The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-13 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, May 12.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice ERLE.)
The cases tried in this Court to-day possessed no feature o,
public interest.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, May 12.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Westminster, before the Loan
CHIEF BARON and Special Juries.)
TRH ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. AVERY, SENIOR..
This was an information filed by the Attorney-General, at
the instance of the Board of Customs, against the defendant,
charging him with having received a quantity of sugar out
of bond without payment of duty.
The Attorney-General, the Solicitor. General, Mr. Watson.
and Mr. Wild; were counsel for the Crown; Mr. Martin
and another learned gentleman for the defendant.
The transaction which formed the subject of this informa-
tion arose out of the importation of sugar from Madras by
the Lady Flora, described already in the case of the "At-
torney-General v. Howe," a large quantity of which it was
alleged that the defendant, who is in business in Mincing-
lane as a sugar-broker, had purchased duty off, and sold
duty on, to a person by whom it was passed into home con-
sumption through a grocer at Banbury. The defence was,
that the duty had been paid, and that the discrepancies
charged on the part of the Crown were to be accounted for
by an examination of a number of books put in on his part.
The ArrovrEr-GENERAL replied, submitting to the jury
that the case set up by the defendant was a flimsy and
clumsy answer to the charges in the information.
The Learned CHIEF BAJION having summed up,
The jury returned a verdict for the Crown for 651. 12s.—
single value.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, May 12.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius.)
The Court was occupied the whole day in hearing a case
of no public importance.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT,
(Before Baron ALDEISON.)
FORGEAY.—On the application of Mr. Ballantine, the case
of Edmund Garbett, who was indicted for forgery, was post-
poned till next Saturday.
FORGERY.—Nicholas Aerp, a tailor, Alfred Williams, alias
Brown, a painter, and Joseph Alexander, a labourer, who were
remanded from last session, were indicted for forgery.
Mr. CLARttsox conducted the case for the prosecution, and
the prisoners were defended by Messrs. Ballantine and Parry.
The facts appear from the following evidence:—
Mr. Harley, of St. Thomas's-square, Hackney, deposed
that he kept an account at Messrs. Fuller's, the bankers,
and that he had not authorised the drawing of a bill on that
bank for the sum of 500/.
Mr. Baker, clerk in the bank of Messrs. Fuller, deposed
that on the 29th of December last the Bill now handed to
him was presented at that bank for payment. He paid that
bill in four 100!. and two 501. notes. He knew the numbers
of these notes. The forged bill was presented for payment
between ten and eleven o'clock. Soon after he had paid this
bill, Mr. Hickman, from the Bank of England, called on him,
and in reply to a question from him, he (witness) said that
" all was right."
Mr. Bawtrey, clerk of the Bank of England, here produced
the notes in question.
Mr. Baker re-examined—All these notes had the private
mark of the Bank of England, L.C. Did not know why
the Bank of England should have sent to the bank of Messrs.
Fuller.
Cross-examined—Had no recollection of the rerson who
presented the bill.
Joseph Green, clerk in the Bank of England, recollected
the 4001. notes being brought to the issue department before
twelve o'clock on the 29th of December last, thought he re-
ceived them from Kerp, but was not sure. The reason he
sent to the bank of Messrs. Fuller was, that the person who
asked for all gold had told him that that he got it from
that bank. About five minutes afterwards he changed the
two JO!. notes, but that was too small an amount for him to
lake notice of the party who presented the notes.
Mr. Hickman, clerk in the Bank of England, deposed that
his attention was called to what had been deposed to by
the last witness. Kerp was the party who presented the
notes. After seeing Mr. Baker he ordered the money to
be paid.
Cross-examined by Mr. BALLANTINE—Did not remember
to have ever seen kerp before. Thought that the person
who presented these notes had no mustachios. Would swear
positively that Kerp was the party. Kerp was in the Bank
of England for about an hour. Did not recollect the dress
which he then wore.
Mr. Moses Samuel, a clothier, deposed to Brown and Karp
having come to his shop, and that the latter purchased the
former, who was wretchedly dressed, a suit of clothes.
After two o'clock on the same day Brown came to his shop,
and pulled out a double purse, full of sovereigns, and said,
' I have got it,' and that the young man who was with him
had given him the money. The next day Kerp and Brown
called to his shop. Kerp said to Brown, " Why did you run
away?" Brown answered, " Because I heard the bankers
asking you questions."
Cross-examined by Mr. PARRY, for Brown—Had never
seen Brown or Kerp before. His wife was in the shop upon
each occasion when the prisoners called.
W. IL Edwards, police-constable 139 L, saw the three pri-
soners standing together in Angel-court some time ago,
Alexander beckoned
,to him (the policeman) and told him
that he had a charge of forgery against the other two pri-
soners. He afterwards said that he had no charge against
Brown, but that Kerp " was the villian." He afterwards
missed Brown, but took Kerp and Alexander to the station-
house, when the officer refused to take the charge; but he
went afterwards, attended by the two prisoners, to Messrs.
Fuller's bank, and one of the gentlemen there gave the pri-
soners into charge, on the statement which he (the police-
man) male. In December last he saw the prisoner Brown
in a coffee-shop, in Holborn, and took him into custody, and
Brown admitted that he had changed four notes for 100/.
and two for 501. for Alexander, for which he got 25/. from
him.

The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.—Sentence deferred.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BO Ear-STREET.
John James Parker, alias Oledhurst, who has been several
times remanded on a charge of stealing a prismatic compass,
the property of Mr. Curtis, C.E., and whose case was fully
stated in The Sun on the occasion of the first examination,
was at length finally examined, and committed for trial.

REPRESENTATION or THE UNIVERSITY OF (h"
FORD.—There will be a contest for the representation of this
University at the approaching general election, Mr. Estcourt
having intimated his intention of retiring from Parliament
The names of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone and Sir W.
Heathcote are severally spoken of as being the most likely to
occupy the vacant :.-eat. We may add, that the character
and abilities of those gentlemen are such as to qualify either
of them for this distinguished position.