The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-02 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Alfred Wilbeani, otherwise John Brown, was brought
before Mr. Alderman Wood, charged with uttering a
forged bill of exchange for 5001., whereby he and others
defrauded Messrs. Fuller and Co., the bankers, of that
amount.

Mr. Taylor, a solicitor, attended on behalf of the pro
secutors.

It may be remembered, that about the end of last year
a forged bill, purporting to be accepted by Mr. Ohrly,
retired merchant, residing at Hackney, was paid by
Messrs. Fuller, but they were not aware they had been
defrauded till the 6th of February, when a policeman
brought in a man named Nicholas Kerp, a foreigner,
and said he had been given in charge by a person then
present, a Polish refugee named Alexander, for can-
mitting a forgery upon them. Alexander gave such a
minute description of the bill, that the clerks readily
traced it. Kerp was therefore given in charge, and on
the way to the station-house Alexander disappeared, his
name and address being unknown. The charge against
Kerp was, however, complete without his aid, Mr. Ohrly
proving that the acceptance was forged, Messrs. Fuller
proving that they paid the bill, giving four 1001. notes
and two 501. notes to the person who presented it, but
whose appearance they had no recollection of. It was
shown that Kerp changed the 1001. notes on the same
day at the Bank of England, where the clerks were so
cautious that they sent to Fuller's before they cashed
the note, and were told it was all correct. Subsequently
Alexander was apprehended for stealing a marked halt-
crown at a house to which he was admitted in the cha-
racter of a teacher of languages. He was recognised as
the mvsteri Ala accuser of Kerp, and was detained on a
second charge of being concerned in the forgery; the
suspicions of the police resting on the minuteness with
which he was able to describe the forged bill, and on his
disappearing as if in dread of some counter-statement
from Kerp, who can speak very little English. In the
examination of Kerp, it also appeared that he had, on
the day the forged bill was presented (and in order, it
was supposed, that he might present it), caused a very
shabbily-dressed man named Brown to be rigged out in
an entire new suit, This Brown the police were unable
to trace till Wednesday afternoon, when he was appre-
hended by two City policemen, named Edwards and
Speck, and he was now placed at the bar.
Messrs. Fuller proved the payment of the bill, and Mr.
Ohrly proved the acceptance to be forged, as in the evi-
dence against Kerp.
The officer Edwards repeated the evidence he had
given before. He was standing near the Auction-mart,
when Alexander, who was standing with Wilbeam alias
Brown and Kerp, beckoned him across the way with his
umbrella. Kerp instantly ran off, but Alexander called
out to stop him, and he was soon overtaken. Alexander
then gave charge of Brown and Kerp for forgery. On
the way to the station Alexander and Brown talked in
a foreign language, and Alexander withdrew the charge
as to him. The officer, nevertheless, requested him to
come on to the station, but ho slipped away at the top of
Coleman-street. Alexander's charge against Kerp was
so vague that the inspector could make nothing of it,
and he therefore sent the officer with Kerp and Alex-
ander to the bankers, to see if they could make out any
specific case. Here Alexander entered into further par-
ticulars. Kerp was given in charge, and Alexander
contrived to slip off. The officer said he apprehended
Brown on Wednesday afternoon at the Victoria Coffee-
house, x)eria
in Little Queen-street, Holborn.reminded
the prisoner of what had occurred
by
Ao ni e
x thean 6d Lehr of
andaped ese February
when he was given in charge
on the way to the station, and he told the prisoner he
must now comp with him. In walking along Holborn
the prisoner stated, voluntarily, that he was the person
who uttered the forged bill, which Alexander had given
to him. He received four 1001. notes and two 501. notes
at the banker's, and gave them to Alexander. He was
to have 254 for his trouble. He asked the prisoner if
he knew anything about Sir James Beckingham's book.
The prisoner said he did; he got it from Messrs. Smith,
Payne, and Co.'s.
The prisoner said the officer was mistaken as to what
ho said about 251. He did not think he told him that.
Mr. Alderman WOOD said it was not proposed by Mr.
Taylor to proceed any farther with the examination
then than to lay a ground for his detention. That had
been sufficiently done, and he would therefore remand
him.
The prisoner was remanded till Monday.
CLERKENWELL.

Edward Lee alias Edward Gilbard and Mary Lee
were finally examined, charged by Mr. W. Carr, brush-
maker, of Blue Anchor-alley, St. Luke's, with having
been coecerned in stealing a quantity of horse-hair, &c.
The female prisoner was in the habit of calling at the
shop of the prosecutor to make purchases of hair, &c.,
and being suspected of various robberies, a watch was
set upon her. On Friday evening last she paid a visit
to purchase some trifling article, when she was seen to
take a bundle of horse-hair. She was followed until she
joined the male prisoner, who asked her " What she had
got?" She replied, " Another bundle." Sergeant
Brennan took them into custody, when the man resisted
and made his escape. The woman was taken to the
station-house, and the man was subsequently appre-
hended.
The prisoners said nothing in their defence, and
they were fully committed for trial.
William Wilson, John-street, Wilmington-square, was
charged with having cruelly ill-treated a cat.
It appeared that the defendant felt aggrieved at the
cat having attempted to destroy his Canary birds,
whey he beat her most shockingly with a clothes-pole,
and it shortly afterwards died of the injuries inflicted.
Mrs. Wilson, the owner, gave information to the So-
ciety for the Suppression of Cruelty to Animals, and
the present proceedings were instituted.
Mr. GREENWOOD decided that a cat came within the
meaning of the Act of Parliament as a " domesticated
animal," and he convicted the defendant in the penalty
of 75., or five days' imprisonment.
LAMBETH.
David Aheron, an Irishman, upwards of sixty years of
age, was placed at the bar before Mr. Norton, for final
examination, on a charge of bigamy.
Mr. Roberts attended fur the prosecution, and Mr.
Games for the defence.
The first witness called was Timothy Aheron, the
brother of the prisoner, who deposed that in the year
1823 ho was present at the marriage of his brother with
a young female named Ann Fitzpatrick, at Kensington
Church. The prisoner, after that marriage, lived with
his wife, next door to him, for about two or three years,
when they separated, and after this the prisoner went to
live with Catherine Joyce, then present. -The prisoner

and Joyce lived together for some time before he (wit-
ness) became aware of their marriage, and when he was
told of it by Joyce, he said, " a pretty job you have
made of it with a married man." Joyce then replied,
" Married or single, the job is now done." At this time
the prisoner's first wife was alive, and he recollected
her dying some years afterwards, when he attended her
funeral.

In reply to the questions of Mr. Games, the witness said
that the woman Joyce was perfectly well aware that the
prisoner was a married man when she married him, as
several members of his family, as well as himself, bad
told her.

Mrs. Catherine Joyce, alias Regan, deposed that in the
year 1828 the prisoner visited her as a single man, and
made a proposal of marriage to her, which she accepted,
and they were married at the parish church of St. Mar-
tin's-in the Fields, on the 12th of October in the same
year. Soon after he commenced to ill-use her, and
scarcely allowed her the common necessaries of life, and
on one occasion he was committed from Bow-street for a
month, for ill-treating her. He had also deserted his
home two or three times before he finally left her. Be-
fore going away he had nearly starved her.
Cross-examined by Mr. Gemes—Had not been told
by the last witness or any of his family, that the pri-
soner was a married man, before she had gone to St.
Martin's Church with him. She was aware that he had
lived with a female, as he (the prisoner) had told her
so himself. He had also told her that the female was
married, and that her husband, who was a soldier, had
come and took her away from him. Her name at the
time of her marriage with the prisoner, was Regan, and
she was a widow ; but the prisoner, in putting up the
banns, had given her maiden name.
Other evidence having been adduced,
The prisoner was then fully committed to take his
trial on the charge of marrying Catherine Joyce alias
Regan, his former wifo Ann, being living at the time ;
and the evidence of the third wife, Mrs. Craddick, was
also taken, and she was bound over as a witness in the
case.

A GOOD YANKEE STORY.
The New Orleans Picayune relates the following:—
" There was fun as well as fighting there in the neigh-
bourhood of the Rio Grande last summer; and a Yankee
in that section, albeit a tolerably shrewd specimen of the
genus, got fire in the rear' which raked down and
demolished the best calculations ever made for a small
fortune, and, at the same time, raised a laugh which
filled the adjoining chapparal for a mile in every direction.
" Water was scarce, during the heat of the summer,
at Brazos Island, and the liquor not so plentiful, at times,
as the necessities of the sojourners required. It was at
one of these thirsty seasons that our Yankee, by some
hook or crook, got hold of a barrel of tolerably fair
cider, and with this small stock-in-trade he at once set
up' business. To make and scrape together a parcel of
boards and odd bits of canvas, enough to build a 03E41
shanty, was the work of but a short hour. To set his
barrel upon a couple of skids in the back part of the
tent, to tap it, and to commence retailing the cider, at a
dime a glass, occupied but a short time more.
Customers flocked in by dozens: the cider went off at
rapid rate; and the Yankee was making his eternal
fortin' at a stride that would have elated John Jacob
Astor in his early days. Some of his patrons corn.
plained that a dime a glass for cider, which was not
worth more than two dollars a barrel at the outside, was
an outrageous price; but the times were hard, the re"
tailer's conscience easy, he had all the cider in the mar-
ket, and could not afford to sell any cheaper.
" This state of things went on for an entire day, the
Yankee's quarters being beset by throngs of patrons.
On the following morning, and before the cider was yet
half sold, they began to thin off gradually, and by the
middle of the afternoon it was only now and then e
straggling stranger that visited the shade and cider 0e
the retailer. What was the matter? What had caused
this sudden falling off of custom? The reader will
soon see.
" Towards night a new face appeared in the shantio
and called for a glass of cider. It was drawn, swill;
lowed, and the customer took out his purse and inquire'
the price? One dime,' said the Yankee. One what,'
retorted the customer. One dime,' coolly replied the
Yankee. Why I can get just as good cider here at fire,
cents a glass,' snarled the customer. N-o y-o-u c-a-n•tt,
drawled the Yankee; there stint a pint of cider, 'eeP
what I've got in that 'ere barril, this side of Orleans'
I'm darn'd if there is.' I know better,' ejaculated the
customer tartly, I bought a glass of cider, not two hours
ago, and only paid five cents for it." I'd like to knoll
where you effected that small transaction,' queried the
Yankee. Right round here,' was the answer. I Woe°
it was right round here.' Right round where, I'd Jilt°
to know?' continued the cider vender. Why, close by
here, somewhere; just back of your place,' returned the
customer. 'l'll beat you to drinks you didn't,' spoke Or,
the Yankee, and we'll go right round and see.' Donei
said the customer; and off they started.
" Sure enough, right round here' they found another,
cider establishment in full blast. A second Yankee had
rigged a small shade in the rear of the first Yankee 'l
shanty, had tapped the other end of the latter's barre
of cider through a board, and was retailing it at fie
cents a glass to a perfect rush of customers.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 1.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—There has scarcely been anything doing 11141
•
Share Market to-day ; tl,c stocks offered consisted of London
Manchester and Leeds, Caledonian, Fleetwood, Preston, and Si
Riding, and Buckingham, and the market closed flat, very fewsteeo,
having changed hands. The sales arc —Ambergate, Notting:l,lw
Boston, and Eastern Junction, % dis. ex int.—Birkenhead,
shire, and Cheshire, par—Birmingham and Oxford, 8% p.---15'd-00
inghamshire, % p.—Edinhurgh and Glasgow, Halves, 9% p.-I"°., ---
and North-Western, 176—Ditto, 401. hares (L. and M.), 27 .
Ditto, Quarters, New, 10% p.—London, Manchester, and 8irM19,.„.
ham, Quarters (A), 6% p.—Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 5 F;nd
Manchester and Southampton, % dis. —Manchester, Shetlleld• 00.
Lincoln, Quarters, 1% dis.—Midland Stock, 116—Ditto, Nevv• .„er.
9d. p.—Ditto (Birmingham and Derby), 91—Newcastle and .+:4),
wick, New, 3% p.—North Union (A), 150—Preston and Wyre,
—Shrewsbury and Hereford, 18s. 90. ills. —Shrewsbury and, vdis.
mlngliam (B), par—Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, 1%
—South-Eastern and Dover, 361,, ex. div.—Ditto, No. 4, Thirds,
9d. p.—Wharfdale, dig.
MANCHESTER, Aram 1.

STOCK EXCRANGE.-The sales are-Arnbergatc, Nottinghatm
Boston, %-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction,
-Blackburn, Clitheroe. and North-Western, Preterentials, 9'16 h
East Lancashire (late B. and P.), New Serip, 1 3-16- Edinl)3l",,g
and Glasgow, Quarters, 1716-Fleetwood, Preston, and West Bid"...
Junction, 3-16 c.-Great Northern, lA-Huddersfield and Mancli,e:„.4
ter Railway and Canal, Thirds, N. c.-Leeds and Thirsk,
Ditto, Preferentials, 1% c.-Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 47,,),
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Sheffield and Lincolash.r`a,
1 13-16-Manchester and Southampton, 13s. 9d.-North Stair°.„r
shire, 3-Shropshire Union, 1 -South Yorkshire, Doncaster, "-
Goole, 1-16 p.-Wharfdale (late North-Eastern), %.
LEEDS, APRIL 1.
STOCK EKCIIANGE.-The sales are-Eastern Counties, York ,s')
tension, 10s. dis.-East Lancashire, New, 20s. p.-Ditto, New (scr.'l;
245.6 d. p.-Great Northern 4s. dis.-Leeds and Thlrsk, New, 155%,^
:
dis.-Ditto, Preference, 27i. p.-London, Brighton, and South Com
Fifteenths, 3s. Gd. p.-Manchester and Leeds, 321. Shares (late PI;
tension), 21. 12s. p.-Ditto, West Riding Union, 31s. Gd. p.-50%.
British, Extension (scrip), 13s. p.-Northern Counties Union, 1 44,
-North-Western, 2s. 6d. dis.-Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, '
60. dis.-Wharfdale Junction, 3s. Gd. dis.
GLASGOW, Menai 31. 104
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 27%-Calecloll,e,
and Dumbartonshire, 425.-Direct Northern (scrip), 502.-IMP",
and Northern Junction, 455. 6d.-Dundee and Perth, New, IA 4
East Indian, Bs.-East Lothian Central, 60s. 6d.-Edinburgh
Glasgow, 71%-Eclinburgh Leith, and Granton, Quarters, 15s. G
-Edinburgh and Northern, 16R-Ditto, New, 82s. 6d.-Edlnboli,
and Perth (New Co.), 590.-Glasgow General Terminus, 13-6,10,
row, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 37%-Ditto, Halves, No. 2, 81. - G.
gew, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 51. 175.-Great North of Scotian
555.-Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 405.-Manchester and Southall);
ton, 295. 90.-North British, Thirds, 715.-Scottish Grand Jtuictio
22s.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 82s. Gd.

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BIRTHS.
On the 28th ult., at Dorking, Surrey, the wife of Riclol
Clapton, Esq., of a daughter. r,
On the 29th ult., at Lee, the wife of Dr. Robertson, D.
of a daughter. Gra
On the 30th ult., at Liverpool, the lady of Captain
Staff Officer, of a son.
On the 30th ult., at Lorn-road, North Brixton, MO* a,
Stephens, of a son. • of
On the 30th ult., at Queen's-road, Dalston, the wife
J. D. Jones, Esq., surgeon, of a daughter. pelf
On the 31st ult., at North Brixton, Mrs. A. H. Cooper,
of On
son.Kif6
the 31st ult., in Stanhope-place, llyde-park, the
of David Burton, jun., Esq., of a daughter

.11AKEIED. r 4
On the 30th ult., at St. M ary's Cheltenham Ilungerff
Boddam, son of the late R. H. Boddam,' Esq., Bengal ,°
•1;10
Service, to Grace Savage, youngest daughter of the late 4
Haliday Martin, Esq.
On Wednesday, the 31stDIED.
ult., aged 51, after a short br''ti:
severe illness, much respected by all who knew her, S 3
the wife of Air. George Prickett, of Highgate, surveyor. 04
On the 31st ult., in Grosvenor-street, the Lord SAY°
$
Sele, aged 49. A Vicar
On the 24th ult., the Rev. William Atkinson,
of Canewdon, aged 81. reC
On the 29th ult. at Hoo Rivenhall, Essex, 2.'B'l' 4
Louisa, the wife of Edmund East, Esq., aged 59. liter
of die:
On the 29th ult., at Bath, Jane Arabella, daug
late Rev. Gilbert Jackson, D.D. rthatle°
On the 30th alt., at the Grange-road, Bermondsey', Ch
Edmonds, Esq., aged 60.
On the 31st ult.ohn Saer P, E
On the 31st ult., ,J John Pl yowman,oulter Esq.,s late of York-r°l'l'
Kennington, aged 62.

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