The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-26 00:00:00

POLICE IN7ELLIGENCE, Sept. 25.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Emanuel Levy, who was
brought up on Thursday last charged with having
in his possession two country bank notes of the
value of £5 each, which were stolen from a post
letter in transit from Louth to London, well-know-
ing them to have been stolen, was again brought up
for further examination.
Mr. Mullens, solicitor to the Bankers' Protection
Association, attended to conduct the prosecution ;
and Mr. Sleigh, barrister, appeared on behalf of the
prisoner.
From the evidence adduced on the former exa-
mination it appeared that on the Wednesday the
prisoner presented a promissory note on the Wis-
beach and Lincolnshire Bank for payment at Messrs.
Barclay's, and it was found that it was stopped.
Tilcoek, a detective officer, was called in, and told
the prisoner that the note was one of a number that
were stolen from a letter, in February last, on its
transit through the Post-office fromLouth to Messrs.
Prescott's bank, and asked him what account he
could give of the possession of it. The prisoner said
that he kept an oyster shop at Boulogne, and on
Wednesday, Sept. 17, three men went into his shop
and had three dozen oysters. He told them to make
haste, as he wanted to go and get some English
money, as he was going to England that day. One
of the three men said he would give him some, and
gave him two country notes for £5 each, one Bank
of England note for £5, and £5 in gold, for which
he gave him French money in exchange. The officer
then asked him if he had any other notes about him,
and he handed him another country note for £5,
and also a Bank of England note for £5. On being
searched at the station £25 10s. in gold and silver
was found upon him.
Witnesses were called, who proved the posting
of a letter in Louth, addressed to Messrs. Prescott,
containing notes and cheques, of which the two
country notes produced by the officer formed part,
and also of the non•receipt of the letter at Messrs.
Prescott's bank.
Mrs. Lynch, of 3, Camden-place, Camberwell,
then deposed that on the 16th of August last she
received £lOO in Bank of England notes from
Messrs. Linton and Clerke, stockbrokers, and a few
days after that she was going from the city
homeward, and took an omnibus at the Elephant
and Castle. She then had her purse in her pocket
containing some of the notes given to her by Messrs.
Linton, and on reaching home she found her purse
was gone.
Mr. Gordon, clerk to Messrs. Linton, deposed
that the £5 Bank of England note produced by the
officer Tilcock bore the same number and date as
one of those which he paid to Mrs. Lynch on the
16th August.
Mr. Mullens then applied for a further remand in
order to make inquiries respecting the Bank of
England note, which ho did not know until that
morning had been stolen.
Mr. Sleigh said he was rather surprised that his
learned friend should make such an application,
and contended that there was not a tittle of evidence
to show that the prisoner knew the notes were
stolen, and said that the prisoner's statement when
he was: taken into custody was quite consistent and
probable, and the very course thieves would adopt
would be to get rid of the notes where they could.
He should, therefore, ask his lordship to discharge
the prisoner at once. He showed his lordship a
certificate from the Commissioner of Police at Bou-
logne, stating that the prisoner had resided there
for the last 18 years, and was a very respectable
man, bearing a very good character.
Mullens said the peculiarity of the case was
that the prisoner was found in possession of por-
tions of the produce of two distinct robberies.
The Lord Mayor said there was no doubt that
there were agents through whom stolen notes got
into circulation, and that such agents might have
the results of two robberies in their possession at
one time, and would pass them where they could,
and if those notes passed into the hands of persons
of good faith, they would naturally go the Bank to
get them changed on arriving at London. He
thought if the prisoner had been aware the notes
were stolen, he would hardly have run, as it were,
" into the lion's mouth?' He thought, under the
circumstances, however, he would hardly be justi-
fied in discharging him, but he would remand trim,
and take bail for his re-appearance.
The prisoner was accordingly remanded, bail
being taken—himself in £lOO, and one surety
in £5O.

GUILDHALL.—STRANGE RECOVERY OF. A
LOST . BROOCH AND COMMITTAL OF THE FINDER.
—Hugh Hunter, Eliza Wisbeach, alias Hunter,
his wife, and Gco. Rugg, a commissionaire, who
had been formerly in the Seots Fusilier Guards,
were summoned befoie Mr. Alderman Finnis, for
having unlawfully in their possession a curious and
valuable brooch, without being able to render a
satisfactory account of it.
From the evidence of Acting inspector Speck and
Police-constable Halford, 336, it appeared that on
the afternoon of Wednesday, the 18th inst., the
female prisoner offered a valuable gold cameu brooch
for sale at Mr. Lawley's, a pawnbroker in Fariing-
don-street, and as her appearance was incownstent
with the possession of such an article of jewellery,
the officer Halford was called is, and in
his inquiries she said that Hunter, who ''ahse
answer to
brother, gave her the brooch to sell, and that
re-
ceived it from a man who was waiting
o A
outside,
the,and
who had promised him 52. for selling it.