The Press. — 1856-11-22 (London, England)

GANG OF SWINDLERS IN ST. JOHN'S WOOD, a Mr. and Mrs. Bond, and one Fennel and his wife, who acted as servants, were brought up on Wednesday, before Mr. Combe, at Southwark, charged with obtaining nearly 1,0001. worth of goods from various tradesmen, and absconding without payment. Their system was very simple. Ther took a furnished house for a week, No. 3, Wellington-place, St. John's Wood. Mrs. Bond went the round of the shops, ordered silks, satins, furniture, lamps, &c., &c., to be sent by a certain day to the house for Mr. Bond's inspection. When the goods came, Mr. Bond was out. The tradesman, of course, seeing a handsomelyfurnished house, left the goods at Mrs. Bond's request. When he called a day or two afterwards, goods and customers were gone together. The prisoners were remanded. ANOTHER FRAUDLENT BREACH OF TRUST, on the part of a manager who enjoyed the "fall confidence', of his employers, has transpired this week. A Mr. Stuart, the managing man for eighteen years of Messrs. Bunnett and Corpe, engineers, at Deptford, has absconded. Defalcations to the amount of several thousand pounds have been discovered in his accounts. He was in the habit of charging his employers a higher rate of wages than he paid the men, and putting the difference into his own pocket. THE INQUEST ON GEORGE CARTER, whose dead body was found near Erith a few days ago, was resumed on Tuesday by Mr. Carttar, at the Crown Inn, but nothing further of a positive character was elicited, and the inquiry was adjourned for a week. It was stated that the police had obtained information upon the subject which would probably lead to the apprehension of the murderer.  MURDER, SUICIDE, AND ROBBERY, have been plentiful this week. On the 14th, Charles Forrester, formerly an acting home missionary in the neigh. bourhood of Wokingham, Berks, cut the throat of his only child, a boy 3f five years of age. No reason is assigned for the art. Forrester had lately been superseded in his place by the City Mission Society, as intellectually unfit for the office. Since then he had been in very low spirits. He is believed to be insane. A verdict of "Wilful murder" was found at the inquest, and the prisoner was fully committed for trial.—Last Saturday night Henry Fenn, a carver and gilder of tho Hackney- road, cut his own throat after having drowned his wife in the canal close by.— The same day the bo3y of a girl, missed for some weeks in Worcester, was found in the Worcester canal. The body exhibited severe bruises about the head, and at the coroner's inquest strong evidence was given which would lead to the belief that the poor girl had been cruelly murdered. She was last seen on the night of the 27th October. On that night she had quarrelled with her lover. About 4 a.m. on the 28th loni cries of" Murder" and for" Help " were beard by a man living near the canal. The jury returned an open verdict, yet expressing a belief that the girl had been foully murdered.—On Tuesday, a healthy American, a Mr. Jonathan Tneker, after eating a hearty breakfast at his lodgings in Router 1115  hithe, cut his throat with the carving knife .—With respect to robberies and garotting, numerous cases have been brought forward. As a sample of what garotting really is we subjoin the statement of a :Mr. Moore, given at the Lambeth Police Court, this week. Mr. Moore had been garotted and robbed within a few feet of his own door in Lambeth :  Mr. Moore, who seemed to be suffering severely from the serious injuries inflicted on him, and particularly from the violent squeezing of his throat, said—This morning between the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock, while passing along Templestreet, on my way home, I heard some footsteps behind me, and finding by the sound that they were closely approaching me, I, when a minute's walk from my own door, turned round, and saw four men close behind me. One of the men put one of his arms round my neck, while he grasped me by the throat with the hand of the other, and drew me back towards him. One of the others struck me a violent blow on the chest, and a second gave me an equally violent blow on the stomach. I felt certain I should have been suffocated ; but by a great effort T made such a struggle that I fell to the ground, and on doing so I cried out " Murder" as well as I could.