The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-19 00:00:00

from Mm, en the 9th of December, this (the forged) bill. t
He asked me to discount it that day. I did so-. I pre
kis a shags* for 1071. 10e. ea the Union Bank of London.
On the 3rd of Felosary, the day before the bill was due,
he came to my private reeklenes with 1101. in Bank notes,
to pay the bill on the forthcoming day. I told him I would
do so. I afterwards saw him at 8 o'clock on the 4th of
February. He sailed es know if I had taken the bill up.
1 told Min he had better go with me down to the Union
Bank. I had left the mosey there in the morning. He
went with me to the Union Bank, and the clerk who ban
charge of the bills there stated to me, In the prisoner's pre-
sent*, that the bill had been paid by the Joint Stuck Bank,
and he handed me the money I had left with him to take it
upk7 W. 8. on of which ', IthrmiT-cveol. the
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prisoner.
it ser-row, book-
seller and publisher, said—l am acquainted with the pri-
soner. Previously to the month of May he put up an
hydraulic press for me. It was to be a long credit. I un-
derstood it to be nine months. lie asked me to give him
my acceptance of a shorter date. The understanding was,
that when the bill became due, he was to renew the whole
or any part of it, as I might request. When the bill
became du I asked him to renew about 1001. of it. On
the morning of the 2nd of December I received from him,
by poet, his draft for 1101. It was entered on the back, and
I returned it by post, accepted by me, on the same day.
This (pointing to the genuine hill) is the bill. I only gave
him one acceptance for 110/. This (pointing to the forged
bill) is not my acceptance, nor was it written by my
authority. I never authorisod any one to accept a bill
for me.

Crow-examined by Mr. Hemphrese—The original bill
wain six months' bill, drawn in May and due in December,
for .1801. 3e. 3d. There had been previous transactions
between es. He had put up a steam engine for mo. I had
not been acquainted with him long, but I am bound to say
that up to the present transaction his conduct had been
most exemplary. He was a mat intelligent and able en•
gineer. For the 1101. renewal, I received a cheque for 1051.
The other 61. was deducted in consequence of a running
amount between us. I have been in communication with
the bankers since, and I know now that the money for the
1101. bill was paid into the London Joint Stock Bank to
my account in the name of Gilbert. It is so stated in the
bank book. I did not discover that the 1101. had beta paid
in until last Saturday evening, and then I found it had been
paid is on the 4th instant.
Mr. C. R. H. Wessell, clerk at the Union Beak, said
—The bill produced (the forged acceptance) is the one for
which our Usk obtained payment from the London Joint
Stock Bank. The bill was paid into our bank by Mr. Davis,
of Reilwayplace, Fenehurch.street.
Mr. Humphreys submitted that although there was no
possibility of denying that there had been great irregularity
upon the part of the unfortunate gentleman at the bar in
the transaction, there could not have been the least inten-
tion of fraud, as the prisoner bad paid in the money to stop
the bill at the Union Bank, before it could have reached
the Joint Steen B►nk.
Mr. Tilsoa said it was the determination of the establish-
ment he represented to prosecute. and that there could be
no doubt of the commission of the act with which the pri-I
saner was C
Aldermanhargitt did not believe that the prisoner had
any intention to defraud the bank, but a magistrate had no
alternative in such a case. It was well known that eaten.
sive frauds had frequently had their commencement in
similar transaction., mid it was his duty to send the case
before another tribunal.

The prisoner, upon being asked whether it was his wish
to say any thing, replied " I am quite innocent of any
haadulent intention whatever."—Committed for trial.

GUILDHALL.

Wee. S 01•01104, sate of the brig Petrel, was again
examined, charged with casting Jas. Harman Crisp, a cab-
driver, into the Thames. This case bad been remanded for
the attendance of the principal witness for the prosecution,
who, the court was given to understand, had been paid by
the prisoner and his friends to keep out of the way.
Wm. Joyce, the person in question, sow said he under-
' stood on the last examination that the cabman had settled
the matter out of court, and was to receive M., by way
of compensation for the injuries be had sustained. Wit-
ness accordingly went out to drink with the captain of the
brig, who then gave him a sovereign for himself to keep out
of the way. He took the sovereign and went away.
Alderman liumphery remarked that on the last occasion
the captain twice that he hsd not been instrumental in
preventing Joyce's appearing in court.
The captain here stated he was nut sworn on the day of
the remand, for he never touched the book.
Alderman Humphery said if be did not touch the book
when the oath was administered, that trick was too common
to save himself from an indictment fur perjury if he swore
falsely. He then ordered the ca,itain int the witness boa.
Benjamin Thastar, the captain of the brig. having been
sworn, admitted that he treated the witness Joyce to a pint
of beer, and also that be gave him a sovereign, but ex-
plained that it was at the urgent advice of the witness's
friends, and the concurrence of the prisoner, wkose money
it was. lie gave nothing out of his own pocket, but paid
the money on the prisoner's account out of what was due to
him.

Alderman Ilumphery said the captain had now contra-
dieted upon oath all that he had previously stated, and the
only excuse he made for telling all these lies was that he
was not sworn.

The Witness Joyce here said that when he received the sove-
reign, Alexander Reed, the pugilist, and a man known as
a hanger-on, were with him, and said they were to have Ss.
each oat of the money. Joyce said he did nut want it as he
was sure he should be obliged to tome up hero again; he,
however, gave them 75., and spent the rest.
The captain again asserted the money was not his own.
Sir Peter Laurie said it did not signify whether the
money belonged to the captain or any one else, as he was
the party who gave themoney to the witness to defeat the
ends ofjustice. The unfortunate cabman bad had a very
narrow escape, and if the ease had rested with him, instead
of Alderman Humphery, he would have indicted the cap-
tain with the prisoner.
Alderman liumphery said that was his opinion on the
last examination, hut the absence of the witness Joyce ren-
dered it absolutely necessary to remand the Mt. lie
should therefore now commit the prisoner for trial, and in-
dict tke captain at the Old Bailey.