The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-14 00:00:00

The prisoner pleaded Guilty.
Joseph Green, 38, brass founder, also pleaded
Guilty to a similar charge.
Henry Clarkson, 35, labourer, was also charged
with uttering a forged note of the same bank.
Mr. CLARKSON, who was instructed to prosecute io
all these cases, in addressing the jury, said that from
the facts which would be disclosed in the evidence,
there could be no doubt that this prisoner and the
two men who had pleaded guilty, were part of a gang
of persons who had made it their dishonest business
to come to Brighton, on
Saturday the 23d February,
for the purpose of passing forged 51. notes of the
old Union Bank in that town, and who succeeded in
doing so to a very considerable extent. The Learned
Counsel then proceeded to state the circumstances under
which the charge was made against the prisoner, and
it appeared that upon the evening of the day men-
tioned the prisoner went into the shop of Mr. Sams,
a grocer, in North. street, Brighton, and purchased a
small quantity of tea and other articles, the price of
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the effect that persons with forged notes were likely
to pay a visit to this town, and he immediately sent
notice to that effect to the different tradesmen, and
while Mr. Sams was in the act of tendering the
change to the prisoner, for the forged note, Mr.
Lashmer, a neighbour, came in, and informed him
of the notice given by the police, and Mr. Sams upon
this asked the prisoner to wait a moment while he
examined the note he had • t him. just given
Imme-
diately upon his saying this, the prisoner rushed out
of the shop, leaving behind him the articles he had
purchased, the change, and also an umbrella, but the
prosecutor pursued and stopped him, and gave him
ints custody. Besides this, it was proved that upon
the same evening the prisoner passed two other
forged notes at the shops of different tradesmen.
The prisoner, when called upon for his defence,
told a very lame story about his having picked up the
note which he had presented to Mr. Sams ; and with
regard to the uttering of the others, he asserted that
the witnesses were mistaken in his identity.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Chief Justice WILDE having observed that it was
perfectly clear that the prisoner made a trade of
passing forged notes, and upon the mischief that such
a proceeding was likely to occasion in a commercial
community, sentenced him to be transported for life.
Mr. CLARKSON made an application to the Court
in reference to the prisoner Green, who had pleaded
guilty to a similar charge. In this case he said, that
upon his being searched 17 sovereigns were found in
his possession, as well as eight other forged notes,
which were concealed under his stocking. fie had
succeeded in passing several other forged notes to dif-
ferent tradesmen in Brighton, and the good money
was, no doubt, part of the change he had received ;
and under these circumstances be had to request that
the Court would make an order for the 17 sovereigns
to be divided among those tradesmen who had been
sufferers by the prisoner's proceedings.
His Loansnie made the order.
Robert Steward, 23, miller, was then charged with
the offence of uttering a forged Si. note of the same
description.
Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Johnson defended the
prisoner.
The case appeared to create a good deal of interest
on account of the position of the accused party, who,
by the opening of the counsel for the prosecution,
was admitted to be a tradesman carrying on a respect-
able business at Brighton, and was, therefore, not
likely to be mixed up with a gang of depredators of
this description. From the evidence adduced for the
prosecution, it appeared that on the same evening
when the other utterings took place, a man went to
the shop of Mr. Neave, a linendraper in the King's-
road, Brighton, and purchased a silk handkerchief,
which was paid for with a foreign Si. note, and he re-
ceived the change and left the shop. It would:appear
that from seine cause or other a suspicion was enter-
tained:that alllwas not right, and the man was followed
I and seen to join two others at a short distance, and to
hand one of them something, supposed to be the change

It appeared that on the day in question the prose-
cutor, Mr. Abraham Mallinson, who is a chemist at
Gawthorpe-green, near Lepton, in the West Riding,
was returning home from Huddersfield market, and
on his road went into an inn called the Tandem,
where he had a glass of ale ; between eleven and
twelve o'clock he left the Tandem in company with
several others, all of whom left the prosecutor in a
short time, with the exception of a man named
Wilby, who, with the prosecutor, proceeded across
the fields to Gawthorpe-green. When they got
into a field called Ox-field, they were attacked by
several men, who struck them with bludgeons, and
felled them to the ground. The prosecutor, Mallin-
son, was rendered insensible ; and Wilby bad his ear
cut through, and was so severely injured, that he was
confined to bed for some time. Mallinson was taken to
the house of a Mr. Ramsden, and when Wilby got up
he picked up a bludgeon and part of another blud-
geon, and joined Mallinson. On feeling their pock.
ets, Mallinson found that he had had 149. and a memo-
randum taken from him, and Wilby 1/. 2s. 6d. Nei-
ther Mallinson nor Wilby could identify the prisoners,
but in order to substantiate the charge against them,
the ostler at the Tandem stated that he spoke to them
at half-past ten at the Tandem door, and that, in an-
swer to a question they put to him, he told them that
Mallinson and Wilby were inside ; and a blacksmith,
who lived close by, likewise saw them near his shed.
The next morning a bricklayer named Smith went
with a boy to the spot where the robbery took place,
and there they found two pools of blood, and from
thence they traced footsteps tainted with blood to a
platform near a quarry, where marks were in the
snow as if several persons had been standing, and
there an invoice, on the back of which was a memo-
randum, and which was :the same taken from Mr.
Mallinson, was found. Smith, together with a po-
liceman and several others, then traced the footmarks
for some distance until they came to the high
road which leads to a village called Lascelles
Hall ; then they lost the footsteps, but not until
they were within thirty yards of the houses in
which the two prisoners slept. In the morning they
were apprehended, and the shoes of Wood and clogs
of Swift were taken from them, and upon compari-
son with the footmarks, which had been traced all the
way from where the robbery took place, by making
impressions by the side of the footsteps made by the
robbers with the clogs and boots belonging to the
prisoners, they were found to correspond in every
respect; and in further. proof it appeared from the
statement of the policeman, that although scores of
clogs of the kind worn by the prisoner Swift were
made, yet, by being made by the eye, and cut with
a knife, nearly every clog was varied in some trifling
degree.
The prisoners each denied having bad any part in
the robbery, and stated when taken up, that they
could prove they were weaving at half-past ten on the
night in question, and afterwards went to bed.
His LORDSHIP having summed up,

The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
There was a second charge against the prisoners
for attacking and robbing another person about six
weeks before the robbery for which they had been
tried. This, however, was not gone into.
His LORDSHIP, in ordering sentence of death to be
recorded, told the prisoners that in all probability that
sentence would not be carried into effect, but that
they would be transported and be slaves for the rest
of their lives in a foreign country.
NISI PRIUS COURT. (Before Mr. Baron
ALDERSOPI and a Special Jury.)

LAYCOCK V. PICKSLAY - BREACH OF PROMISE OF

MARRIAGE.

Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Oliver Ferrer ap-
peared for the plaintiff; Mr. Martin, Q.C., and Mr.
Jones for the defendant.
This was an action brought to recover damages for
breach of promise of marriage, to which the defendant
pleaded, amongst other pleas, a release by the plaintiff.
It appeared that the plaintiff is a daughter of a hair-
seating manufacturer, in the town of Sheffield, and
the defendant is an attorney at Wakefield. In the
year 1843, the plaintiff then being about 23, and the
defendant being about 22, became acquainted through
a brother of the plaintiff's ; and in that year the de•.
fondant, being About to proceed to New I°A; re-