The National Register.
London, England, 1813-01-03 00:00:00

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that the person concerned with Johns ought not to receive half the
amount of the rotes, as he ran no risk in getting them changed....:-
1. hen he got some of the I:.st Worcester notes change:l at Robarts
and Co's bank, in Lombard-street, Mr. Curtis, junior, brought a
printed list of lost bills, and examined those he was presenting for
payment. However, his note; were paid. He mentioned this cir-
cumstance at his wife's, which ap:tieareil to create some alarm.
Mrs. Griffiths was asked whit she had to say to her husband's
statement. She replied, apeat deal of it was true, and a great deal
of it was false. She admitted, that she gave him the notes :o get
changed, and that he was not a participator. She went into a long
history, and a deal of extraneous matter, about the cause of her sepa-
ration from her husband, &c. about some persons who had said she
was mad, and had endeavoured to have her confined in Bethlem Ilos-
pital. She attributed her husband's conduct to jealousy, and that he
had said he would be revenged. She refused to tell who she received
the notes from ; she denied most solemnly that she received them
from Henry Johns, and he %a as perfectly innocent. She persisting
in refusing to tell whoshc received the notcs from, Henry Johns was
brought into the office and placed at the bar by her side, and the evi-
dence of William Griffiths was about to be read over to him, but on
its being known that he was very deaf, he was allowed to leave the
bar, and to stand close to the clerk while it was read ; and after his
listening to it he denied the statement relative to himself. He re-
mained to hear the other evidence.
Mr. Hope, of Persher, in Worcestershire. raid, that on the 27th of
November last, he put into a letter different bank-notes, to the
amount of 1551. and put it into the Post Office, directed to Messrs.
Robarts and Co. Lombard-street, to pay to them on account of tlib
Tewkesbury Bank.
Miss Hope, his daughter, corroborated this testimony, and proved
the numbers and full description of the notes.
The corresponding clerk belonging to Robarts' bank in Lombard-
street, stated that all letters relative to the business of the house rass
through his hands, and no such letter came to him on the T.Stir Nov.
which would have been the regular course of the post, nor had it
since.
Several of the notes in this letter were proved to have been exchanged
for Bank of England notes by William Griffiths, which he had re-
ceived from his wife.
The Inspectors of the General Post Letters Deliverers proved that
the prisoner had belonged to the General Post-Office about ten years,
and it was customary to promote some of them to be Sub-sorters, and
he, being considered a very steady and respectable young man, %vas
made one of them. He was on duty as sorter on Saturday morning,
the `2Bth of November, when all the letters directed to kol)arts's
house must have passed through his hands, and at which time, and in
due course of post, Mr. Hope's letter would have passed through the
Post-office.

Vickery, the officer, produced a number of bank notes which he
found in the bedroom where Mrs. Griffiths and Henry Johns were
in bed together, and they were proved to have been got in exchange for
the notes that had been stolen from !otters.
The prisoners were committed for further examination. Williarn
Griffiths was discharged on his producing two securities in 20j1. each
for his appeaeance at the Sessions to give evidence.