The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-16 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-July 15.

MANSION-HOUSE.—.A stylishly dressed young
man, named Charles Denton, aged 21, was brought
before the Lord Mayor to undergo a preliminary
examination on a charge of having appropriated to
his own use the proceeds of a bill of exchange for
£142 15s. 6d. and £4O in Bank of England notes,
which had been entrusted to him to pay into Messrs.
Willis and Percival's Bank, and also with embez-
zling several sums of money belonging to his em-
ployer, Mr. A. Le Blond, Budge-row, engraver and
printer.

It appeared the prisoner was in the service of Mr.
Le Blond as clerk, and on the 25th May that gen-
tleman gave him a bill of exchange for £142 15s.
6d., and £4O in bank notes. After that time the
prisoner absented himself from business on the plea
of illness, and during his absence Mr. Le Blond as-
cErtained that the two amounts had not been paid
in. On the prisoner's return to business on Wed-
nesday last he spoke to him about it, and charged
him with detaining it, and he said he had done so,
and was ashamed of himself for having done so.
Mr. Le Blond told him to make out a list of his de-
falcations and take it to him on Monday (yester-
day), and he would consider in the meanwhile what
he should do. The prisoner gave him a list yester-
day of a number of customers from whom he had
received money, and he gave him into custody.
Upon that evidence the prisoner was remanded,
in order that further inquiries might be made.

GUILDHALL.—David Griffiths Jones, of 43,
Woburn-place, was brought up before Alderman
Hale for further examination, relative to the charge
of feloniously forging and uttering a certain docu-
ment purporting to be the last will and testament
of Mrs. Sophia Bellis, deceased.

Mr. Gifford, instructed by Mr. Humphreys, jun.,
of the firm of Humphreys, Son, and Morgan, con-
ducted the prosecution for the Solicitor to the Trea-
sury, under the order of the Attorney-General ; and
Mr. Sleigh, instructed by Mr. Lewis, jun., and Mr.
Fitch appeared for the defence.
The evidence taken on Saturday having been
read over,
Dr. Murphy, of 59, Berkeley-street,
IPaotrtetmndaenc:
square, was called and said—l have never seen Dr.
Jones write, and I only recollect receiving one note
from him on professional business, which
to for him. I do not know suffioient of his hand-
writing to swear to it, and give my belief upon it.
I was called to 43, Woburn-place, on the night of
the 13th, or rather about 1 o'clock in the morning
of the 14th Februarsyiekiltatysd, butseet,tol
was called to ace adid
her name at that time. She appeared very weak,
and I told her so, and not being able to speak she
She did not
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a.rd no mention
will while I was there. I recommended
claret and beef tea. She showed no symptoms of

immediate death. I called on the following day—
that is, about 2 o'clock on the 14th—to inquire for
her, and was informed she was dead.
Cross-examined—When I recommended claret a
lady who was near the patient's bed said, 6, she pre-
fers port," but I did not hear the patient speak.
She might have spoken to others without my hear-
ing her, as I was standing near the fireplace.
Horace Hope Bloxam said—l am a cashier at
the Argyll-place branch of the Union Bank of
London. The late Mrs. Sophia Bellis kept an
account at our bank. I have paid cheques
bearing her signature. She usually signed her name
"S. Bellis." The signature to the alleged original
will produced does not resemble Mrs. Bellis's hand-
writing. It does not resemble her writing in the
formation even of the letters. I would not have
paid a cheque signed like the will produced.
Frederick Thomas Burton said—l am a cashier
in the Union Bank of London. I have been in the
habit of paying cheques drawn by the late Mrs.
Sophia Bellis. I have looked at the signature of
the supposed will and I certainly should not have
recognised it as her writing. I should not have
honoured a cheque drawn in that way.
Cross.examined—l do not think it is her hand-
writing. The lady used to come to the bank and
draw her cheques in the manager's room, She
never wrote eaeques in my presence.
Herbert Henry Clarke said—l am a clerk in the
bill department of the Union Bank of London. I
have seen the will produced, and in my judgment,
the signature is not in the handwriting of Mrs.
Sophia Bellis. The character of the handwriting:
is scarcely the same.

Cross-examined—l should not feel justified in
paying a cheque upon it. I had read the news-
paper report of Dr. Jones's evidence in the Probate
Court, having been swbpcenaed as a witness, when
I was phown this will, and asked if it wss the sig-
nature of Mrs. Bellis.

Re-examined—l have seen her write in the
manager's room. _ _

Mr. Giffard said he was not prepared to carry'
this case any further at present, and asked for
another remand.

Mr. Sleigh objected to a remand, unless the de-
fendant were admitted to bail, at the same time
urging that he was in a position to prove that the
will was properly executed according to all legal
forms of law.

Alderman Hale declined to accept bail, and re-
manded the prisoner for a week.

LAMBETH.—Mr. Ernest Haines and Mr.
Francis Haines, students at Cambridge, and mem,-
bers of the University Rifle corps, ere charges
with being concerned with others not in custody,
in the commission of riotous and disorderly conduct
in the Anerley Arms Tavern, and also with assault-
ing police-constable 139 P while in the execution
of his duty. __ _

Mr. Archibald Hinton, the proprietor of the
Anerley Arms, said that for several nights last
week he had been subjected to great annoyance by
the conduct of some young men frequenting his
house. At 20 minutes to 12 o'clock on Saturday
night the prisoners came into his house and asked
him if he would provide them with some supper,
stating that they had been to Wimbledon with
their corps, and he told them that he could not do
so, as they could not finish before the hour of
closing, but offered to cut, and did cut them some
sandwich, and served them with some ale at the
bar. Some of the parties became very noisy, and
his remonstrance and repeated requests that they
would leave his house peaceably not being attended
to, and its also exceeding the time for closing, he
sent for a constable to assist him in clearing his
house. On the constable making his appearance the
parties set up a loud cheer and cried out, " Here's a
Bobby, let's gag him." The constable asked them if
they were aware of the time, and asked them to go,
but they refused to do so, and the constable laid
hold of one of the prisoners and got him out of the
house. The others followed, and a considerable dis-
turbance ensued outside, and at length the prisoner
Ernest was brought into the house by the police.
There was a good deal of blood about the prisoner,
and the constable had a cut on his hand, and both
parties were washed and their wounds dressed. la
conclusion, Mr. Hinton said that parties stopping
at his house, as well as those attending public din-
ners, were subjected to great annoyance by the dis-
turbance of these young men, and he should there-
fore feel it to be his duty to these people, as well as
to himself and family, to put an end to the distur-
bance he had comp!ained of.
Benjamin Rhind, the head waiter, corroborated
the statement of his master respecting the early
part of the disturbance, and said that while outside
the prisoner Francis pushed open the door, and
barked like a dog, and this was ten minutes after
twelve. This witness also said the prisoners made
use of vulgar and abusive language.
Mr. Elliot observed that it was much to be re-
grated that aneh things should necur. Something
had been said of a bayonet having been drawn, but
there was no proof of it, and certainly none that.
prisoners had drawn one, or that they used the
sword spoken of. There could be no doubt, how-
ever, that much violence had been used, and for this
the prisoners must pay a penalty of £2 each, or in.
default to be imprisoned for fourteen days.
The penalty was at once paid, and the prisoners
were discharged.

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