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The Times, 1824-07-23T00:00:00

A141rsro~-T-ottsE.-Ycsterdaya man na.1ned Booker was broughit before thie LoilD MNAyQoit for r.eXexmination, chlarged with hlavinlg conspired, with several othiee personps, comPosing a toock mercantile firmi in the city, to dcfraud neumbert of personR of goods to a consi. derable arnotnt, Thie firm of swindlers is aaid to be onie of great ey.tent, there being, it in sup-assed, between 40 and 50 personis con- nected,with it. A man nanied Fither was charged upon suspicion withl having a strong interest in the success of the dliffhrent specula- tions. Mlr. Pnlwns.-E, the solicitor attendea uponi the part of some of the prosecutors. He stated, that hoker'obtained a bill of exchange for 1501. from -i Mr. Hurst, upon a oiretendedI consiginmelnt of flouxr, by mega f abil f ldig, hih t'a afoged document altogether- thatBooer cte 'i th nae o Thmas Matnna on the oceasion, havig avertsedin te nwspaersin Mlay last, thlat any person who esied o bu orsel flor o comission, shouid apply, to Si r. Mann-tht a orrsponcnc too plcc, in consequence of this ad- vertsemet, etwen Mr Hust ad te advrertiser, who agreed upon the termis of a contract for a considerable quantity of dlour-that the bill of exchange tbor 1501. was teansmittetd to MNr. Matnns, Medhutrst, Sussex-that a broker received it-andithat no suchi person as Ailamns, nr shec person Man was representedi is having signedl the bill of ladling, was in existence. 11r. Prin vge atdded, thalt Air. flurst had since ascertained that hiis bill was immnediately brought into the money'. mnarket, and hie had never received a pouind'of the flour;, so that thse case was one of dleep fraud, if not of' forgery. Fisher was appre-. hendled in consequence of a note of a suspicious description lhavirg beeni found irn his box, written by Booker, slid atiticipating success in what he was about, wvhichi was expressedi eyaiiuu terms,oteedi eyabgtu Th tircascs against Boolcer wvere toi the following effiect: In the imonthi of Janutary Messrs. Stephaenson and Co., chain cable manutiteturcra at Liverpool, wvere arplied to for a chaini cable by a hiouse cttlling itself " F'riend, Robinson, andI Co." Philip- street, Commiercial-road, antci supplied], upon reference for respecta- bility. A bill was dravii uapon the firm, andl regularly accepted. Another chain cable was ordleredlaud suipplied; buxt Urooler, who re- presented thie firmn, put it bslto a warehouse, and imimetilately af- terwards applied to an auctioneer to seil it, introducing a man named Harris as a Captain Thompson, whbo wished to get rid of it. The acineer ppid tile freight, and advanped some mioney to Captain Topsn lie also drew on his agenjt in liond ni, 'Mr. Rouse, for the baalance. Thieagent acceptcd the bill but learning that thiepar. ties were swindllers, stepped payment ef die bill at his bankers, and( advertisedI it as connected withi a frauduxlent transaction. Thie bill was still out. Thiere was no Captain Thomnpson, suich as was repre- sented, in existence. A needle-mnaker, residing near Slnitbfield, was applied. to by, Book-er, who offinred Mir. 1-ueat's bill for 1501. f'or a large quanitity of needles - butt he thought proper to decline cashing the. bill, and ,soon fouind in wlisat maniner it had iseen obtained. Wh'len 13ooker was apprehended, he tried to tear the bill anid swallow it, Fishier's solicitor reqiacated thaLt his client mighit be discbarged, as there was iiothinig Nyhatever against himn. The Loitn-MAYOst said, hle could not thinik of dlischiarginig a person who appeared tintler sttch suspiciogs circumstances. The conspiracy to defraud the public was more extensive than was generally supposed, andI he believe:d it to be ramified throut;b dif- Ierent parts of' tue Coulitry. Its soon as the circumstances that hadi jtist conie to lighit shiouldi appear bnlore the public, iseveral who hiad suffered by thxe firmn would, he had no doubt, come forward. Here the LaoTdMavoT exami-nied a correspondence whichl had beets found uiponi the piris6ner, and whicht, hie said, confirmedl himl in the opiinion he lhad expressed. Aly. Pesngle stated, thnat he was not ready to prodluee a case upon whichi hiis Lordship could commit, in consequence of the short interval between) the apprehension andl the examination of thie prisoners. Here A bellows-maker, whon reside-s in MVid(dlesex, said, he lied a charge of fraud to malce against the prisoner B3oolier; anld the Liord. Mal Yor saidil, that, in the absence of witnesses in the cases bTought before him, hie should send theo two prisotiers to the maizstrates for that county. Thtey were accordingly takeni off in.-custodly. GPUILDrstALL.-..No less titan thiree cases of that continually re- curring ohThnce, robbery by servants, all of them exhibiting circum- stances of great ingratitude, tonic under the cognizance of Mir. Al1- dlerman Cox, the sitting.41agistrace at this justice-soom, yesterdlav. -Philip Parliore, a very contitlential servaint, n the cmpl.ry bif AlIess.s. liroafibent and Co., wasrehousemen, No. 1, Castle-couirt, Lawrence. lane, atzid .Ja,ne Grflgilae the porter, 'were charged withi btaig a quantity of canydlss'wrappers. The prisoners, itap- pad,la oe'red the property for saLe at Mlr. Lloyd's, stationer and rsg-niy,ehrihnt, No. 116, Fore-Atrect. This gentleman had been charged wvitli some hlamse inl having purchased a quanitity of paper a short time since fromi a porter la the employ of Silr. Sheriff Whit- taker, and whotn the Slieria' had prosecuited to cotnviction at the Old Baialei, the sessiong berore the last. This occurrence had imade Sir. Lloyd extremely cautious, andi he accordingly required, before he purc'hasedl, to know whiether tlhe- property -was their own, and where they got it. Farrowv, whio was the spokesman, readily, gave the right address, end said their master had given thetn the wrappers as a per- quisite. On thitt representatton Air. Ljloyd took thne property, ad- vancedI thiem about two.tliirds of its value, promising to pay, the re- nmaitid(er if on itnquiry lie fotind thzeir account correct. He accord- ingly despatched his mnan to Alessrs. Broadbenit's, where ha learmt that no permission whatever hadl been given to the prisoners to take the property, atidi that in fact they had st-ien it. Theli property was produicedl before the miagistrate, and idenitified by SI,r. B3roadbent: its weight was upwards of' 901b., and worth, eeasold ra nearl an. d a hialf. Mir, Broadbetit ob- srve,it mig%nt seem illard ro preoasecau te for nierely a parcel of wrap- pers, hut thyhdbe obds uhb heir servants, that it becanim boueyneesayt aea eaple of them. Tueli prisoner aro ha eeinterepyuwards of ten years-.-. indeed,frmtevrtueteco end business ; and the greatestposbecndechacosntyee reposed in himi.- Tuie prisoesmd odfec,adwr omitted to Newgate for trtaL 'Robert Tapfkr-, a boy about 14, whom Mfr. Ba.ssinghani, brass- founder,No.3, Whstcccross-street,lhadtaken intohiisemploy from miere charity, his fatlher having run away, and enlisted for a soldier, leaving hin~ esttue,ws haredwit sealngan ydomecreli popertyof MNr. Both)erroy,d, licensed victualler, cornerofG(oldlen-Iane. His master htad taken thle boy with himn thiere to assist in doing somethieig to the gas-light pipes, and he had taken the opportunity of carrying off' the Isydriameter ini his basket, with the tools. Whben charged with the theft, lie strongly denied all knowledge of it, and it hiad subse- quently been feund out that he had left .it at a neighbour's, and was detected in theslhop calling to getitbackegain. Onsearchinghiin, some mretal plates ohiia master's were foundt in his posFeasion, ,vhich hlidcut up for tlie purpose of selling. He hadl been but a fewv dasi rr. Ba%singhamn's employ, and there was reason to suspect thlat not a day had passed vwithout his purloiniing sometIng. Th'e mnaster, therefore, detensed it necessary to prosecuite, and lie was ac- cordingly comimitted. .Edreurd Swife, a gro,m n ld of 18, was charged with a roobery of a more daring antI excteisive niatuxre. fle liad beeni stronigly recom- maended to SIlr. Nesbitt, coff'ee-house keeper, St. Mlartin's3-le-grand, as an honest, bardworking ladl, but in great distress, from. having been long out of employ, and in consequence1 although not us irr.. mediate want of a servant, MVr. Nesbitt haxd taken hinti into his em- ploy as a sore of utnder-potter. Ilie had been there only thrree dauys, and decaimped on the mnorning of the fourthi, before any body else ini the hoiise was up, taking with liin, a truink containing wearing ap. parel, the property of a gentleman whio lodged in the hiouse, tw'o pair of shoes belonging to another lodger, and a silk hantlkerphief of Air. Nesbitt's, whichi chianced to be loose in the bar. The prisoner hiad been subsequently tracedI to an obscure lodging in York-street, near tlse Elephiant and Casric; and when taken into csoy r ebt' liantdkereiief wvaa fouiid it is psssio uadthely,res. tNe bprt' pserty ha confessed lie hiad usol osasew. "io,athe resitof'~ the pro-n tilat property belonged not being min attendance, the prisoner was re- mandedt for furthier e-amnination. Ulfror.IATL..-TWO mnen, named John Gosling and janmes MX'Dionald, were biroughit before L. 13. ALL4eN anid Ur; Scitcvszr Bsqs.,chsgedwith lItaving comnmitted fehotsy and sacrilege. SIr XVElay witd,'cleck of the parish of. St. Giles, Oamberwell, stated, that about eight o'clock in the morning of the 24th of June, on entering the church,, lie observed the door of the robing-room wide open, whiceh was usually kept locked, and on furthier inspection he missed the crown and maitre from the beadles.? staves, whi1ch ap- peared to liave been brokcen off. He then discovered that e valua- ble Brussels carpet was taken fro-m the pavelneist in thle ellancel ; there wvere several drawers open in the diffrenit pewvs, out of whiceh ]Qibles anid PrayeT-booiks hag bean ta'ken; i'q fsct,the whole initeriorof the chuirch wa3in the utmost disorder, theeushllonsin many ofthepews hiavinigbeen ripped oPen,andthe fcathersstrewed,ELaboitinaildir,etions. HeI observed onie window open in the sootht aisle, and several panes of glass beoken one pane of' glass was broken in the windlow of the robing-roomn, as if for the purpose of Opening the casement. There are bars across the window which was open in the siouth, aisle, which would prevent any pe'rson froin getting to. Above tile window in the aisle & large piece of the fram e2 where there are no iron bars,, was whiolly remiovedl, leavinga suffcient space for thse introduction at any persotis, or remov*al of property from the interior. The seancesobes lIonging to the pulpit, andl the Venetian Wsintl of the window 'where the robbers entered, were takcen away;. as also a bottle of wsipe which was In the vestry., Daniel Lambeft,Ahegrav4?digger stated) thamt on tlse morning the robbery was commile,aot o'aclk, le was in thxe church-yard, atdob%b'e"ed tesons leokmingat thiebroken plate of thiewindow,and he oulti,on Ze roud, n r thte window, r4 black jacket, itn the pocket of' which was a red -worstetd coinf'orter for the njeck. -He has seen the prisoner Gosling frequenulyin thoecliurqh-Yayad, with ajacket~ similar to thle one now produced, and the witnests tilought, oi -pick- ing it up, that it belomiged to the prisoner. Wittness sai~ him in tlhe afternoon preceding the robbery, aleite, in the churchi-yard. JohmI II ills, a constable, appreihended the -prisonier on the 24th of June, on the-pre-sent charge, and in the presenedof IjI.&Scriven, the 11lagistrate, he to-ok the shioes fr'om oiff tyie prisoner's f'eet; they are theose now produced ; lie omnptred them with several nail. maryeson) the window.sill itiside die church, anal foutiti. theiMapressions exactly to corrsponil with two distinct nails at the toe of the left shac. Wit.. ,less miluo examilnedI his naked foot andfound that there-wais a riound' near the centre of th otso iete and this mnark or wound also corresponded in size, situationi, and distanice, with a liole ini thie sole of time shog belonging to that foot, -as It' from stepping on a spike. WVitness added, thlat he was clear. tlipt on the wino5ow of the -church, viz, on the south side, wlmtre it appeaed thsat somne one had enteredl, there wvere sevetal smsikes. or one of~ the spures, to the lefty there was dirts and the pane of glass and thkelead opposite to the particular ipike,whicb wercaboutan inch and a half from the spike, were bxolen and-bent im. The hole in the shoe is, aM near 259 may be, the Same distanae frm the shoe lirlnta, as ibei window from the spike. Vlriliarn Lovesey, a pawnbroker, stated, that on Thursday, the 24fh ofJune, between 9 and.10 o'clock in the forenoon, the prisoner, Al'Donald, vhmnl he had known before, brought D. carpet (now produced), m3d wanted two guineas upon it. He stated that he brought it from a person named IAF'Lean, and saidl his (prisoner's) name was AMackey, and that he lived in East-lane, XValworth. WPit- ness lenthim the moiney he asked opl the carpet. Trhe prisoner carme to the shop in tnree days afterwards, apd said he hiad 1oyt the ticket. Witness gave him an animdavit. The carpet is still in witness's pos- sessiorma Snow, a coxnstable of Newington, deposed that hle went, accom- paniied by the last witness, on the 8th instant, to the county gaol., where the prisoner AI'Donald was confined on suspicion of felony, and there X Ir. Lovesey identified the prisoner as the person who had pledged the carpet at his shop. Witness, on searching him, found a large'black pin, wbieh he appeared most anxious to conceal. Wit- neSs asked the prisoner how- he came by the pin ? He replied, ihaE he had it from his master. It was here stated that the -min exactly resembleda those made use of by the minister in fasteninj on his surplice, and that the curate's surplice was amongst the property stolen from the ch:rch.l Snow eontinued.-He went to the prisoner's lodging, and found; the hammler now pro.iucrr, which witness liar since conpared withf the mnarks on the door of the robiug-ron anld drawers in ihe churchI which were broken open: rhey exactly corresponrei . The itagistrates committed them for trial. POLIBE.