The Sun.
London, England, 1833-06-29 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-1l 0 USE.

FORGERY.—Thursday an elderly woman, whose ap-
pearance was extremely fantastical, was put to the bar
upon a charge of forgery. When the LORD MAYOR ask. d
her what her name was, she curtsied several times, ard
said that she was the Hon. Miss Ponsonby, and that she
lived in Wales, at a place where a bill went up to the
house. It was evident from her conduct that her object
was to be taken for a mad woman. The Lord Mayor
told her that she might as well answer rationally, but she
kept up the farce all through the examination.
John Williams, draper, of No. 124, Fenchurch-street,
deposed that the prisoner walked into his shop and looked
at some gingham. After a little while she asked for a
pen and ink, and upon receiving them she wrote some-
thing on a piece of paper at one part of the counter, after
which she moved over to another part. Witness showed
her some more goods, but she begged to be excused at that
moment, and asked where Hankey's bank was. When
witness gave her the direction, she said she must go there,
but suddenly proposed that he should go for her. Wit-
ness told her that his lad should do what she required,
and she immediately handed to him a bill drawn upon
Hankey and Co., and signed "Fellows and C 0.," for the
sum of 92/. 55., and payable fourteen days after date.
The lad went over to vie bpk-house to get the cash,
and the prisoner soon began to show great uneasiness.
Witness spread more goods before her eyes, but she was
too fidgetty to take notice of them, asked whether he
would be back instantly, and went to the door in evident
expectation. The lad was detained some time, during
which her anxiety increased. At last the boy came back,
accompanied by a person from the banking-house, but she
was on a sudden missing.
Prisoner—Yes, we all went galloping, galloping, and
all their arms went lolloping lolloping.
The LORD MAYOR—Did she go on with any of these
antics in your shop ?
Witness—Not at all until elle was taken into custody,
and charged with the offence. 81,e was very anxious to
know whether the lad was trustworthy, and asked several
times whether I could depend upon him. After being
absent a short time she returned to the shop, and asked
whether the lad had returned. 1 said he had, and asked
her in to receive her money, but she was disinclined to
enter. Witness added, that he sent for an officer, who
apprehended her at the corner of Gracechurch-street, at
tempting to escape.
The LORD MAYOR asked her whether she was disposed
to get out of her tantrums, and tell him where she got the
bill, and who had employed her to present it? Prisoner
—Oh, dear! yes, to be sure, we all galloped up the hill,
anti down the hill, and over the hill.—(Laughter. )
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, you shall go to the Compter,
and perhaps to-morrow you will give a better account of
yourself.

The prisoner—Oh, dear ! thank you, thank you.
The bill was then exhibited. Upon the back of it were
several names. The signature, " Fellows and C 0.,"
was written in a bold hand, but was palpably a forgery.
The shopkeeper's boy, when he went to the banking-
house, was asked :rom whom he had rece ved the bill, and
he said from a lady who was an old customer at his mas-
ter's shop. That was a mistake of his. The bill was
refused.

A police officer,who apprehended the prisoner, stated,that
when she saw he was going to search her she thrust her hand
through her pocket holes, and he, upon forcing open her
clenched fist, found two 201. and four 5/. Bank of Eng-
land notes, besides a sovereign and some silver, in her
hand.

She was then remanded, persisting as she was leaving
the room, in the declaration that she was the lion. Miss
Ponsonby. It was observed by every body in the Jt.stice-
room, that she cocked her ears very sharply when the
officer was mentioning the particulars of the sum which
he took out of her hand, although during the former part
of the investigation she started quite wide on the subject.
She was yesterday brought up for a second examina-
tion.

A respectable solicitor, who is also a partner in a
banking house at Woolwich, stated that he knew the
female and her husband, who was a very unexceptionable
character, and that the case was in a train of investiga-
tion, which would probably prove that no forgery was
committed.

The LORD MAYOR then postponed the further consi-
deration of the charge.

MARLB OR 0 UGH-STREET.

James Smith was brought before Mr. DYER, charged
with ste ding two valuable pointers, the property of Lord
Jielbou from his country seat, Herts.
The prisoner was remanded.
HAT T GARDEN.

CHARGE OF BIGAMY.— William Lane, a man about
40 years of age, was finally examined before Mr. Sergeant
SELLON, charged with having inttrmairied with Maria
North, alias Finmore, his first wife being still living.
The Pro secutrix became acquainted with the prisoner
in May last, when be came to work at her master's house
as a painter. He proposed marriage, and they were
united in the same month at St. George's Church,
Hanover-square. She shortly afterwards discovered that
his first wife was living in Camden-terrace, Islington, who
had three children by him, and that he was in the habit
of ill-using her.
Sarah Hudeburgh was present at the first marriage in
1817, as a witness. Mrs. Mary Wish was a witness pre-
sent at the second marriage.
Mr. J. G. Leigh, deputy parish clerk of St. George's
church, Hanover-square, was present at the second mar-
riage. The bans were called and duly published, and
he produced an attested copy of the entry in the bans'
book.—The prisoner was fully committed for trial.