The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-21 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE, Oct. 20.

MANSION HOUSE.—Thos. Crawford, a re-
spectably-dressed middle-aged man, was charged
with stealing a silk umbrella, value 18s., the pro-
perty of his employer, Mr. C. Lawman, of 64,
Bishopsgate•street Without, under the following

circumstances :
Bull, 151, said—On Wednesday afternoon I won
to a coffee-shop in Sun-street, and saw the umbrella
produced hanging on a hook behind the door. I
ascertained that it had been left there by a gentle-
man shortly before, and after I had waited a Mlle
time the prisoner came in, and after speaking to the
landlady, he went away with it. For certain rea-
sons that I had I followed him into the street, and
asked how he had become possessed of the umbrella.
He asked what I wanted to know for, to which I
replied that I was a detective, and I did want to
know. He then said, " Well, then, I brought it
a .vay from my employer's shop, but pray have
mercy on me and let me go." 1 told him I could
not do that, and I took him into custody. At the
station I searched him, but found nothing on him
relating to this charge. I then said to him, " I am
about to ask you a question, but you need not
answer it unless you choose to do so, so be careful.
You have taken several other umbrellas to that
coffee-shop ; have you any objection to say what
has become of them ?" After hesitating a moment
or two, he replied, " I pawned them, and tore up
the tickets."
Mr. Lanman said—The prisoner has been in my
service as shopman for six or seven weeks, and
within that time I have missed a large amount of
property. As no one else had access to the stock
but the prisoner, my suspicion fell upon him, and I
caused him to be watched. I had no character with
him, as I was too ill at the time to make inquiry,
but I had known him for years as shopman to cus-
tomers of mine, and I believed his character to be
unimpeachable.
The prisoner—who pleaded guilty, adding, I
took this umbrella and some few others—was re-
manded in order to be dealt with summarily in
petty sessions.
Edward Moody, 27, described as an engineer, of
Winchester, was charged with forginc, and uttering
two ci:eques purporting to be signed by Thomas
Moody, with intent to defraud Messrs. Robartsand
Co., bankers, Lombard-street, and also with forging
and uttering a third cheque, at Brighton, with the
same intent.,
Mr. Mullens, solicitor to the Bankers' Protection
Society, attended for the prosecution.
Mr. E. Powell, clerk to Messrs. Robarts and Co.,
said—Mr. Thomas Moody keeps an account at
Stuckey's Bank, Winchester, and has authority to
draw on our house. I am in the country depart-
ment. The two checks produced, dated the 12th
September, 1859, for £8 155., and the 16th Sep-
tember, for £5 75., were presented to me for pay-
ment. They were paid, but I cannot say whether
the prisoner is the man who presented them. They
were afterwards sent by me to Stuckey's Bank,
and were returned to me as forgeries.
Mr. Charles Bridger, 50, Russell-square,
Brighton—On the 6th of September a person came
to me, who said he was a waiter at the Bedford
Hotel, and that he came from a gentleman named
Moody, who was staying there. He brought me a
letter, and said he was to wait for an answer. The
letter contained a cheque for £8 155., which pur-
ported to be signed by Mr. Moody. I gave him a
message, in consequence of which the prisoner
called upon me. I knew the prisoner's family, and
had seen him before, but I had U 9 personal acquain-
tance with him. I gave him the cheque which 1
had taken from the letter, and -went with him to
my banker's to get it cashed. I have since received
information which leads me to believe the cheque
is forged.
The letter sent by the prisoner from the Bedford
Hotel to Mr. Bridger was here put in and read. It
stated that the prisoner's father had sent him a
cheque on a London banker, and that he should be
obliged if Mr. Bridger would cash it or get it
cashed for him.
Henry Calcutt, police-constable of the City of
Bristol, deposed that the prisoner had been taken
into custody by Mr. Superintendent Hancock, and
handed over to him to bring up to London, and that
on their way to town the prisoner said he had com-
mitted the forgeries, and asked what he should say
to the questions that would be put to
him. He also said he expected his father
would settle the affair before he got to
London, or that he would do so if he heard of it.
He did not say that he had forged the cheques, but
that he had put his father's name to them.
Mr. Mullens said the prisoner had been carrying
on the same game for some time at different country
hotels, bothg finally detected at Bristol. The at-
tendance of father was necessary to prove the
forgery, and therefore a remand was necessary.
The prisoner was then remanded.

LAMBETH. Elizabeth Allen, a married
female, with an infant in her arms, was brought up
for final examination on a charge of passing coun-
terfeit florins.

A clerk from the Mint-office attended for the
prosecution, and from the evidence it appeared that
on the 11th inst., the prisoner, who gave her ad-
dress at 32, St. George's-road, had first offered a
florin in payment of some trifling articles purchased
at the shop of a draper in High-street, Camberwell,
but its baseness was discovered, and it was bent
nearly in two, and she was allowed to go about
her business. Soon after she succeeded in passing
another florin for a few staylaces, but fortunately
the poor woman whom, she attempted to defraud
.discovered that the florin was counterfeit, and the
prisoner was apprehended.
The ease was clearly proved, and the prisoner
was fully committed for trial.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Henry Braithwaite, a
man of extremely powerful frame, and at least six
feet in height, was charged before Mr. Corrie with
a desperate assault in a theatre.
Sergeant Heath, 2 N, stated that the defendant
was turned out of the Britannia Theatre on Wed.
nesday evening for creating a disturbance; among
other violent acts he attempted to hurl a tiower•pot
and its contents, which he had taken from the con-
servatory, at a person with whom he was quarrel-
ling. How he gained readmission was unknown,
but at the conclusion of the performance he was
found, with another man, as big as himself, in one
of-the stage-boxes, both being fast asleep. Directly
they were aroused defendant sprang upon witness,