The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-07 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-SATJRDAy.

CHARGE or EMBEZZLEMENT.
On Saturday, Abraham Ward Collard, late a clerk in the
employment of Messrs. Daniel and Thomas Willis, was again
placed at the bar of the Police-court, (having been remanded
from Satnrday week,) to answer a charge of embezzlement.
Mr. 'Wood appeared on the part of the prosecutors, and the
prisoner was defended by Mr. Davenport. Mr. John Nichol-
son, of the firm of Messrs. Joseph Green and Co., merchants,
of No. 8, Mersey-chambers, proved, that, a few days pre-
vious to the 18th of September last year, the prisoner called
at his office to know if there was not an old account due to
Messrs. Willis. Witness replied, yes, and expressed some
surprise that it had not been sent in before. He brought
the account in a day or two, and witness, after making a de-
duction, directed his clerk, on the 18th, to pay it. Gusta-
vus Clark, cashier to Messrs. Green and Co., proved that he
had paid the account, £4l 2s. 5d., but he could not recollect
whether it was to the prisoner • he paid it, however, to the
person who signed a receipt for it. Mr. Daniel Willis
proved that there was an account due from Mr. Nicholson,
and that the prisoner was not authorized to collect any
money. Mr. Thomas Willis proved the same facts, and
further, that the receipt was in the handwriting of the pri-
soner. Henry Hesaltine, late cashier to Messrs. Willis, was
next called, and stated, that the prisoner had never accounted
to him for any money received from Mr. Nicholson. In the
cross-examination of this witness, it appeared, that he had
absented himself from his employment for about five weeks,
in consequence of owing a balance to his employers, and
that, during that period, he had had many interviews with
the prisoner, to whom he had paid about £40.0n account of
salary, although he had received orders to the contrary from
Mr. Willis. This was in December last. He was positive,
however, that the prisoner had not accounted to him for Mr.
Nicholson's account. After some consultation with Mr.
Booth, Mr. Rushton said, he should think it his duty to
give further consideration to the case before he signed the de-
positions, and that they should have his mature opinion by
Monday or Tuesday. Mr. Wood stated, that, owing to the
absence of one witness and the illness of another, he was
not prepared to proceed with two other cases against the
prisoner to-day. Mr. Rushton ultimately ordered him to
be brought up again on Monday, at two o'clock.
YESTERDAY.
REMANDED CASE.
Yesterday, Collard was brought up for re-examination,
when Mr. Wood stated he had additional evidence to produce
confirmatory of that given by Mr. Hesaltine. Mr. Cheveley,
corresponding clerk of Mr. Willis, was then called; he
stated that during the absence of Mr. Hesaltine, it was his
duty to be cash-keeper, and that, on entering upon that duty,
he looked to the contract-book with the intention of collecting
cash for office purposes, and observed an account for brandy
due from Mr. Nicholson. He mentioned it to the prisoner,
and expressed his surprise that it had not been paid before ;
he also expressed some doubt whether or not the account had
been settled, in which Collard concurred. The prisoner
took an account from the drawer due by Mr. Penny, and said
he thought witness could get that if he called for it. 'Witness
then went to Mr. Penny, and got it. This made him not so
anxious to inquire about Mr. Nicholson's bill, which he de-
ferred, expecting Mr. llaseltine to return in a day or two.
Mr. Rushton said that this evidence certainly confirmed
the account previously given. It brought to the prisoner
the knowledge of the debt being outstanding, and the tact
that he concurred with Mr. Cheveley, in a doubt as to whe-
ther payment had been made of an account which he had
previously received.
The former depositions having been read over, Mr.
Cheveley was again called. He said that the prisoner gave
him Mr. Penny's account on the same or the following day
to that on which the conversation respecting Mr. Nicholson's
account took place. He should have objected to the pri-
soner receiving money without• orders from him, as he had
been appointed by Mr. D. Willis the recipient of all monies.
This was the whole of the evidence in the case. The
prisoner, having been cautioned by Mr. Rushton, declined
saying anything at present, and was committed for trial.
The witnesses were then severally bound over to appear
and give evidence against the prisoner, at his trial.
Mr. Wood said that he was ready to go on with another
charge against the prisoner ; but that two of the witnesses
were absent; one, John Ford, was at the Chester Assizes,
and was expected to return in the course of the day. How-
ever, he could go on with the case to a certain extent. This
(the wine case) presented two or three aspects, and it was
not improbable that the feature it would assume would be
that of embezzlement. This would probably do away with
admitting the prisoner to bail.
Mr. Rushton said that if be (Mr. Wood) could not perfect
the case he had better not go on with it, and that he must
give the prisoner the benefit of bail. The prisoner was
then ordered to enter into his own recognizances for £l5O,
and find two sureties of £75 each, of which he was to give 24
hours' notice.
Mr. Wood desired that the notice of bail should be ex-
tended beyond 24 hours.
Mr. Rushton said he could not grant this request, and the
examination then closed.

FAT HEIFER.—A fine three year old heifer, of the short
horned breed, fed by Robert Jaques, Esq., of Eastby, was
slaughtered this week, by Mr. B. Blenkiron, of Richmond,
which weighed before it was killed, 102 st. 71b.—Leeds In-
telligencer.
Dr. Spittal, of Glasgow, while riding on the Dalmarnoch-
road, last Tuesday, on a visit to a patient, was thrown from
his horse, through the animal taking fright. He soon after-
wards died of concussion of the brain.

TIDE TABLE.
Days. Men. Evn. ! Height. Sundays, 1101ydaYs, 6'e•
April u. u. if. M. P. r.
Tuesday 7 2 7 226 15 4 '
Wednes. 8 249 323 13 9
Thursday 9 355 435 12 6
Friday .. 10 521 6 8 12 4 Cambridge Lent Terra epds
Saturday 11 654 734 13 1 Oxford Lent Term ends.
Sunday' 12 sll 539 14 1 Palm Sunday.
Monday 13 9 8 929 15 4