved the payment of
two sums of 10s. each to the prisoner for rent, on Mr. Tin-
dale's account, and he entered those payments in a book
when he received the money. .

Mary Ann Gilbertson. stated that on the 31st Augustlast
she went to Mr. Tindale's shop and paid to the prisoner £1
4s. W., a debt owing to Mr. Tindale for goods. The pri-
soner handed to her the receipt sh* now produced.
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Mr. Tindale said that none of the above sums had been
paid to him or accounted for by the prisoner. It was the
duty of the prisoner to balance the money received daily in
a book, and leave the same in the till. In June last ho
spoko to the prisoner about Mrs. Lockwood being two
months in arrear with her rent, and said he should levy a
distress for the same and adze her husband's goods, on
which the prisoner begged of him not to do so, because she
was in the family way and about to be confined. On this
representation he did not proceed against Mr. Lockwood.
He afterwards ascertained the rent had been paid to the

prisoner.
In cross-examination by Mr. Lewis, sen., solicitor, of
Ely-place, the prosecutor said the prisoner had occasion-
ally put small sums into the till without entering the
amounts in a book, but he was quite curtain the prisoner
had not accounted for .any.of the sums paid to him by the
three witnesses. Witness had never received them in any
shape. Ho had a tenant named Baddeley, who always
paid his rent by cheque. Those cheques had been paid to
him very punctually by tho prisoner and not entered in a
book.
Mr. Yardley said there was a prinuz facie case of em-
bezzlement made out, and he must commit the prisoner for

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trial. He would take bail, the prisoner in £2OO, and two
sureties of £lOO each.

DOUBLE EXECUTION IN AUSTRALIA.--William
Armstrong, a native of Ireland, and George Chamberlain,
a native of New South Wales, were executed together at
Melbourne on the 12th of July, having been convicted of
an attempt to murder. They had been previously tried and
acquitted for the murder of Mr. Cornelius Green ; but sin-
gularly enough, after their condemnation, and only when
all hope of a respite was lost, they acknowledged the crime
for which they had been legally acquitted. Precisely at
ten o'clock the sheriff proceeded to Armstrong's cell and
summoned him forth. After partaking of a glass of water
the wretched man stepped quickly forth, and, although
deadly pale,. appeared to have summoned all his resolution
to meet his impending fate with firmness. Upon reaching
the scaffold Armstrong requested that the rope might be ad-
justed exactly under his ear. This request was complied
with, but had rather a contrary result to that anticipated by
the unhappy man, for upon the bolt being withdrawn the
rope shifted its position, and the neck not being broken,
death did not ensue so quickly as in the case of Chamber-
lain, who, after one or two spasmodic motions, ceased to
show the slightest signs of life. Chamberlain had prepared
himself for his end by thoroughly washing himself from
head to foot, and in the morning he dressed himself with
some neatness, having on a pair of clean white gaiters which
had been provided for him at his request by his friends.
ENGLAND assists nearly the whole of the world in making
its money more directly than is generally supposed, the
mints of France, Spain, Prussia, Russia, the -Indies, and
the Colonies being indebted to the Patent Plumbago Cru-
cible Works at Battersea, for the best means of economising
their valuable ores. Yet although the gold purchased
eculiarlby
the Bank of England passes in and out of these py
combined smelting pots, our own mint in many respects
adheres to the old system. The Patent Plumbago Cruci-
bles are great conductors of heat, and save a large propor-
tion of coke. They aro used by Messrs. Rothschild, Brown
and Wingrove, Johnson and Mathy, and others, for the
molting of gold and silver ' • by tho Enfield Small Arms
Works, and Royal Carriage Department at Woolwich, for
melting brass ; and at the Brest Imperial Works, and in
Sheffield, and elsewhere for the more perfect fusion of steel,