The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-10 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-Aug. 9.

MANSION-HOUSE.—William Whebley Hebb
was charged with having, on the 19th of Jan. last,
forged a transfer of £5OO Three per Cent. Consols,
with intent to defraud the Governor and Company
of the Bank of England.
Mr. Freshfield appeared to conduct the case for
the prosecution. The prisoner was undefended.
Michael Haydon, detective, said—l produce a
warrant signed by the Lord Mayor, upon which I
apprehended the prisoner on Monday morning,
about one o'clock, at the King's Head Hotel,
Worcester-street, Birmingham. I read the war-
rant to him, addressing him as if I knew him to be
the person mentioned in it. He said, "My name
is not Hebb, and you make a great mistake. I
know nothing ut all about it. My name is Seward ;
lam a commercial traveller. lam well known in
Birmigham, and have been staying here for some
tune. I will not hear anything more •that you
have to say." He then rose from his chair to leave
the room, but I prevented him from doing so, and
told him that, from inquiries I had made, I felt
quite convinced that he was Mr. Hebb, and that he
must therefore consider himself in custody upon the
charge, and proceed with me at once to London.
He then said. " You have told me quite enough.
I will go with you quietly ; but I have one favour
to ask of you, and that is that you will treat me as
a gentleman." He then came quietly with me to
London, to the Bow-lane station, where he gave
the name of Ralph Seward, but after having read
the warrant, which he requested permission to do,
he gave the name of William Whebley Hebb, and
the charge was booked against him in that name.
I searched him, but found nothing upon him con-
nected with this charge.
Mr. 1). Whaley—l am acting superintendent at
the Three per Cent. Consols-office, Bank of Eng-
land. On the 19th of January last there was a
sum of £3,807 17s. standing in the name of John
Hebb, Middle Brunswick-terrace, Islington. On
the same day a sum of £5OO, part of that amount,
was transferred. I produce the transfer-book in
which the transfer purports to be signed " John
Hebb."

Mr. Johnson, clerk in the Consols-office, deposed
that he attested the signature of " John Hebb" in
the transfer-book produced by the previous witness.
John Hebb—l am an architect, and formerly
lived at Middle Brunswick-terrace, Islington.
On the 19th of January last I was possessed of the
sum of £3,807 17s. in Three per Cent. Consols.
I did not on that day transfer £5OO of that
stock, and the signature to the transfer in the
book produced is not in my handwriting, nor was
it written by my authority. The prisoner at the bar
is related to me, and I have seen him write repeat-
edly. The signature resembles his handwriting,
and I believe it to be his. (The prisoner and this
witness are brothers).
Mr. F. Stackman,_ share-dealer, 19, Gresham-
street—l know the prisoner, and have known him
these 10 or 12 years as Mr. Hebb, but I do not
know his Christian name. On or about the 19th
of January last he came to my office to speak to me
about somes mines, and at the same time he asked
me to recommend him to a broker. I gave him my
card, upon which I wrote " Mr. Peake—Mr.
Hebb," as an introduction, but I did not write the
words " Middle Brunswick-terrace, Islington,"
which now appear on the card after the word
"Hebb." The prisoner then left my office, and I
have not seen him since until now.

Thomas Peake, broker—The prisoner came to me
on the 19th of January and gave me the card pro-
duced. He said he wished to sell £5OO stock, upon
which I gave him the price, and prepared the
tickets under his instructions. I forwarded the
ticket to the Bank of England, and when the trans-
fer was ready I went with him to the Bank, where
I signed my name to the transfer book to attest his
identity. I then gave him a cheque for £479 12s.
6d., which has since been returned to me as paid
by my bankers. He endorsed the cheque " John
Hebb" in my presence.
This finished the case for the prosecution, and,
in reply to the usual questions whether he had
anything to say in answer to the charge,
The prisoner said—l won't say anything at pre-
sent, my lord, but I wish to ask you to direct that
a watch and a little silver which the officer took
from me may be given up. The watch belongs to
my wife, and has nothig at all to do with this
charge.

Sir: H. Muggeridge—l can make no order of the
kind.

Haydon—l should say, my lord, that the pri-
soner has told me about a place where he says I can
find £4O in gold and five Napoleons, which he has
secreted ; but I have not yet had time to search.
With regard to the watch, from inquiries I have
made, I have every reason to believe that it does
belong to his wife, and it is only a silver one.
Sir 11. lluggeridge—l shall make no order
about it.

The prisoner was then committed for trial.

GUILDHALL—Thomas Evans was charged with
stealing pewter pots.
William Terry, barman to Mr. Tubb, of the
Three Cranes public-house in Watling-street, said
the prisoner came into their house on Friday last
about one o'clock and called for a half-pint of porter.
He sat in front of the bar, and after drinking his
beer he put the half-pint pewter measure into his
hat, and witness immediately gave him into custody.
He had seen the prisoner there on the previous
Wednesday. They had missed a great number of
pewter pots. On being searched at the station-
house three pewter pots were found upon the
prisoner.
Sergeant Sheppard, 32, said the prisoner was con-
victed at the Old Bailey in 1856 of pot stealing,
and sentenced to four months imprisonment with
hard labour.

It was stated in the course of the case that some
publicans were plundered to a great extent in this
way, and one of the owners of the pots round on
the prisoner said he had lost as many as 20 dozen
in three or four months; the pots were worth 2s. 6d.
each, and when destroyed by this class of thieves
they were sold for 4d. each.
Sir It. Carden said he should send the prisoner
for i
trial. In this case there was ample proof, in
the number of pots found on the prisoner, of the
amount of mischief he had inflicted in one morning,
but unfortunately that was not the extent of the
evil, for the metal obtained from the purloined pots
was again circulated in the shape of counterfeit

coin.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.
Joseph Warmington, a journeyman bootmaker,
was charged with absconding with a letter con-
taining a check and bank-notes to the value 0f.£70,
belonging to his master.
Superintendent Radford, of the Chesterfield
police force, said—ln the early part of July last the
prisoner came to the police-office at Chesterfield,
and stated he had been in the employ of Mr. Lloyd,
a bootmaker, of Newgate-street, London, and that
he had absconded with three £lO Bank of England
notes, and two for £5 each, which he had been in-
trusted with by his master for a special purpose.
He was taken before the magistrate and remanded
several times, and in the meantime Mr. Lloyd was
communicated Wilt, and, in accordance with the
instructions received from that gentleman, the
pri-
soner was sent up to be dealt with hero.
Joseph Rice said he managed Mr. Lloyd's busi-
ness, and in 1857 the prisoner was employed in the
establishment. In the early part of that year he
gave the prisoner a letter containing bank-notes to
the amount of £4O, and a crossed check for £3O,
addressed to Mr. Lloyd at Northampton, with in-
structions to get the letter registered. He did not
post that letter, but he made up dummy letter,
which he got registered instead anda Mr. Lloyd re-
ceived it. The prisoner came bak and remained
in the shop about an hour and a-half,e and then went
out to get his tea, and never returned. The check
was afterwards returned by the prisoner to Mr.
Lloyd.
The prisoner had nothing t,) say in answer to the
charge, and was committed for trial.
Ann Jones was charged with robbing a gentle-
mull of £6.
Mr. Lewis Henry Myers said he was a general
merchant and warehouseman at 13,) Church-lane,
Whitechapel, and on Sunday night a out lOo'clock,
as he \vas passing through Bartholomew-close, the
prisoner came up and said she thought she knew
him, hut he informed her she was mistaken.
his She, however, persisted in making acquaint-
ance, and with great pertinacity
mostpulled
loving
vhi
ni mg
to her, and clung to him in
manner. He, however, thehe
pushed her away two
or three times, and at length she sud-
denly let go her hold of him and ran away,
and the next instant a man, whom he had pre-
viously observed loiterii,very suspiciously near
them, came up and knockedg him down with. great
violence. He got up, and, on missing a canvas bag

containing six sovereigns, called aloud " Stop
thief !" and gave chase to the man, who succeeded
in making his escape. Ile afterwards accompanied
the officer, Serjeant Baldwin, 58, to a beershop in
the neighbourhood, where they found the prisoner,
and charged her with the robbery. She at first
denied it, but shortly afterwards she slipped the
six sovereigns and a shilling into the prosecutor's
hand, and begged him not to give her into custody,
as she had two children at home dying.
Sergeant Baldwin, 58, said he found the canvas
bag on the spot where the prisoner had been stand-
ing at the time she was accused.
The prosecutor said it would be very inconvenient
for him to attend upon a trial at the Old Bailey,
and he would, therefore, rather withdraw the
charge.
Sir R. W. Carden said it was a most daring rob-
bery, and he could not permit the prisoner to escape
in that way, he therefore committed her for trial,
and bound the prosecutor in his own recognizances
of £lOO to attend and prosecute.

THAMES.--A tall and powerful negro, who
gave the name of Daniel Kelly, was charged with
assaulting John Barry, a labourer, and biting away
part of his left ear.
The complainant, whose left ear had been in the
hands of a surgeon, stated that the prisoner was
ill-using a young man. He interfered, and the pri-
soner struck him on the face with his fist, and then
seized his left ear with his teeth and bit a piece off
the top of it, and then took a second bite and tore
the ear right away.
The prisoner said he was a sailor, and came to
England in a ship from Sierra Leone, and was
going back to his native place in a ship in the
Commercial Dock. He told a long rambling tale
about a quarrel between some men and women.
He was attacked and beaten very severely, and
the complainant was one who struck him.
Mr. Selfe asked the prisoner if he could make
any compensation to the complainant ; to which he
replied that he had no money or the means of get-
ting any ; on which the magistrate said that Barry
was a disorderly person, no doubt, but that was no
reason his ear should be bitten and torn. He fined
the prisoner 405., and in default three weeks' im-
prisonment.
Charles Manners, a tall, powerful man, aged 31,
and described as a labourer, of Folly-cottage, Isle
of Dogs, Poplar, was charged with cutting and
wounding James Creed, a labourer, with intent to
murder him or do grievous bodily harm.
The prosecutor, who had received two fearful
blows on the top of his head, which was covered
with surgical plasters, was in a very weakly con-
dition from loss of blood. It appeared that he was
in the service of Mr. Ross, a stone merchant, of
Poplar. The prisoner was also in the service of the
same gentleman up to Saturday night, when he was
discharged aid he came to the conclusion that
Creed had prevented him obtaining certain work,
the delivery of certain barges laden with stone, and
had also procured his discharge. Creed, however,
denied that he had interfered with the prisoner or
caused his dismissal. Manners had frequently ex-
hibited a deadly hostility towards Creed, who went
in great fear of him. On Monday morning Creed
was employed in removing stone from a barge on
the river at Poplar, and the prisoner came upon the
wharf in an infuriated state, and raising a hammer
made use of the most deadly threats against Creed,
and said he would hammer his brains out before he
left off work. At two o'clock the prisoner again came
to the place, and repeated his threats, and he was
with difficulty prevented from boarding the barge
on which Creed was employed and attacking him.
Among other threats he said, " I will scatter your
blood and brains about the street. I will have
my revenge ; this hammer shall do the work."
Creed made no reply to the invectives and threats
of the prisoner. The prisoner came to the wharf
a third time, shortly before four o'clock in the
afternoon ; he appeared to be maddened with rage,
and to have been drinking to excess. He swore,
raved, cursed, and blasphemed in an awful manner,
and brandishing the hammer exclaimed, " May
God strike me dead and stone blind, deaf, and dumb,
if I don't settle Creed before he goes home." He
also said he meant murder. No notice was taken
of his ravings, and about 5 o'clock Creed left the
barge on which he had been working for the pur-
pose of going home. He had scarcely touched the
shore when the prisoner rushed upon him and
struck him a tremendous blow on the top of the
head with a heavy iron hammer. The blow felled
the unfortunate prosecutor to the ground, and the
blood gushed copiously from the wound. The man
lay stunned upon the ground for some time, with
the prisoner standing over him, and when he was
about to rise the prisoner again struck him on the
head with the hammer, and again felled him to the
ground. The wounded man was insensible for some
time afterwards, and was removed to the hospital,
where his wounds were dressed. The prisoner re-
placed his hammer in his pocket and walked home
after he had committed the outrage. He was cap-
tured the same night.
The prisoner said that Creed had injured him,
and caused him to be dismissed from the service of
Mr. Ross. Creed had assaulted him awfully—first
with a hammer, and secondly with a stone, a year
ago, but he did not prosecute him. The hammer
used by Creed was heavier than the one he carried
on Monday night.
Mr. Selfe committed the prisoner for trial on the
charge of wounding Creed with intent to murder
him or do grievous bodily harm.