The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-26 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

FORGING A BILL OF EXCHANGE.—WiIIiam Pottage
was placed at the bar, on remand, charged with forging
and uttering a bill of exchange for £67, with intent to
defraud Mr. Welfare, of the firm of Foreman and Welfare,
Oakley-street, Lambeth.
The bill purported to be accepted by Mr. William Bew,
of 62, Aldermanbury, merchant, end to be endorsed by Mr.
E. Weston, of the Music Hall, Holborn. and by Mr.
Weston, of Newington-causeway, gas chandelier manufac-
turers.

Mr. Lewis Welfare said he resided at 72, Oakley 'street,
and discounted the bill of exchange produced for the pri-
soner in the early part of July. He could not state the
exact amount advanced, but he thought it would be about
£64 3s. Bd.

Mr. Henry—• What conversation had you about the bill.
Witness—When the bill was brought to me with merely
the name of Mr. Bew, I said that, although I considered
that:gentleman a highly respectable person, I thought the
names of two others might be placed to the bill, and I men-
tioned the names of Mr. Weston, of Holborn, and Mr.
Weston, of Newington. The prisoner took the bill away,
and the next day he returned with it, bearing the signa-
tures of those two gentlemen.

Cross•examined—At the time the bill was being dis-
counted, I held a bill supposed to have been drawn by Mr.
Weston, the gasfitter, and accepted by Mr. Weston, of
Holborn. It was brought to me for discount by the pri-
sonetAand I discounted it for them, with his endorsement.
A day or two prior to the £5O bill becoming due, the pri-
soner called upon me and said it was not convenient for
Mr. Weston, the acceptor, to meet the bill, and it would be
an obligation to hold it over. I demurred, and the
prisoner then replied, " Well, if you don't like
to do that, I've a bill for £67 which you can
discount. At that the prisoner took up the £5O. The
reason I wished the names of the Westons to be placed
on the £67 bill was because I told the prisoner I was giving
up a bill for £5O with the names of the two Westons, whom
I knew to ho good. And he said he knew both of them.
Mr, John Henry Weston, of Newington-causeway, gas-
fitter, said his signature to the bill was a forgery. The pri-
soner was formerly in partnership with him, and was well
acquainted with the appearance of his signature. He be-
lieved the endorsement on the bill to be in prisoner's hand-
writing.
Mr. Edward Weston, of the Music-hall, Holborn, also
examined the bill, and said his signature to it was a forgery.
He was totally unacquainted with the prisoner. He was not
at all related to Mr. Weston, of Newington. He had lately
done work for Wm at Highgate to the amount of £2,500,
and that would perhaps account for the presumption of
relationship.

Inspector Tanner, of the detective police, said that was
the whole of the evidence he had to offer in the present
case, but he had a second charge of forgery against him,
but the prosecutor in that charge (Major Stranson) was
confined to his bed by illness.

Mr. Henry said in that case he would remand the pri-
soner, as the next Old Bailey sessions would not come on
for two or three weeks.

➢lr. Lewis said the prisoner would reserve his defence.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

PARISH PROSECUTION OF A NOTORIOUS BROTIIEL
KEEPER.—Elizabeth Middleton, a middle-aged woman,
was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with keeping a brothel
at 20, St. Martin's-street.
Sergeant George Appleton having proved that the pri-
soner was the person named in the warrant upon which he
apprehended her,
The clerk to Mr. Dangerfield, vestry clerk of St. Mar -
tin's, by which parish the prosecution was instituted, asked
that heavy bail might be required, as the house kept by the
prisoner was a very bad one, and she had set the authorities
at defiance and taken no notice of their warnings.

Mr. Tyrwhitt, committed her to the sessions, and fixed
the bail at two sureties in £4O each,
Prisoner said she would shut up the house, and pay all
the expenses, if she was allowed to go.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said she would go to the sessions.
A WIFE BEATER PROPERLY PUNISHED.—Edwin Toy,
of 7, Brown. street, St. George's, cabinetmaker, was charged
before Mr. Tyrwhitt with assaulting his wife, Peaelope
Sarah Toy.
The wife said that on the previous night her husband
(the prisoner) locked the room door, put the key in his
pocket—as he always did when he ill-used her—and then
aimed a violent blow at her head, but she put up her hand
to save her head, and upon it received the blow. She then
went and sat down by her children's bedside, when her
husband gave her another blow on the head, which rendered
her insensible for a time, and on her recovering, sae insisted
on his letting her out of the room, and he did so, she
being smothered with blood from a wound on her head.

Mr. Tyrwhitt aeked the wife whether her husband kept
her, and she said that her mother chiefly did.

VT. Hellican, 171 C, said the complainant came up to
him with blood pouring from a wound on the head, and told
him that her husband had assaulted her. He then went
towards the house and met the prisoner, and took him into
custody.

The prisoner said his wife made accusations of such a
nature against him that he could not keep his hands off
her.

Mr, Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for six months,
with hard labour, and said that he would have to find bail
when he came out of prison.

WESTMINSTER.

A SUICIDAL MONOMANIA.—Mary Lockey, a good-look..
ing young woman, was charged before Mr. Arnold with
threatening to commit suicide, under the following singular
circumstances :

Cree, Principal Warder of the Female House of Correc-
tion, Tothill-fields, stated that, on the 25th of July, the
prisoner was brought into the prison for damaging a plate
glass at a public house. At the termination of her impri-
sonment she was sent to her friends at Birmingham. She,
however, stayed no time there, as she came back as soon as
the officer. On another day, when put in the cell, she
broke 16 panes of glass and other things.
. In answer to the Magistrate, the warder stated that,
while in prison, they were compelled to put her under re-
straint, lest she should commit suicide. She has declared
that she would kill herself, as everybody was against
her.

Mr. Arnold observed that he thought the best way was
to communicate with the parish authorities. Is the sur-
gem of the prison present P
Dr. Lavies, medical officer of the prison, said that he
had seen the prisoner, and he believed her to be a badly
disposed girl. She talks rationally, but witness is of opinion
that she is of a suicidal disposition, and, if not watched,
will do some mischief to herself.

Mr. Arnold remarked that he thought the best way to
deal with the case was to remand her.
She was then remanded, and Mr. Arnold directed that
she should be closely watched.