The Sun.
London, England, 1833-03-26 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.
MOST EXTENsIVE SYSTEMS OF FORGERY.—Yesterday
the public crowded into the Justice.room, to hear the
examination of a young man, of very fashionable appear-
ance, named John Byers, for forgery. Mr. Bush, the
solicitor to the Committee of 134nkers appeared for d)
prosecution, and Mr. Flower, of the firm of Harmer and

Co.. for the prisoner.
Mr. Bush stated that the prisoner had said that he was
a wine-merchant at B,mlogne.
Mr. James chill, clerk to Messrs. Seares and Heath,
of No. 233, Strand, deposed that on Mimday, the 4th of
March, the prisoner called at their shop, and orderei a
draft plate for the Doncaster Bank, according to the fol.

lowing order, which the prisoner wrote :
" Doncaster Bank.
.. At after pay to as advised which place to
account of Leatham, Tew, and Co.
Messrs. Joseph Denison and Co., Fenchurch-street."
The plate was to be ready on the Wednesday evening,
but was not ready until Thursday or Friday. The proof
was to be sent to the Bull and Mouth Inn to the prisoner,
who said his name was Lyons. When the plate was pre-
pared witness sent it, and 25 impressions of the bill, to the
inn. Tice prisoner had called on the previous day, and
seemed very impatient for the plate. fie stated that he
should want some thousands of copies, and he screwed

down the price of the engraving to two guineas.
J. Stone, porter to the engravers, saw the prisoner
write what he considered to he an order, in the shop.
Witness afterwards brought to the prisoner at the Bull
and Mouth lon a plate and i 5 impressions, which he re-
ceived from Mr. Child. The prisoner told him that he
should want a thousand impressions to be struck off by
Saturday, and desired him to get change of a 101. note.
Witness procured the change, and the prisoner banded
him a check, saying it was all the same. The check was

as follows :
" Messrs. Mares, Fleet-street.
" Pay L. Bryan, Esq., or bearer, ten pounds.
" March 5, te433. " IL B. LYGON. Col."
Witness, thinking that all was right, took the check and
gave the change. On the following morning he presented
the check at the banking•heuse, and was told that it was
a forgery.
Mr. John Palmer, cashier at Messrs. Hoare and Co.'s,
deposed that the house had no account with the person
who signed the check, but two Colonels Lygon kept cash
there. The writing on the check was not like that of

either of those gentlemen.
Mr. Thomas Curtis, clerk to Messrs. Denison and Co.,
deposed that there was such a firm in Doncaster as that of
Leathern, Tew, and Co. Witness had seen many of the
drafts of the house, and that produced did not resemble
them.
Here a letter was produced from the bankers at Doncas-
ter, stating that they looked upon the impression of the
plate to be the act of some swindler, whose object was to
defraud the engraver, a scheme in which he had succeeded.
The LORD MAYOR—I think that the object was one of
twofold fraud—to defraud the engraver, and any one who
might be induced to negotiate a forgery filled into the
blanks in the impressions. It was not meant that the
forgeries should be uttered in Doncaster.
Jeremiah Schooppe Phillips, of No. 144, Old Bond-
stree't, seal-engraver, deposed that the prisoner called at
his lodise about three weeks ago, and ordered a bill of ex.
change plate, which was to be delivered on the Tuesday
following, at the Three Cups, in Aldersgate-street. The
prisoner stated to him, that it it gave satisfaction, an order
should be given for a thousand impressions. A day or two
afterwards he called, saw the plate, and asked witness for
change of a 101. note, out of which the amount should he
paid. Witness had not change, and prisoner told him
to bring a hundred proofs in the evening, to the Bull
and Mouth Inn, which he (prisoner) had mistaken for
the Three Cups Inn, and the amount of the demand
should be paid. Witness called accordingly, and saw
the prisoner, who took the proofs out of the coffee-room,
and on returning said that he (witness) should get his
money directly. The waiter, however, entered soon
after, and said it was after banking hours, and be could
not get change. Prisoner then told witness to call next
day and the money should be ready for him. Witness
called accordingly, but the prisoner was gone, and had
left nothing for him. 'The engraving was for the
" Nantwich Bank," and the prisoner called himself " Mr.
Lyons."
William Evans, waiter at the Bull and Mouth Inn,
deposed that the prisoner stopped at the inn about a week,
and went by the name of Lyons. Remembered that the
last witness• called upon him. Prisoner paid his account
at the inn ; but left nothing for Mr. Phillips. Prisoner
came to town by the Dover coach.
Joseph Horner, a porter at the Bull and Mouth, be-
lieved the prisoner left the inn on the Friday, by the Dover
mail.
A negotiated bill of exchange, of which the following is
a copy, was then put in :
" NANTWICH.
" 61S. £52 10s. 6d. At 21 days after date pay to the order
of Mr. Richard Clayton, Fifty-two pounds ten shillings and six-
pence, for value received. " For Mare and Eyton,
" To Messrs. Stevenson and Co., " F. W. EITON."
Lombard-street.
Mr. Bruyeres, a trustee of the Dover banking firm of
Monnett and Ca., heard the prisoner was at Dover in
disguise, wearing spectacles, and hiding his whiskers ;
and that he (prisoner) intended to go over to France on
the following day. Witness having had intimation that
the prisoner had got the above bill of exchange, which
was a forgery, negotiated, pursued and had him appre.
henthal ; but nobody could at that time identity him, and
witness, who was a Magistrate, was obliged to discharge
him.
Mr. Flower said that his client was, according to the
statement just made, not the guilty individual, and objected
to the course of making assertions upon mere hearsay.
The LORD Ma von—l shall bear everything upon the
subject. It is most import'nt, for the security of the
public from plunder of this kinh, that it should be known
that there are forgeries in circulation at this moment upon
db. " D incaster " and " Nantwich " banks—bills pur-
porting to be drawn by tke bankers themselves.
Mr. B' uyeres had caused to be detained at Dover the
lugeage of the prisoner, who had gone there by the name
of Bennett.
John Forrester, the officer, deposed that he and Roe,
the officer, acted upon this occasion, in consequence of
instructions which they had received from Mr. Bush. He
found that a package had been left at the Sprea a Eagle
Inn, for a Mr. Bennett, whom he suspected to he Mr.
Lyons. A person named Hordes called for the parcel,
and witness asked him where he was taking it to ?
Bowles replied that he was taking it to No. 8,
Prospect place, Newington. Witness accompanied hits
to Prospect-place, but there was no such number
there. Rowley then gave him a letter, addressed ta
Mrs. By eta, No. 3, Earle's-court, Brompton. Witness
went to Earle's-court, and upon going up stairs found the
prisoner sitting in a room, and addressed him by the name
of Byers. The prisoner answered to the name. Witness
said, " I beg your pardon, but you must go with us. You
sent your servant to the Spread Eagle for a parcel ?"
" No," said the prisoner. " Yes," said witness, "
your servant told me so." The prisoner then admitted
that he had assumed the name of Bennett, on account 01
pecuniary embarrassments.
The prisoner—My Lord, I have been taken by sur
prix-. I hope you will give me time .
The LORD iIIAYOR—Oh ! most certainly—l never
commit any one in a hurry, and you shall be remanded

for a week.
The prisoner was accordingly sent back to prison.
The Loan MAYOR observed, in the course of the in
vestigation, that forgeries were most frightfully incre
and that Mr. Frestiftehl had the other day stated that i
the law substituting transportation for the extreme punish•
ment were not in existencc, Coster would never hay,
attempted anything of the kind.
BOW-STREET.

On Saturday a tradesman, carrying on husineta in tl.e
Edgeware-road, underwent an examination upon a charge