Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1859-07-02 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

GENTLEMAN'S POCKET.— Shortly after one o'clock on Friday afternoon, a gentleman on the Royal Exchange had his pocketbook stolen from an outside skirt pocket of his coot. The book contained Bank of Enland notes, the numbers of which are knomn, to the value of £1,390; namely, two of .000 each, one of £5O, tw.) of £2O, and other smaller amounts. There were also in the pocket-book a bill of exchange for .£lllO, a cheque for .07 Is 101, and a cheque for IA The gentleman, who is a merchant in a nei4hbouring town, had been to Messrs Brooks, Cunliffe, and Co.'s bank in the morning, and had there obtained the notes in change for a cheque. On leaving the bank, he kept his hand open the pocket-book in his pocket, bat removed it semi after reaching the Exchange. It is suppeAed that he was watched from the bank, and that the robbety was effected directly he removed his hand, for the loss was discovered immediately afterwards. The loser has offered a reward of £lOO for the recovery of the money.  EXTRAORDINARY CONFRS,IoN OF A man named John Evans Price, a Welshman, better known throughout this district by the title of Jack of the Cate," was brought before the magistrates, at the Bilston petty sessions, on Friday, on a charge of stealing a brass tap and a piece of lead piping front the Crown and Anchor publie-house, Colley Row. The prisoner, who bears a lad character, is one of a gang of lazy vagabond, always out of employment, and generally recognised by the somewhat expressive title of rodneys; On Thursday lie gave himself into custody on the above charge. The oflieer who apprehended him made inquiries, anti having ascertained that such articles had been stolen, conveyed him to the police station. When at the station the prisoner made a most extraordinary statement to the effect that he had been itnplicated in the murder of a gamekeeper at Liverpool some years ago. lie states that on a certain night be, with another man, was out poaching, when they were interrupted by a gamektieper, and in the quarrel that ensued the keeper was shut. The most extraordinary part of the story is that the prisoner affirms he held the gun while his companion shot the keeper. Ile also states that his etomianion was arrested. and, after undergoing his trial, was executed at Liverpool, but that he (Price) made his escape. The offence with which he VI MS now charged having been proved, the magistrates COMtnitted him for one month upon that charge, and in the meanwhile further inquiries will he made into the truth of the above statement.  Di:ninon:Err!. Er.of.EMliNT or A CHELTENHANI CLkitoym AN. The fashionable watering-place of Cheltenham has been thrown into no little excitement by the discovery of a most disgraceful affair, the circumstances attending which have only just been brought to light through the elopement of the principals to America. For some time past Dr Humphreys, the master of the Cheltenham Grammar School, a large foundation educational estabishment, had been most popular, and was regarded as one of the lights of the town since the popular minister of the parish, Mr Close, had been removed to the deanery of Carlisle. Last week, however, he ten. dered his resignation of the office on account of pecuniary difficulties, and left theltenhatn on a visit (as he said) to some relations in Derbyshire, with the view of enlisting their sympathy to extricate himself front his difficulties. In a day or two he wrote to Mrs Humphreys (whom he left behind him at (heltenham) from Liverpool, representing that he had been di-appointed in his expectations of obtaining assistance, and that he should be detained from her a few days longer. By the next post, Mrs Humphreys received a letter from the very friends in Derbyshire, whom her husband had represented he was visitin inviting her and Dr Humphreys to visit them. This aroused her suspic tuts. she consulted her friends, inquiries were instituted, and 3lrs Humphreys proceeded to Liverpool. Here she ascertained that he had taken a passage for America in an assumed mime, with a female, a married woman, the wire or one of his largest creditors in Cheltenham, and the mother of eight children, lie himself having six. It seems that Ire had sent large quantities of luggage to Liverpool, in anticipation of his departure. On the morning of his departure from Liverpool, he obtained from Mrs Humphreys her watch arid all the money she had, and left her and her children totally unprovided for. Dr Humphreys had illuiVed in the first circles, and made large profesaions of religion and morality.— Et-coils/ /brut/.