The Sun.
London, England, 1809-09-25 00:00:00

STOCKS

RDAY.
llndia Stock, 127 i
India Bonds, 19s. xos. pr.
Exch. Bills, 45. us. pr.
Imperial 3 per Cent.
Bank tor Opening, 268
Cons. for Account, 481 i
I

OD BAILEY.

SATUUDAY, SEPT.: A 3

Witz Sheppard stood. inditted
terhigas true a certain receipt, knowing, the same to
he vi-fod, for the phivose of defrauding one Richard
It appeared from the
.e-midence in this, case, that .
thelOecutor, Richard Mordy was a gentle-,
titan's serVant, and having by
hisindustry and
economy saved some money, he employed hiS bro
titer,. Thomas Mordy, to get 201. ve•ited •in the
five pet- cent. ,Stocks. Thomas MOrL) , theyefore,-,
in the month of January,' went to the and
meeting with-the Prisoner, of whoa) be hakf some

slight: knowledge, and who was aki of johhaig:
broker, gar,p him the 201. with instru,'Aions how it
was to be vested. lii a sh,,rt time afterwards. ►he
Prisoner brought him a receipt, r urpu~tiiig tci tie; ti t:

recOptiof a person named W. S. tor the trans:
ler of 204 .5 per Cent. to the name of Richard
Illor.dy. In the month of July,. Richard Moldy
Olivisat the Benk for his dividend bot on present;
ing the receipt, ~vas informed that no such 'stock
had been transferred, nor was there any person of
the name of West employed in the Stock Office.—
An inquiry was then st..l on foot respectinig the
broker who had tran,atted the businesS and Ale
Prisoner. was pointed out.

The Directors-of the Bank sent immediatc;)' foi
him, and he w.is interrogated in their parluur by Mr.
Kaye the Solicitor. He then said there was a Itin.
fling account between him. and the Prosecutor; but
at a tuture examination he confessed thAt at the
time Thomas 'Moldy had applied •to him, he .was
much distressed in pecuniary, at-lairs, and that but
Was induced to appropriate the stun he gave'him at
that time to the liquidation of some pressing de-
mand but with a wit intention of purchasing the
stock, when his circumstances would admit. Oa.
being questioned as
,to the receipt,. he Faid he had
given that merely as metnerandurn, and that hay-.
ing a friend whose name was-West, his name oe-
birtring to him first, white he was,w,t itng it, he put
it '3t bottom ; but. begged it might be finder stolid'
he had not the most-distant intentlorr''Of defraudins
the Prosecutor.

'These faas having been peeved, the prisoner was
called on for his-defetiee. This he left to his Coun-
sel Mr. GtmNEY and Mt..ALLEv, who called seve-
ral most respectable witnesses to his character, who
all spoke:tn the highest tens of tits ey..empiary con-
dud, and of his filial duty, having supported an aged •
mot herby -his industry for thirteen years.
The Learned Judge.i. Baron HEATH, t;ien slammed
up the evidence to the-Jury with great perspicuity,
dwelling on those parts which were likely to be ta7.•
vourable to the prisoner but at C,e'satbe time silt,-
nifying his.c'onvidion of the prisoner's•guilt,
The Jury, after . sortie constdr,.......xation, returned a
verdiCt o Guilly (if .the Fraud, but not ot the Fur=
fiery.
The Learned Judge, in reply to tl:is, explained to
the Jury the nature ot the law respediug forgery,
and said, that in t..e present case, the fraud-depend-
ed wholly on the forgery.
The Jury thetr,begged to withdraw, grid, after
being H-)sent nearly wenty minutes, returned w ith
a verdict ot Guilti!--Death.

11101Z::S kise:a lal not more than eighteen years
of stood indicted for 'feloniously sv---
creting and embezz!mg two 51. notes, woe
-contained in a letter tha! came into his possessida
in the'course of his duty as a ;otter-carrier and sorter
of the TWoi,enny Post Office.
Se)CICITOR-GENiER AI. attended for the prose-
cution on the part of the Post .Office, and stated the
'case, which was clearly substantiated by a re-
gnlar ch..in of evidence ; and amongst others bythe prisoner's sister, a mild, innocent, girl, about
sixteen, who, w pile giving her testimony, was alcno4t
Suffocated with grief.
,The Prisoner had nothing to urge in his defence,
atift was tound Guilty—Death.
Thomas Richardson, a sorter in the General Post
Ofriee, also, sniod indicted for secreting ten Bank
-lost bills, of 101. each,
_the property of 'William
Henry Hatsefl.
The bills had been sent by Messrs. Hoare and
Co. Bankers, by pOst, on Saturday 1.113 sth of An-
gust, in a letter, directed for Mr. Hatsall, tit Gbd-
stone, in Surrey, but were never afterwards re-
ceived. .They were not however traced satisfac-
torily to the Prisoner, and he' was acquitted of this
charge.
He was then tried on a second charge of having
secreted and embezzled seven -notesoof the Farrinv,-
-ringdon Bank, of ten pounds each, with :intent to
-,rilgrand one William-Harrison; Esq.
To this charge he pleaded'Guii ty, by advice of his.
Counsel.
There. were several other c!larges to an enormous
extent against hint, a conviction oh which he avotti-
ed by his plea of guilt.