Star.
London, England, 1824-12-25 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

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Yedirday, 4nikeng Ledger, a clerk in the house of Mr. Meyer,
of Great St, Helens, merchant, was charged with having *ppm-
prietaltritti own me large sums of money.
Meyer has been obliged to suspend his payments In conse-
crevice of severe losses. The prisoner was cooldentially employed
by him ; and at the time of his suspending payment, the bills out-
standing against' him, were of less *Mount than the sum which
the prisoner is charged with having embuntled. The plan by which
the prisoner contrived to keep the money in bit possession was, it
is said by those who have examined the books extremely ingeni-
ous. Figures were changed to meet the various exigencies, and
such is said to have been the prisoner's skill in obliterating, that one
figure has been changed into another, and changed back again into
the original state without leaving any palpable mark of erasure. At
length, the great disproportion which Mr. Meyer's money at his
bankees.bore to the demands upon the house, awakened his sus-
picious, and be soon ascertained that the prisoner bad possessed
himself of from ,ffaooo to £lll,ooo, and that the credit of the
house was rained.—The prisoner was remanded.
ROW.STRERT.
r/ Yesterday Williams Itilpatriek, the young man charged with rob-
bing his master, Mr. Macbeath, a jeweller in Ryder's-court, of
jewellery to a large amount, and James Willsker, who is charged on
*skim of felonionslrreceiving a part of the property, knowing it
to be stolen, were brought up and re-examined. Both prisoners
were fully committed for trial upon the present charge, and the
witnesses all &And over to prosecute.
Mr. Hata.' said be could not dismiss' the pawnbrokers without
offering a remark or two upon what he deemed their highly repre-
hensible conduct. He considered it but a very slight remove, in
point of culpability, from the prisoner
MA RLBOROUG H-STREET.
Two young men and three young girls, the eldest of the latter not
above 16 years, were brought up to this office; one of the young
girls charged as the principal in the following rubbery, and all the
others charged as accessaries after the fact, by disposing of a part
of the property,,and endeavouring to enticed and prevent the appre--
hension of Ilamwah Pound, the principal.
_ The ,robbery was committed in a house of ill fame on a man
named Hussey. The articles stolen consisted of the prosecutor's
watch, Ws. in money, and all his wearing apparel.
Hannah Pound was committed for trial ; and the others, after an
admonition from. the Magistrate, were discharged, there not being
sufficient evidence to implicate them.
This young girl, Hannah Pound, is of a highly respectable family,
and although very young, much pains and care had been taken by.
her friends with her education. Her mother, a most respectable Lady,
residing at Hampstead, and her two eldest sisters, young Ladies of
the utmost respectability, in point of appearance and demeanour
and who are both married to pent lemen holding situations under the
Government, and tesiding at Kew (whose names we forbear to
mention,), attended the examination, and it was indeed a painful
and striking contrast to witness the heart-rending agony of the mo-
ther and her two respectable daughters, who wept in the bitterest
manner the whole time, when compared with the perfect indif-
ference and, indeed, jocose behaviour of their wretched relative at
the bar. When the prisoner was being taken out of the °Mee, her
mother and her two sisters threw themselves upon her neck, and
.almost became hysterically affected. They afterwards applied for
permission from the Magistrate (which was instantly granted) to
visit her once more in the lock-up room, before she was sent off
to Newgate.