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

GUILDHALL.

Alfred Wilbeam, 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 com-
mitting a forgery upon them. Alexander gave such a
minute description of the bill, that the clerks readily
traced it. Karp 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 Karp changed the 100/. 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 half-
crown at a house to which he was admitted in the cha-
racter of a teacher of languages. He was recognised as
the mysteri,ais 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 Karp, 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
ras to him. The officer, nevertheless, requested him to
come on to the station, but he 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
13rown on Wednesday afternoon at the Victoria Coffee-
house, in Little Queen-street, Holborn. He reminded
the prisoner of what had occurred on the 6th of February,
when he was given in charge by Alexander, and escaped
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on the way to the station, and he told the prisoner he
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to him. He received four 1001. notes and two 501. notes
at the banker's, and gave them to Alexander. He was
to have 251. for his trouble. Ho 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
he said about 251. He did not think he told him that.
Mr. Alderman Wool) said it was not proposed by Mr.
Taylor to proceed any further with the examination
then than to lay a ground for his detention. That had
been sufficiently done, and he would therefore remand
him

Tho prisoner was remanded till Monday.
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maker, of Blue Anchor• alley, St. Luke's, with having
been concerned 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,
who' ho 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 fivo 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 for 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 he 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 primer