The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-14 00:00:00

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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUII'.—.-MdIDSTONE, TIMISDAY.
The business on the Civil side concluded on Wednesday
night, and in consequence of the number of prisoners re-
inaieirg to he tried, Lord Abinger sat in the Law Court
:iesterrle,s to essist in disposing of the business. A tem-
porary Court was also fitted up in the ball,• which was
presided over by Nile Sergeant Andrews ; unless these
erraneernents had been made the business of the Assize
-*mid not have been ocncluded in time to allow the Judges
to opeu the commission for the County of Sussex, en the
daily iu which it is fixed.
(Before Loan ABINGER.)
ALLE3EII FRAUD UUPN T 5 COMMISSIONER! OF C HELSEA
NO-IPITAL.—John Turner Flynn, aged 49, a Lieutenant
the Royal Navy, was indicted for having forged and
publia'ied a certain certificate, well knowing the same to
be forged, with intent to obtain the payment of certain
prize etoney, and to defraud the Lords Commissioners of
the Royal Hospital, at Chelsea.
The indictment, which was of very great length, also
imputed other criminal intents to the defendant, and he
was also charged generally, with obtaining a certain sum
of riaoriey b; ialse and fraudulent pretences.
Mr. Clarkson, with Mr. Bodkin, conducted the prose-
7ution; Mr. Chadwick Jones defended the prisoner. The
'3riZ eppear eel to excite a great deal of interest.
Mr. Ceeracsos addressed the Jury, and said that he had
the honour to appear on behalf of the prosecution, which
wasinstituted by the Lords Commissioners of Chelsea
Hosfetal against the defendant, for havingdeft auded that
eetereisarre-:•,nt of a sum of money by meana of false pro-
t;eneee. Ine circumstances of the case, it would apneas,
we'c, that a certain sum of money was due to a Captain
Jahn Collins Overhead, who was on military duty at the
cseptare of Pondicherry, as prize money for his share of
the eaptere. His legal representative was a person
earned. Mary Anne Bedford, and the alleged fraud con-
wsted in a person being brought forward to represent
tnat ineisidual. The prisoner at the bar bad for many
year; bean an officer in the Coast Blockade, and he was
instructed on the part of the prosecutors to state that up
to the period of this transaction, he bore an unblemished
and hoiiourab!e character. They still, however, felt that
under lot eireunaseances of the case they bad no alternative
bat to i
present the facts before a jury, for public nvesti-
geon. The witnesses would detail the nature of the
fraud that had been practised, and one
Flynn,f the witnesess would
peeve that the prisoner, Lieutenant F had represented
is resell as Mr. Bedford, the relative of the female in ques-
tion, tc whom the money was accordingly paid ever. He
s'sc.ald pectluce the witnesses before the Jury, and he was
afraid that they would find it their painful duty to return a
verdict The Learned Coensel then called the
folow'escs erenecses:—
ILle.hard Bellamy, Esq., deposed that he was the
eenio: eiesrk is the prize department at Chelsea
liogpiLsri. A list is kept of prize-money due to offi-
eyre and oteeie. The money must be claimed within
SiC scars aster it is paid into the Hospital, or
becomes forfeited, and is applied to the fund
far gerrarai purposes. In July 1335, the name of Captain
Jelin Collins Overhead was on the books, and a sum of
4d. was due to him for prize mor.ey. The six
per.' interest of the claim on this sum expired on the 3d
March, NUS.

A cariey of letters on the subject of the claim mule by
pf:sori reprasenting herself as Mary Ann Bedford, the
legal Teprocntative of the deceasei, were here put in and
re',d.