The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-05-11 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE PARR'S BANK ROBBERY.  At the London Mansion Howe, Westley Richards, forty-five, jeweller, has been brought up on remand, before Mr. Alderman Newton, charged with feloniously receiving three £lOO Bank of England notes, well knowing them to have been stolen from Parr's Bank (Limited), Bartholomew-lane.—Mr. A. Gill, who prosecuted on behalf of the London Bankers' Aasneiation, said the defendant was charged with receiving three £lOO Rink notes, part o: a number stolen under very exceptional circumstance from Parr's Bank. On January 23rd a bundle of Bank note., amounting to 1E80,610, was stolen from Parr's Bank. The numbers of the notes were circulated and advertised. On January 6th £40,010 worth of the notes was mysteriously returned Vi the bank, anonymously. On April 28th the prisoner called on Messrs. Westerby, tailors, in the Straw!, to whom he owed 1.5, and producing Ow Odle £lOO notes, asked them to change one and retain the 5. Mr. Westerhy, not susrectilve anythirg, sent an assistant 'mewl Meteslte his bankers, Messrs. Coutts and Co. The prisoner accompanied Mr. Metcalfe there. The cashier la Messrs. Coutts declined to cash the notes Withort an endorsement. They then went in a cab to dle head office of the Bank of England. At the prisoner's request Mr. Metcalfe presented one et the notes, and the prisoner afterwards got out rf the cab and presented the other two. The not. were at once recognised as being three of the stole notes. The prisoner said he gave the note to Mr. Metcalfe to change, and he said he received the notes over a bet.  Inspector Outram said that the prisoner made 11 further statement, to the effect that he got tar notes from a man at Newmarket as he had stated, and that witness would find the bets marked on e card which was at his house, and that he had mad% some bets with a firm named Saunders. The prisoner suggested that witness should go to his Wise and And the card. The prisoner said that the ring was alight with Corbett, meaning that Corbet% was flashing £lOO notes about in the ring. Ile also said he saw Corbett make a book with Mr. Labia.. nuns, a bookmaker, and Mr. Albert, a bookmaker and also give them £lOO notes. Mr. Lat urnum and Mr. Albert were now present in court. Witness had seen several persons who were in the ring. The prisoner gave a description of Corbett. Witm 6i: had ascertained that such a man was in the ring onsit day.—Edward Lee, assistant chief clerk at. Ilfree Bank, said the three £lOO notes produced were some of those stolen which were not returned. The smaller notes had not been returned, nor fourteen of the £5OO notes. The Alderman remanded the accused, but allowed bail in two mireties of £lOO each.  Thomas Iterti, who was sentenced to death at the recent Manchester Assizes, for the murder of a fellcnv lodger, named James Monk,has been reprieved with a view to the commutation of his sentence to penal servitude for life.  At a meeting of the Great Central Railway Company's Board, held in Loudon on Friday, a letter was read from the Earl of Wharneliffe tog the position of chairman owing to ill-resiltr. On the motion of Mr. Edward Chapman. deputy. chairman, seconded by Sir J. W. Madura, 14. Alexander Henderson was unanimously &entail chairman in place of Lord Wbaraeliffe.  The Czar, in an audience given to M. de Staal, the representative of Russia at the Hague Conference, laid special stress on the realisation of the Compulsory Court of Arbitration and the friendly mediation of a third Power in cases of dispute. _ .  The identical notes exchanged between Great Britain and Russia cor.ceming railways and spheres of influence in China have been published as a Parliamentary limier.