The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-13 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—(ZhisDay)

OLD COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
ATTEMPTING TO OBTAIN A CHEQUE.

Caroline Mary Palmer appeared to answer an indictment
charging her with attempting to obtain a cheque, by false
pretences, from the• Messrs. Coutts, bankers, Strand.

The evidence for the prosecution went to show that at the
end of February last a man named Samson, who had fre-
quently been employed by the defendant, stated that she
told him that she wanted to get some money of hers out of
Coutts' bank, but to enable her to do so she must procure a
blank cheque. She induced him to go to a Mr. Young, as he
had a drawing account. The circumstances excited suspicion,
and he was arrested. Having been confined a fortnight,
he was admitted to bail, and made some disclosures which
led to the prisoner being taken into custody. The case
mainly depended upon the evidence of Samson, against
whom also there was an indictment.

Mr. Cooper made a very forcible appeal for the prisoner,
contending that Samson must be an accomplice, and that
the evidence being uncorroborated, it was unsafe to con-
vict the prisoner on his statem,nt.
The Common Sergeant having summed "up,
The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and she was sen-
tenced to six months' imprisonment.
Samson was then arraigned on an indictment similar to
that upon which the prisoner had been tried, but no evi-
dence being offered, he was discharged.

POLICE INTBLLIGENCE.—( This Day.)

BOW-STREET.

THE COMMERCIAL BANK FRAUD.—This morning Dar-
den and Holcroft were again placed before Mr. Henry for
further examination.

The proceedings, which were dull and uninteresting, con-
sisted in proving the handwriting of Durden to a number
of entries in the books of the bank of certain moneys that
had from time to time been paid over the counter to various
persons ; the money so paid being taken from the account
of a Mr. Joel, a customer of the bank, without his know-
ledge or sanction.

Both prisoners were fully committed for trial.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A WORKHOUSE HOLIDAY AND ITS RESULT.—Mary
Ann Foley, an inmate of St Martin's -Workhouse, waa
charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt as follows :
The porter of the house, Michael Brennan, said that on
the previous day the prisoner and some others were allowed
to go to Hanwell School for a holiday to see their children,
and a man was sent with them to see that they did not get
drunk. However, he was not, it appeared, vigilant enough
for the women, for five of them got very drunk, and the
prisoner, who Was found rolling about the streets, and de-
claring "that she would have a cab, for the parish was a
rich one and could afford to pay for it," was at length taken
to the station on a stretcher.
Mr. Tyrwhitt fined her ss. or seven days.

Two or three other cases of drunkennesi and abuse
towards Brennan were settled by fines or imprisonment in
default.

Brennan said there were several other cases to go before
the board.

Ellen Colman was next charged with making away with
several articles of workhouse clothing, the property of the
guardians of St. Martin's parish.
This prisoner had also gone out for a holiday on the 15th
March, and Dyer, the gatekeeper, said she never made her
appearance again tid the previous day, when she entered
minus several articles of clothing.

As the prisoner had several times before been at the
court, Mr. Tyrwhitt committed her for three months with
hard labour.

In the case of one of the women it was stated that she
had been twice in one day charged with drunkenness.