The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-10 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

Yesterday Cockerell, the utterer of the sham Bath,- and Bris-
tol notes, was brought up before Sir 8.. BitexiE, and fully
committed to TsZewgate for trial.
The soi-disant Sir Thonial Hewitt, alias Smith,.-alias.
Wheatley, &c. &c., was brought up again yesterday.
The chief per ho appeared ,rainst hint was Mr. J. Luce,
son of Mrs. Luce, e proprietor Luce'k Hotel, at Wey-
mdtath: This witness osed that h 'rst saw the prisoner on
the Quay at WWmout t, where he 1• dtft front a Guernsey
packet on the 2d of last November.. The prisoner was then
accompanied by two young men, 'for whom, as well as him:;elf,
he required uccommodations at the hotel, saying that if they
were tolerably comfortable' they might remain two or three
weeks. So satisfactory did die accommodations prove, that
the party remained till the Ifith, during which time Mr. Wynn,
for that was the name by which he went, got acquainted with
a gentleman of the name of Fookes, with whom he entered into
a negotiation for a house. Within the sante period he also
bought a number of cows of a Mr. Hare, a butcher in Wey-
mouth, which he ordered to be sent down to " Denbigh Manor-
house," in Wales, directing the route they were to pursue in
hut own writing.
On the evening of the 15th Mr. Wynn called for his till,
which, amounting to 381. Os. Id., witness presented him. A
draft for 301. 17s. 4d. lay then on t.ll. table before him, drawn on
Messrs. Jones, Lloyd, and Co., London, in the name of Mor-
gan, Leeds, which the prisoner in witness's presence indorsed
R. Wynn."
The prisoner, at the same time stated, that he was brother to
Mr. Wynn, the President of the Board of Controul. Witness
took the draftlo his mother, who knowing the respectability of
the family with which the prisoner claimed affinity, accented it
without the smallest hesitation, and sent back the change. The
next morning the prisoner ordered a chariot and pair to take
hint to Salisbury, from which place he sent back a check on
Hoare, Barnett, and Co. for 4/. 10s. the hire of his conveyance.
On being sent to London both these drafts were returned, the
one marked with the ominous words " no advice," the other
still more unsatisfactorily, " know no such person." Witness
now set out io ascertain whether there was such a place as
Denbigh Manor, but learned front Bristol that no such place
or individual were known. His next step was to write to the
Right Hon. C. W. W. Wynn, President of the Board of Con-
troul, in his mother's, name, requesting to be informed if the
prisoner was, as he had represented, his brother, and if he
would be kind enough, if it were so, to forward his address.—
To this the following answer was immediately returned :
" Mr. W. Wynn has to acknowledge to Mrs. Luce the re-
ceipt of a letter of the 23d instant, and begs to inform her, that
he has no brother of the name of Robert, and that he is per-
fectly unacquainted with a Mr. Robert Wynn ; 'and therefore
he cannot inform Mrs. Luce of his address.
" Board of Controul, 25th Nov. 1825."
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Witness heard no more of the prisoner until a few days ago;
when a friend at Salisbury wrote to him, advising hint to look
at the Bow-street report in the newspapers. He did so, and
seeing the description of the prisoner, he immediately felt cer-
tain that " Robert Wynn, Esq." was in the hands of the law,
and came as speedily as possible to London.
Mr. Ilar.t.s thinking the evidence of Mr. Wynn, of the
Board of Confront necessary, a letter was written to that gentle-
man requesting his attendance.
In about half an hour Mr. Wynn arrived, when, having beer.
sworn, he said :—" My name is Charles Watkins Williams
Wynn, and I ant President of the-Bord of Controul. 1 am
not aware that I ever saw the prisoner before. I have no bro-
ther named Robert, or whose Christian name begins with R.
I never heard of any such place as Denbigh Manor House as
the property of any part of my family.
This was the whole of the evidence .Ss to the charge of for-.
gery, and upon it the prisoner was fully committed to take his
trial at the next Assizes for Dorsetshire. Ile seemed much
depressed, and covered his face with his hands during the whole
of the examination, except when desired to remove them for
the purpose of enabling the witnesses to identify him, and then
he strewed great reluctance to comply with the request.
James Harris was brought up by Salmon, charged with
stealing a letter containing a 101. Bank-note.—Rehranded.