The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-28 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

FOUGEItY AND EMBEZZLEMENT. —Two young men, Thomas
Henry and John Bennett, have been committed for trial
by the Lord Mayor, the former on a charge of embezzling
and stealing several valuable securities, namely, bankers'
cheques, for the payment of about £BOO, and with forging
an endorsement to a cheque for £35 Os. 10d. with intent to
defraud; the latter on a charge of feloniously receiving
the cheques with a guilty knowledge. A systematic scheme
of fraud was exposed in the evidence.

THE ALLEGED FRAUD IN CONNECTION ITII THE
SAVILLE HOUSE FIRE. —The charge of having made a
fraudulent claim upon the gas-light and coke com-
pany arising out of the fire at Saville House, Leicester-
square, has come before the magistrate at Marlborough-
street for the last time. Mr. Morris, the accused
(who, through Mr. Lewis, his attorney, denied having
,been accessory in any way to sending in the fraudulent
claim), was committed for trial at the Central Criminal
Court.

POISONING.—A horrible tragedy in low life has just
taken place in Lincolnshire, near Boston. Richard
Biggadike, an agricultural labourer, aged 30, with a
wife and three children, lived in a hut, with
only one bedroom. Notwithstanding that. he had
two lodgers, one a labourer, named Proctor, aged
30, and the other a fisherman, and all slept in
the one room, the two beds which accommodated them
being only eighteen inches apart. It is not surprising
that an improper intimacy sprung up between Mrs.
Biggadike and Proctor ; and the husband becoming
jealous and troublesome, they seem to have agreed
upon murdering him. lle was suddenly taken ill
one night after tea, and died in twelve hours, as
it was proved at the inquest, of arsenical poisoning.
Indeed, Professor Taylor said he had never met with so
clear a case. The woman was taken into custody, and
made a statement to the effect that she saw Proctor put a
white powder into deceased's tea, and, after he was ill,
into the medicine sent him by the doctor ; upon which
Proctor was apprehended. The jury returned a verdict of
wilful murder against both, and they were commitfad for
trial.

ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.— Mr. Commissioner Kerr
has just sentenced a young man to five years' penal servi-
tude and forty btripc3 with a " cat, " for an ag„grarated
azslult upon an old lady.

TELEGIUMIC SYSTR3I IN FRANCE. —Le a aulois

gives ns'sonle curious revelations as regards the working
of the tole graph in France. An calitor of a. French
paper receives a teleram conveying, the an-
nouncement of an interesting; event. Tho editor
Publishes the news at his own risk. Despatches
Arc rc.ceivcd by a clerk who, after having reproduced
them, or printed them by means of the Ilughes
apparatus, hands theee strips of paper to a postman, who
takes them to the oflice. There they are inspected and
their fate decided—that is, whether they be sent direct to
the Ministire dePint6rieur or whether they be allowed to
reach the person to whom they are addressed. Supposing
—and this is not the case—that all despatches are returned
to their original destination, the process of inspection con-
stantly necessitates a delay of twenty-four, thirty, and
even forty boars. Two facts are obvious, the first being
the violation of the professed secrecy cf us telegraphic
office, and secondly, that the public cann( depend on the
telegraph as a means of transmitting i,ni—u.lnt news.