The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-10 00:00:00

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Mr. Gudgeon—Have you not beard from Messrs.
Barclay, or from other authority, that they have received
the ,mount of .the bill ?
Witness— I have not. •
Mr. Gudgeon—How long have you been acq9ainted
with him ?
Witness—About seven years.
Mr. Gudgeon—And have not all your transaotions
with him keen conducted, upon his part, with probity
Witness--I believe they have been all perfectly correct.
Mr. Gudgeon—You have said that you believed the
signature to be the prisoner's as drawer of the bill ? Do
you believe that the name "John Gill" is in his hand-
writing ?
Witness—l cannot say. I have had no transactions
with him since December, 1853. He has made offers of
malt to me once or twice within the last twelve months. '
Mr. Henry Miller—l reside at Ipswich, Old Butter-
market, and am manager of the National Provincial
Bank of England there. The prisoner keeps an account
with us. In January he brought this bill, for 2551.,
dated 22d Jan., 1855, payable two months alter date.
I am acquainted with his handwriting, and believe the
signature of the drawer and the endorsement to be his.
I discounted the bill for him, at his request, and credited
him with the proceeds. The bill would fall due on the
25th March, which being Sunday, it became payable on
the 24th. I saw him on the 23d of March, on the sub-
ject of the bill. He wished us to return it, and gave me
instructions to take it up on his aecount, and gave me a
cheque for the amount. I instructed our agents, the
London Joint-stock Bank, to take up the bill on our
account. I was not acquainted with the fact, that the
bill had been paid by Messrs. Barclay and Co., until the
sth inst., and then it was that I was informed by For-
rester that it was so paid.
Cross-examined by Mr. Gudgeon—l have known the
prisoner between four and five years, and have always
looked upon him as a most respectable person. I had
the bill several days in my hands before the discovery
was made, as I did not know the acceptor. We advised
the London Joint-stock Bank to pay it, and our advice
would have reached London on the 24th. They have
not informed us why they did not pay it. I have no
doubt that the prisoner intended to pay it, because he
instructed us to do so.
Mr. Gudgeon said he had pursued the course of cross-
examination*, to which the alderman had alluded, for the
purpose of showing that anything like fraud was never
for a moment contemplated by the gentleman at the bar.
Daniel Forrester—l saw the prisoner at the Stows
market Railway at half-past twelve o'clock on Saturday.
I ascertained that his name was Hansard Bridges, and I
saw •I wanted to ask him a few questions as to a bill for
2251., which had been presented at Barclay's and accepted
" John Gill," which acceptance that gentleman bad de-
nied to be his. The train was just then coming up to
London, and I got two tickets, and said to him that he
mast accompany me to explain to Messrs. Barclay and
Co. as to the bill. He said that Mr. Gill did not pay it.
When we were in the railway carriage I gave him the
full particulars of the transaction. He then said he was
not ignorant of the bill, and I brought him te London.
Cross-examined by Mr. Gudgeon—l cautioned him
that he need not answer me if he did not pleas.; that
he was not obliged to answer ; but I did not say that
his answers might be used against him. I had no war-
rant for his apprehension. When we arrived in London
I sent to Mr. Adullens, from whom I had received in-
structions on the subject. My, impression is, that the
prisoner believed that he was going to Messrs. Barclay
and Co.'s to explain about the bill.
Mr. Gudgeon then expressed a hope that the alderman
would accept bail under such circumstances. The gen-
tleman was, he said, a person of the highest respecta-
bility and expectations of property, and had not the
slightest notion of injuring any person in the transaction
described, and securities of the most unquestionable
character were ready.
Mr. Muflens said, in cases of such a nature, he was
always anxious to leave it to the option of the magis-
trate, without expressing an opinion to accept or reject
bail.

Mr. Gudgeon then pressed upon the alderman the
palpable evidence, that his client had never intended
anything wrong or injurious to anybody.
Alderman Rose said he regretted to be compelled to
say that it was his duty to refuse bail. He referred to
R. v. Bean?, 8 c. and p. 143, where Justice Coleridge
was reported as follows :—" As to the intent, I must
tell you that every man is taken to intend the natural
consequences of his own act. If I present to you a bill
with the name of one of 4ny friends upon it, knowing it
to be forged, it would be idle to say that I had no intent
to injure him."
The prisoner was then remanded till Saturday, when
. Mr. Mullens said it would be his duty to call upon
the alderman to commit upon the evidence already pro-
duced.

GUILDHALL.--CHARGE, OF UNLAWFUL POSSES-
SION.—William Wood, a 'cab-driver and coffee-house
keeper, was placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman
Humphery, charged with being found in the possession
of 261bs. of tea, 181bs. of coffee, and 61bs. of candied
fruit, the same having been stolen from the Angel Inn,
Farringdon-street.
Mr. Wontner appeared for the prisoner.
It appeared that Messrs. White and Fairchild, of High-
street, Borough, packed the goods, and sent them to the
Angel Inn for delivery by the country carrier, on Tues-
day last ; but as the whole of them had been repacked
since they bad been stolen, they were unable to identify
them.

The prisoner alleged that his wife bought the goods of
a person who brought them to the shop, and gave 25.6 d.
per lb. for the tea, and 9d. per lb. for the coffee.
The prisoner was remanded for further inquiry, and
admitted to bail in one surety in 1001., and his own re-
cognisancein 1001.

William Oaddick was charged with having unlawfully
in his possession a chest containing 21,000 envelopes,
the property of Messrs. Moi•gan and Co., of Cannon-
street West.

It was stated that the prisoner was seen hanging about
the entrance of Mr. Lavington's yard, in the Old Bailey,
where the goods were stolen from, a few minutes before
they were missed, and he was stopped with them in his
possession.

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Messrs. Morgan identified the property, and the pri•
Boner was then remanded for the attendance of another
witness.

CLERKENWELt.—STABBING BY A FIMALE.—
Mary abas Polly Gallagher, 23, was charged before Mr.
Corrie with stabbing Jane Barnes.,
Thomas Clines said, on Saturday evening, about six
o'clock, I was coming out of the Benbow Tavern,.in
Golden-lane. I saw the prisoner standing, with -her
arms folded, outside the door. She had no bonnet or
shawl on. She at once commenced on me, and my
young woman interfered, and she was stabbed by the;
prisoner in the face.

Mr. Corrie—You live with the woman that was
stabbed ?

Witness—Yes, sir ; and when I tried to take the
knife from her she nearly cut the top of my, finger off.
Prisoner—l was told in Little Cheapside, where I
live, that Clines had been beating my brother, and I
went to ask him about it, when he struck me.
Mr. Come—Did you strike her 1
Witness—l merely shoved her off, she was using such
bad language ; and the young woman that was wounded
interfered, and received the wound. The knife was con-
cealed in her sleeve.

The knife was here handed to the magistrate—it was
an old table knife, very sharp, and the point of it was
bent by the effect of the blow.

George Marriott, 418 A, said I was near the spot,
and when I came up I took the knife from the prisoner.
At the station-house, after the wounded woman had
given her evidence, the prisoner said, "I did not mean
to stab you ; I roehnt to stab him" (meaning the witness
Clines). After she had given her evidence the woman
became insensible, and remained so long in that state
that the divi-ional surgeons had to be called in, and they
advised she should be removed to the hospital. She was
removed, and this is the certificate I received this morn-
ing :

" SL Bartholomew's Hospital, April 0,1855.
"I do hereby certify that Jane Barnes was admitted on
the 7th instant, having a punctured wound below the left
lower eyelid, and a contusion around the right eye.
"EDWARD MORRIS, House Surgeon."
Mr. Corrie (to , prisoner)—You have had a narrow
chance of standii g before me for committing a murder.
As it is, you must be remanded until Monday next, to
wait the condition of the injured woman.
The prisoner was being removed when,
The witness Clines said—Your worship, I dread corn-
ing here again.
Mr. Corrie—Why S _ _

Clines—l have a -brother in the militia, and yesterday
(Sunday) I went to see them going to chapel. As I
was standing outside, a young man named John Ryan,
and other friends of the prisoner, said tome, " Ityou
go up, you will have to put up with the consequence."
Mr. Corrie—You must have a summons against Ryan,
and any of the other parties who made any threat against
you.
The prisoner was then removed.

AN INTELLISENT JURY.—In an action, Kingsmill v.
Millard, tried at Taunton on Monday, to recover pos-
session of some land, Mr. Justice Crowder in directing
the jury that the plaintiff's case had been clearly proved
by the defendant's evidence, as well as by the plaintiff's,
happened to denominate Mr. Serjeant Kinglake, one of
the plaintiff's counsel, as his " Brother Kinglake." The
jury, which was not one of the brightest, had, however,
predetermined tq have their own way, and to give a
verdict against the learned serjeant, against the evidence,
and againstthe summing-up of the judge, and as a reason
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for doino so, while considering their verdict, one of them
was heard to address another juryman thus :—"Didns't
thee hear that 'ere judge call that ere' counsel (meaning
the learned serjeant) brother ? Dos't thee think it is
likely he was going to say anything against his own
brother ?" and with this conclusion, and an air of ob-
vious defiance, they rdurned a verdict contrary to his
lordship's directions.—Bristol Mirror.,
A PERFUMED DANDY.—Sitting on ill, piazza of the
Cataract-house, at Niagara Falls, was a young, foppish..
looking gentleman, his garments very highly scented
with a mingled odour of Cologne and musk. A solemn-
faced, odd-looking man, after passing the dandy several
times, with a look of aversion which drew general notice,
suddenly stopped, and in a confidential tone, said,
"Stranger, I know what'll take that scent out of your
clothes ; you —" " What do peu mean, sir ?" said the'
exquisite, fired with indignation, starting from his chair.
" Oh, get mad, now ; swear, pitch round, fight, just be-
cause a man wants to do you a kindness I" coolly re-
plied the stranger. "But Ido know what'll take oat
that smell—phew ! you just bury your clothes—bury
'em a day or two. Uncle Josh got foul of a shunk and
he—". At this moment"there went up from the crowd a
simultaneous roar of merriment ; and the dandy very,
sensibly " cleared the coop" and vanished upstairs.