The Sun.
London, England, 1827-03-05 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Owen Daintrey, a most respectable-
looking young man, a clerk in the Inland Department of the Ge-
neral Post-office, was brought up for final examination, on the
charge of having broken open letters which came into his hands in
the course of his employment, and embezzling money contained in
them.
The prisoner had undergone two examinations on the charge of
embezzling a 5/. note, which had been transmitted, by letter, from
Messrs Codd and Co., Army-agents, in Fludyer-street, Westmin-
ster, addressed to Messrs. Henderson and Co., of Ramsey, in the
Isle of Man ; but on Saturday, Mr. Peacock, the Solicitor to the
Post-office, preferred another charge against the prisoner, for em-
bezzling five 101. Bank post-hills, which had been forwarded, by
Messrs. Drummond, the bankers, in a letter addressed to a Mrs.
Routledge, of Birmingham. The forwarding of these bills was
clearly proved by Mr. T. E. Rush, a clerk in Messrs. Drum-
mond's house ; but, owing to a link being wanting in the chain
of evidence, the Post-office Solicitor abandoned this charge, and
referred back to the prior one of the Si. note, upon which the fol-
lowing evidence was adduced :
J. Lyndon, a clerk to Messrs. Codd and Co., stated that, on
Saturday, the 10th of February last, he wrote a letter to Messrs.
Henderson and Co., of Ramsey, Isle of Man, in which letter a bl.
note was to be enclosed. He handed the letter up to Mr. Septi-
mus Codd,
Mr. S. Codd received the letter, signed it, and placed in it a 5/.
Bank of England note, dated Qd of Jan. 1527, No. 5,941. After
inclosing the note, he either put the letter into the Post-office in
Scotland-yard or else gave it to the General Postman in St.
James's-street, he did not recollect which.
Mr. Watmore—ls one of the Presidents in the Inland Depart-
ment of the General Post-office ; the prisoner is a clerk in that
office ; he was on duty on the 10th of February, at the Liverpool-
rbad ; a letter addressed to the Isle of Man would pass through the
prisoner's hands.
Mr. Cope, the City Marshal, was called in to apprehend the
prisoner on Monday the 12th of February ; it was early in the
morning ; he searched him, and in his breeches pocket, he found
the note, No. 5,911.
The note was identified as being the same that was inclosed in
Messrs. Codd and Co.'s letter.
Mr. Humphreys, who attended as Solicitor for the prisoner,
declined putting any questions to the witnesses, and recommended
the prisoner to say nothing in the present stage of the proceedings.
The Loan MAYOR then addressed the prisoner in a most feel-
ing manner. He said that since he had the honour of being a
Magistrate he had never been called upon to exercise a more pain-
ful duty than on the present occasion. He did not by any means
wish to prejudge the prisoner's case, but he could not help ob-
serving that it was one that, in the event of a conviction, it was
extremely probable the law would take its crnirse.
The prisoner appeared quite callous during his Lordship's ad-
dress, and at the conclusion complained of some of his clothes
having been kept back from him by the officers; and he wished
to know whether he was not entitled to have them delivered
to him?
The Post-office Solicitor said that the clothes had been detained
for very obvious reasons pending the examination ; but now that
the examination was closed there would not be the least objection
to giving up the clothes.
The LORD MAYOR. was sorry that the prisoner should make such
a remark at such a moment ; the clothes had been very properly
detained, but they would now be given up.--Committed.
A Jew named Elias Abrahams, WRY charged with robbing a
Mr. Allan Lambert, of Bromley, Kent, tallow-chandler, of a
silver hunting watch, gold chain, and two gold seals, value
about 151.
The prisoner felt indignant at the charge, declared he was
equally as respectable as the prosecutor, that his father had lived
in one house upwards of twenty years, and that he could find bail
to any amount.
The Loan MAYOR at first thought of availing himself of Mr.
Secretary Peel's Statute, empowering two Magistrates to take bail
in cases ,of felony, and calling in a second Magistrate ; but, after
strictly interrogating the prosecutor, he was so well satisfied that
he sent the prisoner to Newgate for trial.