The Sun.
London, England, 1818-09-15 00:00:00

FORGED NOTES.

John Flood stood indicted tor uttering two notes, purport-
ing to he of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Eng-
land, for 11. cacti, on the 9th of May, in the parish of St.
John, Clerhenweil.

The prisoner put in a written defence, in which he said
that he found the note taken in his possession on the 23d Of
July, and that be was proceeding to the Bank to know whe-
ther or not it was a forgery when he was taken into custody.
He called two persons to speak to his character.
The-Jury, under the direction of the Learned Judge, GRA-
HAM, found hint Guiltq—Death.

John Watson, aged 19, !Benjamin Tatham Willis, and
Thomas Owen, aged i 7, were allowed to withdraw their
former pleas, and plead guilty to the minor offence of having
in their possession forged notes.—Fourteen years' transporta-
thin.

Twmas Williams Smith, aged 18, was indicted capitally
fur tote, lug a forged note for 11. on the 17111 of August, to a
\l-r. Elaynes, of the Edgware-road. When detected the pri-
soner attempted to escape.
The prisoner called Mary Ann Davis, who, he said, gave
him the note in question, which, with the rood note found on
him, was shewn to her, but. she could pot say which she had
given him.
Mr. Justice BAILEY, in summing up) adverted particularly
to the facts of the prisoner having givous a lithe name and
address, and his attempt to escape.
The Jury found bins Guilty—Death.
William Byrn, aged 23, was indicted for uttering a 11.
note, on the Mb of August, knowing it to be forged, to a
Mr. Spetchley, of Plunikin-court, James-street, Westminster.
He called no evidence in his behalf.—Guilty—Death. •"
Sarah Ward, an interestipg looking woman, aged 27, was
lad cted for uttering two notes of 11. each, one of-which she
paid to a Mr. Terry, a victualler, of the rlough, at Hoxton,
on the sth of June last.

The prisoner put in a written defence. She solemnly de-
clared her innocence. She knew nothing of the former note.
She was a poor woman with four children. On the day in
question' she was looking fur lodgings at Hoxton, when a re-
spectable dressed man gave her a decanter, and asked her to
get half a pint of gin, and ke would give her sixpence, which
she went for to Mr. Terry's, and was taken into custody.
A respectable Lady, who happened to be in Court, said she
had taken many notes of the prisoner, who had dealt with her
for some time. but never found one bad. The prisoner al-
ways conducted herself with the greatest propriety.
Mt. Baron GRAHAM summed up, and the Jury found the
1,6,,,ner Guilty—Death, but recommended her to mercy.
Jeremiah Bryant, aged 37, was also found Guilty of ut•
t,ring a forged note, knowing it,to he so.—Deuth.
The prisoner, who had manifested the greatest firmness
during the trial, on leaving the bar, appeared to feel must
poignantly the awful situation in which he was placed.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.-Yesterday an Inquisi-
tion was taken at the Queen's Head, near the
Weßtminster Infirmary, on the body of Mary
Jeffrey,•aged 10, whose death had been occasion-
ed by falling from the window of her father's
apartment. Witnesses were examined, from
whose testimony it appeared, that the child's pa-
rents went out about three o'clock in the day on
some business, leaving the deceased and another
child, only four years old, in the room upon the
second floor, the door of which was found locked
at the time the accident happened. The Jury
having deliberated, thought the parents were
s rang in leaving the children alone,.and returned
.
a VCI diet of " Accidental Death."