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to fetch Boyd. When Be mbrough returned, he asked Dam-
son to, the bond, to thew to Boyd. Banibtough again went
away, and eitor.ly alter lie DAUMSI.I with Bay& Boyd
signed the bniul in our presence. IVe afterwards gave Ilaiii- I
trough BM sovereigns, and received the bond. Ilatesoneitteeted
the. execution ef the Lotel by Tulloch but whether he signed be.
fore me and Everett I cannot tell. The Fond was locked up in the
Society's hot. On the following 11l 'h of June, there was a meet-
ing of the Society, and in enesequelice of what Conk place at that
• meaning. 1 and leveeett anti another weep rained f alcus, celled on
Mr. Tulloch. In coneequence of what passed between us and Tel-
loch, we immediately called on Bateson. We first pointed out to
him an orni.sion of the slay of the month on which the bond was
execu•ed. Bateeet said that that would soon be remedied, and he
took • pee and filed up the blank with the titilt May. Falai'
thew asked who sign. d the name of Tullech that appeared to the
bead ? Bateson said " .lr. Tulloch." Falcus said " No, he did
rot." Itateson answerer! .. Yes, he did." Inleus then said that
we had heat at Mr. Ttillochhe and that Tulloclenad deoitd the
liami.writ'ne. I'akus then tack the bond.
Crest-examined by Mr. ALDERSON—We went first to Mr.
Watson .0 get the bond made, and it was by accident that Mr.
1V•leon was n.tt employed.
i . ohn Everett ennfirreed the ststement made by the last witness.
elph f alcus-1 went to Mr. Llateson in company with the two
lint witnesses, after we had been at Mr. Tullocit's. I pointed to
theseignamee ofilertjettin Tolloch, and asked Bateson whose six.
•neture it was. Bateson mid th it he had seen Mr. Tullech sign it.
I said I had waited upon Mr. Tulloch that morning, and it was
rat his eigneture. I left the room immediately. I gave the bend
to Mr. Joan Brown, the clerk to the blagistrates.
cross.essmitud.-1 rid not make any minute in writing of the
words used by lie, Bateson, lam Sure he used the words 1 have
stated.
Lewis l)onkin Boyd proved hi, own execution of the bond, and .
stated the circumstances attending it in the sante mannir as stated
by the preceding witnesses.
Mr. John Brown, clerk to the :Magistrates. produced the bond
which hap been delivered to him qy Palms. The bond was shewn
to ,31t. Boyd, who said that it wit.: the hotel which lie had signed,
and which he had seen Bateson and lintehrough sign.
George Rosenberg—l am in the 11 melee of Mr. Tulloch as an ap-
prentice. I have lived with him four years and a half. I know
his.handwriting well. The signature to the bond shewn me is not
the handnriting of Mr. Tulloch.
Cross-examioed.—The signature is not at all like Mr. Tulloch's
hatidwritine. 31r. Tullneli has two other apprentices, and one of
thee) mimed Brown. On the 17th of May, Mr. Brown was in
attendance et 31r. Tulloch's whop.
Stephen Brown was called np for the sake of being examined by
B.aleson'e counsel. He said, lam an apprentice et Mr. TuUocli.
On the 17th cl hay fiamborough called at lie. Talloett's alone,
and asked if Mr. TUURCIi was in. I said no. Barnhenough said it
Wail of no eonsegueuc:' as lie had only called foe the loan ce a pen
to sign an indenture. I give him a pen and ink. Ile hail some-
thing in his hand which appeared to me to be parchment. It was
of the form of the bond shewn me, but I think it was parchment:
1 em not sure, as I only got a alight look at it. He wrote something
ee It, and went away. Itatesoe was never there at all.
Cross-examined by Mr. WILLIA ms —There was a little writing
ue the back part. Ile opened it out on the desk, but I did not see
whit was in it.
This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. Bannon, in his defence, read a statement of the manner in
which lie had been brought into the unfdrtunate situation in which
he then appeared. He said that he had accompanied Barn-
broiigh to the door of Mr. 'fulloch's surgery, fur the purr
pone of witnessing the execution of the deed,' when Earn-
brough had desired him to wait at the door, until be
t Sambrough) had ascertained whether Mr. Tulloch was .t home.
In a minute or two Banibrough had returned and shown him the
name of fir. Tulloch, with the ink still wet, attached to the deed,
and had told him that 31r. Tulloch had been so busy in paforming
a surgical operation, that he had had no time to gn back to fetch
him (Bateson) to attend the execution. That wile all he knew of
the and the idea of 31e. Tulloch's nature leering been forged,
had never crated his (Bateson't) mind until the day of Ins appre-
hension. The evidence of the witnesses bad in general been cor-
rect, but they had been mistaken in the searetion that he had said
th et he saw Mr. Talloch sign. When asked if that was Mr. Tul.
loch's signature, he bad said "Certainly," but lie had wetter said
that he had seen Mr. Tulloch sign. In conclusiun, the prisoner
appealed to the Jitry whether it was likely that he, an attorney,
end therefore sensible of the consequences of forgery, should, with-
out securing a single advantage to himself, lend himself to the
commission of a crime so penal in its punishment. Careless be ear.
wily had been, but he felt acquittal of guilt.
prisoner Sambrough said nothing in his defence.
Mr. Ingledew,_ a respectable attorney resident in Newcastle, de-
posed that he had known the prisoner, Ma esoa, about three years
and A half. Part of that tinie the priatm.r lied been in the habit of
initiating witness. He always considered Mr. Bateson to be a very
hottest and respectable man.
Three witnesses gave the prisoner Bambroush a good character.
Mr. Jeatice PARK summed up the case to the Jury, and after a
Pildet deliberation (Cued Bausbrough (iuilty, and Buteson Not
Guilty.
Me. Justice PAM( prricended to pass sentence, 40 Bambrough.
Tice Learned Judge observed that the case was so bad in all its fea-
tures as to enamel him to forbid the prisoner to entertain any hope
thathis life would be spared. lie earnestly urged him, theierore,
to employ his time in preparing for that change which it would
be his fate shortly to undergo.
fVtitions Wright. aged 22, was indicted under hoed Ellenho-
evugh's Act, for cuttieg and maiming Joseph Whittingbani.
Br. Justice PARS left the ease to the Jury, and after retiring
some time they returned a verdict of Unity. .