The Express.
London, England, 1852-04-12 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.—SATus DAT.
111,7,As 31.. 11.; Ni TAS
R AAAAA ANL, It/110E11Y visor A DANK.

Marls. Clifford, 45, a person of respectable uppeaHranee,
was indicted for faring accout.table receipt for 801. with '
intent to defraud the Loudon Joint. Stock
This case, from the peculiar circumstances connected with
it, occupied the court for several hours, but the facts lay in
a very small compass. It appeared that the prisoner, who,
it came out incidentally in the course of the trial, was a sub-
scriber to the Ilall of Commerce, and who appeared to
have formerly got his living by speculating in railway
shares, had kept an account with the bank in question
from 1847, but his balance, latterly became very small, end
at the beginning of the year 1850, the balance
in the hands of the bankers was only Zie. 3d. From
this time nothing was heard of the prisoner until the 4th
December, 1851, when. cheque for 121., drawn by him, was
presented at the bank, and one of the cashiers inadvertently
paid it, and thorn was every reason to believe that this
unfortunate mistake was the means of inducing the pri-
sinner to compass the ingenious fraud which he afterwards
attempted to commit upon the bank. The prisoner's pass-
book remained in his possession, but on the 4th March in
the present year he sent it to the bank, and upon its
being examined the lot entry on the credit side was found
to be one apparently dated October 1, 1850, giving the pri-
soner credit fir 60/., as a cash payment on that day.
Upon an examination of the bank hooks it was
speedily found that this was a editions entry, that it was
not in the handwriting of any of the bank clerks, and that in
point of fact no such sum as 601. had been paid in either by
the prisoner, or upon his account, on the day in question,
and it was upon this false entry that the charge of forgery
was made agUnst the prisoner. A few days atter the book
,had been returned to the bank under the circumstances

I state. ,it appeared that the prisoner, treating the entry in
question as genuine, sent his wife to the bank with a cheque
for 150., and upon the clerk seeing by whom it was drawn,
he immediately communicated with the manager, and the
woman was questioned, and she stated that she had received
the cheque from her husband, and that he was awaiting her
return. A policeman was sent fur, and he and the pri-
soner's wife went in a cab towards the prisoner's residence,
and on their way the cab was stopped bv the wife, and she
pointed out the prisoner, who was standing in Duke-street,
Southwark. The policeman then told him what haduocutred,
and he said be would soon make it all right, and proceeded
with the °Meer back to the bank, where he was taken into
the room of the manager, and, in answer to the questions
put to Idea by that gentleman, he warted that he had paid
the OW. himself to one of the clerks, and declared that he
was entitled to havo credit to that amount. Ile was then
asked why ho took no notice of an application that had
been made to him from the bank alter his account was
overdrawn, and he said that from the manner the letter
came into his possession. through his brother, he thought
he was justified in not taking notice of it. He was
then asked some other questions, which lie answered
in a very unsatisfactory manner, and eventually
was given into custody. In order to prove the
falseness of the entry hearty the whole of the clerks and
cashiers of the bank were esannued, and they stated meet
positively and daitinctly that no such sum as 601. was paid
to them by the primmer or any other person on the let of
October 1850, or any other day, and also that the entry
in the book was not the handwriting of any clerk or other
person belonging to the establishment. It also appeared
that after the 121. cheque had been improperly paid in De-
cember, 1851, an application was immediately made to the
prisoner by the manager of the bank upon the subject, but
he could not be found, and a plaint was subsequently pre-
pared in the County Court to recover tho balance, but
his address could nut be ascertained ; and upon his being
inquired fur at the Hall of Commerce, it ap-
peared that he had not been seen there for seve-
ral months, and the gunmen' consequently could not
bo served upon him. In addition to thesolacts it was proved
in order to show the improbability of the prisoner having
such a sum of money in his possession at the timo he re-
presented he bed paid it into the bank—that he was in a
state of abject poverty—that his goods had been seised for
rent—that he was uuable to pay *mall bilis for articles of
food supplied to his family, and when he was taken into
custody no less than seventy duplicates, mostly referring to
articles of apparel of every description pledged for small
sums, were round in his possession.
The prisoner evinced a good deal of ingenuity in cross-
examining all the witnesses produced from the bank, and
ho endeavoured to make out that it was possible the money
might have been paid, and on entry of it omitted from the
books. The answers he elicited, however, tended com-
pletely to negative such a suggestion, and it was evident
that such a state of things could only have been explained
by an act of direct dishonesty on the part of the clerk who
had received the money, for which no circumstance in the
case seemed to warrant the slightest ground of suspicion.
The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, persisted
in the original statement he had made, and asserted, with
great earnestness and in the most solemn manner, that
either on the 30th of September or the Ist of October he
perronally paid GOl. to a clerk at the bank, and said
that the money consisted of lour 101. notes and twenty
sovereigns.
Mr. Justice Talfourd having summed up,
The jury, without any hesitation, returned a verdict of
Guilty, but recommended the prisoner to the merciful con-
sideration of the court, on account of the state of poverty
he appeared to have been in when the offence was com-
mitted.
The prisoner again asserted that he was innocent, and
that ho had paid the money.
The learned judge said ho was very sorry to hear the pri-
soner make this declaration, for no one who had heard the
case could possibly come to any other conclusion than that
the entry in question had been forged, and the attempt to
fasten the offence of robbery upon some clerk in the bank
was an aggravation of the crime. The offence of forgery
was a very serious one, and but for tho recommendation of
the jury, be should have felt himself compelled to sentence
him to be transported fur ten years. Taking that recom-
mendation, however, into consideration, he should only ten-
tenth him to be transported for the shorter period of seven
years.
Arnold Gerber, William Wagner, and Philip Kessler,
were placed at the bar to receive judgment.
These prisoners were convicted at the February session,
principally upon the evidence of an accomplice named
Solomon Krabeour, of endeavouring to pass a forged chr que
at the London and Westmiaster Bank. Sentence upon
them was respited in the expectation that they might
make some disclosures with regard to an alleged system of
torgery of which the bankers of this country and the conti-
nent were the intended victims, _

---Mr.6la;i;es,Vhr;;;e.,iea for the prosecution, said
that the prisoners bad made no such disclosures, and he
tit/fermi prayed the judgment of the court.
The learned Judge said be was directed by Mr. Justice
Williams, who the Nee, to order them to be trans-
ported for ten years.
The prisoner Gerber, as he was leaving the bar, ad.
dressed the court in an excited manner end declared that
he was innocent, and that the charge hed been trumped
up against him by the witness referred to in order that he
might his' steel( get out of trouble.

TSB POLICE COURTS.
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MANSION-HOUBB.

Joseph Sanswele,LekrliiobWi, Jacob Solomon*, and
tam Memestroi, were brought up for final examination
ts”ii the sharp of having conspired to rob Conrat Shensi/.
TM prisomme TM dated to be Polish Jews.
The Msme
Lslm mil—" I am a skin-dresser, resisting in
Ism* applied to me, in :eatery, upon
the Willi of tho purehme of certain skins, of which I
hada comeiderablo gusatity. He stated that he came from
Mr. Taylor, of Leads, and that he wished to buy mote
furs. Ile look over the book, asked me if 1 had any dyed
rabbit-4160k sad owposted MO to send lamp* to No. 3.
itsmipotreet. irisergats. I did se
►be wheel. saw him
at as hams I. Semdgeotersot, whom he agreed to take 600
lass of skim. the pekes/ whisk was 11811. lis., sod to pay
cask he them. I took them, nestrihsgly, in a Mick, ao-
easeposiou by my bus mints the bone, sowated them, sad
asked hies foe the s=a4l:Latteld mo that I m p etwith
him to the Beak of sad he wasted paresission
to send in nom_ *mime% I gave them not
to kayo the solibbsubeM. sold not to snow the property
to be reasmed. I the. eseemgasied hist M the Bank, from
which he took lee to a pabbohome, who. we had some 1
porter and tabus,. Sees sherwards be let the room
without Lie bat, and I hood that be hod gone away alto •
gather. 1 then west to the home in Ismiyeeteem, and
afterwards to the palisemstilat earl I amertalassi that
soma boodles of the skim had hoot token away. The rest
et the property I took lays on poreolos."
Ann Bay to belabouring under the of-
fsets of i milk span being assured by Alderman '
Wire that she he pmtected—l lived with the pri-
mmer Rosenthal, at Oar street, and I know the other
WWBis. 1 remember when the skins were brought to the
.. lituasala, folossons, and Goberg had been in the
habit of meniag balkwaede and forwards to the house
daring the whole time I was in Rosenthal's service, and
i they were there when the skim arrived. The ethveroation
, ithey hail on the sonasioa was carried on in the Herman lan-
guage. The skim wee taken from the front into the back
parlour. I saw some et the skins taken oat of the water-
I butt and put into • tab. My master drew the water out of
the butt. The presenter afterwards erne end took the
other skins. In the MOM( Ooberg mil lialtwaseas same
beck, spoke la Osman, seek some of the lidos set of the
water-butt, carried them up-stairs, and dried this& When
1 got up ia. the monks the skins wen ION&
1 Cullicot, a pointless, said—l took limanals hate custody
' on the let of April. Mobsequestly /meals said. .. If lam
guilty I would talus Woe menthe Mimi MB split epos
my mates ;" and ea his way to the Ormapter, e, We 3rd of
' April, he said, "The old Gerona (the proesoono) gave a
pretty correct statement"
' Alderman Wire said be felt it to be his duty to commit
the primers for trial.
I Haggett, the deteetim laser, who was directed at the
chief AIN he imostigets the ere, stated that such mea-
sures of latimidatios hod bees adopted ea made it very dif-
ficult to procuro the eassmary evidence.
OLIIRILEN WELL.
Mr. Moths lane gooroor, of the Veterinary College,
Candoolows, woo osmommed for Bd.. which was claimed
by Ismso Mead, kr this bin of no orb.
The lionlinowoh NM en MrLiPpeateir's serum called
bin kiss the on reek to the maws it that .
who, bowomr, mimed to have oenbis le do r# bit;
bollocerlont, inmower 0 the enoollot. told Mot the
sahibs in the NONA
has hiodijoist, owl to.
11, lett Me Mt _hkethe jo a nonno AE lop-
I thole aii he Oriel Os hi enoopod husi. e
irigklials Mumr4 WM OM swq ass
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