The Northern Daily Times. — 1857-01-05 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DELINQUENCIES.—WiIIiam Henry Tyndall, a young man, employed in the Post office as leter sorter, was charged under the act of parliament, which constitutes the concealment of letters by an official for shlPurpose of destroying them a felony. Mr. Banning, ieitor to the Post office, was for the prosecution, and Mr. Muck defended the pris-ner. Mr. Thomas Hunter, ' . 4 clerk in the Post Master's office, and sating sometime 15 inspector of letter carriers, said the prisoner was 111Ployr-d in the office as letter sorter, and his duty was to seearate letters, class and take them from one part of , the office to another. ne had no right whatever to have a 423- letters in his possession, nor to detain letters for a inqtrient. In consequence of some suspicions that were I attached to the prisoner, the witness was directed to wateb him, and on Friday evening, he, along With Cozens,, a detective officer, proceeded to watch his ‘,7l°lfell3.tets. He saw the prisoner act in a very sus.--`ions manner. About eight o'clock the delivery bags . frnln the receiving houses came in, and the prisoner tasisted to open some of the bags, and in some time he observed him take t'iree letters, and throw them aaiongst i some papers or office bills that were about, He then Pin the letters under the bills, and after a short time he took the papers away, and took out the letters, which he I Put into his pocket. Witness immediately took 1- bin) up stairs to the Post Master's office, I where Cozens met them, and asked the prisoner if 1 he had any letters in his possession ? and he said not to his knowledge. -eozmns then searched him and found ' these letters (produced) in his pocket. Witness thinks' there are reins of some sort in the letters by the feel of . them. They then went to the house of the prisoner, wtirre they found a quantity of jewellery and other things which they suspected had been abstracted from letters. Cross-examined by Mr. Block : Do you know i' that the nrisoner has been very ill for the last six months ? l' I can't say'that he was, as 'I don't know. The prisoner w's a letter carrier before he was promoted to the place t-tf sorter. Mr. Bluck : Do you know that the prisoner i ever threatened to commit suicide ? I know nothing of 4111' 'ort, Mr. Block : Do you know that Mr. Williams I l'rnholed more work on him than he was able to perform ? lurlw nothin of the kind. fir. Bluck : Is Mr. Will slants here? I g think not Mr. Mick :I am sorry he 1:11". Do you know that he had rn ,re work to do than „"11,1111 nature could bear, and that Mr. Williams put it -11 nim ? I know nothing of the kind. Mr Block : Do Yell know that he complained of such ? I know nothing er the kind. Mr. Bluck : Do you know that he com• Mr' of Mr. Williams : I know nothing of the kind. r. Block :- Were the seals of the -letters broken ? No, the 7 .‘ were just as they are now. Mr. Block : I now ask r e solicitor to the Post Office, if he intends to proceed Ill:rater to-day, or will be ask for a remand ? Mr. -,4l,thing: I will ask for a remand. Mr. Block : Very 1 then, I shall not go further With the defence to-day. ,prisoner *as then remanded for seven days br timiGn op MAKING Ihss Cont. —Ellen Burke was 01 'isll.ght up by detective officer Sullivan, on a charge of ~,,asing base coin. It appeared that a woman who bad i:,,,Te out of jail on Friday morning, had left her children il "iii_ltt she was in prison) in charge of the woman ttu,"!`e; the latter, it would seem, treated them after the Insonion of a recently exposed hoarding school, and the e,,,th‘er of the children, out of revenge, no doubt, gave i0.,..,1'11 information to a market constable, named ra'tlts, at Saint James market, and he made a cora, nnication to Sullivan, the result of which was that he proceeded to 4 Court, Cuerdon Street, where hi' . olrnte2etaerrlchtliinegprisoner in the act of making base coin, and a,ate•., the. place, he got a mould, and all the eo,,,irklals generally used in the fabrication of such. bre'C'n'ee with a quantity of bad half crowns. The :, ''',!o~aer was committed for trial. :01,ittave -CONDUer OF "