The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-07 00:00:00

POLICE IN7'ELLIGENCE—Jan. 5.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Jas. Tite, a well-dressed
young man, described as of Queen-street, Rhyl,
North Wales, commercial traveller, was brought
before the Lord Mayor in the custody of Thomas
Smart, a detective officer, and charged with em-
bezzling various sums of money, amounting in the
aggregate to up wards of £lOO, under somewhat
extraordinary circul.
Yistances.
Mr. Wontner attend,'d to prefer the charge; the
prisoner was defended by .111 r. Lewis, sen.,
Richard B uller said—l am c~ shier to Messrs. King
and Co., of 63, Queen-street, ChOPside, wholesale
stationers. The prisoner entered the service of our
- eller,under
firm on the 9th of October last as a traN
a written agreement stipulating that he wZa to be
paid by commission. The understanding was that
he was to travel in various parts of the country, no
particular part being specified, and obtain orders,
transmitting them to the firm for execution. On
the 16th of November I received a letter from Mr.
South, of Great Heywood, Staffordshire, one of our
customers, to whom an account had been sent for
£27 13s. 4d., stating that he had paid the prisoner
the money on the 27th of October, and for which he
held his receipt. I wrote a letter to the prisoner
on the same day requesting him to explain the
matter, and thinking it susceptible of explanation,
I did not then mention it to Messrs. King. I re-
ceived an answer from him by return of post stating
he had received the money and would forward it in
a day or two. It was his duty to send the money
immediately after receiving it. I received several
more letters from him to the same purport on the
subject, and finally one dated the 27th of Decem-
ber, appointing to meet me in London at the
Cathedral Coffeehouse. I met him there, when he
stated that he had not then got the money, but if
I would keep the matter close for a day or two
longer he was certain to obtain it. On the 31st of
December we sent out as usual the accounts to
our customers in various parts of the country. I
produce now a number of letters from them, ex-
pressing surprise at the applications, and stating
that they had paid the prisoner ; one in particular,
I'from Messrs. Kellingly and Co,, who enclose his
receipt. I then addressed a printed circular to all
our customers in reference to the prisoner, and yes-
terday received a telegram from a customer in a
town in Kent, that the prisoner had just then en-
tered a railway carriage on his way to London. I
went to the station at London-bridge and met him
on his arrival there, 'when he accompanied me to
our counting-house. He remarked on the way there
that directly he saw the printed circular they had
sent out he knew " it was all up" with him, and
that Mr. King knew all about the matter. Ho has
never paid the £27 odd he received from Mr.
South, nor any of the other sums he has obtained
from the customers.
Cross-examined by Mr. Lewis—The prisoner
wrote me a letter on the 3d of January, saying he
would be in London on the following day, and
accompanying it with an account of moneys
received by him amounting to £4l ss. 10d.,
which I believe is the whole amount he has
received. He has overdrawn his commission

on those sums, though on some of them no com-
mission at all was due to him, the orders having
been obtained by another traveller. In that letter
he said he would bring a draught for the amount
the next night, and that he had not been actuated
by any dishonest motive. He was taken into cus-
tody at Messrs. King's, in Queen-street, and when
he was in charge of the police-constable he handed
over a check for £52 95., which he said he had
received from a customer. When in the counting-
house he said he expected his brother-in-law, who
would give him the money due from him at once.
At first Mr. King hesitated whether he would let
him off or give him into custody, deciding at ler nth
on the latter course. Nothing was said to the
prisoner at the interview with Mr. King about his
paying the money. I went to the station to meet
the prisoner in consequence of the telegram, and
not of the letter he had written to me. I was not
aware he had received the £52 odd until he pro-
duced it.

Mr. Wontner said there were three other gentle-
men in court who had charges to prefer against the
prisoner, one of whom he called as a witness.
Mr. Benjamin Ellam said—l am a wholesale sad-
dler and whip manufacturer of 213, Piccadilly.
The prisoner was in my service as a commercial
traveller. I engageditim on the 17th July last on
commission. I intrusted him with a quantity of
costly goods as samples, of the value of between
£3OO and £4OO, including whips mounted with
gold and silver and saddlery. He left my service
about October last. He has returned many samples,
but he has detained or disposed of a number of gold
and silver mounted whips, of the value of between
£5O and £6O at least, which were entrusted to him
for sale. He could either use them as samples or
sell them. I have ascertained that he has received
about £6O, which he has not paid me.
Mr. Wontner said a memorandum-Lf, Whips not
accounted for, £4B 3s. 6d." W&. found in prisoner's
possession. .

Cross-examined—The fact of his receiving the
whips has never been in dispute. lie selected theca
himself at my shop on 17th July, priced them, and
en,tozed, he . book iu hi,4 Q)ya Wad. Ho Imo.