The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-11 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

On Wednesday the conductor of an omnibus, No.
5,236, running from Stratford to Chelsea, was summoned
before Alderman Hunter, charged with unlawfully de-
manding Is., that being more than the legal fare for con-
veying the complainant from the Mile-end-road to St.
Paul's-churchyard.
Hr. Henry Cox, of Regent-street, Mile-end-road,
stated that on the 4th of December, about three o'clock
in the afternoon, he hailed the defendant's omnibus, but
found that there was no room inside. He got up out-
side, and told defendant when there was a vacancy to
let him know, and he would get in. No remark was
made at the time as to the fare, but on witness getting
down, after a passenger had alighted, for the purpose of
taking his seat inside, he was told that he would have
to pay double. The fare for the whole distance was but
Is., and half way 6d. On alighting in St. Paul's-church.
yard, defendant insisted ou the double fare, which he
(witness) paid.
The defendant said he only followed the instructions
of the company of which he was a servant, and that was
in all cases to charge extra if a person changed his seat
from the inside to the outside, or outside to the inside.
There were several persons employed for the purpose of
counting the passengers, and thus keeping a check on
the conductors. For instance, when he came half-way,
the gentleman would have been counted as an inside
passenger by the time-keeper, and he (defendant) would
have been obliged to make good his fare outside, as he
would be counted as such by the previous time-keeper
they had passed.
One of the time-keepers here stepped forward, and
said what the defendant had stated was perfectly true
with reference to the legality of the charge. They (the
c 'nductors) were constantly watched by persons em-
ployed by the company to detect any attempt at fraud;
and if the defendant had not compelled the gentleman
to pay, he certainly would have been obliged to make
good the deficiency. It was only a short time since that
he was suspended for seven days in consequence of
neglect of a similar nature.
Defendant said, that on the gentleman getting outside
he told him he would have to pay double on going in-
side, which complainant denied.
Alderman HUNTER, after looking at the Act of Par-
liament on the subject, said that he should defer his de-
cision until Saturday, when there would be other Ma-
gistrates to assist him in deciding such an important
question.
BOW-STREET.

George Carmac, a print and bookseller, in Great May's-
buildings, St. Martin's-lane, appeared before Mr. Jar-
dine, upon a summons issued under the Bth and 9th Vic.,
chap. 87, charged with knowingly harbouring and con-
cealing a quantity of prints that had been illegally
unshipped without paying the Customs' duty, to which
he pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Potbury, from the office of the solicitor to the
Customs, attended to prefer the complaint, and Mr.
Barry attended as counsel for the defendant.
Coleby Atkinson Davis, a Custom-house officer, stated,
that on Monday, November 3J, about six o'clock in the
evening, he went to the defendant's house, No. 2, Great
May's-buildings, accompanied by Mr. Neale, from the
office of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, and
Sergeant Chadwick, F division, having a writ of assist-
ance that had been granted by the Board of Customs.
The defendant and a female were in the shop at the
time, and having told him his business, and showed him
the writ, the female took a ca.e from the table, and
being about to leave the room with it, he prevented her,
and found in it a quantity of the obscene prints pro-
duced.

Mr. Potbury said that the articles produced formed
only a portion of what had been seized, as it was usual
in the Court of Exchequer not even to bring forward
any samples.
Witness proceeded to say that he had searched the
shop, in the windows of which and under the table he
also found other prints of a similar description, making
in all one hundred and seventy, with other articles, all of
which he delivered up to Mr. Claridge, a locker ,at the
Custom-house. The prints were all of foreign manu-
facture.

In cross-examination the witness said that the writ
was invariably delivered up to the Board after being
uspd.

Mr. Barry submitted that the witness could not give
evidence respecting the writ of assistance unless it was
produced, as the contents of such an instrument could
not be otherwise known.

Witness, in continuation, said that he had seized what,
in his judgment, were foreign prints. One of the prints
was Chinese; and such as could not be manufactured in
this country ; nor did he think that any Englishman
would engrave what he found on blocks and copper. He
knew that the Society for the Suppression of Vice had
failed to convict the defendant for libel, and it was not
the reason why proceedings were adopted in the present
CAM

Confirmatory evidence being given of the seizure, and
objections being taken to the information and the sum-
mons,

Mr. Potbury read a judgment of the Lord Chief Baron
in 1844. where the defendant had been fined for having a
quantity of spirits in an outhouse, and he submitted that
such should be the case respecting any other articles that
had not paid the duty.
Mr. Barry said it would be impossible to decide on
such cases before any magistrate at a police-court.
Mr. JARDINE said that it was for the complainants to
show that the defendant had run the goods in question
without paying the duty ; and as it had not even been
proved that he had a guilty knowledge of the fact, he
considered he should have the benefit of such omission,
and ordered the case to be dismissed.

FORGERY.— Thomas Caike, aged 18, was charged with
uttering a forged cheque for 40i, with intent to defraud
Messrs. Drummond and Co., bankers.
Mr. Bush, solicitor to the Society of Bankers for the
Suppression of Frauds and Forgeries, conducted the
prosecution. _

Mr. Nealand, the cashier, stated, that about half-past
one o'clock the prisoner entered the counting-house and
presented the cheque produced, but upon looking at the
signature and referring to the book, he entertained a
susp'cion that it was not genuine, in consequence (If
which he made a communication with Mr. Oliver, one of
the clerks, who kept the document until a constable
was sent for, and the prisoner was given into custody.
Witness had seen Mr. Edwards, the prisoner's nocle,
who kept an account with the firm, and by whom the
prisoner said he had been sent for a cheque-book, and
said the signature was not in his handwriting.
The constable who apprehended the prisoner proved
that, on comparing the end of the cheque with the
counterfoil in the book which he :found, they corre-
sponded in every particular.
The prisoner was remanded.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
SUSPECTED SWINDLERS.—Ernest Flynn and William
Eckhart were brought up for further examination,
charged with having stolen goods in their possession.