The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-18 00:00:00

CHARGE OF FORGING BILLS OF

EXCHANGE.

Op Saturday, at the Police-court, before Mr., Hough'
ton, an elderly man who gave the name of Henry, 4g
Henry Michael Knaresborough, was brought up by lbd-
son of the Birkenhead detective police, on charges of blef.
ing forged several bills of exchange, on several firm*
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Hull, Jersey, and other places, and for putting for
and uttering the said bills, and raising money ou the
by false pretences, &c. Mr. Kehoe said there Weil
several charges against the prisoner, hut he would oly
go into one or two in order to ask for a remand 11°!'
the case could be properly matured. He said the Pr?.
soner obtained money on bills, purporting to be dill
on firms in Hull and Jersey, but it would be proved
there were no such firms, and that the bills were all i°
the handwriting of the prisoner. He then called
Mr. Swan, publican, Scotland-place, vKlio said the Pr'
soner came to his house on the 2nd of June, and said 11
wanted a respectable place, and was a coal exporter, ea I
had come to establish an agency here ; he describe'
himself as Knaresborough and Co., and said he had bee°
at Southampton, and got large orders in Ireland. 11c1
remained from Thursday to Monday, and had his f00')
and some money, and gave me bills of lading of 'ea
sacks of flour, that he said were coming by a ship called
the Mary, from Dublin. He said he got a bill fr°l74
Jersey.
Prisoner : Was it you or Mrs. Swan that lent me the
money ? Witness : Mrs. Swan.
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Mrs. Swan was examined, and proved that she
the prisoner over £3 4s. in money on a bill, which 6
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took to be a good and genuine one.
The prisoner cross-examined the lady, with the vie
of showing it was a debt, and that the bill was not give

as security. • be
Thomas Harrison, a nephew of Mr. Swan, said t
prisoner employed him as a clerk, at £1 per week, to O.
amongst ships. He proved that the forged bill Was
the prisoner's handwriting. It was purported to biel
accepted by a firm in Jersey, but there was pc' sue

firm.
Mr. Joseph Heald, coal-dealer, Union-street, stated
I export coal to many places, but I have no connectio
in Jersey. I know the prisoner, lam sorry to say.
Prisoner—And I am sorry to say I know Y°11"
(Laughter.)
Witness said he applied for a warrant to arrest the
prisoner on a swindling transaction, but he admitted, 1!
reply to the prisoner, that he had compromised Oa:
transaction under certain circumstances. The witnes
said he believed the bill to be in the prisoner's hand'
writing.
John Green, a warehouseman, at the Canal Company
said he knew the prisoner since March ; he wanted coals.
brought down from Wigan, as he said, he had bough
a large quantity to send to Ireland. Arranged to brio;
them down at so much a ton. He wanted some money
on account from Mr. Reed and myself, we gave him Os.
first and after; he said he had a bill of exchang The
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£75, and he said he would place it in our hands,
bill was presented through Bernard's, and it was returned
from Jersey, not paid.
The bill purported to be drawn on Dulanty and CO'
Jersey,
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Knaresborough and Co. on Greig and Co., Hull, and '-
was stated that there was no such firm.]
The witness Richardson said the acceptance on tba°.
bill, was the handwriting of the prisoner.
and
The prisoner made a violent, rambling speech,
was then remanded for a week.

The Bristol Mercury says of General Garibaldi
" This brave man worked a free passage a few years ago
from New York to this port in a ship, the La Guards,
which is now in our docks."
MEN AND MUSKETS.—In the days of his
prosperitP
Napoleon had one million muskets in his arsenals. Bilt
in the campaign of Russia 500,000 had been buried la
the snows, and in that of Germany we lost 200,0000.
and in many foreign places great quantities of French
arms had been sacrificed. All,these losses had exhaustel
our arsenals. To establish forms for the manufacture
of muskets was very much more difficult than to fit uP
stores for furnishing clothes and horses ; and yet ther!
was no use in raising men, if they could not be equipped-
It was a strange feature that characterised this policy
for
vast preparations were made for invasion, none
ce' r
defence ! France, when threatened by a foreign for
had more difficulty in procuring 300,000 muskets °
thatne
300,000 men to carry them !---Itistory of the Consul
and Empire, by M. 4. Theirs.