The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-30 00:00:00

FORGERIES OZ THE RANK OF ENGLAND.

After the el,)se of our rep,rt yesterday of the
case at the Mansion-house against Wm. Henry Hodgson,
on the charge of forging a transfer of Consols, the follow-
ing evidence was given :
Mr. William Whysall said—l reside at 190, Fleet-street,
and am assistant to Mr. Pedler, a chemist, carrying on his
business at No. 190, Fleet-street. I know the prisoner
from his having been fellow.assistant with me in the same
establishment, but he left about twelve months ago. The
prisoner has called upon me since that time. On the
Rird and 26th of July he oame to me and
asked me to lend him some money, and I lent him 71. On
the 10th of August I purchased 227.1. of Consol Stock
through the Union Rank, and on the 27th of August, after
this purchase had been made, I met the prisoner in
Oxford-street. We bad some conversation together, and
be told me that he had had some money left him, and that
be had purchased some Consols, and he also said that he
was a money-lender. I told him that I was short of
money, and he gave me 54 of the money he had borrowed
of me. At this interview I told him that I had purchased
the 2251. Como' Stock, and gave him all the par-
ticulars. The prisoner called on me at my em-
ployer's shop on the same afternoon, and told
me that I should have my dividend in October, and I
replied that I thought it would be in January that the
dividend would be paid. I never authorised him to trans-
fer the 225/. stock. The signature to the transfer in the
books of the Bank of England is in the handwriting of the
I prisoner, and also the signature to the stook receipt. The
name on the beck of the cheque for 2121. 15s. 6d. that was
paid for the stock is not in my handwriting, but I believe
it to be the prisoner's.
Mr. Wontner, in answer to a question put by Sir R.
Carden, said that he had nothing to ask the witness.
Mr. Roger Mortimer said—l carry on the business of a
stockbroker in Old Broad-street. The prisoner called at
my office last Tuesday, and said he wanted to sell
7251. stock. He at first said it was New Three
per Cents., but afterwards that it was Consols,
Stock. I toed him I could not do business of that kind
for a stranger, and that I must have an introduction. He
then mentioned the names of several gentlemen, and
I accompanied him to WWI. Dodd and Williams,
jewellers in Comhill. They both shook bands with him
when he went into the shop ; but I said that I must be
particular, as I should be called upon to identify Mr.
Whysall. I cannot say whether they heard what I said,
or beard me mention the mune, but I certainly understood
them to identify the prisoner as Mr. Whysall, at all
events that was the impression conveyed to my mind, sod
I told the prisoner I would sell the stock for him. We
returned to my office, and a transfer was prepared, and I
identified the prisoner as Mr. Whysall at the Bank of Eng-
land, and the stock was transferred by the prisoner, and I
handed him a cheque for 2121. 15s. 6d., which was the
produce of the sale. That cheque has since been paid by
my hankers, the Imperial Bank, and it bears the name of
William Whysall endorsed upon it. The prisoner called
again at my office on Wednesday, but I did not see him.
He came about anothertransection.

Mr. Fresh&ld said it was only fair to Meun. Dodd and
Williams to state that the witness believed that they did
not hear the name of Whysall, but merely thought they
were identifying the prisoner by his real name of Hodgson.
A clerk at the Bank of England proved the formal
transfer of the stock, and he identified the prisoner as the
person by whom the transfer wan signed in the books of
the Bank.

Fresbfield said this was all the evidence he proposed
to adduce on the present occasion, but he should h►ve to
prefer another charge against the prisoner of having coin.
witted a similar forgery in respect to the transfer of a
sum of 150/. in the New Three per Cents.
Mr. Wontner aid that the prisoner desired to have all
the evidence that was now ready brought forward at once.
Mr. Freshfield said he had no objection to this being
done, and be called
Mr. W. J. Bentley, who stated that since the month of
September, 1861, he had bad a sum of 1501. in the New
Three per Cents. standing in his name in the Bank of
England. He had known the prisoner for some time, and
on the 12th of August he called upon him and asked him
to recommend him a stockbroker, as he had some money
to invest, and he at the same time asked him for some in-
formation upon the subject, and witness gave him some
explanation, and showed him the stook receipt for what
be had purchased. The witness went on to state that he
never gave the prisoner any authority to transfer his
stock, and that the sign►ture to the stock receipt and the
signature to the transfer at the Bank of England were
forgeries.
One or two other witnesses were examined for the par.
pose of giving some formal proofs, and the prisoner was
remanded for a week.