The Detectives' ease at Bow Street -is not at amend,.
or fl' its Benson, the scholar of the gang, was under anosseexamination. last. Saturday and Thursday, and the Crown will now proceed to call witnesses to corroborate the convict's-story.. Beneome- who is acute, and delights an admiring., audience by his:repartee& to counsel,—told how he had passed- himself off as a Marquise how he had once been a Count for six days; at Biarritz ; how he had been sub-editor of the Gaulois, when, published at Brussels ; how he pocketed, in: a week, by one fraud,. £i,00, by another 0,0003 and' 16;000 by a third ; and how. one of: his many schemes was a loan to the Khedive, of Egypt. This scheme failed,, because, the capitalists thought the Viceroy "a slippery customer." Beeman stated that he had given Inspector Clarke money,, and that he had managed. to bribe warders in Newgath. and. the House of Detention. He admitted that Kurr's story about Mr. Poland, Counsel for the Treasury, meeting Benson: at th.e house of a Mr. Knott was untrue, and in "exceedingly bad taste." Meiklejohn'steounsel produced various letters, full of penitence, and. addressed to Benson's father ; but Benson declared that some of them were fabricated, with his per- mission, by Kurr. The case begen on the 12th of Jelly, and twit is said that the Treasury mean to call fifteen or twenty witnesses, sthe end is far off, and the audience evidently do not, want the case to end.
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