The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-03 00:00:00

SWINDLING AT WINDSOR.

WINDSOR, MONDAY EVENING.—The cheque paid into
the Windsor Bank by the swindler assuming the name
of .‘ J. H. Wyndham," was drawn upon the Gloucester-
shire Banking Company, at Gloucester. and was for 1501.
It appears, from information received by Messrs. Neville
Reid and Co., the Windsor bankers, from the Glouces-
tershire Banking Company, that " Mr. Wyndham" has
passed similar cheques at Oxford, Dover, and other
towns in the provinces, where he has been equally suc-
cessful as in
,this neighbotirhOod In" fleecing tradesmen
and innkeepers of their goods and chattels to a con-
siderable amount. He -has also played off tricks of a
like nature upon several tradesmen in London, ob
taining goods and other property by means of cheques
upon banking establishments where he was totally
unknown. A description of him has since appeared
in the Lyndon Police Gazette, but it is expected, from
the various diTtusea he assumes, that there will be some
difficulty in a stranger, from such published description,
being enabled to recognise him. Dining the time
he was at the Royal Hotel, at Slough, he invariably
.wore spectacles, and his dark whiskers were combed
towards the back of his head. When he paid a visit to
Mr. Yarrow, at Eton, to order " a wedding suit," and to
Mr. Hanson, at Windsor, to order a watch and other
articles of jewellery, he had doffed his glasses, and his
whiskers were combed the reverse way.
It would appear that if the Windsor Bank had adopt( d
the necessary and usual precautions, neither Mr. (tan
son nor Mr. Yarrow, at Eton, would have been " done"
out of their property. Mr. Yarrow, as has been stated,
called at the hank some hours b.fore he sent the fellow
his "wedding suit" to the Royal Hotel, at Slough,
where he was informed the cheque was "all right."
The cheque given to Mr. Hanson (just after the bank
11.4 d closed for the day, the transaction not having taken
place until between three and four o'clock in the alter-
non), was sent down to the bankers immediately after-
wards, .+ hen the message returned with it was (as in the
case of Mr. Yarrow) that it was " all right." Had it
been otherwise. the property could have been easily re-
covered, as " Mr. Wyndham" did not leave Slough for
London until upwards of five hours afterwards. As it
is, however (fortunately for Mr. Hanson and Mr. Yar-
row), the %11, indsor bankers, under the circumstances,
are considered to be liable to pay the amount of the
cheques respectively held by them.

POISONING IN NORFOLK.
THE CORONER'S INQUIRY RESUMED.
VAPPISBURGET, MORNING.—In consequence
of the disclosures that have been made in the course of
the private inquiry instituted by the Secretary of State,
J. Pilgrim, Esq., one of the coroners for Nortnik,
opened another investigation this day at East Ruston.
a village three miles distant, on the bodies of other
persons related to the deceased Jonathan Bulls, who are
supposed to have died from the effects of poison adnai-
nestered by him.
The empannelling of another jury to inquire into this
appalling affair is understood to be the result of
very imp
• rtant communications from the Government
officers to the coroner, the result of their in-
quiries having led to considerable suspicion as
to other deaths in the family of Jonathan
Bills. By the list hang(' to the coroner, by the
“fficers, of the suspected victims, we find, in addi•ion to
the per-ons whose deaths were inquired into at the
former inquest, that of Anna Peges, a grandchild, who
died on the 7th of June, 1839, in her eighth year, and
was buried at Ingham Chappl,. in
,the neighbourhood.
From some unexplained circumstances it was exhumed
about three weeks after it had been interred, and Mr.
Pilgrim held an inquest upon the body ; but the sur-
geon considering that it had died from fever, a verdict of
natural death was returned. The next on the list is
Maria Green, daughter of Mrs. Green (another daughter
of Jonathan Balls). It was fifteen months old, died on
the 25th of December, 1836 ; William Green, also a
grandchild, aged two years, died on the 31st of October,
1841 ; lastly, Martha Green, of the same family. She
died when fifteen months old, after visiting old Balls'
house, and was buried with the others in East Ruston
church -yard.

At nine o'clock thelift4e, cdmplised of the principal
gentry in the neighbourhood, met Mr. Pilgrim, the
county coroner, at the public inn, East Ruston, and after
the usual formalities were sworn, the bodies of the
three children named Green, which had that morning
been cisinterred, being viewed by them, were handed
over to the medical gentlemen for examination, but
o aing to the early hour the report was forced to be dia.-
patehud the result cannot be stated.
It was the determiNation of the coroner, at the con-
clusion of the evidence in these cases to proceed to
Ingham, and there enter into another inquiry on Mrs.
Pegg's children, which are directed to be exhumed, and
to undergo a post mortem examination.
In reference to the death of the deceased Jonathan
Balls' parents, who are suspected of having been poi-
soned, from the circumstance of its being recollected
that they were attacked in a similareo
way as the children.
little beyond that has been ascertained.
and it seems the informa-
i nod. They have been
di-ad about twenty-two 3:1
tion received by the own' 4 of such a description as
much
reliance upon it.
to prevent their placi•ig
to occupy several days.
The inquest wus ..xpeeted

Ain an ua. nnsu manner is reported
in there fire criginatiogtirlinfi -Ting?4o
occurred on §attialay last, in the
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house qf bus ell, teacher, Dollar Academy. One of his
cbildren had Changed her dress in a small attic, and left her
frock lying_ on a truckle beds over which wa 4lislight
window. rflif: sun's rays were cc.ncentrated by a yoke in
tile glass. and the garment lying in the It cus was ignited,
and Iturn,d in a smouldering insulter in about half an hour.
When it was discovered, the frock was entirely consume.,
and the fire had gradually descended through the covering;
blankets, and mattress, reducing to ashes a space aboiii• clyo
feet diameter.