The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-07 00:00:00

Forging by Photography.

At the Mansion House Po lfs wouldi
oc
ttlehih
i-.meonecwo ti:istead
partp Police-court,
portrait.
na.rfatnhaAydi witness'satHt. yesterday, Peter
Rinaldi, a foreigner, underwent a final examination before
a
btteohegeaLmpoharkinyd.Mayor on a charge of being concerned in a forgery
on the Imperial Bank of Vienna.—Mr. Sleigh was counsel
atfrotr. tthh,eOmphrto:syeceeuspttriaiosnnoyn,
teahrnidnsgatih:e prisoner was defended by Mr.
nGaekxlentendt,haenn,atbtuotmweyou.—ldJcoahllntAhle'Quire, a photographer, at 4,
firstf
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upon
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hando prisoner,ume t 7aas
ssekkvo'clockee
asked
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witnessosone
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of rhpk inspect-
inghi
sm Thursday.pho-
tography,
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ricyl,:moge eneknnta,dthw somehf duringeoaoenr callede and had his portrait
next day, adding that he was wouldt
mile distant in the east part ofs att.
shvhrseo eesptllthissreesiiaelanhaAustrian
k:tea epe,bhtfirtooaery
uubthhakoreiti
inrataelwmiecieidd-at:
ir witness'she
offered
it prisoner,two
if he had no silver, and on his replying that he had not,t's she
returned him the note. He then gave her a hitlf Napoleon
in payment, and, on receiving the change, went away. Theeon
next day (Saturday) he called again about noon. here
were some customers present, and he said he would wait
until they had gone. On their leaving the prisoner said he
wanted to speak privately to witness, who replied, "All
right ; I'm ready." He told witness to fasten the doot, which
he did. The prisoner then took from a pocket-book a one-
gulden note, and asked him if he Would copy it. Mrs.
M'Quire being in the room, the prisoner asked if she was his
wife, and was answered in the affirmative. On witness
telling him that he could copy the note, the prisoner said
he would give him an order for 1,000 copies, and that if he
liked the manner in which it was done he would bring him
two notes of greater value to be copied. He then asked
beinge
wts
hhi
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told that
dtt hi
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faprikoat
empc paper
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prisoner
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witness
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inesd
oonuntolh,td
aattnond, en
not, he
event,ow
any living being to see the note, except his wife, who had
seen it. Witness told him that he should see an impression
of the note on Monday morning. The prisoner then left,
and witness went to the Seething-lane palice.station, and
made a communication on the subject to the inspector on
duty. In accordance with the prisoner's instructions he
made the photograph now produced of the note upon glass,
and from which impressions could be taken by a certain
process. On Monday afternoon he saw from his shop the
prisoner walking about on the opposite side of the street a
long time. The prisoner did not come in, but, about nine
o'clock in the evening witness was standing at his shop
door, after he had left off work, when the prisoner came up
and shook hands with him. Witness asked him if he would
go and take a glass of ale; upon which the prisoner palled
him on one side and said, "We must not let them hear,"
alluding to some people in the shop. Witness and he went
towards Jewry-street, and on the way the prisoner asked him
if he had copied the note. Witness said he had ; upon which
the prisoner inquired if the impression was a good one.
On being assured that it was, he said he had got some
more notes of greater value for him to do. " Very good,"
was the answer; and having taken a glass of ale together
at a tavern witness asked him to go to his house with him
and look at the impression, which he did. He compared the
copy closely with the note and approved it very much. He
then asked witness's wife to shut the door, saying he did
not wish anybody to see them. Remarking that it was a
" dry job," he gave witness half a crown, and asked him
to go and get a bottle of gin with it. Witness left for
that purpose, but was detained some time. The prisoner
met him in the street and said he had left six gold
Napoleons and a half with his wife, together with a five-
gulden and a ten-gulden note. Of these notes he asked
witness to make photographic impressions, and then get
the impressions engraved on copper, and also that of the
note which witness had already copied. He then talked
about their travelling together and making their fortunes in
six months. He charged witness to be careful not to let the
police know, or they should both be ruined. Witness said,
" 0, no, I'll take care of that," and they parted. On going
home his wife showed him the two notes and the six and a-
; half Napoleons. About 9 o'clock next night the prisoner
called on him again. Witness was sitting with his wife in
a back room on the first floor. The prisoner fastened the
door when he came in. Mrs. M'Quire remarked that they

thought they had lost him. The prisoner said he had been
lying in bed all day, for he had heard something, and was
afraid the police had become acquainted with the affair. He
asked if witness had said anything about it. Witness re-
plied that was not likely. The prisoner then asked if he had
taken the other two impressions. His wife said he had been
too busy. The prisoner began talking about their travelling

with him on the continent, and after they had made their
fortunes, going to America or Australia, where they would
be safe from discovery. Just at that moment a knock was

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heard at the door, and detective Scott put his head inside.
Witness turned round to see who it was, and then followed
the officer down stairs and made a ommutlication to him.
Scott, accompanied by Monger, another detective officer,
then returned into the room with him and took the pri-
soner into custody. The impression on glass was then on
naohtoesutp2roo.duced were
a table in the room, as were also the notes in an envelope.
Theon
lass was not what was called a negative, bat he could turn
g
it into a negative and take copies from it.—Chevalier Igna-
tius de Schaffer, chancellor and director of the Austrian
consulate general in London, said he was conversant with
On being cross-examined,
the currency of the Austiian empire. The paper currency
consisted of gulden notes of different denominations, and of
in English
money. The three notes referred to by the witness M'Quire,
were genuine notes of the National Bank of Vienna, which
photograph on glass Produced was a representation of a
one-gulden note. There _ was a printed warning on the
gulden notes, that to forge them was a crime
___
specimens.svh ich the
The five-guldenvalue and da ten-guldenguldeji
• tie°. Scott,
detective police officer, deposed that on taking
the prisoner
into custody he was sitting at a table 'with
M`Quire and
his
wife in a bask room of the first floor of the house.
afterwards searched at the
lie was p lice- •
station, and 42
Napo/eons in gold and other money - o
was the only bank authorised
his found
upon him.—The
wife of M'Quire corroborated
to some other fresh circumstances.s evidence, and deposed
1 genuine note with the impression
said he would take 1,000 en •
on glass the prisoner
gen-
tlemen who would each take 5,000
and would bring other gen-
night when her husband 5,000 or 6,000 more. On the
offered to
advance was out getting the gin the pri-
sonersaying a pound or two her £5O. She declined to take it,
the gold Napoleon .
would be ample, upon which he left
Napoleons with her. On
that occasion he said he
had just bad a telegram requiring
him to go to Paris, and
that probably her husband would make the copies before
be returned,
where he
him in the event of his said they could communicate with
not
returning. Witness, on being
asked in cross-examination, why she took the money when
she knew her husband had
said that was her business.
cases to have a deposit
took £5 or £4.—Mr. deposit.
manufac-
turer in Aldgate, spoke
pre-
viously known as a casual
on the evening of Thursday,customer,
there a day or two,
prisoner calling him aside and
one in London, who could
he produced. Re ordered copy
and the prisoner left at five
he was going to Boulogne.—On
applied to have the • communicated with the police,
Besides,. it was usual in such
She might have had £5O, but only
Joseph Gatti, Gatti, a chocolate e
prisoner, whom he had
coming to his house
and
to the
18th June, and staying
de indignation. he felt on the
asking him
.if he knew any
.ee Austrian notes which
e prisoner to quit his house,
o'clock
thisnext morning, saying
evidence Mr. Sleigh
prisoner committed for trial, which was
done accordingly.

MORMON CONVERTS.—Within the last two weeks
nearly 1,500 Mormon emigrants have landed at New York
en route for Utah. One company of 800 was made up of
seven different nations, another of 600 was principally from
Scandinavia, with all the indications of the honest thrift of
the labourers of Northern Europe—American Paper.
CRIME OF 1862.—The indictable crimes com-
mitted in England in the year ending Michaelmas,
1862, so far as known to the poliee, were 53,225 in number
—an increase of 41 per cent over the previous year. The
catalogue includes 124 murders, 63 attempts to murder, and
698 instances of injuries done with intent to do serious
harm ; all these are considerably larger numbers than in the
previous year. In Lancashire the increase was 8 per cent.
By an inconvenient arrangement these police returns are
for the year ending at Michaelmas, but the return of crimi-
nal proceedings is for the year proper, ending with Decem-
ber, This latter return shows that in 1862 20,000 persons
were committed for trial in England—an increase 6.19'1 per
cent, following an increase of 12.7 per cent in 1861. But
e(anrsoorntli:
&e.), 51.7
thesilpenr
still a little below
decrease, and the numbers for 1862 are
of
those of 1857, notwithstanding an increase population.
afinnstthpereoxpterertzny the estimated
The commitments in 1862 were 1 to 1,018 of
Lancashire the increase over 1861 was 14'5,
population. In Lamas
in each of the years 1858, 1859, and 1860 there had been a
Yorkshire 15.4, in Middlesex 21•8, in Essex 13 per cent ;
against the person there was an .
increase of 7.4 per cent, in.
offences against property with violence 17'7 per cent, in
offences against property without violence 7.9
south-
west, and in several of the midland counties. In offences
per cent, i
„mt. The commitments for burglary and
increased 33 per cent in housebreaking
Lancashire, 48.5 •
per cent in Middle-
sex, offences
decrease
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