The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-29 00:00:00

OCTOBER 29,

et thitjarrimadsil the limit all ars
a/ we 10, savimits hank,
eke by George Ratter,d in The pri-
seek kr a loati thae to The
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eakter wilkately tomegame Wm oat k "b
=rakes be wriabitamm ea a kid& keoperM
eadhed lan k for several years. The prisoner
apes getting the letter at once went to the beak, and upon
being Diked if his temp win George, mid that It wee ; he
wee Ilk asked tar lisirpodf. took and he stated that it bad
bees accident* dellwayed by • fire which had taken
Waft In his home some yam Wore. He was them told
that he must get • new depait book, and he made the
natal application and got one, and he lapsed his mine am
Robert George Hunter, and upon mesas remelt lieber mak,
be said he was sometimes called Gawp sad sometimes Ro-
bert. At the time of his applying at OM bOk be bed with
him one of his neighbours, and both the lakeser aid the
ether being known to the manager of the look ea mops*.
able treanieu, no doubt wee eatalebal bat
that the ' ner was entitled to that which be *hoed, ad
the result wee that he was permitted to draw oat been the
sea of 2001. Ye. 7d. standing to the name of George
Hunter, two separate =crania each of WI., and signed
the name of George Hunter, leaving upon each
occasion at first pat Robert, and then, upon
tie attention being called to it, he wrote the
same of George over the word Robert. These payments
were made to him in June last, and io July a claim was
made awn the bank by the widow of George Hunter, he
having died in June but, at Norfolk, where he was in busi-
ness am a fur-dresser. His death wee, it appears, known to
the prisoner, he having sent some money down into Norfolk
for the widow's relief. She produmd the original depo-
sitors' book, which she had found amongst her husband's
papers after bin death. She swore before the magistrate
that many of the deposits in the bank had been made by
herself for her husband. Since that examination she had
gone out of her mind, and woe unable now to be examined,
but her deposition wan put in and read, and what she stated
was corroborated by documentary evidence ; it was mani-
festly clear that the prisoner bad not any claim to the
money.
Inspector Wiliaer seid that when he took the prisoner
into custody he said that the money was his ; that many
years ago he had put it into the bank for • woman with
whom he was connected and be had Deed the name of
George that his wife might not know an about it ;
that the bad gene to Australia and be thought took
the mosey with her, and did not make any inquiry.
Mr. Metcalfe. for the defence, repeated the story which
the prisoner told the Aker, and moat ingeniously argued
that the who had up to this time borne an rrre-
peueetabL for honesty, having, me he told the da-
m, put souse Mosey into the bank, might have bees
under the Wreaks that the claim which he made was •
Nakao*. He should also show that the prisoner, when is
Lord °mailbag's service as coachman, was injured in hie
head, and was now at times subject to fits of insanity and
•Pa•PRI-
Several witnesses were called who bore out the learned
counsel's statement, and added that the prisoner was bairn
as mad Hunter.
In

they admitted that his Ea were
general( tie of drink.
Mr. the surgeon of Newgate, said that he saw no
symptom d ity in the prisoner whilst in that pol.
Yr. Mead haring replied, and the Common Beeisant
summed up, the jury found the prisoner Oudty.
Sentence, 18 months' impnsonment.