The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-18 00:00:00

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(Here Jones and his wife exclaimed, " That's a lie :
the powers that's a falsity," and made so much noise that it-
was some time before the examination could proceed.)
isbester proceeded to state, that he accompanied his brother
.officers to the house, and on searching it, discovered a file
on the table where Jones bad been at work, and some white
metal, and in a cupboard he found two paper bags contim-
ing plaster of Paris and a parcel of fine sand.
The female prisonei here exclaimed, " By J---5, Ycl
fal,,,2..sseeh;ing spalpeen, it's !.nseed meal and sugar, leatt-
that Vts washer my elbow with, cure enough."
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band joirievi her by abusing the officer in good set terms.
Mr. BRODEVir .=...N0L1 had better not make that noise,
but ask any questions you like, and they shall be an.
What of this The officer has but mistaken linseed meal
for fine sand,
Mr. Field the Mint Inspector, said the stuff was uaeli°
manufacturing base coin.
On the next witness being sworn, Jones and his wire
made such at disturbance that Mr. BRODERIP said be could
put up with it no longer, and if they wouil not be quiet he
must take the depositions, reluctantly, in thei,. abseTnce.
Mr. A. Mitchell, the inspecting surveyor Pf hames
police, said from information he had lately obta,fied, the
prisoners had been engaged in coining for two inont.t's
supplyine• the London smashers. He confirmed the st-tie;
talent of 'Fogg and Isbester, and said that the half mould u`
the half-crown he pointed out to Fogg in the fire, was A ,
reverse side, and he believed the one which he pointed out
tt, the Magistrate. He took other pieces of plaster of
Pang moulds from the fire, and put them on the bob. ge
had taken them to the office of the Mint solicitor, and saW
him place them on the millboard in the state they now
were. The zioulds, three complete ones in all, which were
remarkably well executed, were handed to the Magist rate
e,
and Mitchell said he ;,,2d the pieces of a great many otho
he collected from the fire, ,:hick could not be put together.
The witness then produced oineteen base half-crowns,
which Fogg handed to him, in adcth!len to thosp taken from
Jones's right hand, the old stocking containing sixty com:v
terfeit Crowns and eight half-crowns, siz new Britannla
metal table spoons, from which article the base money is•
used
manufactured, together with a variety of other articles
by coiners. The whole was discovered in one room. I•!n
questioned Jones when he took him into custody, and
said all the things were brought to his house by a man
minutes before ; that he occupied the premises ; and that
Gladwin had nothing to do with his business.
Mr. Richard Knight said that Gladwin was in Joness
company when he hired the house of him. He ball seen
the old man about for 20 years, and he had seen him no
he
ing to and from Jones's house daily. A man outside tu
office assisted in removing the goods.
The man was called in, and was identified as a smasher.
The female prisoner here said that Mrs. Knight let the
house to her and Jones.
Mr. Knight—Yes, but I came home during the time.
Mr. Field said he had examined the moulds. They
formed three complete pairs of dies, intended for the cast'
ing of base money. He believed the counterfeit crowns
and half-crowns produced were cast in those moulds. •
The prisoner Jones, on being called on for his defence,
asked the Magistrate if he was going to commit him on the
evidence of three officers, one of whom said the half-crowns
were hot when they had been in the house twenty minutes:
a second that linseed meal was fine sand, and the third that
he found nineteen sovereigns?
Mr. BRODERIP had no doubt the halt.orowns were war's
when the officers entered. It was a mistake any man might
fall into concerning the meal and sugar of lead, hut he knee
its use. With respect to Mitchell, who was oae of the
oldest and most respectable police-officers in the metropolis,
his tongue had slipped while giving his evidence, and r
used the words "nineteen sovereigns ;" but he immediately
corrected himself, and, with the nineteen base pieces in, hi,
hand, said, " half-crowns I mean." The thing was obvie''
enough ; but the prisoner for impudence exceeded any Per-
son ever brougt before him.
The prisonerh then asserted his innocence, and rePeatijcag
that all the things had been left in his room by a man.
knew nothing of the hot metal in the fire.
The woman said she had no more to say than this, that
the old man was a stranger to them.
Gladwin was silent.
Mr. Powell had great doubts whether Mary Jones was°
wife of the other prisoner. She had been before convicted.
Mr. BADDERIP, after observing that this case was one es;
great importance to the public, on account of the jingle°,
quantity of base coin in circulation, committed the prison"
to Newgate for trial. •
The office and street opposite were ei'owded with coiners
and smashers.