The Sun.
London, England, 1830-07-19 00:00:00

BOW.NEREET.

On Friday John it'omersley and John Willis,
two middle-aged men of
.respectable appearance,
were placed at the bar, before Mr. MINSIIULL, and
charged capitally with having forged and counter-
feited a certain power of attorney for the sum of
1031.'55. Id. with intent to defraud the Accountant-
General of the High Court of Chancery.
Mr. John Parkinson, one of the principal clerks
in the Accountant-General's office in the Court of
Chancery, stated that on the IGth of July, 1828,
an application was made by William Daniel Kiss,
of No. 1, Gloucester-buildings, Wal worth, attorney
at law, or by some person on his behalf, at the Ai,
countant-Generafs Office, for a power of attorney
from Henry Lowry, of Brent wood,Essex,auctioneer,
to Mr. John Womeraley, late of Little Guilford-
street, but then of Lant-street, in the bcrough of
Southwark, hat-manufacturer, to receive the sum of
1031.55. Id., which sum was, by an order of the
High Court of Chancery, made in the cause of Dc-
tiller' v. Gale, ordered to be paid to this Henry
Lowry, or to his legal personal representatives,
which power of attorney was accordingly prepared
and delivered by Mr. Giles, one of the clerks, to
Mr. W. D. Kiss, or the person on his behalf apply-
ing for the same. About three weeks after the said
power of attorney was returned to the witness, with
instructions that it had been duly executed by
Lowry, on the 2d day of August, in the presence of
George Deering, of New Broad-street, and John
Willis, coal-merchant, East-lane, Walworth, and
with an affidavit of Willis annexed thereunto of the
due execution thereof by Lowry. On the 15th of
August the prisoner, John Womersley, accompanied
by Mr. Kiss, us his solicitor, applied to the witness
for payment of the said sum of 103/. ss. Id., and it
was paid to him with a cheque on the Bank of Eng-
land, and he signed rt receipt for that sum in the
books of the Accountant-General, as the attorney of ,
Lowry, which receipt. was witnessed by Kiss. The
witness averred, in conclusion, that he believed the
said power, of attorney to be false, forged, and coun-
terfeited, and that it was uttered and published
as true by the prisoner John Woniersley, he
well knowing it to be false, forged, and coun-
terfeit, with intent to defraud John Springett
Harvey, Esq., the Accountant-General of the said
Court; and that it was also his belief that
• the prisoner, John Willis, was concerned with,
and aiding and abetting the prisoner, &rho Womer-
. tiley, in the commission of the said forgery. The
false power of attorney was produced
Lydia 13onfleld, of No, 8, italiere-strect,

Goswell-street-road, widow, was well acquainted
with Henry Lowry, of Brentwood, and afterwards
of Price's-court, Maid-lane, Southwark, and that
he died some time in the mouth of April, 1808, in
Price's-court.

Mrs. Anne 'Wallis, of Brentwood, was the daugh-
ter and only-surviving child of Henry Lowry, and
never knew or heard of any other Henry Lowry
living at Brentwood. Her father was a creditor of
Philip Detillin in the cause of Detillin v. Gale. He
died in April, 1808. She knew her father's hand-
writing. The signature to the power of attorney
now produced was not in the hand-writing of her
father.

Mr. W. Smith, of the Plough Brewery, Wal-
worth-common, knew the prisoner John Willis.
He was in his service as a brewer about nine
months, and left in the latter end of November.
The witness had, of course, frequent opportuni-
ties of seeing the prisoner write, and he stated that
he believed the signature " John Willis" to the
power of attorney as a subscribing witness, and
the same signature to the affidavit annexed, to be in
the hand-writing of the prisoner John Willis.
George Hampshire, clerk to the last witness, cor-
roborated this testimony.
Mr. W. D. Kiss, of Gloucester-buildings, Wal-
worth, deposed that on Saturday, the 21th of May,
1828, the prisoner John Womersley first applied to
him to bespeak for him two powers of attorney at
the Accountant-General's office, in the Court of
Chancery. Womersley made several other similar
applications to him afterwards, and several other
powers of attorney were obtained for him from the
same office by witness or his clerks. On the 16th
of July the prisoner Womersley made application
for two powers of attorney ; one for Henry Lowry,
of Brentwood, for 103/..55. Id., and the other for
Charles Outland, of Westerham, Kent, grocer, for
13/. 2s. 10d., which two powers of attorney were
obtained and delivered to the prisoner, in order that
he might get them executed. On the 15th of
August, 1828, witness went with the prisoner
Womersley to the Accountant-General's office, to
identify him, and saw him receive two cheques for
the above sums, and witnessed his receipts for the

Mr. Se!shy, clerk to Mr. Kiss, proved having ob-
tained the powers of attorney in question for the pri-
soner, and stated that, after he had done so, he said
to the prisoner " You may as well give me a ride
into the country with you to witness this." He said
"The parties are too poor to afford it. You
lawyers won't go for nothing, and I have a friend
who will go for nothing, and you may as well put
his name into the affidavit." The witness did so
by his direction. The name was that of John
Willis, of East-lane, Walworth, coal-merchant. To
his knowledge, the witness said, he never saw the
person so described.
The prisoners, by advice of their legal adviser,
declined making any defence, and they were com-
mitted for trial.
An application was made to have Willis admitted
to bail, but the Magistrate would not, in so serious
a case, listen to such a request.
Mr. Maule, solicitor to the Treasury, appeared for
the prosecution.
On Saturday a well-dressed man, who said his
name was Lcale, but whose real name is Richards,
was charged with having stolen a purse, containing
a 51. Bank note and seven sovereigns, front the
pocket of an elderly gentleman named Webb. lie
was recognised by Ford, the gaoler, and others, as
one of that class of thieves called in slang language
" the swell mob," and was committed to the House
of Correction as a reputed thief.
MARYLEBONE.
On Friday night the cad of a Paddington om-
nibus, named Wood, was charged before Mr. Hos-
KISS, with assaulting General Ouseley, of Man-
chester-square.
The defendant was fined Si., and in default of pay-
ment was committed to the House of Correction for
two months.
Mr. Rich, an engineer, in Palace-row, New-road,
was charged with an assault, under circumstances
which created great excitement in that neighbour-
hood, and filled the office to excess.
It appeared that the wife of a person named
Bradshaw died, and as her disorder was not well un-
derstood, it was thought to be expedient to open
tier body, and it was done by Mr. Thomson, sur-
geon, of the University Dispensary, in George;
street, Euston-square, and three of his pupils, in an
upper room of Bradshaw's house, which stands op-
posite the workshops of Mr. Rich.
Mr. Rich's men took into their heads that Brad-
the surgeons, and they
shaw had sold the privilege of dissecting his wife to
went upon the leads of the
building, and by hallooing and hooting, and declar-
ing that the body had been sold for five pounds,
and the " butchers of surgeons were sawing it to
pieces, they occasioned a mob, which threatened to
break till the windows, and "do for the doctors."
Mr. Thomson sent his card in to Mr. Rich, and re-
quested him to call his men down : Mr. Rich re.
!tuned an ungracious answer, and the house being
in danger, a person was sent to fetch home Brad-
shaw, who was absent. When Bradshaw came in,
Rich and his RICH were in the yard, and Mr. Rich
cried out, " Take Bradshaw, and drag him through
the horsepond—get a bucket of stuff, and heave it
over him." The last order was immediately carried
into effect : one of his people toek a pailfull of dirty
water from the trough of the grindstone, and soused
it upon Bradshaw, who was very ill able to with-
stand such violence, for he has but one leg.
This was the story of the circumstance, as repre-
sented by Mr. Thomson, and other respectable wit-
nesses; and Mr. HostoNs and Mr. RAwuNsore re-
quired Mr. Rich to give security for his appearance
to answer the charge at the Sessions.
Lieutenant H. Ramug, of the Royal Navy, was
held in his own security of 1001. to keep the peace,
he having endeavoured, by a letter, to provoke u
Mr. The cause of their dis-
pute was heard in a
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private room ; but another arose out of it, for the
Lieutenant lodged in the house of Mrs. Ann Corny,
No. 14, Milton-street, Dorset-square, and when Al-
lergen, an officer of this place, went there to serve
lie warrant upon him, and would not take her dc-
dal, knowing ha was at home, she turned round, us
ie followed her up stairs, and struck him a blow in
he face.

Mrs. Corney, in her defence, said Alderson had
no right to follow her so closely, and he did not be-
have as he ought to do.
Mr. RA:MINSON told her that officers must be
protected against violence in the execution of their
duty ; and with respect, to the one in question, he
was n very peaceable man, and signalized by good
conduct.—She was fined 21.
ziATTON-GARDEN.
The following information respecting a burglary
and robbery, committed on the premises of Mr.
Collier, No. 72, Hatton-garden, bookbinder, was
given at this office on Saturday Lot. The premises
are occupied by Mr. Collier, as a workshop and ware-
house, in which he carries on a very extensive busi-
ness, but lie does not reside there. Until the esta-
blishment of the present police system he had always
a person to sleep in the house; but when that sys-
tem was organized, arid its operation extended to
Hatton-garden, he conceived that making such a
provision for the security of his property was unne-
cessary, that lie might safely dispense with it, and
accordingly he discontinued it. The house was en-
tirely enclosed, and well protected in the rear, and
the front door was secured by a strong lock, of a
very peculiar construction. Every apartment in
the house was also secured by locks, arid on Friday
night Mr. Collier saw that all was safe; and be-
tween six and seven o'clock the following morning,
when he came with keys to admit his workmen, he
was astonished to find the front door open, and on
entering the house he discovered that every door in
it was open, that every apartment had been entered
and carefully ransacked, and that all that was va-
luable and portable had been taken away. There
were, however, no marks of violence having been
used any where, except on a writing.deek in the pet.

lour, which was forced open and emptied of its '
contents, but they were of no value. It was evi-
dent, therefore, that the thieves must have effected
the burglary by means of skeleton keys or picklocks,
and so well adapted were these for the purpose, that
not a single lock sustained the slightest injury, for
upon the application of their proper keys, they
locked and unlocked as usual. A very large number
of beautiful albums, finished off' in the most superb
and costly style of binding, of a description menu-
lectured solely by himself, and worth about five guineas
each, was carried off, together with nearly an equal
number of specimens of large works, single volumes,
a quantity of gold leaf, and eight or nine pieces of
Irish linen. Mr. Collier was unable to estimate his
loss, for he had not ascertained the full extent of it
when he gave the information ; but he was
perfectly aware that it was very consider-
able. It appeared that at half-past one o'clock
that morning the family of Mr. Horn, a baker, who
occupies the adjoining house, were alarmed by the
noise of footsteps up and down the stairs of Mr.
Collier's house, but there being no party-wall be-
tween the two houses, they imagined at the time
that some persons had entered their own premises,
but having searched, and finding themselves de-
ceived, they retired to rest, thought no more about
it, and were not disturbed afterwards. The police-
man who was on duty in Hatton•garden at the time,
stated to Mr. Collier that he had heard or seen no-

thing during the night to attract his attention or to
excite suspicion, with the exception of a hackney-
coach, drawn by grey horses, which passed twice
along Cross-street, close by the house, but he paid
no particular attention to it, particularly as he
happened to be engaged at the moment in removing
a drunken man to the watch-honse. It is deserving
of observation, that this has been the third
burglary and robbery committed in this neighbour-
hood within the last three or four days. The house
of Mr. Allwright of Holborn-hill, cheesemonger,
was entered and robbed on Wednesday morning last,
and the house of Mr. Lomax, of Holborn-bars,
jeweller, was broken into and robbed on Thursday
morning.