The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-16 00:00:00

of her neck.
The LORD MAYOR remanded the prisoner until the
issue of the Coroner's inquest shall be known, and de-
sired Gooch, the turnkey, to let the Coroner know that,
if he considered it necessary, the prisoner should appear
before him on the occasion.
BOW-STREET.
Louis Lemoine, and John Thomas Hall, were placed at the
bar, before Mr. Jardine, charged with obtaining shares in the
Portberry Railway under false 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 office 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 be signed " William Dethic," omitting the final k.
As the name was spelled " Dethick " in the letter of allotment,
the omission of the k caused witness to suspect the prisoner was
not the right person. He expressed his suspicions to the prisoner,
who at first insisted that he was Mr. Dethick, but after some
&vote said that he had been sent by a person, who had pro-
mised to give him half-a-crown for his trouble, and that that
person was Mr. Dethick. A policeman was then brought, and
Lemoine was given in charge.
Policeman Messeler, A. 41, said that on the 26th of July he
was sent 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 had met him in the
street. He then took him to the station at Bow-street. Some
time after that he received information from Lemoine, in
consequence 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 Dethick, 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 for the shares was here produced,
and the witness denied having written it. On seeing the al-
lotment letter, he said that it was directed to him, at his ad-
dress, but that he had never received it, and now saw it for the
first time.
The prisoners reserved their defence for the present.
Mr. JARDINE said that there was sufficient evidence to jus-
tify him in committing the prisoner Lemoine for forgery, and
that by his own admission to the constable, Hall was an acces-
sory before the fact.
The witnesses were then bound over to prosecute, and the
prisoners removed.