Star.
London, England, 1818-12-17 00:00:00

OLD iittuzy SESSIONS.
'FORGERIES.
felt"lthe Court proceeded to try the
g gni* sisbefore Mr. Baron Wool) and
Audi* litetnots.

_...4% first prisoner put the bar Was John Kingston.
Mr. Serjeant BOSANQUICT applied to the Court for
permission to proceed against the prisoner merely for
the minor offence, to which he had already pleaded
• but had sincp withdrawn his plea.
prisoner was then indicted for having in his
possession three forged notes, and being in company
6was
and.her person "who engaged in uttering
of the same desert on.
on.
the application o the prisoner, the witnesses
, ordered out.of Court, and separately introduced'
give their evidence.
Raphael Ronsaney stated, that he was an auctioneer,
i resided at No. 194, in the. Strand. On Saturday
the 19th September, he saw the prisoner and
• man in the dress of firemen ; they came into
ion.room about. eight o'clock in the evening,,
the sale, and bought for 2s. 6d. a sportsman s
with eight instruments, for which the prisoner
`a Ci note. Witness looked at the note, and
suspected it. He then asked the prisoner to
name and address on the note, but he was
:ertain whether it was the prisoner or his com•
who was with him all the time, who signed
. The address wrote upon it waste" Hand •
mire-Office —Mr. Kingston, Lombard- street."
Ipanion of the prisoner said they were well
,and belonged to the Hand-in-Hand Fire-
, where they had taken the note. The note
produced was the same which the prisoner and
companion tendered at witness's auction-room.
Cross-examined—Several persons gave him notes
night, but they all marked them. The pri-
were strangers. He passed away the note
_ sale to an eating-house keeper, and though
suspected it was not good, he said nothing about
su,svicions to the man to whom he passed it. The
certainly told him a man was in custody, and
_.ired him to go and see if he was the same
passed the note. He then went to Marlborough-
' Police-office, and identified the prise ner as being
who passed the note at his auction-room.
Ite-examinr.d.lle knew Hooper for a twelve-
- The prisoner took the change of the note.
I%oi:cr.—That is false, my Lord; I never saw the
Ir.fore in my life. . .
i,ied by the Jury.—l did not tell Hooper that
:te.: it was a bad one, although the baker had
ly refused to take it. It was a matter 4
, then, and I could not speak decisively until
the opinion of the llank.
nas Barrett said he was a messenger in the
Iliad Fire-Office. On the 19di of Septem-'
prisoner was not employed in that Office; he
been in the service six years ago.
les Masters, a collector of the watch rate for'
cinct of I% hitefriars, and living in Temple
stated that Lombard-street, Fleet-street, con-

of about. 18 houses; he knew every house-
. ti4e I:risoner tlid not live there on the 19th of
Sewalber last; witness re:•er knew that a person
lamed Kingston lived in that street ; witness Icttc‘v
• prisoner. and knew he nuier lived in that street.
John \Vakcicy stated, that he was a cheesemonger,
- at No. 61, Upper East Smithfield. On the 23d
last, about three o'clock in the afternoon, the
came into his shop and purchased a piece of
which cause to f.'s. lid. in payment of which
tendered a £1 note. Witness suspected it was a
' one, and in the front, on the right-hand side of
the name of Mackay" or some such name.!
s went curt under pretence of getting it
.nar.ged ; and Moses, a neighbour, sent him his man„
Haggerty, to take the note to an otlicer and get him
-• attend. The officer soon returned with the note
',is hand, and apprehended the prisoner. The note
produced was the same. On the prisoner being.
searched, he had more silver than was enough to pay
the bacon.
Cross-examined by Mr. 'Act.r.v.--He had himself
inently changed notes when he had silver in his

ALLEY.—You will recollect, Gentlemen, that
not the note upon which the indictment is
; that was paid to the Jvw auctioneer.
. Haggerty said lie was a barker to Moses, the
..; and corroborated the former witness.
Dennis Hyde said, the note produced was the one
ught to him by Haggerty. He asked the priso-
vhere he got the note, and he said from two sai-
• had taken on board an lndiaman.

, Hatch, a lighterman, stated that he had known
isoiter 25 years. and saw him in the middle of
Sepiember, at the Bells at Pulliam. - Ile said he had
barge of coals, and he would give witness some if
came down in the dark. He asked witness to get
change Of a 11. note, and he, witness, went to
iandlord, got it, and gave the change to the psi-
the note was returned to witness.
i-examined.—He expected the Bank Note
. be paid to him by the Bank; he had not
from Fulham ; but, upon recollection, he had
ix mouths at sea, but there never was a chire
against him for stealing timber. It was six
before the Note was returned to him. Ile
r Mr. Quintum ; he lived at Fulham ;—hc had
led tor him for 18 years, and he was absent from
for about 18 months.
illiam Evans, the landlord of the Bells, at Ful-
proved that he saw the prisoner there in the
le of September, and that he changed the Note
Aced it was given him by Hatch, and he wrote
, name and address on it.
Susannah Harrison, wife of Thomas Harriton who

the Crown and Anchor public-house: in Seven-
proved that on the Sd of November, a compa-
illon of the prisoner's passed a forged Note to her in
pAyipe.nt for some peppermint.
Thomas Harrison confirmed the last witnesses tes-
Imoni, and said they were apprehended, but the
yrisoner made resistance.
Mt. John Lees; Bank Inspector for twenty years,
proved that the Notes passed by the prisoner were
forged in every respect ; they were not of the Bank
paper, nor the water-mark, and had not the waving
lines. In genuine. Notes tlik words 4, Bank of Eng-
" were -Made in the original fabric ; in this it
done 13y compression and
Cross-examined by Mr. Aturr.—He had had

gem* experience, but once in his life heiwas4leeeive3;
be knew therw had been several forged Notes paid at
the Bank during the last year ; he could hot say
there bad been eighty. The paper was manufac-
tured in flampshire, but he had never been at the
manufactory ; be bad neviW compared one of the
forged Notes with ,the Bank of ngJand plate ; the
Bank Clerks had-been deceived in some cases.

Re-examined by •Mr. Serjeant Bosaststvar.—Hei
should think the taking of forged Notes at the Bank
arose from neglect; and the Clerks and Inspectors
west always made to pay them, if they were not so
fortunate 'as to find the persons who had passed them.
Peter Lister, one of the Signing Clerks of the Bank,
proved that the signature, purporting to be his, was
fores-eranuned—Knew that some Notes had
been issuei without the Signing Clerk's name affixed
to them.
Mr. Auxv.—Suppose a good note had been issued
without your signature to it, and this Note was that
.good Note, to which a signature, not your own, had
been put ; would you have known it not to be your
hand-writing ?
The witness gave no answer ; but the Jury having
requested that the question might be put again, it
was put by Mr. Baron Woon, and the witness said
he should have known it to be a forgery.
Question from a Juror to Mr. Lees.—Has there
ever been an instance where asenuine Note has been
rejected as forged, and stamped so ?
Mr. Lees—There has been one, but the note was six
or seven years old, ar.d it was by a young Inspector.
One of the Jury.—After the scene of yesterday,
the feelings of the Jury art very greats and they
think that Vilere the life of a prisoner is in danger,
they deem if necessary that the fullestevidence shuuld'
Is.l given.
Mr. Baron WOOD.—You have had the fullest evi-
dence in this case ; much stronger proof than you
have had Lefote.
This closed the case, and Mr. Baron Woon sum-
med up at great length.—After about five minutes
consultation, the Jury returned a verdict of—Guilty.
Sir ltUnLltr WILSON, Mr. Alderman WOOD, and
Mr. Alderman WatruYas were on the Bench dur-
ing the trial.
Jeremiah Mired, 21, was indicted for having a 1/.
note in his possession. knowing it to be forges/.
Susannah Harrison, wife of Thomas Harrison,
Crown and Anchor public-house, Seven Dials, re.
peated the evidence she gave in the former case.—
Prisoner was the person who got the glass of pepper.
mint, and tendered her the 11. note, and when he was
searched there was no silver few:l on himi

Her evidence was corroborated by three others
Mary Archer resides in College-hill, UpperThames-
street, where her husband is ainker. On Saturday
evening the ad of October, about eight o'clock, di,'
prisoner came to the shop, asking for two quartern
Ina‘'es, and tendered a 11. note in payment. She
hesitated in giving him change, because she did not
think she had enough in the shop.. On this prisoner
said he was very sorry for it, as he must go on hoard
without his bread, which would be a very unplea-
sant thing for him, as Sunday was so near. Induced
to believe his story, she borrowed a few shillings and
gave him the loaves and his change. He• stated his
name and address to be Taylor, Cioper's barge,
Quecn-street." li paid away the note, and had it
soon after returned to her as a f_prgery. She instantly,
recollected tke person of the prisoner, and the de-
scription she gave to the Bank of him was so accu-
rate, that she went with some persons to the House
CGrre:tion and pointed him out itmong several
others as the person who had given her the mote.
The note was proved to be a forged ore, and the
Jury, after a charge from Mr. Justice lloutovn,
convicted the prisoner.
On being convicted, he said, in a threatening man-
ner, 4 My life has been falsely sworn away, but I
hope I shall be sent t.) a country where I shall have
justice, for I can get none here. I declare to Got), I
never saw Mrs. Archer in my life."
Kingston and Ilstfert were then arraigned on three
capital- indictments, but no evidence being offered,
they sere acquitted.
Mr. Scrjeant BoSANQUET—It may be satisfactory
to you, Cie:tarn-a:a of the Jury, to know that these
men pleaded not guilty at the commencement of the
Sessions, but afterwards made a very earnest and
strong application to be allowed to withdraw their
plea, which was accordingly acceded to by the
Bank. You have heard the evidence. and can judge
whether they did not act properly in withdrawing
their plea, and pleading guilty on Saturday, the sth
of this month. They have since pleaded not guilty,
but you have felt yourselves bound to find them
guilty, from the evidence which has been laid before
you. I am glad the investigation has been gone into,
as it will shew the public whether or not these men
were right in pleading to the minor offence?
William King, aged 18, was indicted for a similar
offence. There was nothing of any interest in this
case, but the note was clearly traced to the prisoner,
who had told a number of falsehoods about it; and
given a false address.—The Jury, without hesitation,
found him Guilty.
This closed the Bank prosecutions, after which the

Judges retired.
William William, aged 2C, was tried and convicted
before the Recorder. of a robbery committed during
a bull-baiting in Tothill-fields. The prosecutor had
gone to see the bull-baiting, when he was assaulted
by a gang of well-known thieves, headed by the pri-
soner, who robbed him of his watch and some silver.
The prisoner was sworn to by several officers as a no-
torious character, and the Jury, without tiJubling
the Recorder to sum up, found him—Guilty.
This closed the whole cases for trial, and the Court
adjourned till half-past seven, when the RECORDER
passed „sentence of Death on the following prisoners:
John Pidgeon, Robert Parsons, John Corderoy, Bee. Wood,
John Fellowes, ana George William Bandy, for burglaries ;
Maims Peakes and Sarah Thwettes. fer house.breaking ; Wm.
Mattingly, for horse-stealing ; 'James Egerton, Joseph Mason,
and William Daldock, for highway robberies • Richard Franz
George Detfour, Robert Thrower, John Moon, and Robert
Beedharn, for stealing in dwelling-houses ; and Wakens Smith,
for stealing privately .n a shop.
Witham Williams, for stealing from the person of Thomas
Toomer, a watch, SEC.—transported- for like.
Ralph coal:wont stealing fortreight bottles of wine, of Win.
Folford—rtansporled for seven years.
Jolla King Won, Jeremiah flatfeet, and William Kier, for
having forged Dank notes in their possession, without lawful
excusea-aU transported for 14 years.
John 'Henry Foreman's Mgment was respited, bit tomer
sentence of transportation being revoked. The Court than wit-
jaunted till the 19th of Joinery mot.

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