Star.
London, England, 1824-10-30 00:00:00

THE EVIDENCE.

James Tyson.-1 was a clerk in the house of Marsh
and Co. at the time of the failure, and for 17 years
previously. In 1815, the names of the patmeis wete
James Marsh, Henry Sibbald, George H. Graham, and
two others. The prisoner lived in the house in the
early part of the year ; he was the acting partner in the
firm. Mr. Marsh lived in Kent, Sir James Sibbald
in the country. A Lady named Frances Young had
dealings with the house. The power of Attorney for
,50001. was here handed to the witness, the name James
Tyson was not his hand-writing. He never saw the
lady. None of the signatures were genuine. They were.
all in the hand-writing of the prisoner. There never
was any other clerk in the house of the name of
James Tyson. The la riting oc the back of the warrant
was also a forgery.
John Watson sworn—l was a clerk in the house of
Marsh, Sibbald, and Co. and was so for about twenty-
five years. The signature to the warrant " John Wat-
son," is not my hand-writing. I did not know Miss
Young. I never saw her write her name to this warrant
of attorney. The writing is that of Mr. Fauntleroy.
Mr. Robert Browning, jun.—l am a clerk in the
Three per Cent. Consols Mice, in the Bank of England
I was so in 1815. My name is subscribed as a witness,
and I saw the prisoner sign his name to the document
"at the Consol-office. Witness produced the Bank boJk,
in which the transferi were entered. Could not say on
what day the entry was made in the book. He had not
the original, of which it was a copy, with him. Witness
read the entry to the Court on the 28th.
Benj. Cole examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
I am the stock-broker of the Bank. I was instructed to
purchase £5,000 S per cents. to be transferred in the
name of Frances Young, on the 22d of October. The
cash was £4,812. 10s. I received an order by the flo-
veinor for the money, and paid for the stock. The
paper produced is the stock receipt.
Mr. Browing proved that Miss Young had credit for
the stock.

Mr. Partu sai.,l that in order to make Miss Young
.a competent wit ess, he had replaced the stock, so that
she was not an interested party. The document was
then put in, and read by the Clerk.
Miss Young was then called : she seemed extremely
affected. In 1815, Marsh and Co. were her bankers.
Witness never authorized the house to sell the £5,000.
The document was not her hand-writing, nor was the
signature to it written by her. Witness was not in
London in 1815.

James Tyson examined by Serjeant BosANQuET.—
Mr. Marsh received the Dividend Warrants, and Mr.
Fauntleroy made out a list of them. The list now pro-
duced was the hand-writing of the prisoner. Ibe
paper in question contained a long list of names and
sums. In that list the name of Miss Young appeared,
and opposite to it the sum of 5,5001. this did not tally
with the ledger, as the sum appeared there
.to be,
5,4501. The entries were all in the. hand-wilting of;
Mr. Fauntleroy. At the July quarter following, the
same system was pursued, and different entries
The books, in 1816, and the subsequent years, were in
the same state. A very considerable portion of time was
occupied in going over the respective accounts, a detail
of hich vipuld perplex rather than elucidate the case ;
,uflice it PO try, that all the false entries were swerni

to hertl the haxtd:wating of the prisoner, as well as
the entries in the private ledger. In two pages there
were accounts to the amount of 50,0001.; but witness
could not say whether that sum ever reached the Bank,
or was applied to the private use of the prisoner. The
expenditure of the money rested with the partners solely.
J. E:Firley.—ln the year 1815, I was stock-broker to
Marsh and Company. I sold, on the Ist of June, 54501.
Three per Cents. and on the same day I paid in the pro-
duce at the house of Marsh, Sibbald, and Co. This
Stock stood in the name of Miss Frances Young.
Samuel Lack.—l apprehended the prisoner on the
10th of September last, in Berner's-street. There was
a desk in the room, which the plisoner locked, and at-
tached the key to his watch. I delivered the watch and
key to Mr. Freshfield. On going a second time to the
banking-house with Mr. Freshfield, we searched a pri-
vate drawer, and found some papers and two tin boxes.
The keys we had before found opened these boxes. Mr:
Freshfield tqpk the boxes away.
Mr.Freshffeld examined by the ATTORREY-GENERAL.
-I went, as stated by the officer, to Berner's-street,
where I saw several tin boxes, one of which had the
name of Fanntleroy on it. There was another box tinder
it, without any name, and I desired the officer to try the
box, which he opened, and fi 'cling from the first
paper that it was Mr. F.'s box, I took possession of them.
In the box with Mr. Fatintleroy's name on it, there
were deeds, probates of wills, and official papers. In the
other, there was a large quantity of memorandums, a
diary, and stock receipts. Witness handed in certain
papers, which were also found. _ _

- The case for the prosecution having closed, the Learned
Judge called on the prisoner for his defence. He im-
mediately rose, and having bowed to the Court, pro-
ceeded to read, from a written paper, not a denial
of the facts, but rasher an exculpatory address.
His sufferings had been known to a very few. His
life had been a sea of troubles and vexation, and
ruin stared him in the face whichever way he turned.
He declared solemnly that he had never put one shil-
ling of the money into his own private purse. Every
action of his life had been founded on the most
laudable zeal to rescue the firm from destruction. The
whole weight of care and trouble had fallen on
his shoulders. His partners had deserted him; two of
them had overdrawn to the amount of 100,000/. What
was he to do ? How was he to act, placed as he was in
this dreadful dilemma ? Reports had gone abroad
' highly detrimental to him, but he trusted a kind pub-
lic would not deal harshly with him. With respect
to the Lady in question (Miss Young), he was
sure she still wished not the slightest ill to befal
him: He was certain that that Lady by no means
would have placed him in the awful situation in which
he then stood. What he had done, he repeated, was
not to benefit himself; and at the time he was doing
that for which he was now called on to answer, he had
not the most remote idea of wronging any one. He
implored the Jury to weigh well the situation in
which he had been placed—a situation which threw on
him the whole weight and responsibility of so extensive
(and not by his own act, but by the acts of others,) a
concern, already tottering on the blink of ruin and
destruction: How had he been situated? At a
moment when every assistance ought to have been
afforded him, he was left forlorn and helpless. In this
dilemma he had done that which his country now called
upon him to answer for, but which, could the inmost
recesses of his heart be laid open, would be found
to have many claims on a merciful consideration.
He had felt himself called on to state thus much in ex-
tenuation, if not in justification of his conduct; and, in
conclusion, he threw himself on the met ciful considera-i
tion of the Jury.
The inconvenience our Reporter was under prevents
more than a brief summary of the defence, but the'
above contains a faithful epitome of his address.
Six or seven highly respectable persons gave the un-
fortunate Gentleman a most excellent character.

Mr. Justice PARK summed up the evidence to the
Jury, who, at half-past two o'clock, retired, and on
their return, found the prisoner " Guilty of uttering,
knowing it to be forged."
The Arrosurr-Gauaam , after some consultation with the
Judges,said he would decline proceedingwitb the other Indictments.
Mr. Justice Paint then addressed the prisoner; and observing
that there was no hope of mercy in this world, advised him to seek
it in the world to come.—His Lordship added that he could receive
sentence at the end of the Sessions.

The prisoner, who seemed much affected, was then conducted out
of Court, leaning on two persons.

Yesterday Edward Harris, a character well known to
the police, was put to the bar, charged with taking
from the person of Mary Drew, on the King's high-
way, with. force and violence, the sum of 17s. at the
parish of Hackney, on the 2d of October last.
This case excited the deepest interest, and the Court
was crowded to excess during the whole of the trial,
which lasted nearly eight hours.
The prosecuttix stated, that she had been in the ser-
vice of Mr. Cayle, of Spitalfields, previously to the day
in question ; a short time before the house of her mas-
ter was broken open and robbed. An inquiry was in
consequence set on foot, and the witness recollected the
person of a man who had been seen lurking about the.
house ; accompanied the officers of Worship-street to
two places in Wentworth-street, the one named the
" Black Hell," and the other known by the sign of the
City of Norwich, for the purpose of recognizing him,
if there. At the Black Hell the prisoner, with about
thirty others, 'was found in a piece of waste ground, at
the back of the house, playing at different games. The
prisoner was pointed out to her, but she said he was not
the man, and here the matter ended for the time. The
Sunday following, she went to Shoreditch Churdh, as was
her usual practice, where there was a charity-sermon
preached ; and on her coming out she saw a mart whom
she immediately knew to be one of the persons who
had been seen lurking near her master's house.—
She had been previously instructed how to act by the
officers, and accordingly followed the person in ques-
tion towards Hackney, under the idea of finding out
where he lived, in order to inform the officers. She
had, however, well nigh paid dearly for her temerity;
for the person in question led her towards the fields at
Hackney, on approaching which he was joined by air.:
ther, and the prisoner, the lattet of whom came up, and
looking her full in the face, said, " Do you know me,
Madam?" The witness, although she knew him from
having seen him at the " Black Hell," answered, " No,
Sir." " Oh! you don't, don't you ?" he replied, and
immediately seized her by the hand, while one of his as-
sociates took hold of the other, and in this manner they
led her to a pond in the London•field, Hackney. Having
on their waylmade lier-take off her pattern, they stuffed
her mouth ith bay, robbed her of all the money she had,
struck her violently on the breast, and finally threw her
,into a pond, in which she was immersed up to her chin.

The robbers then left her, under the idea that she was
dead, having thrown her umbrella and shawl into the
pond after her. In this situation the prosecntrix was found
sonic time after by two persons, named Field and Brad-
shaw, who humanely took her to the Shoulder of Mutton
and Cat, where she was treated with the greatest kind-
ness, and eventually put into a coach, and conveyed,
wet as she was, to Worship-street, where she informed
the officers of what had happened, and gave a descrip-
tion of the prisoner, who was, after much pains, taken
into custody by Handley, the officer.
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This statement, as far as they had an opportunity, was confirmed
by the respective Officets.—Wituesses were called for the prisoner,
to prove an alibi, but they failed.
Mr. Justice l'aat summed up the evidence to the Jury, who im-
mediately found the prisoner Gulley—Death.
The prisoner has long been a terror to Kit neighbourhood, and
was well known by the Rash term of " Kiddy Itaris." The agony
of his wife and three children excited great interest

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