The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-30 00:00:00

FORGERY.

George Baskerville described as a flint grinder, of Hanley,
Staffordshire, who pleaded guilty to an indictment charging
him with forging and uttering the acceptance of a gentle-
man named Hughes to a bill of exchange for £276 155.,
with intent to defraud the London, Birmingham, and South
Staffordshire Bank.

It will be recollected that the prisoner, in partnership
with another person, carried on a wholesale manutacturing
business in Staffordshire, and became mixed up with a per-
son named Smith, who was some time ago convicted of
forgery. After that Baskerville found great difficulty in
carrying on business, and ultimately it was discovered that
he was in the habit of depositing furged acceptances, upon
which he raised various sums of money, and then took up
the bill before or on the day it came to maturity.
A number of persons gave the prisoner an excellent cha-
racter,

The Common Sergeant sentenced him to 5 years' peaal
servitude.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Days

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

WIFE BEATING—MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A WIFE.—
Michael Harrigan, of 9, Angel-court, King-street, St.
James's, was charged before Mr. Knox with assaulting his
wife in a violent manner.

On the prisoner being placed in the dock, William Duff,
138 C, informed the magistrate that the prosecutor was not
present.

Mr. Knox—Let the constable be sworn.

Duff (on being sworn) said—About a quarter to 8 last
evening, hearing cries of murder, went to 9, Angel-court,
and on going up to the third floor I found the prisoner
standing over his wife beating her with the leg of a chair.
Mr. Knox—Go and fetch the wife.

On the wife being brought to tho court, her head being
bandaged, she stepped into the witness-box and said—
Let me entreat you to discharge my husband, sir. I will
not press the charge, I had the leg of the chair [the
woman called it a stick—it was produced, and had blood
and hair on i.).
Mr. Knox—Now don't tell me such lies as that.
Wife—Oh, don't send him to prison. He wont do it any
more, I'll answer for it.

Mr. Knox—Go down, you are no use to us. The con-
stable hears cries of " Murder I" finds you on the ground
and your husband standing over you beating you with a
stick on the head, there being your hair and blood on the
stick, and yet you tell me a parcel of lies, and say he wont
do it again. You may consider it a fortunate thing that he
is not here for murder. I shall remand him for a week on
the constable's evidence, and I will turn the case over in
my mind, as there is enough to send him to prison for six
months.

James Harwood, a gilder, was committed for a month
for assaulting his wife, Elizabeth, who said he had left her
entirely destitute, and that she had found him in bed with
another female.

CAUTION TO CAB PROPRIETORS.—Thos. Foster, of 2,
Woburn -mews West, Russell-square, cab proprietor,
attended before Mr Knox, to answer a complaint of unlaw-
fully causing and procuring the driver of cab ;,042, to
cruelly illtreat and torture a horse.
Mr. W. Love, chief officer of the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, attended to watch the
case, the driver of the horse, Maurice Whitty, having been
charged by the Society's officers, on Saturday last, with
cruelly illusing the horse, and fined 20s.
Sell, one of the officers of the Royal Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, saw the horse attached to a
cab in Coventry-street, about one on the morning of the
21st, and on examining the horse he found it to be one of
those poor, old, worn-out horses only used in night cabs.
Both its hocks were cut and bleeding, and every step it took
seemed to cause it intense pain.
Mr. Henry, veterinary surgeon, corroborated the officer.
Mr. Kno having been informed that the horse had been
destroyed fined the defendant 20s. with costs.