The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-19 00:00:00

FORGERY.

George Haig, aged 18, was capitally indict-
ed for forging and uttering a cheque on the 25th
May, upon Messrs. Coutts, and Co. for the
payment of 30/., with intent to cheat and defraud
Henry Baldwin.
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Mr. CLARKSON stated the case on behalf of
the prosecution. He admitted that the Jury
might discharge from their consideration the
first count, namely, having forged the instrument
in the county from which he was committed,
but should the facts in support of the other
count be made out, namely, the uttering of the
cheque, well knowing it to have been forged,
the result would be equally penal. He entreat-
ed the Jury to give the evidence their gravest
consideration.

Henry Baldwin sworn.—l am a tailor and
draper, residing in Cheapside, I know the pri-
soner. On the 14th May, I saw him at my shop ;
he said he wanted a pair of trowsers and waist-
coat made by one o'clock next day. He de-
posited 51. He said further he wanted a Greek
uniform, and gave a direction to Mr. Currie, of
Regent-street, to get the pattern of it. He said
he would call again in two hours. He did call
again, and was measured ; he then left 151. to
be taken care of till the evening. He was going
out into the City, and he thought he might as
well leave it with me. He said lie wanted to go
out to join Lord Cochrane ; he would have a letter
of recommendation or introduction to Lord C. to
get an appointment from Col. Stanhope. He return-
ed again at about 9 o'clock, or a little afterwards,
and I returned to him the 151. ; the Si. he had
first paid me I retained. He called subsequently
several times to settle, some of which I did not
see him. On the 24th or 25th of the same
month he called to settle the account in the even-
ing, having called the previous day to desire the
account to be made out. He presented a bill
for the payment. I said I should want discount.
He then said can you give me change for a
checque. The checque was for 30/. ; I gave
him cash. He did not so whose the cheque
was. This was in the counting-house. I de-
sired him to write his name on the back of the
cheque, which he did. I gave him the difference
between the balance of his account and the
cheque, minus the discount. He then asked
for the return of the deposit. I returned him
the 51. It was raining, and he asked me to lend
him an umbrella, which he would zeturn to me
in the morning. I lent him one. The uni-
form was all made. He did not take the uni-
form with him ; it was all ready, and a chest for
it. I never saw him again till I saw him in cus-
tody, which was on the Ist September. The
cheque I now produce is the one the prisoner
gave me.
Cross-examined by M-. BRODER ICK.--I
have two persons who serve in the shop with
me : they are both here. The prisoner came to
my house openly. At the time I received the
cheque, the uniform amounting to 201., was
ready, but he did not ask for it. When the
cheque was given to me, no one was present but
our two selves. I believe I have a correct recol-
lection of all that passed. He did not tell me
it was a cheque that he had cashed. I do not
know that I was at home the whole of the next
day ; I was at home a part of it. He put his
name of G. Haig on the cheque : 1 believe that
to be his real name. That is the name he gave
to me all along.
By the BENCH.---He had the waistcoat and
trowsers on the second day on which he called.
Besides those he had a jacket. I gave him in
cash about Si., besides returning the deposit.
Francis Blanchard, foreman of last witness,
saw the prisoner in his master's shop on the
14th May. On that day I measured him for a
Midshipman's uniform in the Greek service. I
did not know at the moment what that uniform
was. He gave me the address of Mr. Currie,
who he had understood had made uniforms
for that service, and told me I should get all ne-
cessary information there. I went to Mr. Cur-
rie, but could get no information. On the 24th
or 25th May I saw the prisoner at the shop ; on
the morning following, I took the cheque to
Messrs. Coutts and Co.'s banking-house, but did
not receive the cheque. On the Ist September,
turning round Walbrook into Bucklersbury, I
saw him ; I told him he was a pretty sort of
fellow, to have ordered a uniform of my master,
and to have given him a bad cheque. He denied
it ; he walked off two or three steps, and then
ran up by the back of the Mansion-house.
I pursued. him and cried " Stop thief ;" I
overtook him, seized him by the collar, brought
him to the Mansion-house, and gave him in
charge. I returned from Mess. Coutts's between
ten and eleven in the morning. He never called
at the shop again.
Cross-examined.—The prisoner merely gave
me Currie address to get the uniform there.
I did not get information there, but got it at
another place. When I called out " stop thief,"
lie appeared not to be able to run at all, and I
overtook him. Ile ran from ono side to the
other, and slackened his paeo.
George Mack, another servant of the prose-
cutor.--I saw
the prisoner when he first called.
1 saw .him at the. Mansion-house. Not to my
there any threat or promise held
knowledge was
out to him before I heard him say something at
the Mansion-house. In my presence, and in
the presence of last witness, and Turnpenny, an
officer, be said lie was very sorry ; he had
intended to call and pay Mr. Baldwin.--
Turnpenny said it was a forger/ ; the prisoner
said it was not, he could bring witnesses to prove
he did not write it ; lie bad been to. France in
Pursuit of the person he took it of: He said
no more.
Cross examined—This was the account he
gave to the
Henry officer.
Turnpenny, a police officer—The pri-
soner WU put into my custody on the Ist of
Sept., before ten in the morning. He was
examined on the same day. I believe previously
to the examination I said it was a forgery, and
he said cc No, I can prove to the contrary of
that," and I think 14 said lit had been to fratice•

I knew the prisoner before ; he was before
the Lord Mayor on a charge of an affray with
some bad girls, but not from any charge of
felony ; he was discharged immediately.

Richard Minshaw, a clerk in the house of
Coutts and Co.—We have several customers of the
name of Stanhope. We have the Dowager
Countess Stanhope, whose christian name is
Louisa. We have no other customers of the
name of Stanhope, whose Christian names begin
with L. Ido not know the hand-writing of the
cheque produced.
James Powell, clerk to Cox and Greenwood,
army agents—We have several customers called
Stanhope, Col. Lincoln Stanhope, and Colonel
Leicester Stanhope, are both customers of the
house. The cheque now produced is not of the
hand-writing of either of the Colonels. Stanhope.
Cross-examined.—l cannot say there are
several customers, whose hand-writing I don't
know. I have seen Col. Leicester Stanhope
write, but never saw Col. Lincoln Stanhope write.
I have seen several cheques marked as paid
in honor of Colonel Lincoln Stanhope's
papers. I believe the two are related.—
There are other gentlemen of the name of
Stanhope customers of the house, whose business
does not come into my department of the office.
Colonel Lincoln writes his Christian name in
full invariably, as does Colonel Leicester.

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This closed the case for the prosecution.

The prisoner being called on for his defence,
said that under the peculiar circumstances of the
case, he could not bring forward witnesses to
prove that he had given cash for the cheque; but
the fact was, that he had given cash for it to a
young man, who said he was a nephew to Col.
Stanhope, who he' believed was also going to
join the Greeks, and through whom he was in
hopes of having got an introduction to Lord
Cochrane, that would have been of use to
him in forwarding his views. There was
one person in particular, who saw the cash given
by him for the cheque, but who would not come
forward for fear of sustaining an injury in the
office he held, should he appear, the cash hav-
ing been given for it at a gaming table. The
morning after he paid it, he ascertained it was
not genuine.

Jonathan Anderson, a bread and biscuit-
baker in Leadenhall-street, had known the pri-
soner well for many years. He had filled va-
rious situations in London ; his family was most
respectable, they principally resided in Scotland.
Messrs. Coutts and Co.'s clerk was recalled,
and on examining the cheque again, said, as it
had not London on it, nor the sum in the cor-
ner, he would not have paid it.
Daniel NPCloud, ship insurance-broker, knew
the prisoner for about six years. Knew him to
be most industrious and respectable. He had en-
deavoured to get him a situation, and would
have taken him into his own employment had he
had a vacancy.

By Mr. Justice GASELEE—George Walker,
coach-maker, 66, George-street, Portman-square,
had known the prisoner for nine years. During
that time his character had always been upright.
His parents were highly respectable in Edin-
burgh. He had a brother a clerk at the Leith
and Glasgow Wharf, where he had been with
credit to himself and family for twelve years.
Another gentleman gave the prisoner -an ex-
cellent character.

Tr. Justice GASELEE summed up, and left
the case to the Jury. Verdict—Guilty of ut-
tering the cheque knowing it to have been
forged.—Death._
The Jury and prosecutor strongly recommend-
ed the prisoner to mercy, on account of his good
character and youth.

were found on him by Furzeman, the constable.
—" Guilty."
James Smith, aged 19, was indicted for
stealing a till, containing a quantity of copper
money, on the Bth of September, from the public
house of Robert Chapman, Belton-street, Long
Acre.

The Jury found him " Guilty," but recom-
mended him to mercy, on account of his previous
good character.
The COURT, upon enquiry, found that one of
his former masters would again employ him, and
after fining him one shilling, discharged him.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY•)

BOW-STREET.

CAUTION TO THE COMMERCIAL WORLD.--Mr. Charles
Berry, flour-factor, of Mount-place, Whitechapel-road, ap-
peared before Sir R. BIRNIE, to answer to an information
exhibited against him by the Commissioners of Stamp-
duties, under the Acts 53 and 55 of the late King, for
having given to one Charles Berry, of Bermondsey-street, a
receipt for a sum of 11/. 15s. on unstamped paper.
Mr. Timms, of the Stamp-office, stated that in conse-
quence of the manner in which tradesmen evaded the pro-
visions of the Stamp Act, the Commissioners had at length
determined to enforce the penalty allowed by that Act as
rigorously as they possibly could, and he therefore hoped
the Press, which was ever forward where the public were
concerned, would make such the determination of the Com-
missioners generally known.
Mr. Browne stated, that he had paid the defendant the
sum of 11/. 15s. for flour, and received from him a bill of
particulars, with the words " The amount of this bill.
paid," written on it by the defendant. The defendant
contended, that those words did not constitute a receipt
within the meaning of the Act, as there was no signature
or initial by which it could appear to whom it had been
paid. Sir Richard Birnie said, that that formality was not
necessary to constitute a receipt within the meaning of the
Stamp Act. It was in proof that the money had been
paid to the defendant, and that he inscribed the acknow-
ledgement of the payment at the foot of the account, which
was quite enough to entitle the informer to a conviction.
The defendant prayed that the penalty might be miti-
gated, as it was a first offence.
The Magistrates however declined showing any lenity,
as they saw there was nothing in the case that called for
such an exercise of their discretion. The defendant was
then convicted in the full penalty of 10/. and 9s. costs,
which lie reluctantly paid and retired.

PUBLIC SALE.-(THIS DAY.)

BY MESSRS. PEAKE & DAVIS, AT THE MART.

A Copyhold Estate, situate near the Market-
place, Epping, comprising three houses, with shops,
gardens, stable, chaise-house, and brewhouse, a
dwelling-house in the rear, five brick-built tene-
ments, and six timber-built and tiled ditto, a de-
tached stable, cart-shed, and piggery, orchard and an
enclosure of meadow-land adjoining; let at 1631. 16s.
per annum, held of the Manor of Epping Burg, at an
annual quit-rent of Is. 1 lid., and a customary fine
on death or alienation—knocked down at 1,7801.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

There are fair quantities of Corn reported this week,
chiefly Wheat and Beans. The arrival of Flour is also to-
lerably good. Most of the dry vamples of Wheat having
met buyers on Monday, the market to-day is chiefly com-
posed of damp parcels, which meet scarcely any attention
from the millers, the trade may therefore be reported
heavy, at Monday's terms. Barley, Beans, and Pease,
are unaltered. Oats firmly maintain last quotations, with
a moderate sale. The top price of Flour was settled on
Monday at 50s. per sack.

ARRIVALS.
Wheat. I Barley.
4,400 qrs. NOO qrs.

English
Irish
Foreign

Oats. Flour.
3,800 qrs. 5,300 sacks.

. 890

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