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OLD B IILBY, Thu ass ay', SEPTEIIIIER en.

Bifere Mr.

eWm. Suthewire was iiiihreerreapitatly few accept-
bile a /aloe and counterfeit eradicate, retelling ro
tie cio,ttraNtr. tsetse, with ititetie to &bumf bra Mae
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Jet teLiauo to Jae
nerittßlbet la a yenta% 111010.. Meese thittesceara
tigswewsui held • eitwatiusiit• permit elialt1;) the
tat Gave. •
01r. Buer.anm opened the case for the prose-
cution. •
' Riehter4Jtines, examined.-1 am a surveyor of
ehe tobacco warehouse of the Exteiere•nriel lad been
eirey.stevets years in that employ. All tobacco is
e•aretesueed ureter 11w hick of the Reciee and the
I,indaa Docks ; when a merchant wi.hra to get
I,therro'ntit of dick. he always melees application
the sExciar Office in which 1 oaf a clerk. • The
o.,!tii"es are mild hi tlw merchrort or broker ; the
s. ilk tor then givesa ceetificate tied the ditty lie paid ;
tea: niercharit then taker; the certificate to the con.ral-
I se'. for his signatory., and then brings 'it to my office.
It wars :the Prisoner's duty to examine these certifi-
cates; he had the custody of the weiperong officer's
notes. In was the Ibrirreiree'e duty to exernine the
signatures to the certificates. hut they were riot very
Bice in looking to them. The book iii which the
certificates are entered is called the duty-lead
ledger ; eV the end of each week the inuie.her is
made out by the Prionier. which is a copy from the
duty-paid ledger. The voucher would contain all
the dutyepuirl certificates. After the voucher is
merle out and examined with the duty-paid ledger
and certificates, and then compared with the coon-
. toe-parte of the permits, the certificates are afterwards
tied up its bisprller. The drawer would coutuin
only the reetificates of the current week. In the
month of Jnly, at the latter end, on a Tuesday, 1
received wane information, in consequence of which
I made inquiry in the office. and saw the Prisoner
on the subject. I think on Monday he told me
there was a double number 198 in the office, that is,
two certificates bearing the same trundler; we tweet
together to Mt. Mayo's office, and as we went the
Prisoner said, " I think we had better riot say any
thing shoat ritionber 202." 1 examined the certi-
ficates afterwards with Mr. Philip..
Crows-extetnined by Mr. ALLOY.—The Prisoner
has been about fuur years in the office. 1 know '
Mr. Grant, who was clerk to Mr. Robert Giunt,
who acted as brisker ; he" has absconded about a
month since. We are not very nice tu the sigria-
ture to the certificate. The erunilwrs of the permits I
do not go out aleiree in regular order. The drawer
in which the certificates arc_placed during the week
is not locked. A broker that was ill-disported might
have seems to it. It was communicated to me that
the Prisoner complained that a fraud had been
practised by Grant by means of a double number.
The Prisoner's seat is, the office is railed in.
James Crouch examined by Mr. BOLLAND.—
lam tobacco warehunee-keeper. lam desired by
Mr. Jones to call on the Collector of Duties erery
t. Monday to know the amount of duties the pre-
, ceiling week; 1 called on Monday the 30th July
'turd took an 'crowed of them myself ; 1 gave the
account to the Prisoner. The number was 83 hog.-
hearts 113,232 lbs.. duty 242,6412/. Ba. It was the
Prisoner's duty to check it against his own accounts,
and if both, are right they would agree. I eon-
• tiuued in the Office that mottling, and the Prisoner
told me the eccourit did not agree, ,aud that the
tliffereoce was 3271. a certificate of which Mr.
Grant got the permit. The Prisoner named it to
Mr. Jones also. I knew Robert Grant; his busi-
vets frequently called him to my office. The
Prisoner knew him too, I have seen them go out
together. Grant . came to the office that Ilse, and
Prisoner meritioued to him something aboitt the
• trouble Dumber.; Grant said he knew he had plod
the duties, and that was all he knew or cared about.
011 the next day I mss inquiries, by 51t. Jones's
direction, and found that there was iint acv signed
b.II tallying with the certificate for 3271. to the
afternoon I made a further search, and found a
warrant in the Prisoseer's desk. [The forged
certificate produced.] That is it ; Ido not think
it is the signature of the collector. The war-
Sam was loose with the warrants of Monday and
Tuesday, and there was a bundle of the preceding
week's warrants numbered, put together, hut not tied
up. Oe turning to the ledger 1 fiad an rutty of the
number 202 ; there are two numbers eO2, and I
have seen this ledger, where there was ao double
try of No. 202. The Prisoner made both the
entries. I
saw the Prisoner engaged on the Ist
August, the day after I found the warrant '202.
writing limn a leaf that was written npon. It was
a loose leaf ; a leaf has been taken out of the led-
ger ; the leaf I saw him copying from was of his
liarel.writing, and was uuhedlike the bunk.
Cross-examined by Mr. A DOLPHUS.—Mr. Grant
was a deeratt respectable young man. The I'6-
sorter was the first to tell of the irregularity, and
that it was which occasioned an inquiry to be set
on bot. The Pawner was the first aho spoke to
Grant publicly of the double numbers, abet 'villa
Grant disappeared. Taking up the certificate in a
curscry wry, it might escape my notice that it was
not the hued-w riling ut' the collector. The Pri-
sons( v--s absent room the 10th to the 16th hoot
sickness.
Win. Paid examined.-1 am a clerk io the same
elect: with the Primmer; the cutorterpert, No. 26,
permit, is in the Prisoner's haud-writing.—[The
vciic!irr for the duties, from 21st to 2811 i July, made
cut by tie Poisoner, was produced.]—There is •
errant, No. eui. Nlii.duch is the merchant im-
porter's name—two hogsheads, 2,1831b5. I fiat'
nu other No. 202 in this voucher. OD the lot of
August 1 saw the ledger in the hands of the Pri-
soner ;
.ut that time 1 compared the voucher with
ahr ledger, sod at that time it had but one
N. 202.
Alexander Grant, examined by Mr. -ROLLAND—
lam a broker, living at Tower-hill ; 1 bad a per-
son iii my service horned Robert Grant. On the
26(1. July I thiected him to clear some tobacco (live
hogsilesib) ; lie was furnished by me with a check
for 3021. 19s. to pay the ditties, and 1,1351. Is. 211.
by Messrs. Fish (altogether 1,4381. Os. 21.) On
the Tuesday morning fuliowing. that is. the 31st
July, 1 learnt that all was not right; I met Mr.
Crouch, who told site there was a mistake in the
warrant, acid wished me to are what was cleared on
the 25th. I went to the collector's office, but could
wet bud the duplicate; I communicated that to ,