Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-24 00:00:00

FRAUD AND 'SWINDLING BY A YOUTH.

At the I‘,ranrAtin-]rouse London, on Viretirtef;laY, Charles
Stewart Mills, aged--19, wa4 brought no under remand,
charged with uttering a forged cheque for £5O, with intent to
defraud Messrs. Hankey'aiiil Co., bhnkers, Fenchurch-s'reet.
The following additional evidence- was given. Mr. Arthur
Turner Hewitt, solicitor, in whose scrvieecithe -prisoner had
been, deposed, in athlition .to his. former ,evidence, tie t the
'forged cheqae bad, been cut., out of his Cheque bdole; ;Which
was kept in a drawer hi hi' writing table, to wh'et; the prisoner
had aecefs during the day time. Had no belief •as to the
cheque being in the prisouer's• hand-Wildng, althOugh it
certaialy looked The signature-appeared to have' been
traced floe) a genuine cheque, ani Witness' had since missed
one or two from: a bure:le of cancelled. chequer. • Robert
Farley said the endorssuent of Robert Sylvesteri Manor-street,
Claphatn, an the, two £loo:notes produced, and the £5.0 note
was certainly not in Mr. Sylvester's handwriting; and witness
believed them to be in •Ire.prisener's handwriting. J. J. Bun-
ning,efortnerly clerk to the list witness, and at the same time
with tho prisoner, deposed that sip body of the check produced
was very much like his own handwriting, hut had not been
written by him Saw no resemblance on the cheque to the
prisoner's handwriting,- but- the endorsement two °fettle
noes produced bore a great resemblance to the. prisoner's
handwriting, and ho believed them to have been written by the
prisoner; 'Robert Failey,c',lree-lesuse keeper, Newcastle-stray-,
Strand, deposed that the ei.d•rsement of his name on the '£so
mote produced was not in his handwriting, nor written by his
authority, and that the note had never passed tliretiqh- his
hands. About a mouth sis,c:3:`priFoner went to witness's shop,
and had a rump steak, and te., which came ,to is for which
prisoner had no rnoneyto pay, and: witness therefore took
possession of his gold-banded cao, which he kept from, four
o'clock to ten, and prisoner, then gave.him a note to .send to a
friend in Bloomsbury, Rho Ova,nced. 31., and the le, being
'pail, the cap was glv,en up. H. Thompson,: coffee-house
keeper, Charing-Cross, depc3c,i that the Prisoner dodged at I;,e
house for some time, in the name of Fred. Rutland, ran up a
seore there, and went away; 1n Septetutser; £l2 in his debt.
Huggett, detective, produced a letter found bylliai 'upon th
'prisoner, which prisoner to!d him ho at well destroy,
it was addressed to- a friend,' and merely ::eked for money. It
concluded as folloWS:,—You have doubt ess of my
leaving home,' and it'is to my deep regret: that my first letter
to you since that, •1 fear-fatal day, is to ask a favour. Mr.
Millions said this completed his ease, and the prisoner, woo
reserved his defence, was then fully committed forbid];,_, Mr.
l'oudney, of Lombard-greet, tailor, ascending the witness hex;
said he wanted the clothes the prisoner' stood in, which he
bad never paid for, h tying oh ain.Al them under • f tlae . pre-
tences, Lore!' Mayor—Did you make him .that uniform ?
(midshipman's). , Appreant —Yes we did. Lord Mayor—,
Then you disguised him very w:11. Haggett (eletectiv.-)
Arid here's another bill fer clothing from a tailor in the Lie
of Wight for .£6'odd., Lord Mayor—Oh ! he hag been a good
friend to the -tailors. it seems. (Laughter). liuggett
my lord, and to the 11,tel keepeii., too. Here's a bill from
one at Ryde for £lO 12= Lord Mayor—Well; they thus;
wa t till we hared sue with-him in-atieseter court, I fear. Tit.,
prisoner, who had preserved the- most p:rfect notichaance
throughout, was then take.] b to p.ism.