The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-11 00:00:00

POLICE 11\rl'ELltGENCE
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.iVilliam George kerritlge, who, !-(1.or readers of re,;•
member, wag some deye since remanded on a cherge or e. r..
1941., the property of his employelse.MeiSiZ
and Abbott, solicitors, in. New Inn, wits yestertley sbrouent
before Mr. Hanes, the sitting 31tteistrate ehasged w
forging the indorsement of 'Air. Charles • Nedion arri,
articled clerk of the atone gentleman. 31r. 'llarlitereite*
vied by, Mr. Butler, attended on the part of the pr054.7.104t vik,,
The Following witnesses were examined
—3l r. I.lnewie
was first veiled. I ani clerk to Alessre Wiltods,?itallifett
filouceNteir ; Mr. lien. Hooper Wiltoo was the underealserit4felr
the county of Gloucester, in the year 18;22. I received an anent,
went, in the case of Doe, 41. Smith, e. %Villein, Barnes, wlii
was eon (hewn_ by Alessre. Jenkins anti Abbott,. of Nip. o;'tievi
Inn, ,elicitors. •ft was ill 4 letter, and messier .4451. 4x.. tid,
pureuance or rule of Court, awl for ! N if. s'. 11. costS. levy was nestle under the attachment and the money paid: 01",
the 24th of Februery, 1823, 1 remitted to'. Jenkins and Co; •14
the post,• a draft; which 1 believe to be the one now protitieede
It•was ter the sum of OW. rigs 4d. which, without elle 424.
was the amount of the money payable to them. That letter
now produced I believe to be the. one hi which 1 trattemittett
it. By the return of the post, I received, on the 26tle
February, a letter ack nowletlging the receipt of the remittent::,.
—3lr. Jenkins, a partner fu the brut Jenkitur and Abbots,
was next called. The letter Marked A, never came to my hand
1 can swear to that positively ; it was never brought to the :toe
count; the hill for 681. tie. 4d. has never been brought se use
account ; we lied an articled clerk named Charles Ned n_
Jaineg: The indorsement on the bill is nut his hand-writieg ;
I believe the indorsement to be the lilted-writing of the pri-
soner Kerritlge. The latter marked li (that received by tr
last witness) is the hand-writing of the prisoner; he nos
intrusted to indorse any bills which had been paid to the arm.
31 r. King, a gentleman holding the sittutuon of cashier
is
the office of Jenkins and Abbott, appeared. Accord-
ing to the course of' the office, any bills which are transmitted
to
the firm would come into my hands, whether they were ecceiv.
ed by the principals or any of the clerks ; this bill produc:(l
never came into my hands ; • the amount of it was never taken
into account; I know the band-writing of Charles N. Jame.,
who is an articled clerk to 3lessrs. Jenkins end Abbott; the
indorsement on the bill is not his ; I know the hand-writing of
Kerridge, the prisoner, and I believe it to be his.—elli.
ley. lam a clerk to Messrs. Jones, Lloyd, and Co., Banker;,
Lothbury ; they are agents for Wilton and Co. Gloucestsr.- -
On the 11th of March, 1823, that being the 'day on which it
would become due front the time rue which it waa drawn, ,the
bill produced was presented. The person who 'interned it pre •
sented a check for 71. 1 at the same tittle.—Jatnes
called ; 1 inn one of the Getters! Postmen employed in the Post-'
office; I was in that situation in the month of Pebruarye'llisi:;-
The house of Mews. Jenkins and Abbott,' No.
8, New Inn, eta
in my wall: as a postman of the early 'delivery. 1 remember'
the prisoner. 1 delivered him letttas frequently • 1 have like-
wise'delivered hint letters before I reaehed the office, when I
have met hiM, which were directed to Messrs. Jenkini anti
Abbott. The letter marked A, uppears to have passed through
the General Post-office. iliave, when 1 have met him, delivers,
ed him letters, Whidi he has returned to tee, and told me, I
might carry iem to the office. •
The last witness on thitecharge was James Gardiner, a eery
active officer of this establishment; I searched the lottginge
vi
etlilael•Proritssd°n;eriiia,otullndo.tsh, Princes:
eietttermstlrirekeet,dl.4.l;tilte
jrnlouoedrltin:wdt,i.itte,
back room on the tirselloor.
The case on the part of the prosecution being now cloSede
Mr. HALLS called on the prisoner to state whether he wished
to urge any thing in his detimee ut present.
The prisoner said lie had nothing to urge, but he had hoped,
that as he had freely contesaed every thing, and bad given top
the papers, Messrs. Jenkins and Abbott would not, from ,a re-;
collection of his long services, have been induced to take sueliste
proceeding as the present againstbini. '
Mr. HALLS said, those were topics on width he could hear
no remarks. He had a certain duty to perrorm, which, how.; ever unpleasant, to his feelings, was indispensable. •
.31r. HAUMER, as die solicitor of Mesas. Joplin* -.wick
Abbott, said, his clients felt hurt at having an imputation like
that which had fallen from the prisoner cast upon them. They
had been so continually anal .so extensively robbed by. elm preas
tenter and other persons, that they felt bound to posectite tie a
duty they owed to the public and theinselves.
31r. Ilenns said, the most distant impUtation of unkindness could not attach to them. They had trusted a man in their
employment, and he loud betrayed that trust. They ooglit, therefore; fur the sake or the public and themselves; to -brink'
him before a Jury. Ilows is fact, were men in extensive pricee
nee, like the prosecutors, to be safe from ruin when, the very,
persons they employed confidentially were their 'worst 'enatilieS?:
The parties were then bound over to prosecute.-
A .sectond case of embezelement or a cliecree, for the atriottets
of 120/.'was proved against the prisoner. Messrs. jtaikins antl;
Abbott were concerned ter the plaintiff, in the cage of Payne
'arid Pereott, and in it their clitht yeas select gain). • The active Was finally settled, and the cheque in question paid to the.
prisoner. .For this he never accimitted either to the partners or
to the'cashier.—The prisoner ate titeli fully' couiniittcti for trief
at the epprtnichingeOhl Seeviottst. • "We understand that this untertneete nein has a led,' at c.
six children. •
• .31.111LBO1t.OU(rH-STIILET.
Yeetertlity too, a pretty-looking girl, about It:,
yours of age, was brought up ter, stealing g ,shawl belonging to
her aunt, and aorne-property belonging to her father.
The officer, upon plaeing the prisoner at the bur, inlet:wee
the Magistrate in .what degree of relationship the prosecutor,
stood to the prisoner; when 111 r. CONANT asked then) ther they had made up their entitle' e '
l Prosecute for the rest.
'
tionship,wns.so close, that no•Magietrate, however bad the ,ii'd'-
miht-ht.be, would advise them to prosecute. - The prisoner's rather remained silent; hut the aunt, an ape:
tiquatted Maiden, in a :thrill voice said that she' by .dl meeria -
would prosecute. The prisoner, she said, had received a fell.
egiouseducation' but it watt of no :1110 would,bringdis-'
grace on all the family.
Coxax'e-eA"ou will heve negolo the Old Dailey:
Miss llinton-1 do not want to carry it so far as thet, I ally •
went her ..to have a twelvemonth's imprisonment; it will jaVe
her from the gallows.
Mr. CONANT having desired the father and sent to go cut, •
interrogated the girl, who etated•that she hed lived in service
in
Bath and in London, but being out of a situation she had taken
the shawl, as she hail no means of present support. The father
WAS then desired to come in, when the 'worthy Magistrate ob-
served that he was too much under the influence or his sister,
who, instead of being b 0 inveterate against her niece, ought
linve acted the part of e Mother. •to
Hinton, in reply, seited that 114 sister was in setvice, that hi%
' daughter had slept where she lived,: that some things had beset
missing, and that his sister's suspicions lutd fallen Ott Wl*
daughter; besides, she had staid out at night, and he was fear.:
NI of the consequence.
Mr. CONANT—WeII, I will commit her to the House of
Correction tOr a month, and in the meats while 1 will see the
Clergyman, and he shall exhort her to follow a better' line of
fife, and if hi* advice•huve the good effect which I hope for,
she shall be liberated perhaps in a week.
The girl was then cotnnotted for a month, with order* to be
kept by herself.

NIESsnS. O'CONNELL AND LEYNE,—On Fri.
day last, Mr. Maurice O'Connell was taken into
custody, in the neighbourhood of Yntlee, and
upon being brought before the Provost, was
hound OVer to keep the peace for one-year, e)
Mr. Leyne, himself in WOOL, and two sureties,
Mr. Thomas Fitzsimon and Mr. John Primrose,
iu 00/. each.--(Dublin Freeman's Journal.)
SWALLOW.SVIEET Cu, PEL.—A Meeting took
place last night of a con!ideruble number of
ffientbei and. seat holders, who are•dissatisfied
with ahe proceedings in calling a Minister to the
above Chapel, when it was unanimously resolved
to lay their grievanves before the, Scottish Pres. •
',very in Lundou.—Roisuns -of protest against
the call were drawn up far signature by the
tubers, and a petition wOS franwd for the seat.
holds rs, 14 h." claim equally with members the
right of voting in the election of the Mini ter.