The National Register. — London, England, 1821-09-23 00:00:00

ILD BAILEY SESSIONS. MONDAY, SEPT 17.—The Coart and avenues leading to it wee crowded at .m early hat— this morning, the gream.t anxiety be tig manifested to witness the w m . :•:winey Barnard Turner. At ten o'clock the prisoner, who is a vet y wenteel lurk i tut , in at. was put to the bar, but being lame. wes tiesired by Ali. Justice ltietwnlson to he aeconotte lated with a seat. The walieuttent was then read; it charged the misoner with mokin” and counteCeitinw a eettli., receipt fir 1,0431. in t ename of John Peon, with invent to tleOaud Sir Hobert Ptel, BAIL and the Governor anti Company of the Bonk of England. There were throe other indic.ments of a ler stater() fur din. ferent large sums Mummy. • • - - - Mr. Sergeant Bo.,7ntitiet and Mr. Boland conducted the ease for the prosecutor. Mr. Gurney, Mr. Alley, AD. Adolphus, a at Mr. Wilbootts, the defence. Mr. Sergeant Dowaneuct stated to the jetty, that the prisoner at the bar was a clerk. of the set Viet: of the Bank of England, and employed in the Nati 3 per Cent. tete!, and up to the rate that this transaction took place his eolith vers had no reason to doubt his integrity. The charge against hint was, that he hail forged, or that he had disposed' tuna put away, a receipt for 1,0451. knowing it to be forged. The receipt isv ()tweed to be a receipt for the purchase money of ce..ain stoat. in the name of John Penn. which had been g:ven by the prisoner to a person named Starling. John Perot was entirely a fictitious personage, created by the pi isomer at the bar for the nu. i tose of tnis fraud ; fur it would apnear that the prisoner at tne bar was the only person who negoeiateu the mica stock, who a :messed the transfer, who save the maws, received the produce of that stock, and appropriated it to his "woo use.--it was necessary that he should traton the jolty that Si , It. Peel was a considerable pronrietor of stock rs the Silty 3 per Cents., and owls us stood crettited in the kalger. On the 2ralt March last an entry was made trunsfet.'ong 10,0(41. from Sir Hobert Peel to John Penn, of Itighttate, which Sir Huber. never transferred either by loonsele or lay .tis attorney.— Tools aas not discovered till the month of May following. warm, oa a reference to the trarafer b. A, is wa., foetid that two leaves had been temovel from it. Au investigation took place when the whole was discovered. That the two leaves of the transfer book IF.Te destroyed design was clear, because the pages wets erased and altereu, one. in order to keep the account of So , R. l'eel taut :itct in the ledger, an alteration was male in a soon of 4,04*1. ta his erctbt, by putting a tigore of t before it, so that it stood 14,1 mac. An attempt oas been made to alter the tigeors in what was called the primary book ; but as thew was a implicate and to Oplicate of that not kept Within the wo"s of the bark, and there fore not within the reacot of any person employed in the Five per C: at. offices, that attempt appeared to have been given up, and the utigmel th i ures restored. Ile shot's' en" a oerson who knew the ;mistimes hand writing, and who would swear the writing on the erasure was the twitener'a hand writing. He should prove that Si , It. Peel nestle no transfer of stock on the 20th of Ma h, and it woold be trite clear to the jury, that was it fraudulent transfer effected by some person having teems to the books of the office. ife should prove there was no John Penn of Highgate. The prisoner only had witnessed the transfer made by him. No broker being present, the prisoner had him self asked Starling it' be wanted of Navy Five per Cont. aid received a cheque fire the amount, which was rid by the bankers in 13 notes, of which no less than 12 were traced as being jaud by the prisoner for his iota pu' l ooses. lie (Ser- Front liosauquet) was prepared to go ;too the detail of moot' as to the whole 10,00u1., but he apprehended that if he proved the fact. he had stated retnceting the receipt of t,O-1,1. in the Pane of Penn to Starling, tae je-y world have no tlifficolty in finding a lie instiument, which the p.:soner had made, or at least uttered with a goihy knowledge. He adverted to the pl:eaner's attempt to escape utter h.:ing taken into custody, as a token of bolt, r 'ld then proceeded to r^'lhis witnesses. Different clerks in the Moot were called to prove the facts rot stated by the ]carped cotonsel, after which Mr. Kaye, solicitor to the flank of Ergland, swore 'hat on the 9111 of .May last he saw the p.:soner, and several tra”sfer books were shey a him, and he was quesa:oned. Ile was sent for by the tli-eta ion or the Governor, Deputy Cavalier, &e. and came v.:th Foy the police officer and Mr. 7.lm.is. He had left the B, ^'c. When he tame. the IPA transfer that was terned to was CULL of tile 21 st of March. Witness uskul Vitt who the Mr. Smith was whose name was subscribed as has 7ng u:tnet , .... I the transfer, and he rented, that he was of the Stock Exchange, but not a member ;—teat he attended at the Rotunda, that he did not know where he lived, and *hat he knew hhn only Ly attending at the Rotunda; that he was a yoting man about 50; and that lie had accepted his identity before. Witness then sotati to 'lie transfer of the ft3tl of Marti', from John Perin, of lii6liso , re, to James Parkins. This was also attestsl by the meaner, and identified, like the other, by J. Smith. Witness anted who Mr. I'enn was, and he said he appeared to be about 50, and that he (prisoner) had known him two or three years. He was introisuced to him as John Perri ; but lie did not recollect by whom or when. lie slid not know whether Mr. Penn had any transactions in the hinds betbre these trans:a:ions. Smith, as Ida looker, rune to identify Penn---Strith had transacted business with him before, and he knew him as a responsible and royectable broker. lie sullied, that lie thought Smith was knows) to Mr. Campbell and Mr. Salisbury of A per tent. office. Witness then come Ito the other tionstitrs, and was asked rs t 1 some blots which appeari. on the nantes, and he said lie knew noth'og of diem; that they were not made before the b. dc left his hands; if they had, the launders would have hem oaten over twin. He said there were stork receipts I.,ieeti when the transfers were made. He said he did not know where Penn tive.l (Amu by the mu y in the baaks. Ile eonsiderti Penn a.s a man who old turtle his fortune, and was the most of his money. lie saw Smith the week byline. Tae stock hid been atantling in Peon's mime only a short ante. Ile did nut k now whether he witness , 1 the trans fer himself or not. He had knowa Smith four or five years, but we never in his company in pirate. Smith was regalriy hi the habit of attesting tray-fors. Ile hail generally seen Smith in the mitkile of the Rotunda. Ile thought Smith had not a box ht the Rotunda a itli his name. I's;Noller told h i nt that the name ot Penn was written differently in the different transactions, and he stud .• Yes it was, und he obset red it himself at the time." He was then desired to withdraw, and in a few minutes he was te cal hal, and told that he would not be iseimitted to ga home, but Ice might semi. He WI.; then given in charge of Foy. Shortly ant:minis witness went t t the ptisuner ut St. Bartholomtw's hit-piral by his desire, anti when he cone there lie said diem stances were much against hint, and lie wished to make a can • niuniction upon the hubjee,t. Witne s said lie cati'd receive no confidential communication, and that he most communicate eve./ thing that passed to his employerti. The prisoner then said he had bum uncial and ill advised by a set of rascals, and had lost a Attn.t deal tit money. Witness saki, how ran that be, when when you have sold the stork and get the money ?" lie said he hail, but lie had paid it to that rascal Penn. Witness said you know very well there is no such pepain as Penn. The prisoner renwincl silent for stone I"Ilt, cud them changed the subject, oh .ng that he laid been masted tend defrauded by one S mind 'Totter, whu had absamdial The a 4:toss said, r' yes, it does appear by a book ....ul at your hott•e that you have had large looney transactions wait hint, and he said he had." He then Palmated aititet to altow hem to be lemony' from the Ito-pied Pr his rota house, but he was told lie twist go to cuutinement.— tine s then asked him how lie t aeld be so desperate as to leap front a two pair of stairs ~ .dew, and be replier, "If you could know the angoisli and distress of mind I was in you wovid nut WO/llier Al II." Witness bid u subs, quent interview, but nothing material occurred. The tax collettur.:, letter and overseer., a the pour of THE NATIONAL REGISTER Highgate move 1 tint no bait yka in as " John Peon" bei or OM now reside •h.,,• Here the case for the pros( tit:on close], and the p,' , oner being caned upon for his defence, requested peonission to with. draw for a few minutes. The jiey also withdrew. When they rmumed their ',eats, The ntisoner ruse, and entered upon his defence, which was c'treine.y long, and tad from paper. The prisoner set out with saying that he was the son of fi r Bermud tuner, who, in the 1 : 0 i F o f ditit;igiliSlled himself in the defence • f the nark, and by nis bravety, saved its Tteasury from det•truction. Ile On istmer) hod been eighteen years employed in the Bank; and he considered himself as it were &portion of the mtablialt tttached to it for life. It wr: his tuisfortene, se me time ago, to get pequainted with one of those harpies, who go about entrappitia the unwary; and in that acquaintance was to be attributed the melancholy situations which he now shod. That person was .hula' Peen, of whom the jury had herrel so much. The le isuner tlien went on to state that he had repeatedly executed money mama:dons for this Penn, and had received proper remu. iteration for his labour. He had dime soupon his repimentation that he had large expectations, end one tom! day, upon Isis pro ducing what he conceived to be prover decuments, he executed the transfer in question. This he dot, however, without disguise, and knowing well that it would undergo the rigid inspecoon of two other exttesienced clerks, whose vigilance he could not hope to mime, it he had done any thing wrong. Son etter the accompsishment of his nlleged e itutnal puipose, he went to Ilaatings, on the toast of Sustex, for a tot night, on leave of absence. here then was ample means of carve. He had, it was ellegetl, the produce of the plender in l'is pocket at this time ; and wha es his condo ta With plenty of vessels in view, and at his command fur money—with the coast of France in sight, and with every possible facility for escape, he came back to Loudon—to the think, where, if lie hil committed any offence, he knew deceeiiun was eta.ain and lie mounted his employment, and resided at his tiattal ho me. Besides he did not want for money. His saluae at the Bank was above a competency, anti. besides that. he two years ego iehmited2,t /01. front his mother. and in the cot-se of kit year he received 5,0001. and upwards with his a :te. With •liis •nerease of profits his habits of living cons Meted the satne, anti he (veld therefore have no temptation, no inducement, to commit such a ctime as that allaged against him. With respta, to his attempt to escape, his mind was at that time ist a state of distraction, and he sought to escane ly ; but lie hoped to meet in the attempt what wooed have been came acceptable to tottaitt des(:';. lie knew the i"letrins . au. aieelt his waist of caution nail brought him ; he knew the stating circumstroces that were against him ; and that he amid have no mieleace t rebut them ; and he ha 1 elso upon Isis in'ad the cam:low:nes that, although he might escape conviction, yet the very charge would t"ivc lam fur ever from the pale of society, and render his .store existence tables - la The psisoner went on in a &rain of poweliel teasoning, rod even eloquence, to point out the extreme iinprobabby of a mat, ea cumstanced as lie was, committing ouch an offence, with (as he from his lung experience knew) the most certain prospect of detection. He reisoned upon the testimony fur the prosecution, which, he said, consisted Amok eirieely of probabilities namely —without positive proof, and earnestly entreated the jury to weigh well the . probteities on either side, and see which way the balance wuuid inc'i'te. He implored from their justice ant. hu manity that mercy which he could not expect from the law, if thew verdict shoesel be against bins ; fur, to offences Mil: that with which he stool charged, if cons.etion took place, mercy was a stranger. 'f they were not convinced of Isis innocence, still they might doubt his kailt, and the law, in that case, gave him what he was see the lical.s of the je-y wottld nut withhold front I im, the fell and entim benefit of that doub' The pi:sorter then, in most fe•aling terms, and ia a matinee which excited the sympathy of till who heard ilea, alluded to his wife, who, he said, lied "eked her destily with his, raid who, it' their vert"et shoeld lta one of ga"ty, weld have a home which was once happy, rendered desolate. and wouldbC doomed, for the leinatnuer of her days, to irissery and iv:etched- Jetv. Mt. Sergeant Bosanquet rise, and said, that tlsis and two other indictments, chatging toe prisoner w ;di forgely. prose out c: the statue trans:a:dun has( 10-oily been used anti decided upon. Although in point of form there were t"-ce Melia:menu, act the el:deuce was the same, and the transaction was "kewise the 611111 e. AJr y has:ng, after a plena' Mvestigasion, decided upon that ciitlence, as it was not for paint to call in qui:aim' that venlict, and. with the pe..niasion of theie Lordships, he should foabear calling any et :creme upon the present charge. The jesy of course pionouticed a verdict of Not Guilty. The jury were then charged upon the two miter indiesments, and renataed in each a verdict of Not Getilty, Mr. Alley applied to the cov-t to k:ve an order for the imme diate discharge of the in iaoner, such a coarse being casual what' the Grand Jul/ were tl•smissed, as was now the awe. The eOI`.IiICCIANI tO the application, end Mr. Turner was ' rmetliately "berated. His done:mut • was serious and becoming, and he bowed most reapectfully to the court and jury as he emitted the dock. ness. The ontin.anate prisoner conduuml address with an appeal to the jr y, of eloquent:it and feeling, which produced MI effect upon the auditors that "I not soon be forgotten. Mr. Lee, the High Constable of Westreisitaer, was called. who grave the pi:soner a most amen diameter, and deposeth to the •siterestin ! ; fact, that he it'd atachargial some heti% y debts which his mother had contracted pteviceis to tier dectatee, without the slightest legal obligation on las part. A area number of persons of the highest respectability spoke to the honourable and beepioachable conduct of the pitsoner during the whole of hie life. We venteee to state, that a higher elle-deter was never bottle by any man than Mr. Tenter main mined up to the tieliappy transaction in question. Mr. Juaice Richardson :summed up toe evidence a :th great trinuteneas and perspieoity. The du y retired at half oast seven o'clock, and after tin ab. Bence of sit hour and a bal., rata Jed viii a venlitt of—Not silty. A Oak expression of applauae was heard unon the return of tile vert•aa, but it was very properly represses( by the Common Sergeant. The ptisoner was removed from the bar, assisted by several fdends.—There are dim oilier indictments against 'l' cESDAY, SEPT. Its.—At lilt past two o'clock, Wm. S. B. Tr -ter was happen ted into core, and placed at 'he bar. Mr. Clark, toe !deputy Clerk or Atrelgos, then called upon the prisoner ia the ust al final to challenge the jurors, or any of mem, if he chose to do so, and the ju./ (the same as upon his trial yesterday) were then sworn, and the custonetly mation was made. Befrre Dl r. Jurlice Richarevon. WEIVIE,DAII:sser• 19.—FORGERY UPON THE PHU,. SIAN GovENNAIENT.-3111nasseh Goldstein was put to the bar ul an indictment, charging I • with feloninmly for ging roil counterfeiting 411%1'1 s 11011:6 for payment of oio dollar, pus to he Tiee:ury notes of one of the mi islet, and ullitci employed in the service of the King of PI Weill. Tutu ase wn' tried before a London Jury. Mr. Law topesiell die indictment to the Jury, and Mr. 11011:tad stated the ciacutwitturlq• Newman .won t.-11 ,S i. an engraver, and resides hi Widegate•vitert, Bishops:ate. llc k.ions, uud has emu. for :Xi 'ems, the prisoner at the bar, uho iu the beginning of April made an appFratiiiii to him. The appli rill ion was, that he tinil tonne emr:tying tot the whllr•SS to do. %Vitae— udvett him what it um, mid he said a l'itiydasi ticket. inked bum what tic6rl it w• , a n d he vii'd a ticket ofadmi. - ‘ion. Witness was gain to ask him for what, end he said—" God bless my soul, do you tbiok I am going to give you any thing wrong to do ? you know me very well ;" and witness ;lid he did. Prisoner then desired him to engrave the two plates (there was a reverse side), and and desired to have SO,COO if be could, in a fortnight. Wit ness said the time was too short. but he would get 10,000 done or mare if he could. The price for the 10,000 was to be ! 101., SI. a thousand. The prisoner was to provide lib own paper. The plates were executed stud shewu to the pri. saner ; he approved of them and they were sent up stairs to be printed t 10,000 were ultimately struck oil, and the pri soner, during the prose's, repeatedly came to superintend the work. The prisoner came daily and cut them up, and put theiniin parcels of Its each, rod took them away.— When the process of engraving these tickets was concluded, a line of letter-press and a copper-plate engraving, being put into the hands of the witness, he said they were the same that he used in the fabrication of the notes iu question. In Moist het the prisoner came to him, and said he had received another order for .50J0 more, and must be executed speedily. The prisoner always brought the paper in reams himself, cut in the form that was necessary for beiag struck off, lying publicly on the coonter.—One of these notes being produced, witness swine that it w; . one which he struck oil in consequence of the second order from the prisurier.— Those notes stated in the indictment were copies. William Richard Newman strorn.....ls sun to the lest witness, and knows the prisoner at the tsar. Knows of the order given by the prisoner. Ile cat oil' the edges and suggested alterations. Wro. Augostus Eckert examined, through an interpre ter.—ls Inspector General of Police at Berlin, and it is his duty to inspect the dollar notes. The note now pro duced to witness is a genuine Treasury note. Another note was then put into his hand, and lie said that was a forged note Ile had seen a number in the possession of l'oy, the officer, and they were all false and forged. In the mouth of May several Jews were taken into custody at Berlin, and among them one Lobb and Simeon. Lobb was arrested at Leipsic. Witness came over here with Simeon, and arrived ou the 10th day of July. Witness did not know of Simeon having any letter of introduction to tile prisoner. Witness put a letter in the post at Ham burgh, directed to the prisoner. John Schmidt translated the words on the genuine note, and the number. It ran thus— "A Treasury Note or Receipt of One Dollar in cur rency, according to the stendard of 1101; valued in all dealings in " ALTENSTEIN." On me reverse— " Treasury Note or Receipt of One Dollar in currency. —Office of Realization of Currency." The note is wholly iu the German language. There is a crown and sceptre on the note, and the initials " F. W. R." fur" Frederick William Rex." The forgery was then sliewn to the witness Eckart, and he said it resembled the original in form and writing." By Mr. Adolphus.—The term in German for a promis sory note is schuldt-schein. The term for a receipt is schein. _ Peter Simeon said, he arrived in England with Mr. Ecker on the 10th of July, and saw the prisoner on the following day. He had known him nine years. Foy gave witness a live pound note, which, on the following day, he gave the prisoner on account. He afterwards gave the prisoner more money, and received in return, at one time IWO, and on another occasion 2100. Ile received the 3100 on the day the prisoner was apprehended, and he paid him 101. ter then', which he had received from Foy for that purpose. Witness was always searched by the officers before he went to the prisoner. Upwards of 30 witnesses were called to the prisoner's character. Mr. Justice Richardson summed up, and the Jury re tained a verdict of Guilty. Wm. Harding was placed at the bar,chargeil with stealing, on the sth of July, six sheep, the property of Thomas tilling It appeared, that on the day named in the indictment the prosecutor had a flock of 29 sheep, six of which he missed on the following day. On the Monday following they were timid io the posscwion of the prisoner ut Smithfield market, who stub about selling them to a butcher. The prisoner was not at the same time taken into custody, but a few days sub serviently his residence was discovered, and he was taken into custody by Austin, a constable of Edmonton, in the act of corking his escape from the place of his residence at IVinehenore-hill, disguised as nn old woman. The account given by the prisoner was, that he bought the sheep ran man named Tony, who had since absconded, and called two n iinesses to prove they saw him pay fur them ; thew two fellows, however, prevaricated so much, that the court did not consider them entitled to belief, and the Jury (mild the priAlller hailty—denth. There were several other indictments against the prisoner, which were instituted by the society fur the prosecur of felons. THU RSDA Y, Suer. Sutherin, aged 29, was capitally i n tar feloniously, knowingly, and willingly accepting a false and untrue certificate relating to the duties of Excise, with intent to defraud his Majesty fflessr, Wilford and Holland conducted the prosecution, and All. Alley and Mr. Adolphus the defence, It appeared in evidence, that the prisoner was a clerk in the permit office, iu the excise, when any merchant, having tobacco, or any other commodity, in the Eondon.docks, under the lock orate excise and the company, wished to have it removed, to go to tar ducks, and there have it weighed out by the proper officer, in order to ascertain the amount of duties regularly paid. The weighing officer makes a return to the collector of the weights, and the collector then fur nishes to the merchant the amount of duty to be paid, and when it is paid, the collector gives a certificate to the mer chant to that effect. This certificate having been fits: signed by the collector, and consigned by the emnptroller, is pre sented al the permit office by the mere hunt or his agem,lund a permit sit given for the removal of the goods from the dock•' A person named Robert Grant, clerk ton merchant, wr si in the habit of coining with certificates of this kind fr his employer, and it was the pri.ime, s duty, with others, to receive the certificates and give permits. The clerks acre nut nice in examining the signatures of the collectors and ',troffers as there were many different ones not even known to the clerks. In July hot, Grunt, in taw• course of of one week, brought its., certificates, one for 1271. and the other for ups: •d, ut ::001. worth of tobacco, purporting to be signed mid comiteisigued is the regular way, and he oh tented a permit for such rrom the prisoner, u hose duty it was to enter them in a ledger, cared the " Huty Paid Led ger," kept fur that purpose. The numbers of these certificates %%cue Os and 202. In the course of the neck a discovery sat• made that the duty had not been paid upon either of those certificate, and Oat the Ago:duns were forged. The