The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-15 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

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CH ANOI op UTTERING YonoliD RICS/PTI.—TIRI WELSH
SOCIETY.—Mr. Edward Witham Richard, of Harpurureet,
Red Lion-square, surgeon, was charged with uttering two
forged receipts for rent under the following circumstances.
A clerk from the office of Mr. Humphrey, the solicitor,
attended to prosecute, and Mr. Childs, of the firm of Wire
and Co., defended the prisoner.
Mr. Humphreys's clerk said that for some years Mr.
Richard was a member and an elder of the managing corn.
mittee of the Welsh Calvinktic and Methodist Society, which
had two chapels, one being in Jewin crescent and the other
in Denmark-street, Soho; and he was in the habit of paying
the rent for the latter until about eight months back, when
he seceded, and a Mr. Edwards was appointed in his place.
That person, on receiving the money from the committee for
the Christmas and Lady-day quarters as they became due,
handed it to Mr. Richard, requesting him to pay it as he lived
either next door or next door but one to the landlord, and
let him have the receipts, which Edwards got some time
after, and they were duly filed; but in oonsepence of the
committee receiving a letter from MriLilly, the landlord,
requesting hie rent for Lady-day, and heptog that for the
future it would be paid earlier each quarter, inquiry was
set on foot, and it was discovered that the two last receipts
were forgeries, and a warrant wee obtained for his appre-
hension.
Mr. Ebenezer Williams said, I am secretary to the com-
mittee of the Welsh Society, meeting in Jewin-crescent.
We have also a chapel in Denmark-street, Soho, of which
Mr. Lilly is the landlord. About the Bth of January 61. was
paid to Mr. Edward Edwards, to give Mr. Lilly the quarter's
rent, due at Christmu last, for the chapel in Minmerk-
street ; and about a fortnight after he brought me back the
receipt produced, but it bore no date, and I endorsed it as
wail and it was filed with other ramjets. On the 26th of
March I paid Mr. Edwards another dl. for the Lady-day
quarter, and he brought a similar receipt some days after,
which was filed in my presence, and locked up.
Cross-examined by ldr Childs.—The marks on the back of
the second receipt were made in my presence by Mr. Hughes
and Mr. Jones, after they had been to the landlord and pro-
duced the receipt in consequence of his letter, and he pro-
nounced them to be forgeries. I cannot say that I examined
the receipt particularly, as I had no motive for suspecting
that anything was wrong. Mr. Hughes and Mr. Jones are
two of the elders.
Mr. Evan Angell, of No. 8, Charter- house-lane, said—l
am one of the managing committee, and was present when
the second receipt was taken off the file, and the one pro-
duced I identify as the same.
Mr. Edward Eiwards; of 34, Pitt's-place, Backside, said—
lam one of the elders of the Welsh Methodist Society. I
received the money to pay the rent on the 26th of March for
the quarter then due. I gave it to Mr. Richard for that
ramose, as I knew he had been in the habit of receiving it
for years. bra few weeks he gave me this receipt at his own
house, which 'I put on the ills with other receipts, and locked
them up in a cupboard.
Mr. John Henry Lilly, of 13, Harpur-street, Red Lion-
square—l am the proprietor of the chapel en Denmark-
street, and have been in the habit of receiving rent from
the Welsh Society. It was venally paid by Mr. Richard.
Neither of the receipts bur my signature. and the name Is
spelt differently on them.
Alderman Carden.—Were they written by your autho-
rity
Mr. Lilly.—They was not. I received the rent for
Christmas', but not for Ladyday. I received the first on the
28th of Muds. fled ma the 22nd of May I mote the note
'mined requiring the rent for the Lady-day quarter. I
think it was Mrs. RUkard paid me, and I gave a receipt for
it, but not this one.
Mr. Alderman Carden said it had been clearly proved
that Mr. Richard had uttered a forged receipt, and therefore
be should remand him until Wednesday amt.
Mr. Childs asked the Alderman if he would admit his
client to bail, ea he was a most respectable profmalonal gen-
tleman / _

Aldermen Carden thought the sharp to be of too serious
a nature to snow hhn out on bail.
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Mr. Richard was theft conveyed to the onager.

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