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London, England, 1868-06-18 00:00:00

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TUE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, -186 S,
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY.

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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
ALLEGED CONSPIRACY AGAINST MADAME RACHEL.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—Albert Arthur Crabbe,
accountant, of No. 32, Grayton-row, Kentish
Town, and John Hansen, clerk, of No. 45, Castle-
row, Kentish Town, were charged before Mr. Knox
with assaulting Madame Sarah Rachel and Miss
Leintre Leverson, of No. 50, Maddox-street, Re-
gent-street.
Mr. Sleigh, instructd by Mr. Froggatt, appeared
for the prosecution, and in opening the case said
that in addition to the charge of assault against the
prisoner, he intended to charge the prisoners
with conspiracy together, and endeavouring to ex-
tort from Madame Rachel, the sum of £3OO. Mr
Sleigh then called Madame Rachel, who said :
I am the defendant in a prosecution at this court at
suit of Mrs. Borrodaile. On Tuesday last I was
informed that some one wanted to see me, and I
went into the lobby and saw Crabbe there. lie
wished to see me as he had a communication to
make. I said, " What is your business, sir ?" He
said, " I have a letter in my hand that would im-
plicate 50 people in a conspiracy ; how much will
you give me if I tell where the conspiracy
is being got up for you ?" I said, " I
can't mako you au offer. Step up stairs,
and tell me the amount you require." He said,
" You did quite right in giving up Mr. Lewis, and
you have done wrong in employing your present
solicitors." I said I was satisfied with my present
solicitor, and had nothing to say against Mr. Lewis.
He said, "I am a barrister, but I am not in prac-
tice, and if you will give me a certain sum of
money I will get you out of this." I said, " I dare
not offer you any. What do require of me ?
dare not and will not compromise it ; what is it you
want me to do ?" I asked him his name,
but I don't recollect what be answered. He also
said that he was a Queen's Counsel, but not in prac-
tice. He said, " Give me £3OO or £5OO, and I can
get the affair set on one side, and I will show you
the conditions. I told aim his appearance was
not that of a Queen's Counsel, and asked him to
show me that he was one, and told him that I was
tormented by her, and asked him to show me proofs
• on which I could rely. He said he 'had a friend,
Mr. Warner Sleigh, and having the honour
of knowing Mr. Warner Sleigh, I did not be-
lieve him. I asked him what proof he could
give, that he was not an impostor, and he said,
" Will you take the word of my friend Mr. Warner
Sleigh if d bringßat him ?" and I said L would. He
thenl do not wish to introduce Mrs.
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Borrodaile's name."
Mr. Sleigh—Tell us what occurred ?
Madame Rachel—He said he came from O'Keefe,
Mrs. Borrodaile's man. He said that O'Keefe was
conspiring with a man in Mount-street against
me. He came again later in the day and
said, " Madame Rachel, it will be better for you to
give the £5OO than to be sent to Newgate, where
they want to get you. There is no case of fraud
against you, but they want to have a man beside
you to send for conspiracy." I told him I wanted
some proof he was telling me the truth, and he
then said that O'Keefe and a fishmonger in Mount-
street, a person named Davis, and a good many
others were getting up a conspiracy to place me
in the dock for conspiracy. He said the first
proof he would give me was that he would be
sent with a letter, and that Lambert was to come
and hear what took place, and afterwards Lam-
bert was to pretend he was deaf—Lambert having
formerly been in the police. He then persuaded
solicitors who had got up
the conspiracy against me, and
me again to have nothing to do with my solici-
affairs in his hands,
taonrds,
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and I said it was false.
He then said, " If I give you proof that your own
solicitors have betrayed you will you believe it ?"
I said I would, but that I would not give him any
money. He then said, " I will come here by and
bye and bring a letter about money affairs, and you
can place Mr. Froggatt and Mr. Harper in pri-
son." He tnen said he was not a Queen's
counsel, but was sent by Mr. Harper, and that he
could implicate fifty persons. Oa my returning
home yesterday my daughter told me that she had
received some letters and handed them to ma.
Madame Rachel here accusel her solicitor of
having kept back a letter for her counsel, and went
on to say—Yesterday evening between seven and
eight Crabbe brought Boustoa in, and as there
was some other persona, I do not know what
really occurred. He showed her some papers tied
up with tape, and said it was Mr. Warner Sleigh's
brief, and I said it was not Mr. Warner Sleigh's.
He also said that Houston was Warner Sleigh, but
was to be addressed as Captain --
Madame Rachel gave her evidence in such an un-
intelligible
manner that it was next to impossible to
understand her, and Mr. Sleigh two or three times
threatened to withdraw from the case.
Crabbe— I called on Madame Rachel as a friend
and told her that I did not want any money from
her.

BANQUET TO HER MA JESTPs
MINISTERS.

Last night the Merchaut Taylors' Company, s
corporation thoroughly Conservative i n its political
views, gave a banquet in honour of her Majesty's
Ministers, The Master of the COI npany, J. T.
Fletcher, Esq., filled the chair. About 300 invita-

dons were sent out, and, with oire Or two exceptions:
all responded.