The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-22 00:00:00

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Innoyed by the prisoner

ing a card-part
pushed the lath _
though he did not then
swards, -when the landlord was sitting wits
the 'prisoner seized a noker and gave hi

,r exasperated, soon after-

s back to him

blow- on t

found Nicholson

guilty of

nnlawfully

s sentenced

six months'
-as charged

Michael Gumii

the iritiar
that he d
ming wit]

turned a verdict of guilty.
fifteen years' transportation

WEDNESDAY.
FRAUDS UPON THE MANCHESTER, SHEPPIEI
TANCOLNSHIRE RSJLWAY COMPANY. - John
Stable, aged 50, a solicitor, was arraigned upon several
charges under an indictment for fraud and embezzlement ;
to all of which he pleaded not guilty : he was put upon
his trial on the following charge —Having forged, coun-
terfeited, or uttered, on the 22nd July, 1852, an instru-
ment which purported to be made by the clerk of the
deport-office of the Court of Chancery, and to be the
office copy of a certificate of the Accountant-General, on
the 22nd February, 1852, as to the payment of the sum of
£1,222 15s. 6d., placed to his account as Accountant-
General to the credit of eat-parte the Mr

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Wickey

..cheater,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Rail Way Company ;
and also a
copy of a document dated the 12th of February, 1852,
,porting to be a receipt for the,same money signed by
'tering-clerk and cashier of the Bank of England.
statement of the counsel for the prosecution,
evidence adduced, it appeared that the
engaged to act as attorney for the eom-
-‘f their regular law clerk, at a fixed
ether with an additional £2OO
- clerks. In transacting the
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Property ot
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General,
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solidat

Cotut of Chancery, who would se that it
was ultimately paid to the person entitled to it, under
such assurances as the court might think necessary to di-
rect, Particular prescribed forms had then to be gone
turough, before the transactions could be finally com-
plettd;
.ctn the 12th of February, 1852,
a requisitionto the secretary, "D Sir, I will thank
ear the prisoner sent
you to obt4ui from the ace Mrattee to-morrow drafts

the bankers, of Liverpool. Mr. Richard
Grindley said, on Monday, the 26th June, he had a bank
post bill, of Messrs. G. and A. Herring of London, for
2500, which he endorsed over to Mr., James Paul, of
Dundee, and handed to his clerk, Mr. Brydone, to be
copied and sent to Mr. Paul. This was done, Mr. Brydone
taking care to put the bill in an envelope addressed to Mr
r tailor, I Paul, and then walking to the •
The two +1,., = -

post-offic

s said to have

that time gaining his livelihood by soliciting orders for
Messrs. Gray and Kean, opticians, went into the bank of
Messrs. Barned, with this bank post bill for 1:500 in his
hand, and asked the cashier, Mr. Goodier, whether it was
a good one. Mr. Goodier replied that the bill was good,
but they should require an introduction from some re-
spectable persons they knew, before they could cash it for
him, The bill at this time bore the following endorse-
ment :—" Pay Richard Manning, or order, James Paul ;"
and also a third endorsement, "Pay Henry Eyre,
or
order, Richard Manning." The prisoner came again to
the bank next day, and on his being asked for a reference
to some person of his acquaintance, he named Messrs.
Gray and Kean, and also Mr. Wason, solicitor. After
several applications, Mr. Goodier consented to let one of
his clerks, Mr. Edwin Lichfield, go with the prisoner to
the shop of Mr. Gray, and although he could not see Mr.
Gray, ,he found that the people there knew the prisoner,
and addressed him familiarly. He returned to the bank-
ing-house and informed Mr. Goodier, who was satisfied
with this, and consented to cash the bill. At the pri-
soner's desire it was paid in gold, deducting £1 ss. for
discount, after the prisoner had written his own name
upon it. On the 18th July the prisoner was apprehended
by Murphy, an officer of the detective police, upon the
charge of forging this bank post bill, and getting it
cashed. The prisoner replied that he did get it cashed,
but that it was not a forgery, because he wrote his own
name on the bill, at the banker's request. He was then
asked where he had got the bill; and he said he got it
from a man he did not know, but whom he took to be the
mate of a vessel, a man whom he met at an eating-house.
He said that this man, whosenaine he had not ascertained,
asked him to cash the bill, and promised him £3 for doing
so; and that he then went to the bank and asked what
they would charge for discounting it, and that, having
been told they would charge £1 es., he then, though he
did not get it cashed immediately at the bank returned
to the eating-house, and cashed the bill " out
of his own
private money." This was what he told the police-officer,
and then, at his own request, he was taken to the eating.
house in Oldhall-street, kept by a person named Wolscroft,
where the police-officer was told by the landlord that the
prisoner was in the hasbaiiltofthecormeinwgith him;there, a
buytotuhangt they
had not observed any or
with him sometimes, but, in answer
tohadthbeeen in w
prisoner's pqanueyst
question, whether they had not seen him
pay the money to
both the landlord and the
m
servant-girl denied
seen any such thing. The
humble house,
thhaerin man,g
and with every appearance of
poverty about it. H
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rni*
sghae.dt, the time in a very
is attire, as he stood in the dock, was
threadbare and ragged. Exculpatory oi'lcifuco was pro.