The Sun.
London, England, 1832-09-13 00:00:00

WORSHIP- STREET.

Yesterday IValter Jessop, a cabriolet proprietor,
a portly man, between 50 and 60 years of age, was
finally examined before Mr. BROUGHTON, charged
with having forged an acceptance to a bill of ex-
change, and uttered it to Sir Culling Eardly Smith,
Bart., of Bedwell Park, Hertfordshire, who is also a
Magistrate for that county.
The prisoner was out of the way for some time
after the discovery of the alleged forgery, and it was
reported that he had eloped with the wife of a friend
of his who is a coachman to one of the Judges.
Sir C. E. Smith deposed, that he received a bill,
now produced, from the prisoner, who some years
ago was in his service, and had previously lived
in his father's service as coachman. He took the
bill in payment for hay and straw, to the amount of
281., which had been supplied from his estate in
Hertfordshire, and paid the difference in cash, 28/.,
to the prisoner, who assured him it was a genuine
acceptance. He afterwards paid the bill to Mr.
Mark well, the proprietor of Long's Hotel, in Bond-
street, and learned when it became due that the ac-
ceptance was a forgery.
Hanley, the officer, produced the bill, and stated
that he had been nearly a fortnight after the prisoner,
whom he apprehended last Saturday.
The bill purported to be drawn by Walter
Jessop upon and accepted by Edward Smith, of
Chenies-mews, Bedford-square, coachmaker, for the
sum of 56/., value received, and dated the 28th of
February, 1832. It bore a notary's mark declaring
the acceptance to be a forgery.
Edward Smith, of Chenies-mews, deposed, that
the acceptance to the bill was .not his, and he had
never authorized the prisoner, or any other person,
to accept it.

Mr. \\ropier, on the part of the prisoner, denied
that any forgery had been committed. He was a
proprietor of cabriolets, and Smith, a cabriolet
maker, with whom he had previously had such deal-
ings; arid the defence was, that the acceptance to
the bill in question, if not actually the hand-writing
of Smith, was written with his concurrence.
Mary Miller, an elderly woman, who had been
the prisoner's servant, and a girl named Maria
Jessop, his daughter, stated that in their presence
the prisoner asked Smith to accept the bill for him,
when he was going to Sir Culling Smith's to settle
for hay arid straw; and they swore positively that,
after some conversation upon the subject, they agreed
to meet the following morning; and Smith said,
" If I am not there, do it yourself, or get it done."
Mr. BROUGHTON— What answer do you give to
that, Mr. Smith ?

Smith declared that the witnesses had sworn
falsely, for he never gave the prisoner any such
authority.

The prisoner said, there were other witnesses
who could prove that he did.
Mary Carding, a decent-looking person, who
stated herself to be a married woman, then came
forward, and said that she was with Jessop when he
asked Mr. Edward Smith to accept a bill for him, to
take to Sir Culling Smith, and she swore most po-
sitively that Smith authorized him to write the ac-
ceptance, as had been stated by the other witnesses.
Mr. BROUGHTON—You are a married woman
you say, what is your husband ?—Witness said he
was coachman to Mr. Justice Burrough.
Mr. BROUGIITON—And do you live with him ?
Witness—Yes, when he is in London.
Mr. BROUGHTON, in disposing of the case, said
there appeared to him to be something more in the
back ground between the prisoner and Edward
Smith, but, after the positive swearing of the several
witnesses for the defence, he should dismiss the
charge of forgery, and hold the prisoner to bail to
answer any other charge that may be preferred
against him.

uEEN- s UAI?E.
Tit Shields, the most noted pickpocket in London,
who has been known to the police for nearly 40
years, was brought up in custody, charged with
picking the pocket of Mr. Arnett, of No. 101, East-
street, Manchester-square, of a pocket handkerchief,
on 'Westminster-bridge.
The prosecutor was unable to attend, but the case
was fully proved by a police constable, who saw him
commit the robbery, and found the handkerchief in
his possession.

Woodberry, one of the dicers of this establish-
ment, stated that he had known the prisoner for the
last 30 years : he was a most notorious pickpocket,
and had been frequently tried and convicted at the
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UNION-HALL.
Pliagbe Hunt, a thin pale-looking girl, was charged
with eating five dozen of oysters, together with a
proportion of bread and butter and porter, without
the means of paying for the same.
The owner of an oyster-stall in Blackman-street,
stated that the defendant walked up that morning,
and desired him to open a few oysters. When she
had swallowed a dozen she called for bread, butter,
and porter, and being supplied with these articles
she stuck to the oysters until she demolished five
dozen, and then said that she had not a " scurrick"
to pay what she owed. The oyster-man added that
she offered to leave her bonnet, but as it was an
old rusty black velvet one, and not worth sixpence,
he refused to accept of such an equivalent for his
" natives," and gave her into custody.
Mr. CHAMBERS inquired whether she was related
to the late Dando, the gormandizer.
The defendant had heard of such a person as
Dando, but should be sorry to be possessed of such
a ravenous appetite. She confessed that she was
hungry, when she went to the complainant's stall;
and when once she tasted a dozen she could not re-
sist the temptation of having a few dozen more.
Mr. CHAMBERS told her that she should have
been satisfied with a dozen oysters at the utmost, if
she was hungry, and had no money to pay for them;
but there was no excuse for her swallowing five
dozen of them belonging to a man that could ill
afford to lose them.

The oyster-man said that it was lucky for him that
he stopped short IA opening the oysters, for after
she had finished the five dozen her appetite seemed
as keen as ever; and he really believed that had he
suffered her to have her own way, she would have
taken five dozen more.

Mr. CHAMBERS said, that the owner of the oyster-
stall should have take►► the precaution of having the
money before he opened the oysters for the de-
fendant. He had not used common caution in this
instance, for the appearance of the girl was enough
to warn him that she could not pay for the quantity
she had taken. " Therefore," added the Magistrate,
" as you cannot have blood from a stone, she must
be discharged." _

The defendant, on leaving the office, was told,
that if she was brought there again under similar
circumstances, she should go to gaol.