The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-03 00:00:00

CIIARGE OF FORGERY.

Yesterday at I o'clock, Frederick George Heatley, other-
wise Captain lieatley, who stands charged with forging
bills of exchange to the amount of about £9,000 in the

whole, with intent to defraud the Marquis of Anglesea, the
Earl of Uxbridge, and the Earl of Westmoreland, was again
brought before the Lord Mayor at the justice room of the
Mansion-house for further examination.

Mr. Lewis, jun., conducted the examination as before,
and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Champ, solicitor.
The evidence, as on the previous occasion, was confined
to the specific charge against the prisoner of forging and
uttering two bills of exchange for £l,OOO and £5OO, with in-
tent to defraud the Marquis of Anglesey and the Earl of
Uxbridge ; and to render the proceedings of yesterday in-
telligible it is necessary to state that about the 10th Nov.
the prisoner was introduced as Capt. Heatley to Mr. Peters,
a commission agent, at a tavern in Bush-lane, Cannon-
street. Mr. Peters, at the request of a Mr. Knights, had
then redeemed a bill of exchange for £l,OOO by the payment
of £lO, which Mr. Wylde, of the Alhambra Palace, had ad-
vanced to the prisoner on pledge of the bill. The bill pur-
ported to be drawn by the Earl of Uxbridge and accepted
by the Marquis of Anglesey. At the interview at the public
house in Bush-lane the prisoner asked Mr. Peters to get the
bill discounted for him, but Mr. Peters told him that it was
informal, in consequence of the drawer's name and endorse-
ment being written on an erasure, and of the stamp being
damaged. The prisoner thereupon said he would get a fresh
bill from Lord Uxbridge, with whom, he said, he was on
most intimate terms, as he was also with the Marquis of
Anglesey. He left with that view, and returned later in the
day with another bill of exchange for £l,OOO, dated Oct. 17,
payable at Messrs. Hoare's, the bankers, three months after
date, and purporting to be drawn by the Earl of Uxbridge
and accepted by the Marquis of Anglesey. Tha prisoner
said he got it direct from Lord Uxbridge; but that, too, Mr
Peters declined to get discounted on the ground that the
date was written on an erasure. A few days afterwards he
met the prisoner at a coffeehouse in St. Martin's-le-Grand,
and the latter there and then filled in the two bills of ex-
change now in question for £lOOO and £5OO, and took them
away to be signed by the Marquis of Anglesey and the Earl
of Uxbridge at the Junior United Service Club. The pri-
soner met Peters by appointment at a tavern in the Hay-
market, and there handed him the bills signed " Uxbridge
as the drawer and
I Anglesey" as the acceptor. Suspicion
being excited as to the genuineness of the signatures, the
prisoner was afterwards given into custody, when another
bill was found upon him for £l,OOO, with the names of the
same drawer and acceptor attached.
Yesterday, on the prisoner being brought up, Mr. Lewis
desired to make an explanation with respect to Captain
Massey, said to be " Redan Massey," whom the primmer had
sought to connect with these forgeries, From the first the
statement of the prisoner in that respect was not a mo-
ment believed; but Mr. Lewis said it was due to JAW?'
Massey—for such he is, and not a captain—to state that be
left this country in July last with his regiment, the sth
Lancers, and is now serving with it in India. There could
not, therefore, have been the slightest pretence for the pri-
soner saying that Capt. Massey, if he meant thereby Major
Massey, was in any way mixed up with these forgeries,
which purported to have been committed in October last, in
this country, seeing that the Major was is India. The gal-
lant officer's reputation, which in some respects was matter
of history, was of itself sufficient to protect him from such
an imputation; bur, still he (Mr. Lewis) should be wanting
in his duty if he did not say that, so far as he knew, from
having had to collect information necessary to this prosecu-
tion, it was utterly untrue. With respect to Mr. Peterei the
principal witness in the case, it was due to him to state that
the moment he was convinced that the prisoner had intended
to defraud him he gave information to the police, which had
resulted in the prisoner being brought to justice. He (Mr.
Lewis) did not then intend to go into the charge against the
prisoner of forging the name of the Earl of Westmoreland
to a bill of exchange. It might be thought desirable to do so
on the trial of the prisoner at the Central Criminal Court,
' but in that event he should give the prisoner due notice.

Mr. Peters, in cross-examination by Mr. Champ, said he
was a commission agent, and had known the prisoner only
for a few days, from the 9th of November last. He met
him in a pnbliehouse in Bush-lane, Cannon-street, That
was the first interview, and he saw him later in the same
day at the same publichuuse. A few days afterwards he
saw him in Whitecross-street Prison. Tho cignatures
"Anglesey" to the bills produced wero not palpably dif-
ferent, but they differed in some respects, 4.?, understood