The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-25 00:00:00

Central Criminal Court—This Day.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Mellor.)
George Soakley was charged with feloniously receiving
a post letter for £25, and a bill of exchange for £5l. The
prosecution was conducted by the' Solicitor-General in
behalf of the post-office authorities.
The letter, it appeared, had arrived by the China mail
on the 14th of September, and was addressed to Mrs.
Biddle, Cranborno Villas, Oakley-square, Chelsea, and
was given for delivery to John Sole, au auxiliary lette:-
carrier at the Brompton Post-office, where he had been so
employed for two years.

Sole deposed that about eight; or nine months ego he
became acquainted with the prisoner, who treated him .to
drink, and represented to him that a great dal of money
could be made by detaining letters. Aft. o. that he met
him almost every day and gaVo him a large number of
letters containing stamps and vahatble articles. On the
14th of September ho gave him the letter addressed to
Mrs. Biddle. lle had got money at various times from
Soakley, in all about £2 10s.

Charles Lunan, a draper, deposed that Soakley asked him
the value of the bill of exchange. Witness said he would see,
and put the document in his pocket, but did not think any
more of it. About a week or ten days after ho returned it
to Soakley, who partially burned it. Witness picked it up
and put it in his pocket, where it was found when ho
was apprehended.

The prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to 10
years' penal servitude.

TIIE SPANISH DANK FIIAtDS.

Bartholomew Claramont, a Spaniard, was indicted for
having in his possession certain materials for the manu-
facture of Spanish bank notes. Another Spaniard named
Rodrigues was indicted for the same offence, but he, elect-
ed to have a separate trial, which took place yesterday,
when he was found guilty. Claramont was tried to-day,
and a similar result followed.

Mr. Justice Mellor sentenced each prisoner to five years'
penal servitude.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Pigott.)

THE LEEDS BIM( CASES.

Edward Greenland, the late manager of the Leeds
Banking company, surrendered to take his trial, upon
an indictment for having, upon the Ist of February,
1864, with intent to deceive the shareholders of the
company, and of unlawfully making, circulating, and
publishing and concurring in making, circulating, and pub-
lishing a false statement, purporting to be the report of
the directors of the said company. Two other counts in
the indictment charged wilful and corrupt perjury in cer-
tain affidavits before Mr. Sykes Ward, a commissioner in
Chancery, at Leeds.
The defendant pleaded not guilty to all the indictments.
From the opening statement of the counsel for the pro-
secution, it appeared that the defendant had been for many
years the manager of the Leeds Banking Company, which
ceased in September, 1864. Upon investigating the ac-
counts of the bank, it was found that the defen-
dant had failed in his duty in furnishing a
half-yearly statement of the notes and bills of ex-
change of the bank then in circulation, and the in-
dictment charged that the return so made for the first
months in 1864 were untruly and falsely made. The evi-
dence was of great length, and related principally to the
accounts of the bank and other matters totally devoid of
interest to the general public.
(The case was proceeding when we went to press.)

(Before the Recorder.)

CHAUGE OF PERJURY AGAINST A POLICE CONSTABLE.

William Barry, a police constable Of the S division, was
indicted for having committed wilful and corrupt perjury
at tho examination of two young men, named Pierce and
Dye, at the Marylebone Police Court, and also reiterating
the same before Mr. Sergeant Payne, at the Middlesex

Sessions.
The charge was laid against another constable of the
same division, named Hayes, and both were also jointly
indicted for conspiracy. Mr. Sleigh, who conducted the
prosecution, elected to take the separate indictment for
forgery against Barry, in preference to the indictment
against both for conspiracy, because by adopting that
course Barry would have the advantage of calling Hayes
as a witness on hie behalf, if hefeltso disposed. The perjury
assigned was that the defendant deposed before the magistrate
at Marylebone Police-court, that he and Hayes took the
two young men into custody close to 63, Gloucester-cres-
cent, Regent's-park, on a charge of attempting to commit
a burglary. The constables swore that on the morning of
the 31st of August the two young men were seen to leap
over the garden wall of the house. The young men, on
their part said that the statement of the constables was
altogether false, and that instead of taking them into cus-
tody at Gloucester-terrace, Regent's-park, they (Pierce
and Dyce) were looking at a person in a fit in
Eversholt-street, Olkley-square, and that the constables
came up to them there and took them into custody, and
conveyed them to the police-station in Little Albany-
street, and falsely charged them with attempting to com-
mit a burglary. They were both committed for trial at the
Middlesex Sessions ; but the jury returned a verdict of
"Net guilty," and the present indictment was the result of
that acquittal.
For the prosecution Pierce, Dye, Phoebe Glue, Pottso
Blackburn, Charles Wright, Gregory, and Groser were
examined, each of whom sworn most positively that
the two young men taken into custody by the police
never wont near Gloucester-cresent on the night
in question, but that after leaving Camden Stores public-
house, in Park-street, they proceeded each towards their
respective homes, and parted at Gales' the chemists
at the corner of Eversholt-street. Pierce, Dye,
Phoebe Glue, and Gregory going down that street,
where they met Hayes and Barry the defendants.
The two constables there took Pierce and Dye into cus-
tody, and took them to the station-house, where the
charge of attempting a burglary was entered against
them.
Mr. Ivory, the employer of Pierce was examined as t
the impossibility of opening the window in Mr. Dolman's
house from the outside with a knife such as that produced
by the police.
Mr. Dolman, the gentleman residing at the house in
Gloucester-erese,ent, said he was not disturbed by anything
on the evening of the 31st of August, and the young ro-
man in his service as housemaid, who stated it was possi-
ble she might have omitted to fasten the window, but it
was her invariable practice to examine all the fastenings of
the house previous to her retiring to rest.
The case was proceeding when we went to press.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

WANT OF PUNCTUALITY IN TUE " LORD CHIEF BARON.'
—Mr. James Weale, of No. 2, Malvern-villas, Kilburn-
park, was charged before Mr. Knox with damaging a
statue of one of the Muses, the property of Mr. Henry
George Brooks, the " Lord Chief Baron" of the Judge and
Jury Society, No. 21, Leicester-square.
_ _ .

When the case was called on the "Lord Chief Baron'
was not in attendance, not having left Chambers, and the
defendant was discharged.
A few minutes afterwards the " Lord Chief Baro u'
attended, only to find that the defendant had been dis-

charged.
From his lordship's statement to the magistrate, and
what could be ascertained, it appears that last night while
his lordship was charging the jury he was interrupted by
a noise iu the hall, and on following the "usher" outside
the court, to his discovery he found that one of the Muses
had been very badly " assaulted and battered," and had
been literally converted into a " lay" figure. lle also found
that the gas-piping had been broken down, and the safety
of the establishment placed in jeopardy, and the defendant
having been pointed out as the person who had committed
the damage, be was given into custody.
Mr. Knox told Mr. Brooks that there being no com-
plainant in attendance, be had discharged the accused.
Mr. Brooks said that but for the fact that he was labour-
ing. under indisposition, he would have been in attendance.
Mr. Knox said that Mr. Brooks could have a suininens,
for the destruction of his property, and one was obtained.

Mr. Paget again remanded the prisonOr for the attend•
ance of Mrs. Cohen and the banker's clerk.

WESTMINSTER.

THAMES.
EMBEZZLEMENT AND FORGERY.—James Clllf,ellan, aged
29, and lately dwelling at No. 3, Bedford-street, Stepney,
was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with feloniously
embezzling three sums of £ll 25., £2 145.,
and £3 155.,
which he had received for and on account of his master,
Mr. Lewis Cohen, boot and shoo manufacturer, of No. 1,
Nelson-street, New-road, Stepney.
Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, stated the case for the
prosecution. The prisoner was traveller to Mr. Cohen, and
it was his business to obtain orders and to receive monies
hadt.r i° uas c 1
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ef his master's customers. The prosecutor had lately
discovered that M'Clellan was a defaulter to the
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amount of about £5O, and that ho had not
(371'nri.noteodhenf,osreusthtoemerresceipitie
to make. The prisoner received a cheque for £
tradesman, and forged the name of Lewis Cohen,lo from a
ob-
tained cash for it. Mr. Young then prod and
uced the
and the prosecutor said the indorsement cheque,
was a forgery. Thece customers" Lewis Cohen "
,
the prisoner of the sums aboveproved
August the payment to
September, and Mr. Cohen said mentioned in and
they
for. had not been accounted

The banker's clerk who paid the cash for the cheque was
not present; and it turned out that the prosecutor could
not read, and that his wife made the entries in his books.
_ _

SHAMEFUL ATTACK ON WOMEN.--Joseph Crow and
William Crow, his brother, boll young men, were charged
before the magistrate, the first named with most shameful
assaults upon women, and the latter with trying to rescue
him after his apprehension by the police.
A very creditable-looking elderly woman named Kibbe t