The New York herald., 1851-08-15
Police Intelllrence .

Charge Of Obtaining $500 by False Pree,ces-On Mon
day last, officer Smith, Of the Lower Police Court
rested Humphrey B. Dunhsm doing business a. No IO7
Fulton street. on warrant issued by Justice Lothrop
wherein he stands charged the afadavits Of wilis
ii. Mills and jeremiah Hotchkiss, brokers' No. 81 Wall
street with obtaining from the said Hotchkss the
Of $500 in cash under the following alleged false pre-
tences0n about the oath day OF July last past Mr.
Durham applied to Mr. Mills for loan Of $500 for the
space Of ten eleven days the security Of his
for the like sum, which check to be dated ahead,
making to fall due the 4h day Of August following
ard in addition to the check Mr. Durham placed in the
hands Of Mr.. Mills. provided the money could be OBJ
tained the following promissory notes. amounting in all
to about Sl.Is9 A. One was drawn by Daniel Adee,
dorsed by Durham and Dariu. Wells for 1851; another
for $780, drawn and endorsed by the parties
for S16 drawn by VIM Easterbrook another for $l11,
by o. W. Van Horn and also one for $40 by T. Brown,
all endorsed severally by Mr. Dunham. These alleged
securities together with the check to
be good, and Mr. Mills believed them be ample
curty. induced Mr. notchkiss to loan the $500
quested by Mr. Dunhsm The day the $500 check be-
came due Mr. Mills received the following note from Mr.
CH,rLrs MILLS, ESQ regret to inform you that
in consequence Of the suspicion Of Daniel Adee and
others, compelled to stop OF this necessity was
not aware until yesterday, p NJ Yours respeettally
On the receipt of the above note, Mr. Mills became
suspsous and forthwith called on Mr. Adee in references
to the supposed valuable promsory notes when Mr. Adee
denied being indebted to Mr. Dunham; that the
tIaIy he Mr Dunham indebted to him. and further.
that the notes In question not business nsts but
merely accommodation paper. Consequently, upon the
above facts, as set forth by the sdsvts Of Mr. Mills
in the sum OF $500 to the charge at court for
trial Mr. Duntsm gave the required amount Of bail,
and was liberated from custody.
The Case of the Murdered Policeman Fosfer-Yesterdaya
very curious fact became known aud II true, will
ate some coDsidt rabe doubt to the who actually
inflicted the fatal stab with dagger the person Of
policeman Foster. A Spanish sailor named Antoine
Lopez was arrested on the morning the policeman
stabbed when taken into custody he was heard to
drop the dagger in the street which picked up by
the police officers, with blood visible thereon and Lopez
wa, held for the crime. However, another sailor
with Lopez who called himself Francisco Sanders, but
whose real name, 1t seems is Consoles This man has
been detained hy the authorities a witRess against
Lopez. IL appears that another Spanisrd, named
Manuel Tofre who in the compan ny OF Gonsaes on
the ing after the stabbng had been inflicted
howledged TO him that he (Gonsales) inflicted the
wound and In instant passed the dirk back TO Lopez
and told him &c of, which accounts for the police
seeing him running of giving chase and catching him
with the dagger in his possession On these facts
being communicated to Mr. Hail. the Assistant District
Attorney. the man Tofre taken into custody. aud
conveyed before Justice Lothrop who committed him
prison as a witness