The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-11-02 00:00:00

lIXAMINNTIit

Ntrinte,—A man giving his name or ffiviA
DOOffillii, Dallis dealer, ham Urnyilun, was brought
befit* thimagistratee at Reaminster on the SIM ult.,
by P,N, 'Fe. on a sharp of uttering s forged gelo
Hank of ngland notelo Mr. Usurp Perry, of Win.
yard's flap Inn, nem Cheddington, on Saturday week.
It appears that on Itriday evening the prisoner,
who Is between 110 70 year* of age, 16fill having the
eppearaneenf a serving man, arrived on foul ai the
Winyard's Clap lon, and asked for a bed, which,
after some hesitetion, he wee told he emild have
He then ivies hie name se Jerry, Its spent money
very freely —treating the wisnpany to grog, mid drink.
lug copiously him's! r, end he conversed with apparent
ficuillarity about pinions in the neighbourhood to
whom he said he was known. He hail lived, more-
over, in the service of ari Poulet, Mr. l'helips, of
!quotients, end other gentlemen. He represeuted
himself m's orisehmen in the servios of a daughter of
the Marquis of Weattniniter, just come of age, and
now on s visit at Abliotsbury Ueetle, He was an
especial fevourite of the hely, end wee in fact out on
a mission in Dorset fur the purpose of pureliming for
her a handsome soh, Mr. Perry, the Imidloril of the
Inn, had m sob fur sale, and early on the (1410011 g
mornings bargain was struck for it for £ll5, The
conditions were that " Jarvy " should lay a auverolin
is earnest money, to be forfeited In the event of hie
not retelling the animal by D o'clock on the following
Tuesday morning, At thel hour he should time the
hem with his Mistress, on her way to visit Karl
Petilett, and the Animal should then lie taken ewsy
and palti fur, He accordingly handed a Xit) Rank of
Hilibuid note to Mr. Perry, who on eaaminlimit and
supptaing it to be "ell right," gave nine sovereigns
In change, Mr. Perry noticed other 1111111 AV 1114111 In
the stranger'e pocketbook, and was 011111 by Itlin
that he hail three more, To one of the gumbo
lie hail lip.viiiiely will that he lied £lllO worth
of notes, After a horned breakiket and more
treatliig, he departed, llest stating that his limns
MU MOM% 11111 i 11111111rVillg that he intiet be at AM
hotehiry thictle that evening, and that he intended
to visit on his way his tild friend Mr. Hann, of Item
Mlle Lane, and Mr, Jonathan Neale, of Maiden New.
lon, Muon after he haul left, Mr. Perry'. suspicions
Imams aroused by the remark of a permit who
stopped at the inn and to whom lie told the story,
and his result wee that Mr. Perry mounted the
"eidi" and went in chase, After some ailventuree
on the mad, and the discovery that the stranger had
omitted his Melt to Renville Lane and wee proceed.
log on the direet road to Maiden Newton—a eirouin.
stance not tending to allay hie su•pliiion—Mr, Perry
by a little Juiliolous " eirtmiummiting," managed to
reach Malden Newton before him and to pl the
Resistance of PA, Tee, who thought the note a good
one—an opinion also shared in by emend other per.
sons, none of whom, however, would (Menge it. Mr.
Perry melted his man into the train—for he had also
omitted his visit to Mn, Neale—ival, with the ser•
pant, took a !wimp in the mine train to Domheiter,
While on the platforni, Mr. Perry had not escaped
the watcliftl eye of his late guest, who was noticed
to manifest unequivocal symptons of uneminem at the
no daub' usexpectml apparition of his host, whom he
had lefo_, he imagined, in the quiet recesses of his
bar at Winyards. Arriving at Dorchester station,
Mr, Perry hastened off to the bunk. The Sergeant
then introduced himself to the " ooaulunan,"- and
before Mr. Perry's return he had taken him into cue.
tody, The cashier at the bank pronounoed the note
to be s forgery, The_prisoner was taken to the look.
up and searched, Thirteen sovereigns and some
impure wee II that were found upon him. The notes
observed by Mr. Perry, at Windyards, had die.
appeared. News of the apprehension spread rapidly
through Dorchester, and being market day, great
numbers of farmers were in the town, Holders of
auspicious notes posted off at once to the bank, and
a mond £lO note, preoisely similar to that pawed to
Mr. Perry, bearing the same number, was discovered.
It had been taken a few days previously by Mr. Hur•
tile, of Weymouth, from Mr. Redman, of Wareham.
Mr. Redman was at once telegraphed for and soon
arrived. He at once identified the prisoner as the
person who had paid him the nut• about a week
before, He subsequently gave his name as M. De
Devemx, of Walworth. PS, Tee now applied for
'remand, in order to afford time for making further
inquiries respecting the man, as It believed that at
and other places forged notes have been phased Wool
in aelmilar way, The priehoer was accordingly
remanded.