The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-14 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF OBTAINING MONEY 17HOIX
THE EARL OF DERBY.—Patrick Arthy was examined
before the chief magistrate, Sir Thomas Henry, charged
with obtaining, by false representations, the sum of £lOO
from the Earl of Derby. The prisoner was brought on a
habeas, he at the present time undergoing a sentence in
Maidstone prison for obtaining goods by false pretences.
The mode pursued by the prisoner was that he wrote to
the Earl of Derby in the name of Mrs. Chisholm, asked
for certain assistance from the Government out of
the Royal Bounty Fund ; that £lOO was sent
to the Queen's Hotel, at Clifton, and by certain means
he obtained possession of a letter by false representations,
and then appropriated the contents to his own private pur-
poses. The money was sent in two £5O notes, and wit-
nesses were examined to show that during the time the
prisoner was residing at Bristol he changed the two notes,
which were regularly numbered 90,916 and 7.
Mr. Noland, landlord of the Adam and Eve, Wine-street.
Bristol, said the prisoner lodgoi at his house, from 20th
of July to the 21st of August. He gave the name of Capt.
Hartley Chichester Hay ; about a fortnight after ho told me
he was promoted to the rank of Major, in the Bengal Horse
Artillery, that his mother was a lady of title, residing at
Portland House, Ton bridge-wells, Kent, and that his
father was a clergyman of the Church of England ;
but in consequence of, a very great difference of
religion they could not live together. On the 7th August
his daughter went to the Queen's Hotel and got a letter,
after which a fifty-pound note was given him, which he
got changed at Mr. Topp, at Mr. Todd's shop. He gave
me the change in Bank of England notes. He could not
say the number of the note, as it did not belong to him,
or he should have backed it. The writing in the
notes now placed in his hands wa°, to the best of his
belief, in the prisoner's handwriting.
Mr. Thomas Topp said he lived at the Pershore-road,
and was a commercial traveller. At the time spoken of
by Mr. Nolan he was in Mr. Todd's shop, and changed the
£5O note, 90,997, for him. The address at the back of the
note was in his handwriting.
Mr. Henry Lambert, of College-green, Bristol, jeweller,
said on the 17th of August the prisoner came to his shop
and purchased a gold chain for £l5, and a pencil-case to
be attached.to it. He -paid for the articles with a £5O
note, numbered 90,996. He noticed the mark of the
Messrs. Grindley at the back of the note.
Mrs. Julia Bentall, of 17, Victor-place, Sheerness,
said—On the 11th of September the prisoner
came to lodge at her house, and gave the name
Commander Dashwood, son of Admiral Dashwool, and
said he was trying to obtain the appointment of comman-
der-superintendent. He did not bring any luggage with
him. The day after he arrived he gave her a letter to post
addressed to the Earl of Derby, remarking that he was
expecting some money, about £lOO, and that he had
had already £lOO from the bounty fund. He further said
that ho expected a note in answer from the Earl's secretary
in a few days. He read the letter he received, but instead
of reading Mrs. Chisholm's name as written, he substituted
his own. He was taken into custody at Sheerness on the
18th of September upon another charge, and on clearing
out the sitting room he had occupied the pieces of the let-
ter now produced were found.

Constable Nokes said ho took the prisoner into custody
on the 18th of September in Sheerness on a charge of ob-
taining goods under false pretences in the name of Henry
Philip Dashwood Arthey, He received the pieces of paper
from the last witness and on putting them together it was
found to be a letter from his lordship's secretary, the Hon.
G. Barrington.
Mrs. Catherine Chisholm said she resided at Liverpool,
and that she returned from Australia on the 23d of Sap-
tember last, and never authorised the prisoner to write to
the Earl of Derby.

The prisoner, who denied the charge, was then removed
in custody, to undergo the first imprisonment, which ex-
pires in January next, when he will bo brought up and
formally committed for trial on the first charge.