The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-01 00:00:00

TWO SOLICITORS CHARGED WITH

FORGERY.

On Saturday morning James and Charles Mellor,
father and son, solicitors, recently in business at
Ashton-under-Lyne, were brought before the magis-
trates of that borough charged with forgery. Mr.
Marriott, solicitor, of Manchester, said the pri-,
soners had been captured in America, and brought
to this country on two charges of forgery. One
of these charges was that of altering the word.
" one " to " four " in a receipt given to the
Mellors by Simon Fothergill, of Manchester,
whose wife was a legatee under the will of the late
Mr. Hatt, the administration of whose affairs had
been placed in tie hands of the elder prisoner.
The receipt had thus been passed off as for 4501.,
oc etahsoekfnu
Buckley, of the Manchester
when the prisoner had, in reality, only paid 1604
The second charge was for creating and passing off,
as for value, a deed of conveyance, which purported
to convey to a person named Prestwich, certg:mrothFpsereso;
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ceeded to the prairie lands of Illinois, about 30
miles from St. Louis, where he arrived on Feb. 6.
Here he found the prisoners staying at a farmhouse
occupied by Mr. E. Heap. Ho was introduced as a
countryman, and did not disclose his errand until
he had satisfied himself by conversation with them
that they were the men he was in search of. He
brought them home by the Edinburgh steamer from
New York, and arrived at Ashton on Saturday,
having travelled altogether between 9,000 and.
10,000 miles. It was expected that the prisoners
would have a large sum of money with them, the
result of the heavy forgeries they committed, but
Buckley only recovered 1401. and some deeds. It
has before been stated that the prisoners held a
highly respectable position at Ashton.

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