The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-01 00:00:00

CHARGE 07.PORGERY AGAIRET A

MZRCHAJIT.

At the Mansion-house, yesterday, Mr. Charles
Embro Combine, a native of Denmark, a pampa of gentle.
manly appearance, who wee described as a general merchant,
carrying on buboes at 47, LimeetreNt °icy, was brought
ap in custody of Whitney, one of the City detectives,
charged with feloniously utteriag a forged aotisptaase to a
bill of a:change for 1884 1.25.
Mr. James Lewis, of the firm of Lewis and Lewis, Ely-
pia", appeared for the proseoutice, and Yr. Meted* the
barrister, Wooded for the prisoner.
Yr. Lewis, in opening the case for the prosecution, said
that he believed he should, in the result, be enabled to sub-
stantiate spinet the prisoner, not osly the charge of for-
gery, in 001111410U011 with the bill in question, but also one
of conspiracy, with other parties, to defraud the prosecutor.
Owing, however, to die rather peculiar einiumstroces of the
case, and the fact that Doe of the parties against whom the
charge of conspiracy would be preferred, • man named
Brooks, who wags
she drawer of the bill, having abecoaded,
and a person named Amy; who w obtained
discount for it, being at present in Whitecrom-street prison
upon civil process, be did not propose at premed doing more
than offer evidence sufficient to justify his lordship in re-
manding the for • few days, whea he believed he
shonld be a to complete both the charges to which he
had referred. The facts of the ease were very simple. Is
August last Luny", the person he had mentioned, took the
bill in question to the prosecutor, Yr. Simplon, a merchant
in Lombard-street, and asked him to dimount it, and it was
admitted by the defendant that be had so acted with his
knowledge. The bill was at one month, and purported to
be accepted by W. E. Jansen and Co., a highly respectable
firm in Hamburg, and who had formerly had an agency in
Loodoe, at No. 28, Great Tower-street, sad it was drawn
by Brooks, who was in partnership with Ass s, carrying on
business in Queen street, and was made payable at
the London and Hindsight= Beak, in Cbeapcide.
The prosecutor, believing the acceptance to be genuine,
advanced 1401. apes the bill, and when it beam* due it
was dishonoured, and it was discovered that the supposed
place of business of Jansen sod Co., in Great Tower-street,
was shut up. Civil proceedings were at once taken to en-
' foram the payment of the bill against the prisoner and Amy',
and the former obtained leave to appear and defend the
action upon his making an affidavit that be hod only received
WU& for the bill from the prosecutor, but it was made •
condition that he should pay • certain sum of mosey into
court. This was not dose, and • public summons was takes
oat before the judge, Mr. Justice Shea who ordered that a
sum of 1001. should be paid jogai:oust this day (Friday), and
it he failed to do so, do plaintiff was to have judgment.
Further inquiries led the prosecutor to believe that this
would not be dope, and that he had been defrauded of his
money by the joint fraudulent proceedings of the parties, and
he had therefore preferred the preterit charge against the
pawner. . . .

Mr. James Adolphus Simpeou, the prosecutor, who is a
member of the Jewish persuasion, was then sworn, sad be
stated that he carried on buaimes as a merchant is Three
King-oourt, Loinbard•street, and in the Waning of lad
August the bill in question was brought to him by Amyl,
who asked him to discount it.

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If,. Metcalfe objected to anything that was said by
Amy', in the ahmsco of that person, being given in am
deco@ against the prissier.
Hr. Lewis said that it was necessary, to make the aim
uodentood, that he should do so. Oc a (taunt day Alleys
would probably be placed at the bar with the primmer, and
the evidence would then be clearly arnimible.
The promentor wept on to say that neon told him that
the bill was socopted b Jansen and C0.,0f Flambe whom
he knew to be persons, mid he Wood to dioonat
the bill, and gave Mays 1251. at that limo, and two or three
days afterwards 151. more. Th• hill was drawn by Simi's.
who be believed bad nose gene away, sad it was disho-
I neared when it came to maturity. He subsequently am-
I mooed civil proceedings against the prisoner and Assn to
I recover tam amount of the bill, sad they both made of
vita, with a view to bolos allowed to defend the action.
The affidavit of the pnaoner was put is, and it appeared
to admit that he bad east Amy. with We bill to the prolo-
cutor, to obtain dloonnt. . . .

Mr.. Lewis then proposed to sak the prosecutor with re-
ference to come other staterneets that had been made by
Amy. with regard to the bill at the time it was dlaeount4
bat Mr. Metcalfe objected.
The Lord Mayor said it appeared to him that these stage-
' mete would not be legally admissible miler Alleys was in
custody.
Mr. Lewis said that a writ of habeas corpus would be ap.
plied for, and Aims would be jointly charged at the most
examination, either with conspiracy or with being eon-
corned in the forgery.
In answer to further questions put to the prosecutor he
said that he had writtee to Messy. James and Cu, sod
bad received • letter from them. 'Weft that they knew
nothing of such a bill. It appeared that their home
formerly had a Meech in Loodoe, at No. 2E., Greet Tower-
trzeit,m.tdoot they that .had g
me i:eviso it up a ye
sos. bad ar.
ego, and theyo were
the
premises, and had professed to carry on bagmen is the
same of their firm, bat they lied nothing whatever to do
with them.

Tieprawn tor, io answer to questions put by Mr. Met-
calfe in cross-ausaination, admitted that he had how* this
praioner for three years, and that he fonssrly carried cm
busineas in Leacimhall- street as an importer of foreign
pods, and be had had badman itraametiom with hint sad
bad advanced him mosey on goods. He ales said that
bad heard that the prisoner had supplied goods to the
supposed Brm of Jansen sod Co., of Great Tower-direst, and
that he had received this bill in payment for them ; bat he
only knew this from the primmer himself, and he said he
did not Waive it was true, or alas be should sot have Mks*
criminal procadinp against him. The prosecutor thee
said, in answer to a quastion pot by Mr. Metcalf et, that he
was not • money leader, but his business was to make money
out of every respectable transaction that many could be
road, out of. (A laugh.)
Mr. Lewis said this was all the iridium, be proposed to
adduce at present, and he submitted that it was amply mai-
den% to justify the Lord Mayor in committing the animas:
Ifs added that he had no objection to his being admitted to

Mr. Metcalfe urged that iu the fast place there witt little
if say evidence at all of a forgery being been committed ;
and even if then had been, the evidence rather seemed to
show that the primmer wee the person who bad been de-
frauded than that he had anything to do with the forgery.
He was instructed that the prisoner bad carried on a re-
timetable business as a merchant in the City of London for
several years, and that the,, was so pretence for preferring
the persist charge want him, end be had voluntarily
come to the police station, aid given himself up ►o answer it.
The Lord Mayor said he could not take upon himself to
decide, aid acquit the prisoner, and be should therefore
adjourn the inquiry, out the prisoner might be admitted to
bail, himself is 1001., and two sureties in the man amount.

EIZAETLIMIS CAME or ELOPOIKRT AND ROBBERY.—
On Teursday a there, of robbery, which was brought
against a man named Jima Dodpoo, of Bull, before a
bench of ongistrates at York, proseoted cireumstanote of
an exceedingly heartless character. The prosecutor wee a
sickly•looking man, named Thomas Bock, who at present
resides at 17, Pordandnent, Leeds, bat who, in Jane lest.
' had his home with hie wife end family et Norio', near
fitorktoo•coo-Tees. A few months ago, and in an evil boor,
whilst at Norton, be took the prisoner into his house es a
lodger. Soon after Buck fell ill, sod from certain arena".
stances bad to be removed from his borne WU» infirmary at
Leeds. From this time Dodpos seems to have occupied
hi. sell in an effect to warp the affection of Mn. Buck, and
in this be so far succeeded by the latter part of June as to
induce her to elope with him. In doing ibis the furniture,
linen, fcc., iu the boron were consigned to York in the thine
of Dodgeon, sod received sod carriage paid for st that pines
by him, sod he and Mrs. Book bad dam cohabited together
se manand wife. Tbe intelligence a her beertlan desertion
having reached Mr. Buck, be, on his reoovery, sought for
and found his faithless spouse residing with his two children
in Albert-street, York, and that the house they occupied,
end which contained the goods charged with \min been
otolos, was rooted by the prisoner, who had sine. bosh
ep-
prehended at Hulls The aim was adjourned to adduce
evidence as to the prisoser baring takes an active part in the
remora of the goods at Norton.

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