EDWIN JAMES IN CUSTODY ON A CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY.

Evening Post, Issue 177, 1 September 1865, Page 2

EDWIN JAMES IN CUSTODY ON A CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY.

New «ork, Ma* 31.— The eventful career of Mr. Edwin James, ex-M?P., for Marylebone, has been diversified by another incident. He is now under arrest at New York, on a charge of conspiracy to defraud. The prosecutor is a young Irish lawyer, named James Thomas Wilson; and James is charged, in conjunction with a man named Henry Hayward, with conspiring to delraud him of 1,400 dollars. In February of the present year the prosecutor arrived in this couutry from Queenstown, He brought with him £184 in gold, which, at the then rate of exchange was worth nearly 2,000 dollars in greenbacks. On the 9th of the following March he selected Mr. Edwin James, then practising as a counsellor at-law, at 223, Broadway, as the most fitting person to consult upon the disposal of his money. Jumes assured him that if the Yankees knew that he had such an amount of money in his possession they would rob him of every copper, and. that the only safe course was to leave the amount with him (James) for safe keeping. Wilson readily adopted the suggestion, went to his hotel for his money and placed it in James's hands, lie subsequently found a business he was desirous of purchasing, but on two occasions James persuaded him not to comple t the transaction promising to find him something better. One day, about the 20th March, he was introduced by James to the second defendant, Hayward, .whom James represented to be a man of lgrge means and doing a heavy business. Hayward himself stated that he had a soap manufactory and a government paper mill. The upshot was that Wilson, who seems to have bubbled over with confiden ce, said he was quite satisfied with Mr. James's word, and, without inquiry, engaged himself to Hayward as salesman, at a salary of 25 dols. a week, and a commission guaranteed to amount to 40 dols. more. In return for these advantages, the man of large means and heavy business required an immediate payment of 1,400 dollars, and Wilson returned to James the deposit note he had taken when he left his money in James's hands, and authorised James to pay over the amount mentioned to Hayward. Hayward turned out to be a man who owned neither soap factory nor paper mill, but who had been associated with James in certain transactions, and to all the prosecutor's applications for salary and employment Hayward replied by referring him to James, who, he said, had got the greater part of the money. These facts were pioved before Judge Oonolly, and the prisoners remanded for further examination. — Manchester Guardian.

As the funeral pageant of Lincoln was passing Chambers street, New York, a fine St. Bernard dog suddenly bounded from the side of his owner, and ran under the funei'al car, where he quietly walked along until the train reached the terminal point . This curious performance is explained by the fact that the dog is said to have known Air. Lincoln well,having frequently been caressed by him, and was with him the day before he died. Murdered while Bathing. — M. Lombard, of Montgerou, has been murdered while bathing in the Xeres, at Villeneuwe St. George's, Seine et Oise, Prance.

nnpeifrs that lie tried to prevent the Tendering of his cloih'-s by two mdividu&fe on the bank, who knocked him back into the river with ptoms and afterwards draped him out and strangled him. The °younger of the as' ai hints came forward, and— declaring that his companion alone was guilty— gave information which led to the immediate arrest of the other man. _ , A French Dog Case.— Judgment was on Wednesday given in the great case of Ch'iffonette, the Italian greyhound, which M Sirandin, dramatist and confectioner, ot the line Je la Plais, thought he recognised at the universal dog show as one that was stolen from his wile a year ago. After much conflicting evidence and an adjourned hearing the court has decided that JM. Sirandin was mistaken, and that Chiffonnette really l.elongs to Madlle Fontenay, of the Pare de Princes, the lady ¦who sent her to the exhibition. On the 30th of April, at the market place, in the outskirts of Tangier, the execution of a Moor for the murder of his mother took place. The culprit was brought out from the prison, in which he had been incarcerated for some time pendi-.g his trial, with his hands tied to his side, and being placed in an erect position, a soldier was ordered to fire a pistol-shot, which did not kill him. Immediately afterwards another Moor stepped up to the open ground where the body Jay, and finished the execution by chopping his head off with a common axe. The head was afterwards exposed to public view. On the Bth May a loving couple received the nuptial benediction at Gotha. 1 he happy bridegroom, M. de Lepel, formerly a Minister of State at Weimar, is 86 ) ears old ; and the bride, Miss Elina de Meyern, only 30. j