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thTELLIGAAti. 'Mtt OF ICING'S BENCA, JULY D. SOLOMONA V. BIGGERS. TI is wasan action by the endorser of a bill of et harp a gainst the acceptor : it wit dated the 9th ' gr a, al l at five months' date, for 447 6s. The c id a ece was, that the acceptance was not the delen da e , writing, but a forgery. .ina Arrow:et Gemettao said, that the defendant i m ere of those gentlemen who found it convenient 141 g oby two names ; and in choosing his second he had displayed considerable ingenuity, following in is l e degree the example 014 person who not many r im ago was indicted, and very nearly convicted, by the name of Enots, his real 1111111 e being composed ethos^ letters reversed, Stone so in this case the mend tot, *lose real name was Biggers, had for a bog floe passed under the appellation of Saygib K gg;b, the exact letters of his name reversed, not biti 7 TeTy eas ily prow - mimed. The plea was, that the signature to the bill in question seas a forgery, lo t t he defendant hAd ventured to charge a clerk in la attorney's office, of the name of Jones, with the t a me s but though several Sessions at the Old Bailey had passed since the accusation, Jones had b ee n permitted to remain at large without trial or etole•st• Mon. The truth was, that there was no foun dation for the assertion ; it eras a mere invention ey the defendant, who had before. shewn a prolific i m agination in the adoption of a fine-sounding Asiatic name to defeat the fieriest demand of the plaintiff. ir4 tnesscs were then called. Mr. J. I-I. Smith, horn the bankrupt's offiee, said, that he saw the defendant sign the usual bond on suiting a docket against a man of the name of Nuny, an d comparing his hand-writing on the bond with the same attached to Op bill, he thought that they were written by the same person, but he had no other trans of knowledge. • William Curry, a witness, who was so deaf that .theoath was adminisOred and allabe questions put **thing, swore positively to the defendant's writing, "Isith he had• seen many times, and had brought epecirnen is his pocket. William Banifield, a distress-broker, deposed, that *hen making. a seitere of the defendant's goods, he had Writ! Many scrapi of„ paper in the house, the sig,nateres upon which were very similar to the hand writing upon the bill. Emanuel aril Philip Crabbe proved the hand writing of the dealer, and spoke to a Conversation dui defendant h Id had with them when he sued, after having been discharges under the Insolvent Act, that it the witness, Philip Crabbe, did not give him or pass his word for £lO.. for furniture, he (the defendant) would go before the Lord Mayor and dray the hand-writing to the bill. Mr. ToreiNo, on the other side, complained of the asfair statement made by the Attorney-General re-i larding the defendant, who wits a poor tailor, en immuring to support a large family by his industry s I be strimadverttd upon the improbabilities of the plain-1 tiff's case, and called the following witnesses : Miss Sarah Biggers, sister to the defendant.- - She Me that the bill was not signed by her brother,' and that when it was presented for payment by Mr. Salmons, she had so stated, and had brought for. ward her brother's books to thew the difference in the writing. Dural a tollg - ctoss.examination by the 4 atii•Tort- FEY•GENERAL, she toad that she never knew that the defendant hid gone to the King's Bench prison, or had passed there by the name of Saygib. After much pressing, she admitted that she had heard him to called ; but that when people addressed her as Miss Saygib, she denied that it was her name. She had seen him sign his aurae Saygib about forty or fifty times, but she had never asked him why he did so ; she had nevet heard him say that he went by the Mime of Saygib because the Society for the Prusects don of Swindlers was troublesome to him. Joseph Batson also swore that the bill was not signed by the defendant. Cross examined, he stated, that be had seen the defendant write several times, in order to prove to the !fitness that the bill was not of his signature. He became acquainted with the defendant in the King's Bench prison while lie went by the name of daygib. John Fremont, an agent of the Insolvent Court, was addece4, in order to thew that William Curry bad *Worn front malicious mutates, having expressed a resolution togive decisive evidence; in consequence of a pending dispute between hint and &Fru. The (Eh, kowever, was not,at all made out. A he witness was of opinion that she bill Was not . signed by the defendant: . Two clerks out of the ottce of the defendant's . Orley deposed to the same effect ; andel*. lenami the defendant's attorney, gave evidence to the pro. feedings before the Lord Mayor, when the defendint t chalknged to it by the plaintiff, made oath, that the 'CI Was not signed 14 hint. After a reply from the ATTOENET-OENERAL. and s charge from Lord Eursroitoottn, the Jury found' S verdict for the plaintiff, aii-1•7 6s. ASSIGNEES OP WOOPGATE V. PETO; . This was an issue from Chancery to try the vali. air, of a certain agreenient made bet Ween the bank. rapt and the defendant; the contractor fur building 'tae new Custom-house, or. the Bth of Noveniber, 1913.1 The agreement had been entered . into under the fol.l • ^ l eng circumstances :•—The' defendant had yid t.m..er in the sons of the bankrupt to the extent of a!alut snow, for which the bahkrupt gave his Sc. erptasces to six bills of exchange at visions dates. Before any of them became due, he came to the de. fondant and told hint that he was resolved nevet to pay o•le of them; and that he would rather starve in prison. fir,however, expressed his regret at the situation fn which the defendant would thus be *ends and said, that Ind (Woodgate; the bankrupt) bad a leasehold interest for 90 years in two houses in Eusten-square, which w ere only iocurnbered by a mortgage to Sir Horace Paul, on which one year's interest wai . dtie r . 4 therefore propcsed tl.at the defendant should gibe 0P thg•Six bills, and should take the two houses, sub act to the incun.braoce, instead. After some nego tiation it was so agreed, :ld a meeting took place at a lock.up.house it: Blackfriars-road. for the purpose --li ; ng the arrangement into effect. There the l emereent in question was signed by the parties, \Vuodgate representing that the defendant had never uncle such a bargain in his life. Very sherd? titer. *ants the defendant sent proper nom" I. take ' es4 ion Of the houses assigned - to Woos bat they had • . . P nri loot anieed ivhen they ibre followed Sheer. Officer, with a writ Were facia: poernsineffe, in con sequence of a judgment in ejectment obtained by Sir Horace Paul. The defendant was of eonrse obliged to relinquish the houses; and Woodgate having committed as act of bankruptcy by remaining two months in the King ' s Bench prison, t he d e f e ndant endiasiOured to prove the bills of exchange under the commission. He was met, however, by the agree ment he had executed on the 13th of November IS and the matter being discussed before the Lord Chancellor, an issue was directed to ascertain whether that agreement had or had not been signed under fraudulent representations by the bankrupt. The issue being upon the defendant, the Amens' Gimutat., on his behalf, opened the emir, and called witnesses present at the signature of the instniment, who proved that Woodgate had represented that the bArgain was an excellent one for the defendant, and that the only incumbrance was that of Sir -H. Paul. Mr. SCARLETT, for the plaintiffs, said that the de feadant had relied upon the latter part of the transac tion only : whereas, if he had taken it up a little ear lier, it would have appeared that the defendant was I aware of all the circumstances of the case. both with regard to the ejectme n t and th e jud gme nt und e r which Sir H. Paul had taken possession of the houses in Enstort-sqltare. The evidence be adduced estab lished thin statement, and under the direction of the, Chief Justice a verdict wits found for the plaintiffs. APPLETON v. LORD IiftAiriIROOIC i This was an action against the defendant. as l'eo-1 +ost'Mrrshal of tire *upraise 'Court of Amnia it' the island of Jamaica, to reeover 4469, being tkettroouet of a judgment obtained by the plaintiff in that Court. In order to make out the plaintiff's case, a copy of the judgment 'of the Court of Jamaica, sigaed by the Judge, and sealed with the seal of the island, and at tested by A notary public, was given in evidence. Mr. OASILLBZ, on the part of the defendant, sub mitted that the copy of. the judgment ought to have been sealed with the seal of the' Court, and not of the ) island, in which the judgment was recovered; and that evidence ought to have been given of the Judge's hand-writing; but Lord ELLetiaoaouou overruled the objection, and the plaintiff had a verdict, with liberty, however, to the defendant to move. • COURT OF OYBR AND TERMINER.DUBLIN, JULY 12 WARNING To HACK N ET COADM AND JINGLII DRINIRS. Thomas Savage, a jingle driver, was tried for the wicked and wanton .murder on Friday the sth inst. of Frances Maria Wisdom, (an interestirg girl of six yeais old) by running over her with a jaunting car, and thereby causing - her death. • Jane Shelton, childrea's maid to Mr. Wisdom, of the CustoM House, bad been taking three children home from Mr. Law's, jeweller, wheie they had spent the evening, at about eight o'clock. The two eldest were walking, one at etch side of her, the youngest she carried in her arms. The child she carried was a boy, and might be about three years old, the second eldest six, and the third child abut ten or eleven, both girls. She kept the raised or footway of the bridge (Carlisle) carefully all the way, and had pt towards the centre of it, when a jaunting car driving furiously along the ispiefr. and close to the foot way, thume part of it, she believes the foot-stool, streak against and, tore the child from her side, throwing Esc violently . oaths ghosts, red- piteel4.4grith Ott wheels over the body s the injury she received watifia great, that she died in consequence of it in less than an hour after ; the child thus murdered, she said, was a girl of six years old. The prisoner. who drove the car, was sitting on it at the opposite side of the car to that which struck the child. and neither looked before him or to the side on which they were at the time ; lie did not stop to make any apology or notice the dreadful mischief he hid occasioned, but drove on careless of the consequence she heard a voice or voices at the instant cry out, stop ! stop ! A. G. H'.ll, Esq. 'William•street, saw the whole transaction, as he chanced to be crossing Carlisle► bridge at the time; be called out to the fellow to stop, who was carelessly driving on ; when stopped by the people, he (Mr. Hill) came up and charged him with having murdered the child by his wicked, and careless driving ; he (Savage) replied, that he was not afraid, that he was only trotting, anti if he (Mr. Hill) thought fit, he might take his number.— Mr. Hill told him he would take no number, he would take himself e lie accordingly carried him with his horse and car to the watch-house, impressed with lively fears for the lovely girl, the victim of the' ruf. 6an's intemperate negligence ; be then called at iidr. Wisdom's house to inquire after her, and was greatly shocked to learn she was dead ; he attended with ;others afterwards at the watch-honse, to see that the fellovi was in safe keeping t there were then a num ber of his brutal companions about the watch-house. who shouted and abused him for the part he had taken ; in all his inquiries of the prisoner he mani fested the most depraved and brutal indifference, and appeared' no more concerned than if he had run ovee a tat or a (ilk The prisoner offered no defence.. . • Baron M•CIALLAND charged the Jury, and alba, minted on the duty of such persons who nollittbok for the aeconsinoclation of the public to. drive or ems dudt vehicles of conveyance; their Conduct should be exactly the reverse of that which this wretched and unfortunate boy had,: on this occasion, adopted; but which he was sorry to say Was the too general mode of driving by ,the rustic and inteiziperate race of beings that followed that occupation in this eity.r— lh'At the prisoner could haVe avoided the melancholy accident (for, under all the circumstances of the Case,• he nould consider it no caber) the evidenie green on it left not a shadow of doubt ;.burto visit a thought less, headlong, and ignorant wretch with the severest penaky of the law, fora crime in which there was ne apparent design or malignity, would be an act of in. justice morn intemperate than the ctiminal negligence of the prisoner the Jury, therefore, would do well to consider the offence nta as murder, but man 'slaughter; manslaughter, but' a Very little step re.: ,adored from actual murder ; aggravated manslaogh., ter, and of the very worst sorts The Jury instantly returned a Verdict al—Agsm . witted Manslaughter. The Hai. Batton addressed the pri' aenet,. and At probated his contliiit ie the strongest terms: he said his crime was the most Wanton and wscked ()fits hind that is his judicial capaCity he heavier cem*amed; he was driving . fiariouall over a crowded b•dgytithe% (only sitting on his Car s regardless of the many lives •9, • • ' be bad endingefetn4 is'ili &duet, wLet he knocs*.e' down, ran over, and killed a lovely chill, who, had it not been for such brutal neglect, might have prove an ornament to society ; this conduct,. vile and eri urinal in itself, ,was aggravated by the bsrbarous ant' torpid insensibility he displayed when brought t: account for hii behaviour. To *am those of Vie like eseenpation, who may attempt to purse t suet A a line of conduct, on any occasion whatsoever, he, with the concurrence of his brother Judge. would punish him to the utmost extent of the law, and lamented it would not allow him, even in thi• most aggravated case, to make hip an example more public and. terrifying ; he then sentenced him to he burnt in the hand and imprisoned twelve months, at the expiration of which, he was to enter into bail fns his good behaviour for,seven years, himself•in £5O. and two sureties in 425. each. The Honourable Batton; before the prisoner withdrew from the bar, 1 warned him, that should he e►er obtain his liberty. to beware how he should conduct himself in future; and emphatically told him, that should a second charge of this nature, even under much more favour able circumstances, be proved against him in that `Court. he would most assuredly receive sentence of death. The law had interposed and snatched him from death this time ; that would no longer protect him from it, and a second conviction would be to him Certain death. POLICE. . . . - - . THE CONSPIRACY. MANSION' tioUse.—..Yesterday. after the usual MI6 tine of business had beenconcladed, the I.ORD MAYOR again resumed the investigation of the conspiracy between Brock, Pelham, Daniel Barry; sen. and Barry. jun. who were associated for the purpose of ,procuring innocent and unguarded individuals (par ticularly Irishmen) who might become objects of prosecution. The examination on the present occasion was chiefly confined to the case of Brock and the elder Barry,. the principal actors in the scheme for trepan ning the unfortunate Irishmen convicted on Saturday last.- The plan, it appears, was first laid at the French Ikorn public house, near Barbican. Barry, sen. his son, and Pelham, procured the victims, and the former also furnished Reordan, Quinn. and Con. nell with the composition which whitened the shil lings, and in which process they were engaged when apprehended by Brcck, Pelham, and Taylor (the officer), whose assistance they obtained in order to give a colour to their proceedings. Several publicans in the neighbourhood of Barbican were examined as to the yrisoners frequenting their houses, when' Brock and Bany in particular were identified as visitors and acquaintances. Evidence has also. been obtained of the same parties having before " shammed" cases of coining ; and one in particular (we believe in Grub•street), where a dis. tressd man was furnished with bad money by Barry and others, who retired into a public-house, while they seat him to change it in the purchase of bread and cheese. The poor man was instantly detected, and Brock, who MIS in waiting outside, seized him, brought him before the Magistrate at Guildhall, boas whence be was committed and afterwards con vine& • it it treetiduif eirtimistailier aiti on Saturday imorning last, White, the °Seer, observed all the parties i n confederation together, in and about the Old Bailey, previously to the trial of the Irishmen. One of them applied to him to borrow sixpence, and has a proof that these wretches were destitute, and calculating solely upon the conviction money of their miserable victims, Pelham, when soon kftetwards secured, was not found to be worth even sn much. Much praise is due to the activity of White, who, having received certain information of the connexion, attended at the Old Bailey on Saturday, and by his observations and diligence happily succeeded, aided by the indefatigable exertions of Mr. Burgess, to bring the miscreants to justice. Pieviously to the investigation which took place at this office yesterday, the-LORD MAYOR vi sited New. gate, and then held an examination iu presence of k Vie three convicted men. and Barry, the elder pri. some. The latter was fully recognized by the uo (misstate men. The whole of this diabolical case; and the general plans of the conspirators, upon many of which we regret to state they have been but too successful, will be fully before the publid in a few days.-6• The inves tigation was again postponed. • Bow.anser.—Yesterday Mr. NAAS' and Mr. BlItNII.Wall occupied the whole of the day in inves tigating the nefaribus Conspiracy to eneouree men to commit offences.. Those that were.under investi. gation yesterday were Wane Deals and George Browne. Drake confessed that he had seen Mackay. Benjamin Johlson, thee , prisoner George Browne, and Geosie HUbbard, in company with several oldie rpatrole. 'They were 41 in possession of a great many counterfeit Ba'nk of England tokens, which he under ' stood (as we stated yesterday) they had purchased of .satzie. Lrishasen of the names of Ryan. Sheer and *others. They paidlor the pas chase et the Ss. emus ! • terfeit tokens at the taut of is. 3d: each; those of a better sort they paid at the rota( ts. 6d. each.— George liubbard's.practice: was' to pick up persons whom be met in the atreetse engage them to' carry small parcela which were made up for the particular purposei end whose .contents were scarcely of .any value. When the persoos had quried. the parcel the ;distance so as to answer his purpose, he would then. give them a counterfeit Ss. token, desiring then! to Ito to a public house to get themselves somethinkto eat, ,and drink with it, and at the same time contriving-to &op other counterfeit tokens. into their pockets,— 'This circumstance of having .oths:r counterfeit tokens fbuird upon them makes the offence doubly heinous to that of tittering ! While Hubbard, was pursuing those wicked practices by seducing innocent persons who were willing to earn a shilling by essaying they parcels, Johnsen, Mackay, and Frown, were follow ing them is league with Rebhan' ; and when the. 'Poor tbllows tendered the eounterfeit tokens; they thee eminent!, and. pesitended to discover that the oakum so paid were counterfeits; and that. they at tired Deem knowing them ett be such. They then reciched ittOo! , cod fnuting others upon them of a similar manufacture, secured them; and made 11 el l ! filitlig i a ti g rn to the agents of the Bank of the dis• . jeofferies they had made ; and the conclusion wa s that they were connected with coiner:. They had sonietimes put es many at sir . countetfeit Bank oleos into tfre iteno , :ent people's 'pockets; Matte stated. that he frequently heard them -relate over their ditbacal adventur.s. Theis...general Mace. of rendezvous was at a public hnuokkept by bit. Cal lows, called the White Harr, the corner of ad-strect and Bunhill-row. Bubbard used to be extremely merry in relating his atrocious . pursuitt. Athoogn they pursued the infamous practices of prosecuting innocent persons for littering counterfeit. 13-42:e tokens, they also pursued, detected,.and prosecuted guilty utterets. Some of Hubbard? cbmpabions iii these transactions, whew they could sot meet otitis any persons of this description to accomplish their purpose, used to go out thieving with HubbArd,..i. After they had convicted people, and had received their rewards from the agents of the Bank, they used to meet at a public house. in Coleman -streets to di vide it between Johnson, Mackay, Browne, and Hu4bard, these men being generally engaged to. gether. Drake stated himself to have been prig a= when these transactions were going on in the public houses. Hubbard, in general, had a larger propor tion for his share for his ingenuity in procuring the people to commit the offence of uttering. II! Irish men of whom they bought the counterfeit Bank to kens were admitted to share with them what they got from the Bank. The crimination and recrimination of these infa mous characters is such. that they cannot be believed, except corroborated lit circumstances ard witnesses.• The Magistrates. therefore. have promired•respeerdble witnesses in conardiation of their narratives. Wiili 4 m Darman, of the Angel and Crown plifiNc house, in Gld-street, said lie knew Mrs. MiDcutald, . whose house.was broken open, and the examination of the parties apprehended for it led to the discovery of the infamous gang. She had been several times at his house, in company with a wooden-legged man, who, she said, was her husband : she had also been there with other men. She was at his house on die night of Tuesday. fortnight (the night her house was broken open) with a man whom he believed to bathe prisoner Browne, and a little girl was with them ;—: they remained in his house till past one o'clock, and fell asleep& Drake, the wooden-legged man, came to them at that time, and they remained till near th►n o'clock before they went away. Mrs. *•Donald agreed to the statement as to her being with Browne and Drake. Mr. Frederick Stock, of the Crooked. Billet public house. in the Kin;sland•road..proved that on Tuesday. eight, when Mts. *Donald's house WAS broken open, a woman, in eo•npany with a man with a wooden leg, came tog►thcr to his house about seven o'clock ; they drank together, and stayed till past ten o'clock. They were j;thied by another man, who wore a sailor's jacket. The two publicans' evidence confirmed those of Drake and Mackay's statements. Drake had hitherto been iu custody on a chirge of bastardy. Yesterday the Magistrates though: it right to commit him on suspicion of divers otfe...ces. Browne was also com• witted again. SCOTCI4 on.cmrs. Appointments ler the eirw-n, A utumn : WES 1.-1 LORD JUSTICY CLERC. Irremry—blionttse, Septerolxr lb. Stirlieg—Saturdzy, September 21. ~ • • Guireet , ....."V/Atlesdiy, Sepiesitier !S. NORTH.—Lord HERMA ND and Lad °WA/. Pt rtb-- Ibursday, September 12. • Aberdeen—l'nesday, September I?. Inverness—Monday, September 23. SOUTH.—Lord PITMILLY and Lord SuceoTtr. Jedburgh—Saturday, September 14. Dontfries—Tbursday, September 19. .Ajt— . l'neiday, September 21. .. The Otserwr of To.morrow will contaln did decision ot the Magistrates at the adjourned Sur.; rey Sessions, in the kng litigated case of “ Far. quharson v. Christ Church," as to the Right of tie Rev. Rowi.axo Chapel paying .Poor's Rates. ne Observer will also contain more Minutes•of the Evidence given before the Insolvent Debtor's Com. mittee; containing numerous cases of Deception,/ Fraud, and Swindling, deeply interesting to all per. sons.concerned in 'trade. GRAND MAI-cm AOAINsT TlME—Captain WOMB.r. WIILL I or the Ist Life Guards, who started yesterday morning with his tandem to go to Brighton in five• hours without changing horses, effected that arduous undertaking with apparent ease. He started from: . the Marsh Gate, West minster, precisely at four) o'clock in the morning, and arrived at the Liege Arms Inn, George -street, Brighton, a quarter before , nine. The horses appeaitd but very little distressedc It rained during the whole time the match was per. forming, but this was not considered as unfavourable by sportsmen, to its accomplishment. The whole distance performed was 52 miles; the road being. 'through Croydon, Reigate, and Hickstead. Captain. Bridges, of Brighton, performed the same task gra tuitously on Tuesday morning with his tandem and. horses, in four hours and fifty minutes. WILSON, the pedestrian, last v.e..k waked SO miler in 114 limas, in Prussia Gardens, N.'rwich. He en.. gaged to acternplish thoperlormance in it hews. atiCustion PEDESTRIAN --(LATON'S' T.:AOT DAT). • -EATON, this morning, was going on in high spiritt,,. and has been the whole of last night accbmpanked by: his friends, in order to prevent any interruption which. 'might be offered him by his opponents, who have 'made every endeavour to throw impediments in his way to prevent him completing the task. Yesterday evening the pressure was so great around him, that his way was nearly stopped ; by the activity of his , friends, who went before him, the course was with difficulty kept clear. EATON, this morning at eight. o'clock, brought np his 1092 d mite, when he retired' to breakfast. Ban PEDESTRIAN.—The veteran hero, BAairwr, still continues going.un in front of the Duke's Head, Barking, with great confidence of finally being suc cessful in his undertaking. It is really surprising to see an old man, 72 years of age, complete his mile and a half every hour, in the manner be has done, even since his first starting, notwithstanding the in clemency of the weathers He bas now accomplished this morning, 28 Minutes after seven o'clock, his 978th mile of his wonderful attempt. Sixty-two sheep; be'onging to Mr. ROSKJILLT, of Ringwood Farm, near Dartmoor, were killed by lightning en the night of the Bth inst. The ilark4 of several other farmers, in the neighbourhood, suffered severely, and it is supposed that not less tl:an ;beep were destroyed the same eight. r