Star. — London, England, 1818-09-17 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. YisterdayNaas Grncey, a young man, was put the bar, under an indictment, charging him with forging and uttering as true, a forged £5 promissory note of the Bury and Suffolk Bank, well knowing the same to be a forgery. The indictment contained three different counts, the first charging the prisoner with forging the note, the second with uttering the note with intent to defraud Edward Walmesley, and the third with intent to defraud Messrs. Oakes and, Son, bankers, of Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk. - William Morphew was the first witness called. He stated that he was in the service of Mr. Walmesley, a linen-draper, residing is Gracechurch-street. the 7th of August, about seven in the evening, the prisoner came into the shop, and purchased a piece of Irish linen, which came to LS 2s. 10d. He ten dered in payment a 1:5 note of the Bury and Suffolk Bank, and gave the name of " Jones, of Deptford." Witness wrote that name and address upon the note immediately. The next day he went to the banking. house of Messrs. Lee, Simeon, and Co. in Lombard street, where it was made payable, and it was disco vered to be a forgery. Witness and a person of the name of Hind went down to Deptford, and saw four or five persons of the name of Jones, but could no find the prisoner. On the 14th of August, witness, in consequence of information, went into St. George's fields, to a place called Joiner's place, near the West minster-road. It was about a quarter before six in the morning. and Hind and Walton the Officer ac companied him. He knocked at a door in the place, Ind asked it a person of the name of Jones was there? the answer was that he did not live there. The Offi cer then inquired for Mr. Gracey, and they all three went in and found the prisoner in bed. The Officer addressed him, " Good morning, Mr. Gracey," but no answer was returned. Witness then addressed him by the name of Jones. The prisoner said his name was not Jones, and wanted to know for what purpose they came there? Witness said, " You are the per son who bought the Irish linen at Mr. NValmestey's, and tendered the forged ,e 5 sole." The prisoner de- Wed the fact. On going to the watch-horse, witness asked the prisoner what he had done with the cloth? _and the prisoner said he had purchased none. At the watch-house the prisoner expressed a wish to see his mother ; Walton went for his mother, and left 'winless and the prisoner alone. Witness told him that he thought he was wrong in denying it, for he was sure he was the person who gave the note. Wit ness added, "'I do not want to hurt you, I only wins the AS note." The prisoner was searched in 'the watch-house, and in a pocket book found upon hint wasbbserved. against the date of the 7th of August, this memorandum, " Jones, L'2." The sum or El 17s. 2d. was given in change for the LS . note. Robert Bevill, Esq. one of the Magistrates of Wprship-street, proved the examination of the priso ner before him. On the second examination witness took a note of what fell from the prisoner. He said, " I dad live in the Kent-load, at No. 12. and I am a carver and gilder, but 'I live now in Joiner's-place, Westminster-road. I received this £5 note when I lived in the Kent-road. I kept a shop there. I received it, it may be three weeks ago. I sold two dressing. boxes for £2 14s. and I gave the change. The mans tiame is oh the back of the note. He said he lived ap Greenwich. I never took the note to the banking. house. I left the shop in the Kent-road last week, end took the goods with me." The clerk tore up tient depositions in consequence of the prisoner re fiising to sign them. ''his evidence was corroboratsd by Wm. Herritage," the clerk. Thomas Hind, clerk to Messrs Oakes andto.han. Wars, at Bury St. Edmund's, proved that the note was kfbrgery. Joseph Walton, the Officer, stated, that he knew the prisoner previous to this transaction, and he al- Ways went by the name of Gracey. He came to the Boise of witness on the Wednesday previous to see his brother, who was in custody. The prisoner, in his defence, denied all knowledge that the note he tendered was a forgery. Edward Neate proved that the prisoner, about a *oa th ago occupied a house of his in the Kent - road. Tie quitted, according to agreement, at five o'clock in the morning, on the 16th of August. He carried on the business of a carver and gilder. Several other witnesses gave the prisoner a very good character. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recom mended him to mercy on account of goad character. George Gracey, the twin brother of - the last unfor tunate man taken from the dock, was r.ext put to the bar, charged with having forged and uttered as true, $ two guinea Grantham Bank-note, well knowing it to be forged, vrith intent to defraud Thomas Archer. Other counts in the indictment charged him with in tending to defrand other parties. Thomas Archer was a boot and shoe-maker, in areas Winebester-street. Olathe 16th of August, on Monday night, at eight o'clock in the evening, the priscner caMe to his shop and bought a pair of Wel lington boots for 11. 12s. He ten dered in payment a tVvo guinea Grantham note, payable in Lombard street. lking asked, the prisoner said his name was •Smith, and that it was on the note, and he lived in -Paul-street. The prisoner then said that he had a pair of shoes to sole and heel, and the boy should take the boots home. The next morning witness went to Lombard-street to obtain payment fir the note, and found that it was a forgery, He imme diately went into Paul-street, but could not find the prisoner. In co ence of further information, on Die night of the ept =he went to watch at a house of in Crown - street, k by a woman of the name Gtacey. Witness saw the prisoner in Crown-street, coming toward the house. He collared him, and s aid t " How do you do, Mr. Smith, I have been looking fbr lon some timer The prisoner Said, " Why do you toiler me? My name is negjetnitb, but Gracey. I bought a pair of } boots of you. and I paid you. Witness replied, " d you know in what coin too." When he got to his own door, the prisoner resisted and wanted to go in, saying, a This is new house, and I cart be found here at any time." Witness, however, succeeded in taking the 'prisoner to the watch-house, and gave him over to Walton the Officer. The prisoner then said he had taken the note from a stranger who came into his ;other's shop. Charles Fa:quite:, a little boy of 19 year of age, was servant t 3 the last *MM. He recollected the prisoner buying the boots at his matter's shop.. He went with she prisoner to tarry the boots home.— On going along he observed the prisoner look back 1 three or four times, and when opposite Lackington's he said, " Ny lad, I will not take you any further," • and felt in his pocket for some half-pence, but had' none. The prisoner then said ht would bring the shoes next ;morning, and give him some half-pence, but the prisoner never came. Previous to this trans action, he had frequently seen the ptisoner, who for merly lived in the neighbourhood. Christus Seward was Town Clerk at Grantham, and formerly Clerk to Messrs. Lawrence and Welbin, who, in 1816, were Bankers at Grantham. He proved the note to be a.forgery. Edward Neate proved that the prisoner Moved from the Kent-road, on or about the 10th of August last, to his present residence. The prisoner was then called upon for his defence; and he stated, that he had received the two-guinea note of his mother to buy the boots in question. The name he gave to be written upon the note was Gra cey, and not Smith. When he and the boy Were opposite Lackington's, he recollected he had to call at a house near there, and he therefore sent the boy back. He observed, that it was a very surprising thing that he should have gone to pus a forged note, kn owing it to be forged, in the neighbourhood in which he had resided for 14 years, and where he was well known to all the inhabitants. One witness was called to his character, and the Jury found a verdict—Guilty. eonozniza OW TUE BANK OP ENOLATto. John Jones was indicted for having paid away a forged 11. note on the 10th of July, knowing it to be forged, with intent to defraud the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. Another count charged the prisoner with intending to defraud Sa rah Taylor. Sarah Taylor kept the Bunch of Grapes public house, at 17, Jewin-street. On the 9th of July, about eleven o'clock in the morning, the prisoner came to her shop, and asked for a quartein and a half of gin. A I/. Bank of England note was tendered in pay ment, and he gave the address of Johnson, Hare court, Aldersgate street. The circumstance of his coming so far for the gin raised her suspicion ; but she gave the change of 19s. 6d. for it. Before the prisoner went out of the shop, witness communicated her suspicions to a Mr. Cornish, who was there. As soon as the prisoner went out, he was followed by Mr. Cornish, and brought back in about a quarter of an hour. Witness asked him what he had done with the silver, and he replied. " h is no mat ter, it is no business of your's." Mr. Cornish thought that it was a good note, but witness was not convinced, and still entertained suspicions. She sent her daughter out twice, pretending to' send for change for the note. Edward Cornish, a butcher, residing near the last witness's house, was in the public-house when the prisoner came in. At the request of Mrs. Taylor he went after the prisoner. When Jones came out of the public-house, he was joined by another man, and they both went down Aldersgate-street. They passed Hare-court, and in a court beyond it he saw the pri soner give some silver to his companion. Witness immediately went up to the prisoner, and said, u I want to know something more about that note ;" the prisoner only replied, " Search me." The companion immediately ran off. The prisoner was searched, and some half-pence, a comb, and a knife were only found upon him. Henry Piper was a collector of taxes for the Ward de Aldersgate-without, and proved that no person liiitlin Hare-conit of the name of Johnson on the 9th of July last. Jhhn King, a cheesemonger, in Wellington-street, Goswell-street, proved that on the 10th of May last the prisoner came to his shop for some cheese, and gave in payment kl, with the name and address of " thapple, 22. Mitchell-street." That note was a forgery, and it was traced back to the hand of the witness. Mr. Payne, clerk to the Magistrates at Guildhall, produced the examination of the prisoner at the office. He then asserted that he took the note of a Mr. John son, who stated that he lived in Hare-court. The prisoner, upon being asked, said, " I do not live any where at present, I slept last night in Drury-lane." He did not deny changing the note, but said he was not aware that it was a forgery. He took it of a Mr. Johnson in Smithfield market. On a subsequent ex iunination the prisoner denied knowing any thing of Mr. King, and asserted that on the 10th of May he 'was at work all day making harness. He said also that he lived with his father, but refused saying where he lived, fearing the circumstance should come to his cars. The note was proved to a forgery in all respects by Mr. Christmas, examining clerk in the Bank of England. Some witnesses were called to contradict the evi dence of Mr. King, the cheesemonger, but they en tirely failed, and the Jury, with little hesitation, found a verdict—Guilty. Richard Bennet was also indicted for having ut tered a one pound Bank of England ncte, on the 25th gf August last, with intent to defraud John Ricketts. Upon the evidence of Mr. Ricketts, a grocer, living in West Smithfield, it appeared that the prisoner came into his shop to buy some grocery. The shop. man suspected it was a forgery, and went out of the shop to examine it. The prisoner immediately mad. off, saying he would call again for the change. An officer overheard the prisoner talking to a com panion relative to this transaction, and stating that he intended to abscond in consequence. He imme diately seized the prisoner, and upon searching him found another £1 note in his possession. A verdict of Guilty was pronounced by the Jury, after a very short consideration. Stsphe3s Galt was convicted of stealing on the 22d August 21b. of ice, the property of the East India Company. It appeared upon the evidence of Jeremiah Wat son, third mate of the General Keith East Indiaman, that the prisoner is an Excise officer, stationed on board the vessel to prevent the revenue from being defrauded. He observed a chest of tea in the hold of the vessel broken open, and immediately charged th e prisoner, who was standing by, with committing the theft. Galt denied the fact, but the tea was.taken i from his possession. 1 Being overniesnined, the veitness etthssod than Int, owed some Spin to an Satire officer, and should not T Court would avant as light care if be With revenged, but the pelts:bee was not be consistent with what wa , the mum The Jury found the prise Another witness was tailed, who cerroborstted the The CHAIRMAN then tok preceding testimony, and added that the prisoner sinned in an estreme degree, said, when the tea was found upon him, that he did ipto the hands of most 1 not intend to rob any gee, or to defraud the revenue, had interfered in his favour but to get a little tea f#thebreakfatt of the excisemen. ced by him (alluding to The Coussott SzIORAxr, after the verdict was Court). lint the public pronounced. told the prisoner that he had been found offences -• Guilty of a most heinous offence, and would be vi- of *, sited by a suitable punishment. fore MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Yesterday J. Bresky was indicted for obtaining. under false pretences, on the 2d February last, and several subsequent days, fifty-nine• pounds and up wards from Denny. Mr. ADOLPHUS stated the case to the Jury, which, he said, would excite their utter astonishment at the unbounded impudence and deception of the prisoner, and credulity of the prosecutor, Mr. Denny. It would be in the recollection of the Jury, that one of those self-elected Pastors of the People, of the name of Church, had been sentenced some time ago to two years' imprisonment, on conviction of an attempt at an abominable crime. Those who have taken up fa vourable impressions of others cannot be easily led to renounce them: the evidence that satisfies others of their guilt is lost upon them. Mr. Denny, the prosecutor, had been one of Church's congregation ; and so highly had that person stood in his estimation, that nothing which occurred had shaken his opinion of his spotless integrity and innocence. On thisfoun dation did the prisoner erect his scandalous system of fraud against Mr. Denny. The latter had conceived the project of procuring a pardon for Church, the object of his veneration, and accordingly, had had a petition drawn up with that view to the Secretary of State, Lord Sidmouth. Denny was himself illiterate. The prisoner happened to see the petition, told him it was useless, and would do no good; that lie him self knew all about such business, and had some in fluence with the Clerks in the Secretary's Office, and that if he got a fee of £5 for Mr. Capper, the head of the Office, another of £1 for the inferior Clerks,' and something for his own trouble, he would answer for it the pardon would be obtained. Mr. Denny was taken in the snare, gave him £6, with 'is. for ; himself, in full confidence that the promise would be peiformed. A short time after, the prisoner came to him again, and told him that he had paid the £5 to Mr. Capper, and properly applied the El ; that these sums had worked very well, and done all that could be expected: that the petition he had sent in was ly ing in Lord Sidmouth's hands, and " all we want now tee the fees on the pardon, which thiount to thirty pounds: a pardon is not to be got for nothing : £9.5 is due for the pardon, and £5 is due to Mr. Capper." Mr. Denny heard this with sorrow and surprise ; de ,clared be would never have pursued the affair had be any idea of such enormous expense; and told the tsoner he had not so much money, which was the However, being pressed very much by the pri soner, he went out and borrowed it, and handed the £3O to him. Subsequently he came and demanded a foes shillings to treat the Clerks- 4 ' the Clerks, you know, won't work for nothing," and for his own as sistance. On this pretence he extorted sums of eight, nine, and ten shillings from the credulous prosecutor on different days. At last the joyful news arrived, that the pardon was to be certainly granted.—" The last blow only remains to be struck—Els for Lord •Sidmouth't signature." Mr. Denny remonstrated.— The prisoner laughed at him for thinking of stopping after going so far.—" No," said he, " on paying this sum, which cannot be got over, I'll immediately fetch the pardon to you, and you shall have the pleasure of taking it yourself to the injured object." Strange to tell, the prosecutor was still undeceived! He ad vanced the £l5, after telling the prisoner that his be nevolence hail cost him very dear, and involved him in debts which would in all likelihood cost him much trouble. The prisoner, notwithstanding, did not wish to let him escape yet, and in a few days after made his last application for a few shillings to treat the Clerks. This at length awoke Mr. Deany's suspi cions—he gave him what be asked, but followed him, and traced him, not to Lord Sidmouth's Office, but to an alehouse near Temple-bar, where he left him over his mug, and returned with a friend, to whom he had communicated the affair. Awaking the sot from a sleep into which his excesses had thrown him, Mr. Danny taxed him with his unprincipled conduct. and asked him how he could so cruelly deceive him? He produced an account of the sums extorted from him at various times, which the prisoner did not then deny. He confessed his guilt, and did net attempt to palliate it; acknowledging he had never imagined a pardon could be procured by corruption in the Se cretary of State's Office. The prisoner was then taken into custody.—This was the case. The facts he had stated could be fully substantiated. It was almost unnecessary to state (the Learned Counsel continued) that no fees of the nature alluded to are payable in the Office of the Secretary of State: not a shilling on account of a pardon can be received by Mr. Capper or any other person in the Office. The Noble Lord at the head of the department was almost singularly distinguished for his urbanity and easiness of - access to all persons; and it ought to be promulgated as widely as pbssible, that whoever attempts to procure money from another, under pretence of expediting an Address to the Throne through Lord Sidmouth's Of fice, was „ , milty of extortion. The prisoner had in volved in his calumnies other most respected indivi duals. Lord Colclizster arid Mr. -Lockhart were two of the persons upon whom Mr. D.nny's money was to operate. Mr. Walter, Keeper of the fitr , •ey County Gaol, was then called, and stated, that Church was in -his keeping on the 2d February last, his period of im prisonment for two years be;ng then unexpired. Other witnesses were about to be called, but Mr. Atansws, for the prisoner, said the facts f the case woald be admitted. Mr. ANDREWS then addressed the Court. The' prisoner did not attempt to del./ he had been guilty of a great crime. He (Mr. Andrews) did not stand up with a view to palliate it, but to do what he should for himself, under such a misfortune, to implore compassion for him. He was labourin&• under a bad state of hiklth, and extreme d:smss and pcverty, and threw himself ott the mercy of the Court. He hoped that as the unfortunate man confessed his taikt o the COAL. 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Capper, who a • I offences should not be committed with such ade.„,,t of hardihood as he had manifested. Ile er as a 1 .,` --- fore to be imprisoned in the flouts of C- . t--- h be vet ad di le est— on ti the 4rl, of Aleu s i ‘ i . ~• amm o& ki , one year. John Monk was indicted for an assaalt c". j H or ig d h a H n' o a lir p orn ali ! months imprisonment in the house of Contri ck a - Richard Ajar", a poor, sickly looking mat, ,i., cod in years. was indicted for an assault on 0 4 4 4 ' - , Curran, a child aged ten years, with intent too & mit a rape.—Charlotte Curran, who gave 6, , dente with extreme sialplicity and modesty, --• t ge h t e tettho fi u t el oA d if , i and tl e p sent out by her mother to gather some gra. s i i ,fi j near Ealing ; the prisoner came up to he:. and 6,, her down ; she cried " Murder !" a ca7pnaer, aid, name of Wettenhall, nee e m te a a d d e , a o l ff i d b m y et a 61 1 i -fl ip ranath co i' m :tn i W n had him apprehended. The mother of the child and Wettelhall orb* the above statement. Verdict—Guilty..... Th e ner said, if he was forgiven he w culd ne:er et i again.—Sentenced to one year's imprison . ..nen: t . .a !louse of Correction. Mary Wood, indicted for stealing a Tint Fne . pot, value 10d. the propert fOf James West, k eep of the Rose public house, Hatton Garden, was fcca ' Guilty. —The CHAIRMAN remarked, that the losmi publicans in this way were almost incest:rt . :Table— sometimes amounting, in the course of a rear, more than the rent of their houses. Mr. ITnt e :4 he had in one year lost £4O by such robbnies. - In the course of the day the Foremast of the Jry stated, that 690 bills had already been laid before i them, a number greater than he recollected on 12/ former occasion. A true bill was found by the Grand derv:tin the Rey. o'. F. Platt, P. lienroize, S. T. Str;:.'in4 J. B. Mutin, Stephen Witherden, W. Brag, J.G. Greenwood, and S. Acres, the younger, all of eethui. • Green Parish, for a conspiracy to defraud the pre. rate funds, in passing the account of Mr. Mercer?, who, it will be recollected, was ccnvicted a shat tat ' since for a fraud on the above Parish. . Last night a gentleman was robbed of his golf watch in Long acre, by two men ; they WC': purnet into Covent. garden, one of theta was secured, it the other escaped. A few days ago two silver candlesticks were stela ' from the parlour of the Rev. Mr. PERII7, at Erin; by a man who went in at the front gate and clout, ' to the window, far the professed puriose of so!icitny ' charity. The robbery was discovered aloacrt its . ' diately, but the thief ran across a field towards St.• well, and escaped. Monday morning last 101 Southdown sheep wee stolen from- the grounds of Mr. JOHN 5411.L11, d Yalding, in Kent.- A flock with Mr. Nlna.zis run , was traced as far as the Horcitgh, but no further is , telligeesce of them has yet been obtained. Inoutsr.—Yesterday a.; Inqueq w s hell at de 1 iamb, in Fitzroy-square, on the l', , ,iy of Ann Bohai , wife of a butcher, w ho was re; e:ted to have is . . killed by her husband ; in coasequence of ssint ', mob assembled. She had received a cut es I i wrist, which she said her husband gve her; busk I was proved by his shop-boy that he had brought le her gin several times in the course of Sunday mar ▪ ing, and that she got so intoxicated, that she fell e • some bones in the shop, by which she cut her writ _ I Some gossips in the neighbourhood said she was ROI I drunk, and that she frequently euartelled with hr 1 husband ; but several surgeons gave it as their ik•- , cided opinion that she died of excessive drinking ;, t and the Jury found a verdict to that effect. .-:._.- - -.=_ - - -- - --..—...-----;-:—;---;--- - The industrious mechanic, and persons of trackage • income, who are afflicted, may have the best advice, t gratis, if they attend at certain hours, namely, Tuesday, 1 Thursday, and Sunday mornings, until one o clerk, g 1 the Medical Board, Great Ch arlotte- street, Blackings t road. That thousands suffer from improper treatmeS I ' 'is a fact—the latent seed of a dreadful disease lurks is the system, destroys domestic happiness, and marl ? • Medic al Bo debility on the rising generation. The 3. claims the attention•of those afflicted with Strictarn n Fistulas, Cancers, Sctophulas, Nervous Deblitia. 1 Eruptions, ulcerated throat, pains in the hid " limbs, frequently mistaken for rheumatism, roans t• he shin bones, &c.—Messrs. COOPER and Cc. t s a n forty years practice in various Hospitals abrcadraiii _i " this metropolis, are consulted at Weo..l.stock - '"! n Oxford-street, daily, from eight till eight; 91 . , 'd . 4 5 ` !) Medical Board, Charlotte-House, GK.:: C::arIoe• 're cal n street, Blackfiiars - road, precisely f ro m me. n eight in the evening, —Ruptured Patients' whose:: 7 mours exceeded 24 inches, have had them:Mina° d the surprise of the Medical Profession. Y for ard.es. ri A aide door, and private rocns_L SS— - - .- .-.- - LS • MARRIED. E cesbA „ Thursday . September 8, at Hutton. by the Ref. S. - ..,._ - Lieutenant-Col , . e 1 D. Forbes, 11. P. 78th Higalsadas,Ff; SI ria-15...,::a, eldest daughter of James Forbes, Est of 11 . - f- Hall, Essex. oar Re's' 1. Thursday, William S. Roscoe, !'q. sot of a' .., ._, i_ Esq. of Liverpool, to Eliza, eldest daug hter of Jaime LueLw Igq. of Unity-wood, Btalfordabire._______,----"' tr . .DIED. is slur tbet °. Saturday, at Kiag's Beech-hill, Dells, the ?....y ..,...., ral of her father, Ilenri L tta, the youngest daughter I, Stephen Round , of Durton.cresceut, Lando.tr, P ~,. is Attg. S e at Ide house, Hangingsh.ov, Parish of Cothe Ruben Cedvill, late bookbinder, Glasgow , aged SS yam' , 1- PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. r 9 Bk. Stock Low , .-, Ans. le Reduced shut . . • India Stock ... Cons.7slt 75 0mn..111 des. le j 6/ per Ct. Each. Bills OW 111- 1.11 I, I 4 per Ct:shut Cons. for Ac. 70119 , 9 0 IS4 la Navy io nn 75 L oficketsi .l Id COAL MARKET, serf. to. re Ships Sold. 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