The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-25 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

William Carr, a young man of very respectable ap-
pearance, was brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged
by Mr. Gates, the solicitor to the Committee of Bankers,
with having committed a forgery upon the house of Sir
'William Curtis, nobarts, and Curtis. The following evi-
dence was given :
Mr. William Blakesley, a clerk at the banking house,
deposed that Messrs. Barclay, of Trinity-lane, merchants,
kept cash at the house, and that on the 3d of November, a
cheque was presented at the counter for the sum of 971. 65.,
in the name of Messrs. Barclay, for which he gave three
201. and a 101. note, and the rest in cash. The signature
to the cheque was a close resemblance to that usually at-
tached to cheques from the house of Barclay, which were
drawn by procuration.
The LORD MAroa—ls the prisoner the man who pre-
sented the cheque? Witness—l gave a description of the
person as far as I could remember, to Mr. Gates, upon
finding that the cheque was a forgery, but I cannot swear
th a this is the man.

The LORD MAYOR—What is your belief? Have you
any opinion upo❑ the subject ? Witness—l believe that
he is the man, but I cannot swear. _ . _

The LORD MAYOR—How soon did you detect the for-
gery ? Witness—Nest morning it was detected by Mr.
Barclay, and Mr. Gates was sent for, and the case was put
into his hands. _ _

The LORD MAroft—Had you any knowledge of the
prisoner before ? Witness--None, whatever.
_ _ _

Mr. Cope (the City Marshal) produced a Bank of Eng-
land note for 20/., which came to his hands from the Bank
of England, through Mr. Gates, from whom he received
certain directions. Witness called accordingly upon Mr.
Brakewell, the proprietor of the Sturt's Arms public-
house, at Hoxton, whose name was upon the note, and
questioned him. Mr. Brakewell told him that Mr. Carr,
with whom he was well acquainted, got change of it from
him, and witness, accompanied by an officer, went with
hint to the house in which the prisoner resided. The pri-
soner was coining out of the house as they approached,
and said, upon being questioned, that he had taken the
note in the beginning of October, of one Charles Wilson,
a mate on board a vessel which had sailed to the East In-
dies. The name of the vessel he did not, he said, remem-
ber, but the captain's name was Saddler.
Mr. Gates observed, that the note was not issued at the
time specified by the prisoner.
Daniel Forrester, the officer, deposed that in searching
the prisoner's lodgings, he found in a chest of drawers a
cheque-hook of Curtis's banking-house. He produced the
cheque-book.
Mr. Gates examined the cheque-book, and showed that
the cheque that had been presented exactly corresponded
with part of a leaf in the cheque-book.
Mr. Brakewell stated that he had changed the note for
the prisoner.
Mr. Frederick Barclay deposed that, he kept cash in
the house of Messrs. Barclay and Co., and he was autho•
rized to draw upon Curtis and Co. by procuration. The
cheque presented purported to be drawn in his name, but
was not in his writing.
Mr. Gates—Do you know any thing of the prisoner ?
Witness—ln 1822 he was a clerk in Messrs. Barclay's
house, and he had lived there for eight years previously

Ms. Cope added, that he had asked witness whether he
had passed any other notes, to which the reply was in the
negative.
Another 201. note was also produced, and sworn to as
having been changed by Mr. Brakewell, for the prisoner,
and both notes corresponded in numbers with those which
were given for the cheque at the banking-house.
The prisoner's solicitor declined saying any thing in the
present state of the case, and the prisoner was fully com-
mitted for trial at the Old Bailey.

A young Irish girl, of very modest and decent appear-
ance, named Mary Scully, was brought before the Loan
111-tvoß, charged with having abandoned her child, a fine
bly about 12 months old, under the following circum-
stances :

A little boy brought to the parish-officers of the Tower
division an infant, which he had been commissioned to
carry to Corporal Batson, of the second Coldstream Guards,
in the Tower. For bearing the burden he received three
halfpence from a young woman, who told him that the
corporal was the father, and wanted to have the babe.
The corporal, however, behaved very unlike a father, for
instead of cherishing the babe, he refused to touch it, and
turned the boy and the infant neck and heels out of the
Tower. When this was done, the boy went, of course, to
look for his employer, but not finding her, and the child
being in want of something, he took it to the beadle, who
acted with the necessary humanity. The child was well
dressed, and of a clean and healthy appearance. Search
was made after the mother, whose natural affection did not
permit her to stand at a great distance, and the officers felt
it to be their duty to charge her before the Lord Mayor.
Mr. nobler observing to the prisoner that it was a very
rare thing to sce an Irishwoman desert her child, asked her
to account ft r her conduct.

Mary Scully said, that she had met with the corporal in
her own country about two years ago, and was constantly
haunted by him until she consented to be his wife; but
unfortunately he only promised to marry her, for as soon
as he had what he wanted, be refused to do what he said
he would. When he came over to this count' y she was
obliged to follow him, as this child was then born, and
she had no way of supporting it at home. The corporal
even promised to marry her since she came here, and she
did all she could to do without his assistance. She was
driven to the extremity of sweeping the streets, to get an
honest living, as she called it, for her baby; but wherever
she went the officers accused her of begging, and drove her
from place to place. The corporal had vowed that if she
contrived to keep the child until he should return to Wind-
sor, to which place he had been ordered for some time, he
would positively become her husband. " But when he
came back, your honour," said she to the Lord Mayor,
" he was as far from it as ever, and be refused to give me
a farthing for the support of the child : so I thought it
better to send it to him, for if I hadn't it to carry I could
manage to work for both of us."
The LORD MAYOR asked the prisoner whether she had
represented the facts to the Colonel ?—She replied that she
had to the former Colonel, and that the Corporal threw
dirt at her, and said he knew it was not his child. But
the Colonel told him it must be his child, because it was
so like him, and the Colonel moreover told him, that he
wished be could have him tried by Court Martial for acting
as he had done.
Mr. Hobler said, the poor girl was much to be pitied.
It was evident that she had been basely treated. "No-
thing, however, (said he to the woman,) should have in-
duced you to part with your child."
" Why, your Honour," replied she, "it was better that
one should starve than two, so I gave the poor baby the
best chance."
The LORD MAYOR consulted with the parish-officers,
who showed a disposition to act very kindly, and then
told the prisoner that the Colonel of the Regiment should
be applied to, and that, in the mean time, care should be
takenlof her and her child.