The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-18 00:00:00

FORGERIES IN MANCHESTER.

At the Manchester Police-court, on Tuesday,
Thomas Frederick Lambert and James Ctawshaw, two
young men, apparently about 21 years of age, were charged
with forging two cheques on Mere. Conliffe's bank. Ou
the 11th of July, Lambert went into the public-house kept
by Mr. Bailden, in lleanagate, and changed • cheque for
41.15.. 9d. The cheque bore the signature of Westhead
and Co., but the handwriting, which was rather clever, was
a forgery, and the firm in question knew nothing whatever
of the transaction until subsequent inquiries were made by
the police. The bankers detected the forgery, and Mr.
/Widen was detained until he had satisfied Mr. Maybury,
superintendent of the Manchester detective police, as to bow
he had become possessed of the cheque.
On the 26th of July the prisoner Crawahaw entered the
shop of Mr. Lockwood, bookseller and stationer, Shudehill,
representing that be was • clerk in Messrs. Hculdswotth's
mill, and asking for a quantity of small silver to pay
wages with. The prisoner acted so artfully, and talked
about the warehouse in such • natural 11111111)1117, that Mr.
Lockwood entertained no suspicions as to the swindler
with whom he had to deal. The prisoner presented •
cheque for 81. ss. 9d. on Messrs. Cunliffe's bank, ob-
serving that his employers had that day given him
• number of cheques to cub. The prisoner re-
ceived the money in small change, and coolly pat it
into a couple of canvas bags, which he had io bra band,
after the manner of clerks. The cheque was pre-
sented at the bank the same day, and the forgery was at
once detected. The prisoner had never had anything to do
with the firm whose name he used. The prisoner Lam-
bert was taken into custody on Monday, ia Hudders-
field, by Sergeant Bateman, of the Manchester detective
force ; and on the journey to Manchester he made a state-
ment which implicated the prisoner Crawshaw, who was
apprehended in dueeourse. It had since transpired that
Crawshaw stole four blank cheques from his father's &aqua-
book, two of them being identified as thou which had been
forged.
Lambert, in his defence, stated that he was one day going
along Piccadilly, and met Crawahaw, who, after asking him
if he were out of work, told him be wall short of money and
wanted • cheque changed. He (Lambert) made mime reply,
and Crawshaw offered him one.balf of the amount if be
would go somewhere and cash it. He accordingly went into
the witness Etaiklen's house, and procured change.
Crawshaw denied these statements, and seemed particu-
larly anxious to prove that Lambert had persuaded him to
steal the cheques and forge them.
Mr. Ellison said that neither of these defences would hold
good; both prisoners must go before a jury.
They were accordingly committed.

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