The Potteries Examiner : — 1878-11-16 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

EMBEZZLEMENT BY A TRAVELLER. At the Hanley Police Court on Wednesday, eighteen minutes in the hour from 12-6 to 1.6 in the day. The offence was reported to the before C. Adams, T. Pidduck, J. Stephenson, and E. P. Bodley, Esqrs., William Edge, clerk Sanitary Committee, and instructions were given and traveller, in the employ of Mr. Thomas for a notice to be served upon his lordship for an abatement of the nuisance. On Walker, wholesale grocer. Hanley, was charged, the 23rd of October, the notice having on remand, with embezzling the suui of £2 Os. 64.. been served, black smoke was again emitted for the property of his employer.—Mr. Paine appeared for the prosecutor, and Mr. Richardson (in-22 minutes in the hour.—ln answer to the chair. for by Mr. Stevenson) defended prisoner. man, Mr. Welch said Earl Granville had expended over a thousand pounds in making alterations to It was stated by the prosecutor that prisoner, prevent any smoke nuisance from his works and whose duty it was to collect money from the colliery. It was the wish of his lordship, and the customers of Mr. Walker, and also to solicit o managers under him, not to commit any offence or orders, had received the money above stated from a Mrs. Shentoa, of Stoke, and had not accounted breach of the bymlaws, and he expressed a feeling for it to Mr. Walker. On the 9th inst., prisoner that the present prosecution was a very improper one, and that if magistrates convicted in such wrote the following letter to his employer— cases as the present, the burden of the offences 'Dear air, I do not know what you will think of would have to fall upon the workmen, who, me from my foolish conduct, but if you cin spare a few minntea I should be glad to through their carelessness or negligence, make what account I can in the way of a promise caused them, and would, therefore, have to be dismissed. He argued that it was for the payment of £203. 63. I owe you on account of Mrs. Shenton.' In cross-examination of prosenot practicable, possible, or even legal, to limit the time during which black smoke should cutor it transpired that prisoner had only been be emitted, because circumstances were so varied P°d 10s. per week, with three meals a day in the ; house if he happened to be there at meal-time, for and that he was justified in asking for %dismissal i of the case on the ground that the smoke had not i his exclusive services; but prisoner slept at his been proved to be injurious to health, nor any I sister's, at Penkhull, and that he had his break. annoyance to anybody, and that Earl Granville List there before leaving in the morning; and that being absent during the whole of the day, it was a had adopted all practicable means to abate the . emission of black smoke, and that he should r ire circumstance for him to be at his employer's call witnesses to prove no black smoke was emitted i for dinner or tea. Evidence was given showing that on the 31st October he received the money during the time specified by the inspector.—Mr. ' Welch called several witnesses to support his , from Mrs. Shenton, and on the evening of the same ' statements, and counteract the evidence of the day he called at the shop, and was there some time but he did not pay over any money as having been inspector—Tao case cempied the Court some , hours, and at the conclusion the Bench imposed a received from Mrs. Shenton. On being appre. line of se, and costs. ! bonded by Inspector Vickers' prisoner said he might have had the money, but not with a fraduThe execution of Garcia for the murder of a family : lent intent.—Prisoner pleaded guilty, and the at Llangibby will take place neat Monday morning at • Bench, taking a lenient view of the case, corn. Usk. i mitted him to gaol for 11 days -with hard labour. ,  FE4RFITL