The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-23 00:00:00

GOVERNMEN r.

BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY.—This morning James Hill
(who was apprehended in this town some three weeks
since on a charge of being concerned in the forgery of bank
notes on the Austrian Government) was again brought
before the magistrates, the necessary evidence not having
yet arrived from Vienna. The facts of the case were
gone into in order to induce the magistrates to extend
the remand.

Mr. Gem, who appeared on the part of the Austrian
Embassy, detailed the circumstances under which the
charge was preferred. The notes which haie been
forged are known in Austria as " Cass Assignation,"
and it appeared that on the 11th of July the prisoner,
who formerly resided in the neighbourhood of Wolver•
hampton, called upon a lithographer named Underwood,
and showed him a note, having a small piece cut out of
it, at the same time asking him if he could produce an
imitation of it. Mr. Underwood intimated that there
would be considerable difficulty in imitating it in let ter •
press on account of the peculiarity of the type, but that
it might be thine with tolerable exactness in litho-
graphy, and the prisoner at once gave an order for it to
be done. The space cut out from the note was the
Austrian Eagle, having in fact at the back of it the
figures indicating the amount of- interest from time to
time due, upon the note, and the times at which these
were payable. Whilst the work was being executed
Underwood showed the note to several persons, and ulti-
mately it came to the knowledge of Mr. Stephens, the
chief superintendent of police, who gave the lithographer
an indemnity on the part of the Austrian Government,
and directed him to carry aut the prisoner's orders,
giving from time to time such information as might be
mcessary. The prisoner saw a proof of the note, and
at that time and subsequently gave an order for 1,500
impressions. When these were completed, he called, and
left a carpet bag with Mr. Underwood, directing that
the notes should be put into it and sent to him at the
George Inn, Digbeth, at the same time intimating that
he wished to pay liberally, and he thought that he had
not been charged enough. It was at this hotel that the
prisoner was taken into custody, and la,t Saturday Mr.
Stephens also took into custody a person named Steele,
residing in the neighbourhood of Wolverhampton, who
had been employed by Hill to choke a punch having on
it the Austrian eagle."
Mr. R. A. Stephens, the chief superintendent of police,
detailed some additional particulars concerning the cap-
ture of the prisoner. On the 29th of July he saw the
prisoner about mid-day going along the Bull-ring to the
George Inn, and an hour afterwards saw Mr. Under
wood's man go into the room where the prisoner was,
with a carpet-bag; he followed, and having charge
Hill with having in his possession a quantity of forg-d
notes on the Austrian Government, at once took him
into custody. Prisoner replied—" You don't know how
much our countrymen are robbed by the Austrians, or
you would not apprehend me." The key of the carpet!.
bag was found on the prisoner's person, and in it were
found the 1,500 notes in sixty parcels. He gave his
name. as James Hill, of America-square, London, but
on inquiry it was ascertained that he had resided there
for two days only about five weeks previously. He in-
formed Hill that he had taken the prisoner Steele into
custody for having made the punch, on which the former
offered to give full information on the subject, but the
punch has not yet been discovered.
Mr. Underwood, lithographer, detailed the facts as far
as he was concerned, as set forth above. To him the
prisoner gave his name as " James William," and re-
quested that the transaction might be kept as private as
possible.
Mr. Henry Minte, a German merchant, gave evidence
to the effect that the notes forged were in the shape of
Austrian Exchequer-bills, each note representing in
value 100 florins or 104 sterling. -
The magistrates consented to a further remand for a
week.
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