The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-20 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.—Yesterday, John Pear, alias Geo. Watson,
was brought up front Derby gaol,' in' the custody of Gardener,' a
061kt...officer of this establishment, on the warrant -of Sir .It.
BIRTM, AM underwent a long examination, in a private MOM,
on various charges of forgery.
It, lute been already noticed in. most of the .newspapers, that
this person had been apprehended at Newark, on a charge offor-
gery,i Ile was committed to Derby gaol fur a forgery committed
in that county, but his offences bad been.so numerous and .exten.
sive, and the amount for, which,he forged there wits comparatively
so trifling, that it was dtleMed.fit to h4ve hint brought to London,.
and no evidence being offered at Derby, heivitadisidtargid by pro- .
elainatien, mid taken by Gardener as lie left the: gaol.
IVIr. Gates, solicit& to the association of bankers for protection.
against tiogerk, attended for the preeeention, and Wm. Curtis,,
Esq., the banker' Otin of Sir Willi/MO, who is -it the head of- the
, ,
moils tion, 411100 preseml
T.
ile' two allowing were•tbe only eases regularly gone into
Der. John Steward swore, Motile was clerk t4,711/41esats. Thep.
Beeehing' and • Sons, bankers, at ,Tunbridge , On..the 39th
of Mayl/4 the prisoner,. wbol,Al been for some little time living'
considerable style at Tunbridge Wells, keeping his carriage and
livery,setvauts, eame to their banking-house, and prestnted two
bills which witnesS, now produced, it4inesting to have them dis
counted. One
.Waiditteil Genoa, March 4,182 ti," and pur-
ported to be drawn by "William Davidson, 'upon Menrrs. °mitts and
Co., hankers, London, for pztyable ta'3. 'Webb and Co., and
accepted by Andrew Diekie, for Coats and Co: ' The other bill
ivna or SOL, and also purported to be'drawnitpon, and accepted
by, C4l'ttt.* and Co. The witness haVing no doubt witateyer, from
the great seeming respectability of the prisoner, that the acceptances
were genuine, readily gave him cash, deducting the usualdiscount.
The prisoner gave hit name George Whitson, and wrote the en-,
dorsement " George Watson" on the bills, as it now appeared.
Mr. Andrew Dickie, principal clerk to Coutts arid Co., de-
posed that the words " Accepted for Cants and C 0.," and the
signature " Andrew Dickie," were not in his handwriting, but
were false and for

Sir It. Biaxit"asked Mr. Gates if he had any other charges to
prole at present? observing that, perhaps,' it.woultl lie unnecea..
soy to go further 'here, as he could prefer bills of indictment after
committal.
Mr. Gates Najd, there were A great many other cases against
the prisoner, but stifficient, he apprehenilnd had newt proved to
,warrant a eommittal for trial, itrhh,ll, perhaps, 'efts all that W 46
Cessary at present. +
Sir R. Butuir asked the prionier it he wished to put. any
questions
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prisoner bowed rimpectfidly, and " Nu, Sir, I than
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Sir Illnwte.—Yon seem to hark been playing a dangerous
gaine, young than ; have you any thing to say ? 7
Pri'nner•--140) Sir; I have no desire to say any thing.
The prisoner was then fully committed to Maklstoue gnu I tier
trial at the next assizes, upon the :twii charges of uttering ti rgol
bills at Messrs, Beechings, at Tunbridge Wells.
Sir R. Illaxixinentinned that information had been fora long
time in the imasiaiaiaii of the police of the prataicrikwhich'tbe pro
sorter hiolearrie4 net with such c.atraordivary am:4;as» Ile h3Ol
never, in the whole course of his magisterial experience, known in
instance in which the crime of forgery had been, so extensively
perPetrated. It will a singular fatt, that the prisoner could. be