The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-14 00:00:00

IV 0 RSHIP- STREET.

A young man named Richard Harris, described
as a solicitor's clerk, who stood charged with having
uttered several forged 51. Bank of England notes, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Arnold for further ex-
amination.

Mr. Freshfield, solicitor to the Bank, attended to
conduct the prosecution, and Mr. Ballantine, the bar-
rister, appeared with Mr.Vann, the solicitor, on behalf
of the prisoner.
The facts adduced at the former examination have
already appeared in this paper, from which it may be
recollected that the prisoner then stood charged with
having uttered a forged 51. note to Martha Wilton,
the keeper of a house of bid repute in Essex-street,
Kingslaud-road, and the following additional cases
were now proceeded with.

Albin Plush, who described himself as the keeper
of a lodging house for railway travellers in Welles-
ley-street, Euston -square, stated, that about nine
o'clock on the evening of the 16th ult. the prisoner
came to his house, accompanied by a woman, and in-
quired if they could be accommodated with an apartment
for the night. They were shown into a room upstairs,
but had only been there a few minutes when the pri-
soner came down alone, and requested the witness's wife
to sent out for a pint of port wine, and handed her a
five pound note, stating that he was entirely without
change. Witness went himself for the wine to an
adjoining public-house, where he procured change for
the note, and gave the prisoner the difference. The
prisoner then returned to the apartment, and after a
short interval a person, with whom witness had seen
him in conversation a short time before, presented
himself at the door in apparent haste, and stated that
one of the prisoner's friends, who had just arrived by
the railway, was waiting at the end of the street, and
wished to see him immediately. On communicating
the message to the prisoner he instantly hurried out,
promising that he would be back in a few minutes,
but he failed to return, and witness saw no more of
him until he found him in the custody of the police
upon another charge.

- In cross-examination by Mr. Ballantine, the witness
admitted that he kept a house of general accommo-
dation, and that he was not at all particular about the
character of his customers so long as they paid their
way.

Mr. Ballantine—ln fact, the house you keep is
neither more nor less than a common brothel ?
Witness—Exactly so; and I am not at all ashamed
to say

Elizabeth Smith, landlady of the Dolphin
public house, Tonbridge-street, New-road, proved
that, at the time mentioned, she had given change to
the last witness for the note produced, which was
paid away by her husband a few days afterwards,
but that it was subsequently returned to him stamped
as a forgery.
A third case was then gone into, in which the
prisoner was positively identified by Esther Harrison,
a young woman of abandoned habits, as having
handed to her a 51. bank-note at her own lodgings
some time since, with instructions to get it changed in
payment of some brandy and other spirits, which she
did at a neighbouring vintner's named Surton ; but
the witness fixed the time she had uttered it for the
prisoner at between nine and ten o'clock, while the
landlord of the house stated it to be a much later
hour; and, there appearing to exist several other
rather important discrepancies between her testimony
and that of the changer of the note, the magistrate
did not consider the evidence sufficiently conclusive,
and the case was therefore not proceeded with to a
conclusion.

Mr. Ballantine, on behalf of the accused, said that
he should be prepared with a complete answer to the
charges gone into upon a future occasion, and inti-
mated that two of the partners in the firm in which
the prisoner was employed were then in attendance,
and were so firmly convinced of his innocence that
they were willing to tender bail for his future ap-
pearance to any amount that might be required.
Mr. Freshfield, on the part of the prosecution, said
that be felt it his duty to oppose any application for
bail, as a large number of similar forged notes had
lately been put into circulation, and he understood
that the police believed they would be able to con-
nect the prisoner with other transactions of a similar
description.

Sergeant Teakle intimated to the magistrate that
the prisoner had been identified that morning as the
utterer of another 51. note, which he had then in his
possession, and he fully expected that he t,hould he in
a condition on a future day to substantiate several
other cases against him.
Mr. ARNOLD, under these circumstances, declined
to accept bail, and the prisoner was therefore re-
manded for a week.

The general defence seemed to be that an entire
mistake had been made in the prisoner's identity,
though the witnesses carefully described the dress and
personal appearance of the utterer of the notes in each
instance.