The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-16 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Jan. 15.

MANSION.HOUSZ—CHARGE OF FORGERY.—Ed-
ward Horace Montefiore, described as a civil engineer,
was again brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with
having uttered a forged bill of exchange for 5,3001., with
intent to defraud the Cape of Good Hope Bank, Cape
Town ; also with having obtained the sum of 7941. from
the said bank, by means of a forged letter of credit, pur-
porting to be from the London and Westminster Bank,
Lothbury ; and also with obtaining EL from Messrs.
Hamilton and Rims, merchants, Cape Town, by means of
a forged letter purporting to be from Messrs.. Guthrie
and Chalmers, merchants, London. _ _

Evidence in support of these several charges had been
gone into very fully on previous occasions; and on Sa
turday last the prisoner was remanded in order to give
the Lord Mayor time for consideration upon points
which had been raised by Mr. Lewis for the defence, in
questioning the jurisdiction of the court.
Upon the prisoner being now placed at the bar,
The Lord Mayor said ho had given very full attention
to the case since the prisoner was last before him, and
from the facts adduced, had come to the conclusion that
he had no jurisdiction, and that, therefore, the prisoner
must be dicharged. . _ _

Mr. Itoy, solicitor to the London and Westminster
Bank, said be wished before the prisoner was discharged
to thank the Lord Mayor, in the name of that establish-
ment, as well as on behalf of Mesrs. Baring and Co.,
and Messrs. Chalmers, for the patient attention which be
had given to the case, and also to f tate that the London
and Westminster Bank had instituted the prosecution
solely upon public grounds. Neither that bank nor
either of the firms to which he bad referred had lest a
shilling by the prisoner, but as ho had made use of their
names in carrying out his trai-isactious, they had thought
it due to public justice to proceed as they bad denae.
The prisoner then quitted the bar, and was accompa-
nied from the court by Scott, the detective, who had him
in charge, through the clerk's room. He took the offi-
cer's arm as soon as they were dear of the outer door,
and went chatting and laughiJig down the steps leading
to the street, when, to his surprise, he was tapped on
the shoulder by a sheriff's officer, who arrested him for
a deb; of 250/ , at the suit of a gentleman in the Isle of
Wight, of whom he had bought a vessel' for 3001., for
which he paid 50/. in cash, and gave his acceptance for
the balance, payable at the Bank of England, where he
had no account.

GUILDHALL.—ROBBING AN EMPLOYER. —George
Martin, a man in the employ of Mr. Win. Clark, of
Unioe.street, Blackfriars, was placed at the bar before
Sir R. W. Carden, charged with stealing a quantity of
type, the property of his master.
dr. Taylor said he was manager to Mr. (lark, in
whose employ the prisoner had been about four months.
In consequence of having missed some type, witness
suspected the prisoner and watched him accordingly,
when he was leaving his work witness stopped him, and
inquired if he bad any objection to be searched, upon
hearing which the; Prisoner almost fainted, and then
took off his coat, in iht: pockets of which several pieces
of metal, stereotype-blcck:3 and type, belonging to Mr.
Clark, were found. The weight of the metal so discovered
was about 12ibe. The prisoner begged to be forgiven ;
but as Mr. Clark bad been robbed of similar property
to the arnouut of about 1001., lie felt it Lie duty to give
the prisoner into custody.
Sir R. W. Carden said this was one of those ewes
in which the injury done to the towter was considerably
greater than any pecuniary benefit the prisoner cou.LI
obtain by plundering his employer, as the property
stolen was of little value when said as old metal com-
pared to the value of it to Mr. Clark. He should,
therefore, send the case for a jury to deal with.
The prisoner was there committed I,r trial.
ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF TYPE.—JOh.TI Junes, a lad
17 years of age, was brought Up charged with having
a quantity of type in his possession supposed to be stolen.
Police-constable Hubb:e 149, said be saw the prisoner
offering the typo metal for sale, and took him into
custody.
The prisoner refused his address, and on being asked
in whose empl,y he had been, he declined to give his j
master's name.

Sir R. W. Carden said, if the prisoner would not
say fcr whom he had worked, it would be necessary to
fled his master for him. He, therefore, remanded
the prisoner till Saturday.
ALLEGED DETENTION OF PAIIOELS.—On Wednesday,
just before the alderman left the bench, a gentleman,
who stated he was the manager of Messrs. Holloway's
establishment, near Temple-bar, applied fiat the tnagis.
trate's advice and assistance, under the following circum-
stances

Ho stated that they had vent about 900 parcels to Mr.
Crouch, the railway carrier, of Beth-street, Nevegate-
street, for delivery in different parts of the country, and,
notwithstanding the carriage had bee❑ paid upon all of
them, comer us complaints had been received by Messrs,
Holloway of the non-delivery of parcels. He the (ma-
naget) accordingly proceeded to Mr. Crouch's premises,
in Bath-street, and, on inquiring fur the goods in ques-
tion, he was informed that a few packages in the front
°trice were all the goods they bad by !hem. The manager,
however, stated that he found about 150 parcele, and
upon which upwards of 121. for carriage kiwi been paid.
Some of these p.ickages had been sent to N.Jr. Crunch's
as long as four months ago. Uuder the circurastanc,s,
he took away the 150 parcels belonging to Messrs. Hol-
loway, and now wished to know what redress he had in
the matter.

S.r It. VT. Carden said it was a very extraordinary
circurnstatice, but he had no power to interfere in the
matter. If Messrs. liolloway had not taken back the
150 parcels they might have had a summons for unlaw-
fully detaining the goods, but at present the only remedy
they had was by a civil action to recover the 12/. fur
carriage of tho goods in
,question, and the amount for
da-nage these goods bad sustained by the neglect of the
party cotnplaired

The applicant said it was a very important matter, and
he thought it his duty to make it public.
The applicant then retired.

CLE RIK EN WELL.—EuRoas IN THE OFFICIAL BOOK
OF •Cnie FARES.—Dr. O'Connor, of Montague-street,
Montague-square, one of the physicians of the Royal
Free Hospital, Gray's Inn-road, who was summoned last
week by William Clarke, a cabmau, badge 390, for re-
fusing to pay him his legal fare of 61., but whose case
was remanthel for the purpose of having the ground
measured, again attended before Mr. Tyrwhitt to hear
his decision.
This case has excited a considerable degree
and this was the third time that it has been
interest,
before the
Court. It appeared that Dr. O'Connor has frequently
ridden is a cab from the stand at the corner of Francis-
street, Tottenham-court-road, to the Royal Free Hospi-
tal, for which he has paid a fare of 6d. Some weeks
back cabman William Clarke, 390, obtained two sum-
monses against him for two faros of Gel. each, which, on
being heard before Mr. Tyrwhite were decided accord.
ing to the official book of cab fares, which states the
wstance to be 420 yards more than a mile, and De,
O'Connor was obliged to pay Bs., including the costs of
the two summonses, the cabman's loss of time, and the
two sums demanded. In a few days after, Dr. O'Con-
nor appeared at this office before Mr. Tyrwhitt, when
he stated that, having some doubts as to the correctness
of the book, he walked the distance in 1,582 steps, and
subsequently had the ground measured by a competent
person on two several occasions, when it was found to
ee only 1,580 yards, that is, 180 less than a mile, and
he therefore thought the case a fit one for re-investiga
do n. This the magistrate declined doing, and Dr.
O'Connor continued to ride the same distance, giving
only sixpence for the fare, with the view of again bring-
ing the matter under the notice of the magistrate fur
further investigation. 'iLast Monday week Dr. O'Con-
nor got into the cab, 390, the driver of which had pre-
viously summoned him to this court, and, on refusing to
pay more than Gd., another summons was issued against
him, which came on for hearing on Wednesday week, on
which day it was arranged that the ground should be
measured by the officer of the court, and it was accord-
ingly adjourned for further hearing, when the magis-
trate, alter the officer of the court had stated that be
measured the ground, and found it to be 390 yards short
of a mile, that the book was wrong, and therefore his
jugdment must be in favour of Dr. O'Connor and against
the cabman.

The cabman of jected to the decision as being in op.
position to the act, which stated that the official book of
the commissioners was to be considered coaolusive in all
ca, es of disputed fares.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said that view was pet f.ctly vrrect un.
til the book was sound to be wrong. In this case, owing
to some accident, he supposed, the book is found to be