The Sun.
London, England, 1828-06-02 00:00:00

• 'OLD BAILEY.—(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
It At a quarter past ten o'clock, Mr. Justice H01.10;1.1(13 and
vt•• Justice LUTLEDALE took their seats on the Bench,
411 a long conference took place between their Lordships
r 7 Messrs. BRODERIeK and LAW. The subject did not
Fbut it was generally believed that the case of Mr.
whose trial was fixed fur this inoroing,• °cm-
aveir attention.

FORGERY.
I,4flincs Fekrnian was then placed at the bar, charged
Juttet ing a forged acceptance to a bill of exchange, for
',1., with intent to cheat and defraud Joseph Wright, -and
'LL knowing the same to be forged and counterfeited.
411'. BRODER/oi, with whom was Mr. LAW, stated the
for:the prosecution. The indictment charged the pri-
r, with two distinct species of offences, the first charge
(34at, of forging a bill of exchange and the acceptance
111 ite 'and the aecond offense was that of uttering the bill
autving it to be forged. The offences were of the same
;4,35, lint it was extremely difficult, for technical reasons,
'3 advance proof in support of the forging; One of these
*ktlinical reasons was the difficulty of proving that the for-
.
I.,l7rwas actually committed in the partienlar county in
the prisoner was tried. The ordinary charge, there-
aZ'was that of Uttering-it; knowing it to be a forged bill.
i,",inlsoner was a foreigner, and had for some yeersbeen
; for the last five years lie waO clerk in the
Coe ofthe Messrs. Ward, most respectable merchants in
eeewlltraid-stnet. The -Learned Gentleman thenpro-
tci'd.to open with great minuteness the circumstances of
~,ease, e
as they afterwards appeared in evidence.
ftrwilliam Dodd Fidler, a clerk to Mr. Gates, the solicitor
t\., thprosecution, proved that he served the prisoner on
tlitclaY last with a notice to produce at the trial the bills of
\e'!lange which were taken up by him from Mr.Joityh
when he gave in return the forged bill which was
1 ;',llbiett of the prosecution.
". Joseph Wright was then examined by Mr. Laxv—,,l
hi 4 merchant, residing in Aldermanburv, 1 saw the.
Bontr. there on the I 5 th. Jan earylapt. He produced to
e
'Mu a bill of exchange for 500/.—(The -bill was
ti td to the witness and identified by him. )—The prisoner.
et.,lne that he brought it in payment of two bills of ex-
a`uge which 'I had' from him. One became due, on
pf4,4t diy, it was for two hundred pounds ; the other bill.
t 209/. 19e. was due on-the 6th. of December ;be called
ne on the following day, and received a cheque for 84/.,
difference between the 500/. and the amount of the
hills which he took up from me. Previously to the
4:4 of January, I made a communication •to the prisoner
cting the bill due on' that day, and also respecting the
t which was- over due. On the Until of January, he
11,1,,
that he was much obliged to me for having waited
tet 'II that day-. I wrote my name on the 500/. bill be-
.
‘r. was paid into my bankers, but not on the day on ,
qhcb,l first received it. I din't think that I saw the
t 4 ;Nil the time I wrote my name on it until the 12th
pt.
theo d, when it was returned to, Inc as a forgery. Both
I, tudorsernent and the acceptance were on the bill when
It it from the prisoner.
4,1 n .-uel Cockaigne, examined by Mr. BRODERICK.,.I
NVelerk Mr: Wright. I paid the bill which is
.the
ilieet of the prosecution, into the bask of Lubheek and
about a month before it became due. I looked at the
iset,and saw the endorsement of Mr. Wright on it. The
'Atthleg was alsd'uisen it then.
klano Georgeamined by Mr. LAW.—I am clerk to Sir
lx?, Lubbock and Co., bankers, iu Mansion-house-street.
04ente4 the bill on the 12th of April, et.the Clearing-
sin Lornhard-strect, to Mr. Clenson, who is Master-
O% clearing clerk, and left it in his possession. I saw the
147°Oer in a few minutes afterwards at the Clearing-house.
said to me, you have a bill accepted at Masterman's,
let4r. Rothschild, I told him that I had delivered it to
NertilaiVit: Clerk, and he went to the clerk; it is. not
tli fake 'up a -hill at the clearing, but it is sometimes
; "never. gave up a bill there, but I have been
V and- always refused. I , saw: the bill again in the
Ve of that alhernoon, between, four and five o'clock ; it
it,:44eut twelve o'clock when the prisoner came to me at
Vk.Otaritag-hOuse-:—when a person from Masterman's
tick4d it to Me in the afternoon, it bad "acceptance
110,1:•:, written on . it—l don't know whether any thing
been written on it besides these two words after
41); possession. At the banking-house in which I
vtis Verk, it. is usual to place such bills in a partici'.
4Zx, and then I take them to the clearing,' I have
Niet?wiedge through whose hands the bill bad previously
A Ward Cleason, examined by Mr. BRODERICK---I am
trkthe and On the 12th
Co.
A u house of as rman
,kg,tii I received the bill from
.Lubbock's clerk at the
~1t.„4,i
_bootie. I was to place the amount to the credit
unek and Co. Shortly after I received the bill
ksjit"noer applied to Me, be said that he would take
it p ttstiv for 500/. of Rothschild's acceptance, which I had
td from Lubbock's. I told him that I could not give
tbout authority from our house, and referred him
, Ile then went away, baying merely assigned as
Iteil f9r applying, that he Wanted to Send the bill
t! t 6 ? t'ountry. This application of the prisoner induced
444 th_°°k at the bill, and on examining it I did not think
Ct signature of _Rothschild was authentic.
atilt n -examined by Mr. CLaxxsoN.—l am daisy in the,
„
9% hill'eeing the signature of Mr. Rothschild. I see en
c` Tip hat I think are the initials of his name, that is
kept Ile algae all his bills and checks himself,
malty, `lint are signed by his wife: she signs a great
~'teept,,,,,4'o,-ver saw any bills signed de Rothschild. The
ignatt, .('° on this bill, looks like Mr. Rothschild's
e,
,198tid, CloCk.--The case for the prosecutiou• has just
`4! fury, the prisoner has commenced his adiress to
• Verdict—Not Gailty.

4
.Oki,l.
II Port prevails that his Royal Highness the
at a11,_1., DAIIRAL Will arriv, with the Earl of
Dublin
in the eour,,ee
of next wee]; —Dublin
Journal.