Star.
London, England, 1813-07-19 00:00:00

OLD B.IILL 1:

Ba*or' was indicted for 'meting a forged clear'
for £760, with intent to defraud Birchall and Co. ;
and R. Brady, alias Oxford 114, andS. 11111, were in-
(Ected for aiding and advising Badcock to codlioit:
this felony.

From the evidence of Richardson and Cooke (ac-
complices) it appeared, that they and the prisoners
met at the Horns TaVern, Doctors' Commons, where
it was agreed that Hill should procure genuine checks,
from which Cooke was to execute the forgeries. • Bad-
cock was then to procure porters to carry the forged
checks to be cashed. On the 4th of September, Hill
received three checks from Parsons, a hay salesman
in Whitechapel-market (who had no knowledge of
the purpose for which Hill wanted them), and these
checks, drawn on the house of Robarts and Co. were
given to Cooke. From one of these Cooke forged,
in the mane Birchall and Co. to the amount of
kaio. liaslcOck and Richardson then proceeded to
the White Bear, Basinghall-street, and from thence
Badcock sent a porter to the house of Robarts with
them and Richardson having seen that the check
was paid, returned before the porter, and informed'
Badcock that all was right. Badcock having received
the cash, proceeded after Richardson to the Moor-,
gate Coffee-house, where these worthies divided among
them 023800, the fruits of two days industry on this
Banking-house. The notes were then sold at 20 per
cent. discount, to one Birkett.
The Jury returned a verdict, after a few minutes
consultation, finding Ba:!cock Guilty—Death ; and
Brady and Hill guilty of`felony, in aiding and assist-
ing him.

W. Wilmot was also capitally convicted, for being
at large before the expiration of the term for which
lie had been ordered to be transported.

H. Dale was indicted for having in his possession
sundry forged Bonk-notes.
Thomas Austin, a silversmith. living in Cannon-
street, Ratcliff-highway, .said, that on the 24th of
November, 1812, the prisoner came to his shop, ac.
companied by .t lady, and asked to see some ear-rings;
he bought a pair which were set with cornelian, for
16s. and tendered in payment a 112 note ; witness
asked the prisoner to write his name and address,
when the prisoner took op a pen and wrote on the
back of the note—" William Hilbson, 11; Gre,t
Tower-street," under which witness wrote the day
and date of the month.

Thomas Hill lived at No. 11, Great Tower-street,
and never saw the prisciner there, nor any snail re-
sembling him.
J. Duthie, a grocer, deposed, that on the 24th of
November the prisoner came to his shop and bought
some coffee and sugar, for which he tendered a rti'2
note, giving his address, 46.1. Williams, No. 17, New-
road." Witness called at that number, but found no
person of that name there.
J. Seward, who bas lived some time at No. 17,
New-road, said, no such.person ever lived there to his
knowleJge.
Mary ,Glover, who was in custody, together with
her supposed husbands of the name of Walker, said,
she had known the prisoner five or six years ; that she
went-from Clerkenwell, accompanied by J. Foy and
Johnstone, officers, to the Royal Oak, Lambeth, where
Foy gave her a good note, and Johnstone accompa-
nied her to the prisoner's ouse. in Gloucester-place,
Vauxhall walk : she went in and saw the prisoner,
who said, 44 Any thing the matter r' Witness said,
" No ; I city want to know if you have got any notes
which are more dark than those i" Prisoner said,
" I believe none but fives :" he took the note from
her, and went into the garden, returned, and witness
saw him in the drawing-room—prod:iced a note, and
asked Witness 44 if it did not look nice he told ht. r,
he had been colouring it with a camelhair pencil
she received the note, and asked the prisoner to ccme
with her to the Royal Oak. Prisoner refuserd, saying,
he was not dressed. When she returned, Foy searched
her, and got the note. The Inspector of the Bank
was there, and declared the note was forged.
John Foy corroborated the statement of the former
witness.

B. Johnstone, an offleer, deposed, that after •leaving

Mrs. Glover in the custody of Foy, he returned, and
took the prisoner. He examined the prisoner's house,
but did not find any machinery calculated to make
forged notes.
Mr. T. Glover, Inspector to the Bank of England,
was in company with the officers when the note was
produced ; he saw it in Court, and declared that it
was a forgery.
In his detence he stated, that on the 24th of No-
vember he was at the Bush Tavern in Bristol.
John Bailey, a person who represented himself to
be a butcher and dealer in cattle, said he bad lived at
Portsmouth ; that on the 24th of November, 1812,

had occasion to go to Bristol to buy cattle ; said
htt he got acquainted with the prisoner at the Buck
Inn, Bristol, from whence they came together to Bath
on the abot e day ; when they arrived in Bath they
had some luncheon, and on parting they exchanged
cards. Prisoner told him he was in the blacking and
vanishing trade. Witness said he left Portsmouth
in January, being in debt. Soon after witness arrived.
in town he went and saw the prisoner at No. 5, Union-
street, Lambeth ; said he came to town in search of
a situation, and had lodged at the Magdalen Coffee-
house, Blacktriars-road. .
In contradiction to the above statement, Mary Glo-
ver and her son, G. A. Glover, swore they saw the
prisoner on the 23d and 26th days of November, and
on the latter day the prisoner, his wife, and wife's sis-
ter drank tea and supped at the house of the witness,
to celebrate the birth day of Walker the supposed
husband of Mary Glover, and that the wife of the pri-
snner had a new pair of ear-rings in her ears, which
were set with cornelian. The other witnesses were
of little import, and Mr. Justice BAILEY summed up
the different evidences in a precise and minute ad-
dress to the Jury, who, without much hesitation, re-
tamed a verdict of—Guilty.
The following were also convicted of felony, viz. :

M. Mrses, for stealing a pocket-book, containing se-
veral agl bank-notes ; Harriet Fawcett, for stealing a
cotton gown and a flannel petticoat ; W. Kemp, for
stealing from the person of T. Johnson a saddle ; W.
Epps, for stealing two pieces of Scotch cambric, five
silk shawls, and other articles.

And two were acquitted; viz. :—W. West Ana C.
Smith.