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duly accepted. After the bill had been accepted, witness received ano-
ther letter sign d Do eeliall and Co. recommending another customer.
Mr. Xobree, house agent, proved, that the acceptance, 11/44%Doughall
and Co. was the prisoner's hand-writing, with which he was well ac-
quainted.
John Brooke, clerk at Messrs. Esdaile and Co. bankers, proved that
he presented the bill, the subject of this indictment, for acceptance, at
No. 51 Great Hermitage-street, and he received it again bearing the
acceptance. He called there again an left the bill for payment on the
26th of December last, but the said bill was dishonoured.
Elizabeth Baddon, who let a counting-house and parlour to the pri-
soner in Hermitage-street, proved that he went by the name of Thomp-
son, and she had never heard of the name of M'Doughall as belonging
any firm there. A youth named Sibbert had officiated as the clerk of
the prisoner, about six weeks after he had taken the lodgings in March,
1811. The husband was also called, who merely echoed the testimony
of hisstvife.
The „prisoner's defence was, that he was invested by M'Dougall,
who'belonged to the firm, to use his name on all occasions ou business,
and 'he had thus acted upon this occasion.
To substantiate this defence, a man named Jennings was called, who
described himself as a resident at Bow, and as having a warehouse in
Wapping. This witness said he bad made a sale for the prisoner, in
which he understood front the prisoner the firm was Thompson and
Baddon ; but he knew nothing about hi'Dougliall.
Alexander Broughton, a loose kind of character, to use the words of
the Judge, stated, that he lived in Rose and Crown-court, Moorfields.
He described the firm in Hermitage-street, to consist of M'Doughall,
'1 h 'mpson, and Haddon. He had done business for them, for which he
received notes, and he had often seen the three together.
'Ms witness underwent a rigid moss-examination by Mr. ALLEY.
H., confessed he had a multiplicity of residen.tes within the few last.
months—that he Lad been in prison lately about accepting a bill, and
that ke had also been in prison on a charge of fe:otty a few months
ago.: He had been a warehouseman in Wood-street, but he could not
name one respectable house in London he had ever done business with,
escer!ng Tray-and Co. in some short street, he did not know the name
of. He came there at the request-of the prisoner's brother, who was
himself a prisoner in Coldbath-titlds, and Jennings, the last witness,
was the bearer of the request. This was the only attempt at proof that
such a name as M'Doughall lived itt Hermitage-street.
The JUDGE observed, that if a man wrote. a fictitious name on a bill,
with intent to defraud, no such person belonging to the stuosed or real
firm, it was a forgery. Guilty—Death.
.

APRIL 12

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SOCIETY FOR PROSECUTING FELONS, &c.
Instituted in 1757, on the Recommendation of the late
Sir JOHN FIELDING.
H. C. CONIEE, Esq. Alderman, M. P. President.
Sir CHAR PRICE, Bart. Alderman. M. P. Vice-President.
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