Police.
The Times, 1824-05-24T00:00:00

ArAN5Sso-nOUSE. On Saturday threc young mnea, named John List, Charles Saunders, and Charles Dolton, were exa- mined berore the LoRD MfAVOR upon the charge of conspiring to defraud Joseph Shee. Esq., merchant, residing at Laurence Peunt- ney-hill, of nearly 5,0001. The following is a correct accoant of the transaction The prosecutor is irn partnership with his brother, Thomas Shee, of Cork. diRtiller, who sometimes draNvs bills upon the house at Laurence Pountney-hill. As the prosecutor had been obliged to be ocxcasionally out of town, he authorized the prisoner Bolton, who was bis clerk, to accept ce:tain bills byprocuration, butc those bills were specified; the authority did not extend t) any other bills, and there vas a direction that such bills should never be paid without no- tice to the bankers. Bolton got connected with saunden and List, who intrnduced him to a person named Richardson, a prisoner in the King's Bench. Those three individuals were in- formed by Bolton of the power which his employer bad given him, and it immediately struck them that it might be turned to their advantave. Richardson said he could raise a surn of money on bills, if Bolton wnuld accept them in the name of AIr. Joseph Shee. The proposal was agreed to, and Riciardson --nLuWtL urew nsve oiis,, to tne amount Ot z,Wi., all Ot whnic bills Bolton accented. They were drawn in the nanes of List, Saunders, and RicharAson, who proceeded so far as to draw to the amount of nearlv5.000l., finding in Bolton a very ready acceptor. The bills were made pavable at the banking-liouseof Dorrien. Richardson procured a day rule, in order to bring the bills into the market. The conspi_ rators succeeded, it is believed, in eetting about 1501. or 2001. on nome of thebills. Mr. rhee krew nothing of the matter until a bill for 871., accepted by Bolton,was brouehtto the house for payment. Bol- ton, vho had, in the expectation of being enabled to take up the bill with the money'likely to be raised upon the other bills, prevailed upon the holder to wait for a few days, disappeared upnn being disappointed; and MVIr. Shee immediately applied to MUr. Cope, the Marshal, who soon ascertained the extent of the scheme, and directed fohn Forrester, jun., to watch the mo-ions of the whole gang. The Mtarshal apprehended Richardson at the Bay Tree public-house, in St. Swithin's.lane, and was about to take him to the GiltWpur-street Compter, when he produced a Bench day rule. Mir. Cope then demanded the bills which Bolton had accepted. Richardson said they were in possession of a friend, who would soon return and arrange mTatters. This friend, an attomey, who is also in the rules of the Bench, arrived in due timne, and at the de- sire of Nr. Cope produced biUs accepted bv Bolton for 3.2001. He however said he must insist upon obliterating Mr. Richardsoa's name, in order to remove from that person all legal responsibility. IWr. Cope said, he knew nothing about solicitors irn a case of this kind, and took possession of the bills. He subse- quendy ascertained that the attomey had been at the Auction-mart Cof,ee-house, endeavouring to Ret them discounted. Threats of le- gal vengeance were mnade aganst the Marshal, who answered them by lodging a detainer in the Bench against Richardson, for joining in the conspirac. List and Bolton were apprehended by John For- rester and Mr. Cope, at the Three Tuna, in the Old Jewrv, as they were beirinnine to lunch; and Daniel Forrester apprehended Saunders. The bil for 871. came through the house of Lewis and Collyer. 31r. Shee refused to pay it, end was immediately arested. It is to be determined in a court of law, whether or not Ar. Shee is responsible for bills accepted by his clerk, those bills not being of the description specified in the clerk's directions, which merelv referred to bills drawn by his brother. Bolton, upon being apprehended, said that he had been prevailed upon by List to accept the bills, and that some money, but not much, had been advanced upon some of them, wvhich were for 10001. List had, he declared, asstred him thathe was going tobemarried to a lady of Oxford, who bad a fortune of 15,0081., and that he would take up all the bills with the money which he expected to receive upon his union with the young ladv ; that the bills should never go out of the hands of his (List's) bankers (Bond and Son), who were to discount them, and that the utmost regularity should attend the payment of the whole. Mir. Law, upon the part of the prosecutor, although the case was not fully gone into, proposed, with the consent of the solicitor for the prisoners, that they should be committed for the conspiracy, in default of bail. The LoRD MAYOR then directed that the charge should be briefly stated, in order to be mentioned in kr. Hobbler's book, and to form a ground for committal. The prisoners, who have been directed to find bail, themselves in 2001. each, and two sureties each for 1001., were then committed. . UNION-HIALL.-(n Friday evening, a broker, named AZer- -dker. who residc asr the coruer of Oh-lottt Dlacktlscar road, was brought before ill. SvAnEr, Esq., charged with having committed a rape on Ann Palser, the wife of amechanic. The complainant stated, that on Friday morninF she reached the prisoner's shop, in company with her husband, who walked on, and she remained beiind looking at furniture, which was exhibited in front of a shop at the corner of Charlotte-street. 'While she was thus engaged, the prisoner came out, and requested her to step in and examine the goods, saying, that if she walked tip stairs to his show- rooms, he had no doubt but she wvould be suited with any articleoffuir. nit lreshe wanted.Thecomplainant,notobserving thethingsin thesho., she wished to purchase, followed the prisoner up stairs to a roonm on the second floor. He there proceeded to accomplish his purpose, and prevented her calling out by placing his arm across her mouth. A fter the violence, the prisoner offered her ten shillings: this she rcjccted, saying that she would surely inform her husband of the treatment she liad met with from him. The prisoner was remanded until the next day (Saturday) when Johns, the officer who apprehended him, produced a certi- ficate from a physician, stating that the complainant was unable to attend thie exanination in consequence of a premature labonr caused by some violence conimitted on her person. Theprisoner, who offered bail for his appearance, whichi was rejected, was then sent back to gaol until the conlplainant is suffi- ciently recovered to attend. POLICE.