The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-14 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

FORGERY, IN THE NAME OF LORD STRADBROKE, UPON
MESSRS. Ditummoisin, THE BANKERS.—Last evening a
woman of highly respectable appearance, who gave her
name Catherine Hillier, was brought up in the custody of
Daniel Forrester, the active city officer, on a charge of
having forged and uttered a check for 463/. 148. upon the
banking-house of Messrs. Drummbuds, at Charing-cross, in
the name of Lord Stradbroke. Mr. Bush, solicitor to the
society of bankers, attended for the prosecution. The pri-
soner was unattended by any legal adviser.
Mr. Thomas Oliver, in the house of Messrs. Drummond
and Co., on the 9th inst. received at the banking-house of
that firm a letter, dated Augusta-place, Weymouth, and
signed " Stradbroke," containing an order for the payment
of 4631. 145., and requesting that that sum might be trans-
mitted to the banking-house' of Messrs. Williams and Co.
in that town by the General Post, or by any other conve-
nient mode, for the use of Mrs. Catherine Hillier. It be-
ing quite clear to the firm that the signature " Stradbroke"
was a forgery, a communication was at once made to Mr.
Rush, who sent for Forrester, and by his advice, a letter,
enclosing the sum mentioned in the cheek, was put into the
General Post Office, and transmitted to Weymouth. Wit-
ness believes the signature " Stradbroke" at the bottom of
the check produced to be a forgery.
Mr. William Rush, a clerk at Messrs. Drummond and
Co., also proved the remitting of the money for the cheek,
addressed as requested.
Daniel Forrester, the officer, on the same morning that
the letter containing the check arrived, after advising that
the money should be sent down, started to Weymouth, and
arrived there long before the letter could by possibility have
reached its destination. He was in the banking-house of
Williams and Co., early in the morning, and saw the pri-
soner come in about eleven o'clock, and heard her ask if they
had received any advice relative to Lord Stradbroke's check.
The clerk was answering her when witness went up to her
and asked in what way she would like to have the money?
She replied, "In bank-notes, except the odd mo-
ney ;" and the witness then asked her how and where she
became possessed of the check, and under what circum-
stances ? She said she had received it in France ; and
when asked in what part, she said at Nantes. She further
stated that she had received it in the course of a transac-
tion relating to the purchase of some pictures at the place
she had named. She said in answer to some further ques-
tions, " I hope there is nothing amiss," and then he took
her into a private room, and told her the check was a
forgery. She said she was unconscious of it. He searched
the lodgings which she had occupied in Augusta-place, and
found a piece of blotting paper, on which appeared the
letters forming the word " Stradbroke," in the same hand-
writing as that upon the check.' Witness asked her when
she got the check, and she said on the 16th instant. He
reminded her that the 16th bad not arrived, and she then
said it was the 16th of last month. Witness produced the
blotting paper.
The prisoner simply repeated the statement she had
made to the officer, and was remanded for ten days.