The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-27 00:00:00

POLICE MELLIGE'NCE, AFept. 26.

BOW-STREET.—Edmond Wm. Pullen, aged
19, was brought up for further examination,
charged with stealing nearly 1,500 letters, several
of them containing bills and notes to a large
amount, at the General Post-office.

Mr. Peacock, solicitor, conducted the prosecution.
A solicitor's clerk, who said he knew the prisoner
personally, stated that he was authorised to defend
the prisoner:. _ _

lliam T. Riches, clerk to Messrs. Harvey and
Co., bankers, of Thetford, deposed that on the 12th
of September he made up a remittance, by direction
of his employers, for their town agents, Messrs.
Hankey and Co., the amount being £253 10s. in
one bill, and sundry bank-notes, ineluding the two
notes now produced by Smee, the Post-office con-
stable. He enclosed them in an envelope, addressed
to " Messrs. Hankey and Co., London," the address
being printed. He also placed in the same envelope
a printed form, filled up with the particulars of the
remittance, and sealed the envelope with wax. He
posted the letter the same evening, at about 9 or
half-past 9 o'clock, and had not seen it since.

William H. Miller, a clerk at Messrs. Hankey's
bank, in Fenchurch-street, deposed that the letter
and remittance did not come to hand.

Cross-examined—lt could not have been taken
in by any other clerk. Arthur Huggins, letter-
carrier on the Fenchurch-street walk, delivered all
the letters addressed to Messrs. Hankey and Co. on
the 13th of September.
George Adolphus Styland, one of the inspectors
of letter carriers, stated that a letter posted at the
time mentioned by Mr. Riches, at the Post-office at
Thetford, would in due course be received at the
General Post office the next morning in time for
the first delivery. The prisoner was on the Lom-
bard-street walk, which was the next adjoing the
Fenchurch-street one. The letter might have been
sorted to him, as the name of the street was omitted
from the direction. It would be his duty on dis-
covering the error to return it as having been mis-
sorted. It would then be re sorted to Huggins.
That would be done by an experienced sorter, who
would know that Messrs. Hankey's was in Fen-
church-street. If the letter had been fully directed
it would be sorted to Huggins in the first instance.
Mr. Henry said that letters ought always to be
fully directed. Though Messrs. Hankey's firm was
well known, yet the omission of the street gave
much unnecessary trouble at the Post-office, and
delayed the letter till the next delivery. In the
present instance if the letter had been properly
directed it would not have been lost, but would
have been delivered in due course.

Smee, the Post-office constable deposed that on
Monday last he saw the prisoner in the assistants'
room at the General Post-office. He found on him
35 letters of various dates, and a purse containg two
£5 notes, £1 9s. in gold and silver, and a passport
made out in the name of "Miss Isabella Gray!'
The prisoner gave up'to him (Smee) the key of his
closet, in which were found two coats, one official
and one private. In the pockets of the coats, and in
a basket found in the closet, were several bundles
of letters. They were counted, and were found to
be between 1,400 and 1,500.
Mr. Hyland said that he received the key from
Smea.and opended the closet. He assisted in count-
ing the letters. They were of various dates, from
March last till within a few days. Witness had
heard the prisoner say it was his cubpoard. There
were between 1,400 and 1,500 letters in the bundles.
He took them up to Mr. Peacock's office, with the
two coats also found in the closet.

The prisoner, on being asked if he had any an-
swer to the charge, said, " I have nothing to say."
Mr. Peacock said he had now to prefer a charge
against the prisoner of having stolen an ivory
ticket belonging to a subscriber of the Horticul-
tural Society. at Smith Kensington.
Miss Caroline Legrew, 1, Ladbroke-place, Not-
ting•hill, deposed that she was a subscriber to the
Royal Horticultural Society, and the ivory ticket
produced entitled two persons to admission to the
gardens. On the 26th of July she enclosed the
ticket in a letter to Mr. Watkins, Pelican Life-
office, Lombard-street, and posted it herself in
Ladbroke-grove, at the branch office, kept by Miss
Underwood. Witness had not seen it since, until
produced by the officer.
Mr. Henry observed that it was undesirable to
send such tickets through the post-office, as they
might be broken to pieces in the process of stamp-
ing the letters.
It was proved that the prisoner was on duty at
the office on the 27th of July, when this letter
would arrive there.

Mr. Charles Watkins, 3, Relgrave-road, St.
John's-wood, of the Pelican Life-office, deposed that
he never received the ivory ticket which Miss
Legrew sent to him by post.
3mee proved that he found the ivory ticket in
the prisoner's waistcoat pocket when he was
searched at the office on Monday. Witness asked
him how he came to be possessed of it, and he re-
plied, " It was given me by a gentleman in Lom-
bard-street. I do not kr.ow his name or address."

The prisoner having stated that he had nothing
to say in answer to the accusations against him,
was then fully committed for trial on both charges-

MARYLESONE.---Henry Formeson was placed
at the bar, charged with robbery.
It appeared from the evidence that on the same
afternoon Mrs. Moseley, a lady residing at No. 30,
Berners-street, Oxford-street, was walking along
Wimpole-street, accompanied by her daughter,
when the prisoner, in passing her, snatched from
her hand a silver card-case with which he
made off ; a cry of " Stop thief!" was raised, and
the prisoner was captured by Boyle, the Marylebone
beadle, who chanced to be near at hand. As he ran
he threw the case into the road.

The property was produced and identified, and
the prisoner, who pleaded Guilty, was sent to hard
labour in the House of Correction for six months.

WESTMINSTER.—The Rev. Henry Holloway,
charged with numberless railway robberies, under•
went another examination.

Mr. Arnold said that considerable inconvenience
existed at that moment in transacting the business
of the court, owing to both the clerks having been
called away as witnesses. He thought the only
course left open to him was to remand the prisoner.
Mr. Saunders, who appeared for the prosecution,
requested that the evidence of a gentleman named
Busby, a coroner for Derbyshire, who had come to
town expressly as a witness, should be taken.
Mr. Charles Stanhope Burke Busby, residing at
Chesterfield, Derbyshire, said he arrived on Monday
the 19th of August at the Waterloo•station and went
on the platform at half past 6 or a quarter to 7 in
the evening. He had with him three packets—a
portmanteau, a bag, and a roll of coats. Inserted
under the straps of the latter was an umbrella. He
placed his things upon a truck on the platform and
went into the refreshment room, where he remained
nearly three-quarters of an hour. On his return to
the platform all the luggage was there except the
umbrella, which was gone. He subsequently went
to France and Jersey, and on his return found a
letter from Superintendent Carpenter, of the
Brighton police, upon the subject of the missing
umbrella.

In reply to an inquiry from the magistrate, Mr.
Busby explained that he had come from Derby to
King's-cross, and thence proceeded to the Waterloo•
station with his luggage on the 19th.
Cross-examined by Mr. Whiffen for the prisoner.
—He did not notice any one particularly at the
Waterloo-station on the ocaasion in question. There
were several persons sitting d awn, some not unlike
the prisoner; but witness was not prepared to say
that he was one of them. He did not notice two or
three people sitting in the waiting-room.
Allan Gilmore, police constable of the South-
Western Railway, said he was on duty at the
Waterloo terminus on the 19th of August, when a
complaint was made to him of the loss of a dressing
case, as well as of the umbrella. The prisoner was
at the station that night. The witness saw Mr.
Begbie, the gentlemen to whom the dressing-case
belonged, put it on the table in the first-class
waiting-room; it was one just like that he now
held in his hand. Them was only another person
there at the time.

Cross-examined by Mr. Whiffen--The witness
was certain the prisoner was there that night. He
was sitting at the table writing with a pen and ink.
He wore very small spectacles then.
Mr. Saunders requested a summons to compel the
attendance of Mr. Begbie. A razor strop which
had been in the, dressing case was found in the pri-
soner's possession.
Mr. Arnold inquired were the dressing-case pro-
duced had been discovered.

Mr. Saunders said it was found in the Green-
park, and he thought he should be able to prove
that the prisoner put it down. A lady and gentle-
man were sating there, when the prisoner, or a
person answering his description, laid the dressing-
case—which resembles a leathern box—dotn, and
iert it. Every rneins would be used, by advertise-
ment an otherwise, to find the persons who had
seen it left as described.

Mr. Whiffen objected to this statement being
made against his client.

Mr. Arnold observed that it would not affect
him, as it was not being taken down.
Inspector Bent, of the South Western Railway,
said that the dressing case had been identified by
Mr. Begbie.
Application having been made to save Mr. Busby
the inconvenience of another journey to London
before the prisoner's trial,
Mr. Arnold had his deposition formally prepared,
and bound him over to prosecute for the theft of
the umbrella.
The prisoner was not called upon to so/ anything,