The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-19 00:00:00

FORGERY

John Barlow Love, a respectable looking man, aged 55,
was indicted on a charge of having uttered a forged bill of
exchange to Messrs. Barlow and Co., leather-dealers Dale-
street. Mr. Henderson was for the prosecution, and Mr.
Ramshay for the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence,
that the prisoner called at the prosecutors, with whom he
had previously dealt, and purchased a quantity of leather to
the amount of £59 45., if paid in cash , promising to call
next day with the money. Next day he called, and brought
two bills in payment ; one for £3O, and one for £29 4s.
One of these (that for the £3O) was drawn by the prisoner,
and accepted by a Patrick John Tierney. The prisoner in-
dorsed the bill, saying that Mr. Tierney was a highly eminent
man in the town of Kells, near Dublin. It was received as
good, but was returned unpaid. The evidence of Patrick
Tierney, a gentleman retired from business, and residing with-
in six miles of Kells, which last town he well knew, said
there was no such person as Patrick John Tierney living
there, but there was a poor labouring man of the name of
Patrick Tierney lived in the neighbourhood, who was not in
a condition to accept such a bill. The signature to the ac-
ceptance was not witness's handwriting. The prosecutor
admitted that since he received the bill in question, the pri-
soner had paid him the sum of £2O towards the bill. Mr.
Ramshay ably cross-examined the witnesses, and addressed
the jury with great force and ingenuity in behalf of the pri-
soner. The jury retired to consider their verdict, and after
being absent about ten minutes, brought in a verdict of guilty.
He was put down.
Mr. Henderson stated to the Court, that there was another
serious charge against the same prisoner ; and as a conviction
had been on the forgery, and there were a great number of
witnesses in the case alluded to, he wished to be guided by
the Court as to whether it would be necessary to proceed
with it ?
(The case referred to was a charge against the prisoner for
having received, in February last, two thousand three hun-
dred and thirty pounds weight of silk, the property of Samuel
Briggs and others, he knowing the same to have been stolen.
The circumstances were laid before the public at the time ;
and it may be added as somewhat remarkable, that the par-
ties who stole the property are not yet known, and (we learn)
that the wife of the prisoner has been offered £5O by the
owners, if he would give such information as would lead io
their conviction. On his being applied to, however, for that
purpose, he stated that he could not supply such informa-
tion, inasmuch as he was not personally acquainted with
them at all, and only received the silk to be sold in his
usual way of business as a commission agent—adding that
he could not point them out, though ten times the amount
offered were griewto him.)
The Recorder in reply to Mr. Henderson, said, that as the
prisoner had been convicted on the charge of forgery, it
would not be necessary to go into the other, and the witnesses
might therefore be discharged. Sentence deferred.
The recorder only sat for a few hours on Saturday, when
the cases having been gone through the Sessions terminated.

SKULL OF A FEMALE FOUND—Yesterday morning, great
part of the skull of apparently a female was found in the
privy of an uninhabited house in Great George-street, and
was conveyed to the coroner's office. The skull-cap is defi-
cient, and appears to have been removed by sawing on the
left side of the skull above the ear, and breaking on the
other. On the right side, near the temple, there is a semi-
circle inverted at the margin of the bone, evidently the lower
part of a circle made in trepanning with a circular saw.
Further back on the same side, is also the remains of another
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Late on Wednesday night last two men were killed on the
Eastern
_ Counties Railway, at, itham, near Chelmsford, by
the falling of upwards of 300 tons of earth,