Title: The Evening Star, 2,035 4e
Date: 15 September 1862
Place: London

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
SEPT. 13.

MANSION HOUSE.

A respectably dressed young man, who gave his name as John Jeune, and described himself as a perfumer, was placed at the bar, on remand, before the Lord Mayor, to undergo a further examination upon a charge of feloniously having in his possession a 10l. Bank of England note which had been stolen from a lady named Mrs. Blackburn, residing at Bethnal-green, on the 15th August last, and not giving a satisfactory account of the possession of the same.

Mr. Pluckrose, from the office of Mr. Hall, solicitor, appeared on behalf of Mrs. Blackburn, and Mr. Sleigh, barrister, instructed by Mr.Wontner, appeared for the prisoner.

Mr. Pluckrose said he was not in a position to complete the case, but he understood there were other cases against the prisoner, although he was not at present prepared with the evidence, and he asked that the prisoner might be again remanded.

The Lord Mayor asked if there was no additional evidence.

Mr. Pluckrose said another of the notes had been traced to the prisoner’s possession, and he called Charles Ward, a clerk in the service of Mr. Vaughan, pawnbroker and money-changer, Strand, who stated that on the 4th September the prisoner went to the shop and changed three 50l. Bank of England notes, and one 10l. note for thaler notes. The prisoner went to the shop three times. The first time he wrote his name and the address, “Sloane-street, Camberwell,” and the second or third time he went in he wrote his name on one of the 50l. notes, and Mr. Vaughan asked him what address, and the prisoner said “Peacock-terrace, Camberwell,” and Mr. Vaughan wrote that address on the other notes.

Mr. Bailey, from the Accountant’s Bank-note Office, Bank of England, produced a 10l. note, which was written Mon. Jeune, Peacock-terrace, Camberwell, which the witness identified as Mr. Vaughan’s writing.

Mr. Saunderson, clerk to Mr. Ravenhill, 26, Throgmorton-street, stockbroker, stated that he paid Mrs. Blackburn 135l. 16s. on the 15th August, and he identified the 10l. note produced by Mr. Bailey as one of three 10l. notes which he paid that lady.

Pockman and Russell, two of the detectives who have the case in hand, said there were other cases against the prisoner. They had very strong evidence, but they could not at present complete any, but if the prisoner were remanded, they had every reason to believe they should be prepared with sufficient evidence upon a future occasion.

Mr. Sleigh, in addressing his lordship on behalf of the prisoner, said it did not seem to him that there was any more evidence against the prisoner than there was on the former occasion. There certainly was another of the notes alleged to have been stolen traced to the prisoner’s possession; and although that was certainly consistent with his guilty knowledge, it was equally consistent with his innocence. He was quite at a loss to know why his client should be detained any longer. He though if the prisoner had any guilty knowledge he would, as he was going abroad, have taken the notes with him, where he would have had every facility for getting rid of them, instead of changing them in London.

His lordship, however, was of opinion that the prisoner’s conduct was very suspicious, and said that the very fact of his being in possession of the stolen notes was sufficient of itself to justify a remand.

Mr. Sleigh said if his lordship was of that opinion he would not occupy his time any further, and he asked that the prisoner might be admitted to bail.

His lordship, however, could not entertain such an application, and the prisoner was remanded.