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

LAW AND POLICE.

FORGE= AND EMBEZZLE2IENT.—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.

ME ALLEGED FRAUD IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SAVILLE HOUSE FIEE.—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. I\2orris, 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. He 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 committed for
trial.

ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.---Mr. Commissioner Kerr
has just sentenced a young man to five years' penal servi-
tude and forty stripes with a " cat " for an aggravated
assault upon an old lady.

TELEanArmc SY:3TE3I it FRANCE,—..Le Gqtaois
gives us some curious revelations as regards the working
of the telegraph in France. An editor of a French
paper receives a telegram conveying the an-
nouncement of an interesting event. The editor
publishes the • news at his own risk. Despatches
are received by a clerk who, after having reproduced
them, or printed them by means of the Angles
apparatus, bands these strips of paper to a postman, who
takes them to the office. There they are inspected and
their fate decided—that is, whether they be sent direct to
the MinisVze do Plnt6rieur, or whether they be allowed to
scads the person to whom they are addressed. • Supposing
—amid 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 hours. Two facts are obvious, the first being
the violation of the professed secrecy of a telegraphic
office, and secondly, that the public cannot depend on the
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