The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-07 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Feb. 6.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Joseph William Hawes, a
reQpeetable-I)oking man of about 50 years of age, was
brought before the Lord Mayor upo❑ a warrant which
charge i him with having feloniously forged and uttered
a receipt for 2901., with intent to defraud the Poor Law
Guardians of the City of London Union.
The prisoner had acted as clerk to John Paul, late as-
sistant-clerk to the City Poor Law Union, who lately
underwent several examinations at this court upon
charges of extensive fraud and forgery, and who was on
Thursday tried at the Central Criminal Court, and sen-
tenced to be transported for 14 years.
Mr. George Hooper said—l am one of the assistant-
clerks to the City of London Union, 51, St. Mary-axe.
I know a person named John Paul, who was formerly
in the service of the union as assistant-clerk. The pri-
soner was engaged by Paul, and attended at the union
as his clerk or assistant. las assistant-clerk was fre-
quently in the habit of seeing him write, and thus be-
came acquainted with his handwriting. The receipt
shown me for the Film of 2901. I believe to be in the
prisoner's handwriting.

- Mr. Tomlins—l admit it to be the prisoner's hand-
writing, and he will presently make an explanation of
how he came to write it ; but it is necessary for the prc-
sention to show the felonious intent.

The Lord Mayor—As the matter stands at present it
is a clear case of forgery. Here is a document written
by the prisoner, whose name is Hawes, and to it he
forges the name of " Crosoer."

Mr. Tomlins—Will your lordship admit him to bail
The Lord Mayor—No, I shall not do that. When
complete I shall send the case for trial.
The prisoner was then remanded.

BOW-STREET.—A. letter-carrier in the Sidmouth-
street district, named George Ferrara, who has been 13
years in the service, was charged with stealing a letter
containing a half-sovereign, a sixpence, and six postage-
stamps.
The prisoner, who made no defence, was committed
for trial.

THE ALLEGED POISONING OF MRS.]
BACON AT STAMFORD.

The rea lees of The Sun are aware that, during the
investigation incident to the murders at Walwortb, cir
cumstanees transpired tending to excite suspicion that
Ann Bacon (mother of the prisoner, Thomas Fuller
Bacon), who died at Stamford in May, 1855, was poison-
ed by the administration of arsenic. In consequence of
this, after communicating with the authorities of Stam-
ford, the Home Secretary issued orders for the exhuma-
tion of the body of the deceased, who was interred at
Great Casterton, a small village in the county of Rut-
land, about two miles from Stamford. Professor Taylor,
who had been directed to superintend the exhumaticn,
proceeded to Stamford for that purpose, and arrived
there at 10 o'clock on Thursday night.
At 11 o'clock yesterday morning Dr. Taylor proceed-
ed to Great Casterton, accompanied by Mr. M. W.
Jackson, surgeon, of Stamford, by whom the body was
to be opened under the Professor's supervision. Mean-
while a respectable jury, coninoßed principally of fartnerz.
bad been empanelled at the Plough Inn, On the arrival
of Dr. Taylor,

The c,roner (Mr. Hough, of Oakhan)) briefly charged
the jury, an I at the close of the coroner's address, Dr.
Taylor suggested that the jury should go to the grave
where the body was interred, in order that they might
see it taken up.
The coroner, jury, and medical gentlemen then pro-
ceeded to the churchyard. In the meantime the grave
had been opened and the coffin laid bare. At 12 o'clock
the coffin was raised from the ground, and found to be
in a perfectly sound condition. The lid of the coffin
being removed, the corpse was exposed tovit?
head and feet, which were uncovered, resembled
discoloured by
an Egyptian mummy, so much were they
were so fa
decomposition. The features, however, from those
perfect as to elicit exclamations of recognitionthe wthose of
deceased. The
present mho were acquainted winth
proved, the body was
identity of the corpse having e
conveyed to an adjacent barnbe
for the removal of the

viscera.
in of the evidence adduced :
The foil )wing is a sun3kaarnY
James Peat, parish der d sexton, of Casterton, who
titsha d kofn
tohwenbdo edcye.a se d from
childhood,
wh
o
had b
deposedeent o the
frequentlyi )den-
Mary e n-
Mary Scholes, washerwoman,at Mrs. Bacon'shouse during
strongth e
woman,last eighta years,nd
severallystated
that deceasedliwats a very
health. On Sunday night, the 13th
oefnj;iyaeyd, 11,75 en , two days before Mrs. Bacon died, Thos.
Fuller Bacon came to my house, and said the old lady
(meaning his mother) was very bad, and that she would
die' and that I must go directly and remain with her all
night, I followed him to his mother's house about five
minutes afterwards. On arriving there I found Mrs.
Bacon in bed. Mr. and Mrs. Bacon and Thomas Fuller
Bacon were with her. William Bacon is another son of
the deceased, and brother to T. F. Bacon. I asked de-
ceased if she was ill—if her head was bad, and she replied
that she was "had all over." I remained all night with
tho deceased. She was sick twice—once shortly after I
got there, and then again between 10 and 11 o'clock.
During the night, while I was sitting up with her, de-
ceased told me she had been to church in the morning,
and that she had intended to go again in the afternoon,
having left her Prayer-book for that purpose, but that
she was taken suddenly ill after dining at her son Tho-
mas's. She said they had a nice pudding and meat for
dinner. Deceased told me she was put to-bed ill about
3 o'clock that afternoon. I think the dinner hour would
be 1 o'elook. Deceased said it was not the pudding or
broth
meat that made her ill, but that they were making
for T. F. Bacon's!) little boy, and she made her dinner