The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-10 00:00:00

EXTENSIVE FORGERY.

MANCHESTER. TUESDAY.—This, moro tug a respectably
attired young German was brought up at the Borough
Court, charged with committing forgery, uuder the fol-
lowing circumstances:---- The prisoner, who is a native of
Germany, and cannot speak a word of the English lan-
guage, gave his name as Adolphus Schwz. Ile appeared
to have been respectably connected. It appeared
from the evidence, and also from his own admissions,

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that, some time ago, he and those with whom he was
connected, paid into the banking- house of Messrs. J. H.
Stemetz and Co., at Vienna, 20,000 florins, or 2,0001,, and
obtained for the amount a letter of credit on several
highly-respectable houses in this country. The letter of
credit set forth that any of the houses named might pay
the whole amount, or such part of it as they thought
proper, tha balance of the 2,0001 to be paid by the
others, individually or collectively. The prisoner, whilst
in the bank at Vienna, managed to abstract two similar
letters, or blank forms, by which he was enabled to
commit the forgery.
On the face of the original or genuine letter of credit,
amongst other names, appeared those of Messrs. blirck,
of Cross-street, Manchester, and Mr. Suse Sibtb, of
London. On the 20th of May the prisoner went to
the office of Messrs. Mirck, and drew upon the letter
of credit 1,8001. in gold ; and it appears that he had
also drawn upon the London house for 1,9001. One
of those letters must have been forged. On Sunday
morning last Messrs. Mirck received some infor-
mation which led them to believe that all was not right,
and they immediately gave information to the police,
together with a description of the prisoner. Mr. Bet-
wick, with his usual activity, at once dispatched two of
his must trustworthy men to Liverpool, and by the aid
' of some of the Liverpool police, had him apprehended,
' on board the Cambria steamer, bound for Boston. The
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prisoner was assisted by an interpreter, through whom
he ccnfessed many of the offences brought to his charge.
~ The prisoner was remanded until Thursday.

fire broke out in the premises of DlTharson and Brown,
FIRE IN LEITH.—Yesterday (Sunday) morning a
confectioners, 53, Tolbooth-wynd, about half-past five
o'clock. Two engines were speedily on the spot, but no
water in the pipes, until the Leith water officer journied to
the Castle-hill, and ordered it to be put on. By this time
the fire had obtained a considerable ascendancy, but Wll6l
ultimately subdued about eight o'clock. The tenement con-
sists of five floors; the underground flat is the workshop of
1 threeete l
arelchoeisnep
the firm, and is fitted up with ovens, flues, &c. ; the street
flat is the retail shop of the establishment, and the first flat
communicate
uis n
itchaet wholesaleeby inside
sirs department.,and dfleoostmrsyeall
Both the stock and buildlng are said tobe Insured ' . Cal e-
donian Mercury.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT EDGE lIILL.—On Tuesday,
about two o'cluck, as fire, men were descending the shaft
of the new railway tunnel, at King-street, Edge-hill,
the rope slipped from the drum, and the whole -of the
five went to the bottom, a depth of thirty-two yards. Ia
a very short time after one man was found quite dead_
The other four were conveyed to the Infirmary ; two
have since died, and a third is not expected to recover.
The accident is attributed entirely to the recent heavy-
rains. We may add, that Mr. Park, surgeon, Edge-hill,.
was speedily on the spot, and rendered all the assistance
in his power. Ti. uAtne of the man who was killed wale,
Haves ; the two who died fit the Infirmary were named,
Metcalf and Sin:mom—Liverpool Courier.
THE PEST OF ;Ulm—The damage done by mice
in the corn stacks this year is immense, amounting
:,;Imp(,)dsticii:. to
a plague. A. neighbour of mine hit upon ant
1.:3t autLiaca (; Lestio,vl:,z4- t, I:Jeat, number.,
which was thii : --•• .'ifter %Own.. so A i ,g, he found
great quantity were in the fields, and carrying the seed
corn into their holes. In the autumn he employed at
wan wit`' a water cart and watering pot to go over his
fieldie and pour water tete every hie he could find, and
in a few rla2 she kllleil about twenty dozen. The quan-
tii) theee-would have bred is nicalculabie ; the result
was his stacks were but little injured compared with ad.
joining farms."—Agricultural Gazette.
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