The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-15 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
Louis Lemoine, and John Thomas Hall, were placed at the
bar, before Mr. Jardine, charged with obtaining shares in the
Port berry Railway under ialse pretences. The case had been
adjourned several times.
William Wood, Clerk to the Great Western Railway Com-
pany, at the offices in West Strand, proved that Messrs. Os-
borne and Co., correspondents of the Company at Fulham, had
written a letter of allotment to a Mr. Dethick, of
Fulham, and that this letter was produced by the prisoner
Lemoine, at the dfiz:e in West. Strand, on the 26th July last.
The prisoner, by means of this letter, obtained ten scrips, but
it having been discovered that he was not the person he repre-
sented himself to be, he was given in charge to a policeman.
George Willis said that he was an assistant to the last
witness, and that on the 26th of July last the pri-
soner Lemoine came to the office, and produced the
allotment letter directed to W. Dethick, and said that he
wished to sign the contract deed. The deed was handed to
' him, and he signed 1. William Dethic," omitting the final 11.
As the name was spelled '° Dethick" in the letter of allotment,
the omis-.ion of the k caused witness to suspect the prisoner was
not the right pers,,n. He express, d his susievi..r, to the prisoner,
who at first se ted that he w.s _•lr. Dethies, but after some
di pure said that he had ht en sent by a person, who had pro..
mised to give him half-a-crown for his trouble. and that that
per,oo was Mr. Dethick. A pel,::em:in was then brought, and
Lemoine was given in charge.
Policeman Messeler, A 41, said that on the 26th of July he
was rent for to take the prisoner into custody on a charge of
forgery. The prisoner said that his name was not Dethick,
but that he had been sent by a man who bad met him in the
street. He then took him to the station at Bow-street. Some
time after that he received infonnati,in from Lemoine, in
consequer ett of which he went to a house in Marylebone, where
he found the other prisoner. He told him that he had come
to arrest him on a charge connected with railway shares, in
which Lemoine was concerned. Hall said that he had sent
Lemoine to get the shares for a third party, named Dethick.
Mr. William Detbick, contractor, of Richmond-road, Ful-
ham, said that he had not authorised either of the prisoners to
obtain shares for him, nor to sign any deed in his name. He
had never applied for shares in the Portberry Pier Railway,
nor had he authorised any person to apply for shares for him or
in his name, in that or in any other railway. He knew nothing
of either of the prisoners.
The letter of application fir the shares was here produced,
and the witness denied having written it. On seeing the al-
lotment letter, he said that it seas directed to him, at his ad-
dress, but teat he had never received it, and now saw it for the
first time.

The prip.onery reserved their defence for the present.
Mr. JARDINE said that there was sufficient evidence to jus-
tify him in commixing the prisoner Lemoine for forgery, and
that by his owu admission to the constable, Hall was an acces-
sory before the fact.

The witnesses were then bound over to prosecute, and the
prisoners removed.

SUN litaiLAN b ELIA, T ON.

(Prom the ,Suncle, land Herald of this day, Friday.)
Yesterd.iy, the pulli,.g took place in various public
buildings appointed by the Mayor. It commenced at
eight o'cl, ek, and the Tories io.it care to have a number
-I their triknds in waiting, and secured an almost entire
nwrgopoly of the voting, f,,r some tone. At hall-bast eight.,
they iss,md a hand bill announcin„ the state of the poll,
and; th,se ch.-) contLued at intervals, some of the state
ineot, being (as usual) gross exaggera:ions. Owing to
the skil'ui mat.ceuvre above alluded to, Colonel Thouip•
,on was at the outset lowest on the poll ; and we regret
that his iri,nds were not able to gain him a better
pkit:on during the day. Shortly atter twelve o'clock
tecame certain that tht- populAr candidate would be
letettted by a iniijority of vote,, though the most active
exertions wt re still petseverrd in to promote the
Colonel's return, or, if this were nut possible, to lesser,
the maj irity of the Tory and monopolist candidate. No
statements were issued by Colonel Thompson's
Committee, and this oceasi.,ned much disappoint-
ment. The town was daring the afternoon and
v.ning in a very excited state, but no breach of
the peace had occurred. At the period of our
writing immknse crowds are collected in the front street,
who vociterously cheer the Colonel's leading supporters,
and hiss and groan at (they have gone so far as to pelt
with stick. end stone,) Mr. _Hudson', active friends and
even the ena,hmee who ,:rive the " flys" engaged for the
purp,se of bringipg up vot.,-rs.
Su IT as we can ascertain (and we have taken great
pains to do so correctly) the state of the poll at its close
was as follows :
Hudson
Thompson

Majority l2B

8A.P...1( OF ENULAND.
(Fl-,inn this N:gat's Gazette.)
:fin Account, imcsuant to the Act 7th anti Bth of Victoria,
cap. 32, tor the eel: eliding ou Saturday, the 9th day 01
..ugust, 1845.