The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-12 00:00:00

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im that, according to their books, he owed tnem tor a wr-
ier towing. Captain Lyons fired up at this statement, and,
nder the supposition that a fraud was intended, used some
ather strong language. He told Mr. Arthur that Clarke
,ad been paid for the towing at the time it took place, viz.,
n May last, through his consignees, Messrs. Waddington,
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tiolt and Co. Ongoing to the office of these gentlemen,
be receipt for the amount, with Clark's signature, was pro
Mr. Arthur now, for the first time, had his suspi-
cions of roguery aroused. He went back to his office ; told
Harvey that he had discovered that Captain Lyons had paid
Clark for the towing ; and that he suspected a fraud had
been committed on the company. On referring to the books
was found that no entry had been made of the payment.
could be no doubt, therefore, that Clark had embez-
H arvey, in the course of comers ition, said
.hat Clark was " an old rascal," and that tie had long sus-
pected him. " Why, then," said Mr. Arthur, " did you
not tell me of your suspicions ?" " I did not like to do so,"
was Harvey's reply.
One instance of fraud having been discovered in this sir
c gular manner, Mr. Arthur very naturally suspected, tb
s, I more embezzlements of the company's funds had taken pla,

led the money

Harvey after urgent business to a distant dock, ht
proceeded to make personal inquiries respecting the account
which were, apparently, owing to the compan••

The resu

was, t

chants who appeared indebted to-the company, that the
moneys had been paid ; that receipts had been given, mostly
i❑ Clark's name, but not on leaves cut out of the check-book,
if roffular. they ought to have been, but on the tow-

ing notes ; and that a considerrble
money had been thus embezzled

sum of the
Meanwhil

company's

whom Mc Arthur did not suspect, of having been concerned
in the frauds, did not return at the time expected, and Cap-
tain Newton, one of the company's masters, was sent to look
after him. Not finding him about the docks, he went to his
house, in the vicinity ,of Windsor. Harvey had not been
there since morning, and his wife, the servant said, had gone
opt to tea. It was soon afterwards discovered, that he and

his wife had gone to the seawall, taken a boat, rowed to the
British and North American royal mail steamer Britannia,
lying in the Sloyne, paid their passage money on board, and

and sailed in her, shortly afterfourO'clock in the afternoon,
for Halifax and Boston. Of course, the tale which the
fugitive told, on Saturday, of Clark's return and HI--
found to have been an artful lie.
It was now but too evident, that Harvey had embezzled
moneys as well as Clark, and that, without doubt, they had
conspired together to rob their employers. Captain Newton
was placed in possession of Harvey's house, where he was
ordered to stay till further notice. On Wednesday and sub-
sequently the system of fraud practised by Clark and Harvey
was-fully developed. It was very artful; and no plan of
heck, no vigilance could, for a time, prevent its successful
Arthur spoke to Harvey, who
r employed by the company, it not hay-

mess was

W henever M

the o, ly co.ll

ng been Clark's business to receive accounts, of the small
amount of his collections, the latter always alleged that it
was owing to the badness of the times ; and that, in conse-
quence of the scarcity of money, even the first houses allowed
their accounts to remain in at rear. Of course, having the
on Harvey's integrity, Mr. Arthur never sus-
as deceiving him, and received the reason
ent to account for the smallness of the collec-

that:he v

given a

tions.
We now return to Clark. When he came back to town
is not exactly known. On Friday night, however, a knock
was heard at the door of the house formerly inhabited by
Harvey. Captain Newton, who, as has been stated, was
in charge of the house, opened the door. "Ah !" exclaimed
Clark, (for he it was who had knocked,) are you here,
Newton ? He then stepped into the lobby, and Captain
Newton quietly turned the key in the lock. Clarke asked
for Harvey. Captain Newton told him that Harvey was
not ther6, and that he suspected that he (Clark) knew very
well where he was. Clark denied all knowledge of Har-
vey or his " whereabout," and pretended the most
perfect ignorance of anything wrong. Newton told Clark
that he must accompany him to the office. Clark said he
was fatigued, and would wait until Newton brought a car.
Newton said he would not leave him, and desired Clark
to come along, and they would most probably find a car
on the road. On reaching a hackney coach house, they
found that all the cars were out, but that one was expected
back every minute. Clark said he would, in the mean-
while, go to the privy in the yard. Newton told him he
must leave the door open, as he would not let him go out
of his sight. Clark went in on this condition, and sat
down on the seat. About his person he had concealed a
phial of prussic acid. He drank off the poison, and died
instantly. The body, as soon as the suicide was discovered,
was removed to an adjoining public-house. An inquest
was held upon it on Saturday, when the facts detailed
above, in connexion with Clark, were given in evidence,
and the inquiry was adjourned until yesterday, when some
additional evidence was adduced.
The lady with whom the deceased lodged stated that she
had observed a great change in his manner for the last three
or four weeks. He appeared greatly agitated. The con-
ductor of the Grand Junction train also deposed that he ob-
served a " peculiar strangeness" about the deceased when he
travelled on the line on Thursday week.
After a little further evidence the coroner summed up, and
left the jury to form their own conclusions.
The jury immediately returned a verdict of _fel° de se.
This verdict renders it necessary that the deceased should
be-interred without the rites of Christian burial: In accord-
ance with it the body was removed from the dead-house,
Canning Dock, about halt-past nine last night, placed in a
. .

and conveyed to the parish burial-g

the workhouse, where it was interred about ten o'clock.—
The property of the deceased, which, We understand, con-
sisted only of a few personal effects, is, by this verdict, for-
feited to the crown. We have been informed that with the
PYPPntinn of nne son. who is receiving a university education,

all the family of the unfortunate man reside in Prance. He
was well known to the inhabitants of the Cheshire side of the
river, having lived many years at Holt-bill. We believe
his
wife is entitled to some property in her own right.

can royal mail steamer Co

Inc Drum,. •••• .
lumbia, which would sail from Boston on the Ist and Hali
fax on the 3d instant, will be due at this port on Thursda'

n.CCIDENT AT THU THEATRE-ROYAL.-011 Friday night,
at the Theatre-Royal, a little girl, who was performing one
of the fairies in "The Midsummer Night's Dream " unfor-
tunately came in contact with one of the stage lights while
;., rha ..;r_ The fire was communicated

she hung suspenaea in Lue sir. 111 V ---
to her muslin frock, and she was instantly enveloped in
flames. She was lowered to the stage immediately, and the
fire was promptly extinguished, but we understand she was
injured very severely.
COMMITTALS.—Yesterday, a man of the name of Henry
Wilson was committed by Mr. Rushton, for trial at the ses-
sions now holding, for stealing a handcart, the property of
Mr. Mather, corn-merchant, from Drury-lane, on Friday
laat—Another man was committed for trial for stealing from
the cart of a washerwoman a basket, containing many linen
articles of value. The cart was stationed at the door of Dr.
Brandreth, in Rodney-street, and the prisoner had taken ad-
vantage of the absence of the woman and decamped with the
property. He was speedily apprehended.
The Rev. T. S. Bowstead, M.A., St. John's College, Cam-

iILIU 6.-+.•
has been appointed to the prepend of Bobenhall, anciently
founded in the Cathedral Church of Lichfield, vacant by the
death of the Rev. John Bowstead, B.D.
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NEW BRIGHTON.—We refer our readers to the advertise-
ment announcing that the steamers commence plying to this
delightful watering-place on Thursday next, the 14th inst.,
thereby giving our townsmen an opportunity of having au
agreeable and cheap sail on the Mersey.
LIVERPOOL CARTAGE LENGTHS.—A work of a tabular
form has just been published, showing the various cartage
lengths in this town. If this table be correct—and we see
no reason to doubt its accuracy—it must prove an useful
compilation for a merchant's office. The Carters' Company
have attempted to throw a doubt over its correctness ; but
the author pledges himself to the statements being faithful,
having laboured hard to make his little work perfect.