The Sun.
London, England, 1826-02-23 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

EXTENSIVE FRAUDS ON PAWNBROKERS.,
Yesterday John Jackson alias Israel Isaac DemiMahn, I
well-known character at the fashionable gambling-houses at the
west end of the town, stood charged on three separate Indict-
ments, with having fraudulently obtained the sum of 9001. and
upwards, from Mr. Lawton, pawnbroker in 'Green-street,
Leicester-square.
The prisoner was on Tuesday last placed at the Old Bailey
for the same offences, then charged as felonies but the Learned
Judge who presided being of opinion that they amounted only
to fraud, he was acquitted, but ordered to be detained. The
bills on which he had now been arraigned had been found in
the interim by the Grand Jury.
Mr. ALLEY, in stating the case, observed to the Jury, that
who the prisoner was, and what the station he had occupied in
society, it was not at all necessary that he should detail to
them ; it was enough that he was before them, and they of
course would deal with the case as its merits required. The
Learned Counsel then proceeded to detail the facts of the case as
afterwards made out in evidence.
Mr. Bayliss, foreman to Mr. Lawton, stated, that on the
7th of March last year, the prisoner calledi upon hint at the
shop, and said he should require a loan of money upon some
loose diamonds, but he should wish, on leaving them, to be
allowed to seal them up, as he was going abroad, and should
be obliged to employ an agent to redeem them ; and he there-
fore felt it to be advisable to adopt such precautions as would
preclude the possibility of the agent, or the other persons
through whose hands they must necessarily pass, changing
them for stones of inferior value. Viritness assented, observ-
ing that it would be more satisfactory to all parties. The pri-
soner was then alien shewn into into a small parlour at the
back, of the shop, where the diamonds were produced and
weighed. They weighed 40 carats, anti the sum agreed Wbe
advanced on them was 1601. The diamonds were handed
over to the prisoner, for him to seal them up, witness standing
by while he did it. The prisoner sealed the paper in two
plaCes, but, by some slight of hand, contrived in passing it
over to witness, to substitute another paper, sealed and folded
in an exactly similar way. The parcel was deposited in the
plate chest, and remained untouched till June last, when, in
' consequence of frauds which were about that time found to
have been practised by the prisoner, upon other pawnbrokers►
witness opened it, and found it to contain only a few comn3oP
rubies, of the value of V.
lty a Juror.—The seal was impressed with an initial "J.".'
By the Couu.r.—The rubies and stones produced are not
those on which the money was lent, and which he pretended to
seal up.
Cross-examined by Mr. CURWOOD.—Why, according ,to
your own showing, you are not one of the acuton pawnbrokers
imaginable ? Pray who was present when you broke the
seal P—No one.
Mr. ClinwoOD.—And don't you think it would have
been better to have had some one present ?-1
time I scarcely thought it possible that I could have been
cheated.
Mr. Cunwoon.—You knew him well, and had often ad.
vanced him large sums of money before ?—I had.
Mr. CURWOOD.—Sometimes, I believe, on his in
" 1. 0. U." without his leaving any thing beyond A Inqg
of in
fictitious pledge, just to enable you to make an entry
you books, and make out a ticket accordingly ?-11'11"1°
Never r• I always had a value to the best of my belief.
but at the
Mr. Cu rtwoon-1n all your prior transactions, you found
him to be a fair-dealing man P—Witness. I did. spats
Mr. CUHWOOD—That is to say, he always paid you
25, 30, or 40 per cent ?-IVitness. I never demanded or"'
ceived any such rates. oat
Mr. Cunwoon—Conscientiously, then, how much used
to take?—Witness. Never beyond the rate allow;31 by Ast
Parliament.
saiwl
he was instructed that it was not uncommon for
Mr. Cu ItwOoD, in addresaing tl J f tke d'efet4Bnt'
ury or
lend money to such persons as they thought they could rely
without receiving any substantial pledge, merely takinf„stias
fling something, in order to evade the usury Inws• ere
manner. his client informed him, the stones now produced w a
left, and the money advanced ; but which his client, from
train of unfortunate circumstances, having since been unable to
pay, the present prosecution was instituted, in the hope
screwing it out of hint.
No witnesses were called. Verdict—Guilty. e hind
Mr. ALLEY.—This, gentlet • • nen, is precisely the mou were
of fraud as that by which Messrs. Rundell and Bridge ''
pawnbrokers to

cheated out of 11,1500/. ri few years back.
eli:ht
se, prisonere wag
ing s afterwardsil4r oteemairratoi arraigned ett
of wtwhoicit3e*ltamiliced:
" guilty, walt Intent to redeem them ;" but being t°' iity
plea could not be received, he retracted it, and pleaded 4410
generally.
t
The COURT sentenced him to seven years' transpertio " tio
The Jury were then discharged, and the Court stijoalo
Thursday week.

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1 DUEL.—A. letter from l' ' Witngriif:
111151 trt , it.olcls
Esq., addressed to the Editor of the [63.-r-r .
Herald, says, that the cause of the duel twt",
J. 11. Tulbot, Esq,, of Talbot flail, and J.
er
Devereux, Esq., of Carrignienan, we', the form
returning a letter addressed to hint by Ole I,atittea7:'
after haviug read it, by enclosing it iii it' g.") 11,.
envelope, sealing it with his arn.S, nn(l' Sallie
g his pen across the first addrefs teti it
in re-diree '
, aria!'.
to Mr. Devereux. it was returned laY asP
messenger.—(Dub/in Correspondent.)
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...tun.: rEitTEIT SIIIVEIt NV iTCUES An astir •fl
new imposition if ' - - s a owe
atottepinawyttietbiroaktetrsheinspanhop
as to watc ei, which shouldormte 3 „.„1, wag
r: Merritt, in nd eight
missies, on Friday I iocfulAair, and to the pubic in geriewofr
last. Between the bouraY:flAke-svicrneelt':i 'es' ty'll
in the evening of that day, some person, who gave in' lAtra*
I‘)Ve.iililiavn Smith, and stated that he lived in Felix-streeLl nna
u,notfrineretdoabewatch, .pretending to be silver, toLlesTop'ion,.
reqi
with 15a. on the article ;
lent one pound upon it : when ti, . be sow
fled with
Johnson, asked Smith whether he would no,' op tit
t;
of what is called the " hall-mark" Maur ,„' t.: eI 1 d a
inside of the watch-case, and therefore he
topprooe" -inn oi
the fact being that Johnis p the'
by tn company with Smith to his residence in i., ovirg
right before he advanced the fifteen shillings to him. ,!,;t oar
the watch in question in Johnson's hands, Smith smith wss
with the NI: but when they gat to PalaCe-yar, °11,,1,:d beet!
accosted by one of his associates, who inquired wit)! lie "1 ricl
of
so long away ?
Morritt's bely,rnation_t
Here the confederates in depredann,ny,
the proffer watch,
_it proved to be cased with very II" clintiles#
who returned home. limn an ""- Ow-
nia metal, neatly edged, and looking like silver fib
the
light. The dial-face was handsome, the movement Ivos or'
semblance of being sound, and the whole machine 2titotti
tainlr up
are already prepared for circulation. This caution, it 13,i, ill,
in a superior style. Numbers of similar, /wed,
will not, however, have been given In vain ; and under t" cod'
pression it ix now cosismunicated to the metropolis of the
mercial world.
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(;OM, MARKET, FEB. 22. well,
'.l !101l 34#
32,B6deainnont, Ma lid—Hebburn Alain, 35s ra . , w,
__w•—Kenston AVest. 325—Ord's Redliugh, 31§.—IV, pa
_ dlington, 355--Walls End Green's. 33$ 641--" rrodr'
market,
yeareth, 35s—Ni. ails End Riddell's, 36s fldTanfield 1 t,
ulls—Cownen, 31s—Walls End Lyon's, 35s oa.-----Sl'.l)
10i—Ships sold, 9i,
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BIRTHS.
On Tuesday, the Marchioness of Claaricarde sarell 41e/
HC's"livered of
2alst daughter.
the inst., at the Heath, Tieniel-iltrnPitea"
the lady of Astley Cooper, Esq., of a son.

MARRIED. f Sts
Yesterday, at St. John's, Hackney. Jelin Tebbotl. ° liters
ford-hill and Austinfriars, Esq., to-l'ilartha, °DIY "34 of
John Ambler, Esq., of West Hackne
diaughti oiling, I',
At Canterbury, Ann, only daughter of James at,,Aer
Rridge-house-place, Newington causeway, to john 151;d)iiin"
field, of Noble-street, Falcon square, woollen-0414i s
cheater warehouseman.

I
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DIE D.
At Calais, on the 6th inst., John Petrie, 13x4''1
101
year, formerly M.P. for Gloom.
On the '2lst inst., at his house in Little DistilirA4ne' .
0,,,pg"
don, Mr. Edward Costerd, aged 60. „ hprt ...,-. ,„srf i
On the 12.111 of October, at Penang, John no--01- cart-
Esq., aged 23. youngest son of Lieutenant-001er
of Shooterix-hill. r
0.,
ivanus
On the 22d, in the 111 lof his age, )."- id
t t year
131 i•
son of Paul Ber3n, of Tottenham.
On the 18th inst., st Margate, Elizabeth, second "1/4 0
Mr. John Howell, of Dane-hill. „ $1(1'
On the 22t1 inst., in Bedtbrthiquare Henry Greg°
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the With year of his age.
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