The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-09-19 00:00:00

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POLICE.

Denottaxr..-14in Morrison Ives pet to the bar,,
charged with teodurttilia forted 11. Bank of Eugland
nose in payment. .
James.Parslow stated that hews. servant to Wm.
Poole,. haberdasher, Barbican • hat
Prisoner cameon Saturday
night last, about eleven o'clock the , t
into his master's. shop, and agreed to purchase a
child's cap for five shilling!' and six-pence, is pay.
meat for w.hialt hepresented.a one pound note. He;
the. witeess, took it to the shop of. a Mr. Parlett, to
get itchaegetL, who said it was a forged note, and.
'arccompanted the witneaa to his master's shop, where
the Primmer was. He gave his name and addiess,l
John Morrison, segar-baker, Golden-lane. Witeol
he beard a constable was sent for he attempted to
escape, but was prevented. He appeared much in-
tolieated.
The Prisoner in his defence said, he met with an
add shipmate's wife, and they had a glass or two
[together, after which she gave hire the it: note, and
desired him to go and buy the child's cap ; he
had sot seen bet since, or did he know where to
find her.
Owe of the Inspectors from the Bank proved that
the note was a forgery.
• The Solicitor of the Bank said, that this case had
been laid before the Committee of the Directors of
the Bank, and that ou account of the Prisouer being
intosicated, they thought he might be imposed on,
therefore they did not wish to press the prosecution.
Sir Was. LE'quvost, the.sittieg Alderman, said,
he did not know by what scuffs of justice the Com.
mutes of Directors decided, for he had just left the
Old Bailey, where a man was trying for a similar
offence,. and it did not appear to him ao clear a case.
—The prisoner was discharged.
John. Goole was charged with passing a forged 11.
note to./4r. Relay !ticket, No. 5, West Smithfield,
grocer, on the 15th of August.—lle was remanded
for a week •t the desire of the Bank Solicitor.
George Baker was charged with passing a forged
It. note to George. Ballard, baker, No. Fleet-
lane, ou the 2.34 of August.—lle was also remanded
for further examaivatiou by the desire of the Bank.
Solicitor.
IfFrros.ratuose.—Yesterday 77_ornas Faulkner
and 'George POdeaux were brought up for examine.
'ion,: charged with
.frnudulently personating and
forging the names of two Stewards to a Benefit Society,
to a receipt by which means they obtained 1001., paid
atom in two 501. Bank of England notes, by Mr.
Robert Parrott, Clerk to the Savings Bank, iri Pan.
ton-street, Haymarket, and which sum was deporited
there for thetas of the Society. The case excited
much interest; but Mr. Harmer, Solicitor for the
Prosecution, being out of town and unable to attend,
the Prisoners were committed for further examination.
M A KLIICIROUGU-STREET.— A y oung man, named
Thomas, was charged with obtaining by fraudulent
means, a quantity of timber, the property of Mr.
White, a merchant.—The Magistrate was of opi-
nion that the felony had been committed, 'and the
:Prisoner was remanded.
Lamarru-svaerr.—Yesterday William Dories, a
young man, was brought up, charged by Mr. Nathan
Canstell, f East Smithfield, surgeon, with being a
common utterer of base coin.—He was committed to
take his trial.
UNION.UALL.—A charge of a novel nature was
yesterday .4rought.uuder the notice of the Magis-
trates:--Mary Barker, who stated that she resided
in Gilbert's-buildings, Drury-lane, was charged by
William Geer, an Inspector appointed by the Corn.
missioners for granting Licences to Pedlars, and
Thomas Harrison, a well-known informer, with
hawking, selling, and exposing to sale; a number of
.benefit tickets, for admission to the Coburg Theatre,
she not being the manufacturer thereof.
.Deere stated, that great complaints had been made
by persons connected with the Coburg Theatre, and
mach inconvenience had been experienced from the
4,11M1110.4 traffic carried on at the doors of the
theatre by the purchasers arid venders of tickets.—
He observed the Defendant sell several of them on
Thursday night at the entrance of the Theatre, and
shin asked her if she bad a licence; she replied in
the negative, and gave her address. On going to
brr residence he found a printed bill placed in
.the window, with the words 4‘ Dealer in Benefit
Tickets," sad in the boese he foetid abundance of
those articles. Consideriug.thatahe was liable to the
,penalty eider the Act of Parliament, with that int-
.pression he brought the case before the Magistrates.
The MAGISTItitc said, that in his opinion it was
not a case within the meaning. of the Act for the rf.
jollities of Hawkers and Pedlars, and Petty Chap-
men, and dismissed the complaint.
The Defendant expressed her gratitude for the de.
cision ; she said that she had carried on the business
for a considerable time without an idea that it could
.be deemed in any way illegal.
Catharine Marione was brought before the Ma.
last/ate under the following circeorstencet:—Ow
Thursday, an interesting girl, about 14 wears of age,
applied at the office, stating that she bad just tetun•
ed home from a place where she had been at service,
and that her mother-in-law (the Prisoner) had taken
all her money and clothes away from her, beat her,
and turned her out of doors. The Sitting Magistrate
directed an officer to accompany the girl to the re-
sidence of her mother-in-law, ascertain the troth of,
the matter, and procure, if posiible, the teltitution
of her clothes and money. When the officer arrived
at the house, the woman told bins with shameless
effrontery, that she had spent the money and pawned
the clothes. After much peesuosionehe accompanied.
'the oificer and girl to the wend pawnbrokers wish
whom she lad pawned them, and thenfficer succeed-
ed in procuring the restltetion df nearly the .whole.
They then returned to her residence ; end, While
the officer was exhorting leer to receive the child again
under her protection, and behave ter her like st)
af-
Tectionete permit, she dew into a vinken.t passion, at-
tacked the poor girloord beat her amost.couelly 4 and,
upon the officer interfering, .be bidked and bit him
in ti 'Wiens manner. An infant of 'four meaths.old,
whkris terd been intrusted to iherto riotsevarnl which.
the held ilose to heeled," dirciag the outtegeous at-
tack, wasot lastttaken•ferise 'her .by .tout iwa state
oistrengblasion : a pmiodtof two bouts elapsed.be.
fore thechild-was rettoreditn.animatiow: .the officer
then took her into custody.--111be was ordered to find
bail.

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FRIDAY, Styr. 18.
FORGERIES OF BANK NOTES.
Plizabellr Brooks stood indicted for feloniously uttering and
dispesing ofa certain paper. purporting to be a toe pound note
strike Guvetnor and Company a the Book of England, with
latent to defraud the said (inventor and COmpriny, on the 21st
of Me law. She was also charged with an intention of de-
l/midis' John 'White. grocer, of No. 93. Allsop's-buildings,
New•road, by tendering to him the said note iu payment for
certain articles of his trade.
The Prisonev, who appeared. to betarespectable woman. de-
nied ail knowledge of the note being a forgery. She Recounted'
for the note io.questioa. by, saying that a Gentlemaa had given
k-
m her. and who had made an appointment to sleet h the,
Satardny tollowing. • On the clay mentioned in the indictmeat,
she was on her way to the Edgeware-road after a ation, and'
went into the shop of Mr. White for the purpose:of situ
purchasing
the articles in question. Having done this, she proceededtt
wards Bhickfriars-road, to her daughter's. when the Olken
took her into custody. When she tendered the note to illr.
White. she had not said that she lived in Mary's-Once, bat Anal
she had formerly lied' there, *Wet that time resided in George-
street, Finromquare. The reason she aid not give her pro-
per addresss was, that if her situation was known, it .wtruW
greatly distress her family. The good note found in her pos-
session, she said she received fur Iwo coats which she had sold.
Site called no witnesses, nor did she call any person to her
character.
r. Unroll' GUMMI' stemmed up the evidence, and the Jury
found her Guilty— Denth.
Mary Smith. aged 3ti, stood indicted for feloniously tittering
and du:peeing of two notes for one pound each. portion* to
beef the Gaverinwanst CompanN of the Hank of England,with
totem to defraud the said Governor and Company, on the 19th
rsf July Imo. in the parish of St. James Clerkenwell. She was
also charred with an intention to defraud John Farrow, a
ektft.essalesnurn of Whitecroesssireet, on the same day. hy ten-
dering Aim Menton in gioestioa for some clothes which she per-
chased of him. The Pristiner went three times in one day,
twice net of which, the Prosecutor swore Me Prisoner paid
hie a forges n..te.
Three persons swore positively to the person of the Prisoner.
The Officer who searched thel3r.sner's lodging produced the
apparel which the Prisoner was described to have worn on the
day mentioned, which was sworn to by Mr. and-Mrs. Farrow
and their servant.
Cross-examined.—He knew a person named Driscoll; she
resesilded he Prisoner in souse degree: she lived to the
net
!tont-hood of Mr. Farrow ; she was at large on the 19th ofJuly.,'
lie never saw her dressed in a blue gown; she generally worse'
yellow one.
Mr. Farrow was recalled. He knew Mrs. Driscoll very
well ; -he was a good deal like the Printer, brit he could
state pnsiisely that it was not her that paid him the notes is
question.
The Prisoner. in her defence, tiredded most solemnly that she
knew rolling of the transnction. She d worked very hard
for 16 years. und'oever had any charge against her before. She
ended the following witnesses to prose an alibi.
flieherd Neville. a tosser of the Prisoner, snore positively
-that she Was not out of her house on the dos. m •fltioned in the
indictment, from ten o'clock in the morning till past two. lie
had only lodged with the-Pri.oner a fat nova oelore the present I
transac-ion. and knew nothing of her prior to that time.
James Harvey cnrrohornted the testimony of the former wit-
new. es did another person, named Richard Mullins, and the
Prisoner's daughter.
Ten a itnesses, some of whom had known the Prisoner 18
years, vise her a most excellent characler.
Mr. Jmoice HANLEY summed up the evidence with crest
ininitteaeses observing particularly on the fact of mine of the
goods purchased of Mr. Farrow being room! in the possession of
the Prisoner, and also on the difference between the testimony
of Neville and Horses, the one having sworn that Neville went
op stairs to wine his letter before dinner oldie the Other swnre
it was after, and the former 'haring also sworn that they had
gone to tit. Paul's in the morning while the hitter swore that
they had not. Those were points for the Jury's consideration.
and in coming to a couclusion, how far these .differences w auld
vitiate their testimony. The whole of their evidence inns be
taken into consideration. They would also hear in mind that
when two persons wished to speak the troth little points of dif-
ference would frequently arise which would not agree their evi-
dence generally. The excellent character dint had been given
of she Prisoner wield no doubt have its due weight. lu respect
to the goes ' as to whether it was the person named Driscoll
who gave Mr Furrow the notes, his lordship expressed his
opinion to he that of Mr. N'arrow's evidence clearly proved
that was nut the case. The fact of the witnesses being nit of
Court when each other were under examination, would pretreat
their correcting each other if their evidence did not correspond;
it was therefore not unlikely that if any plot hod hero formed
hut it would !nitre been exposed. The evidence of Neville and
Harvey. the Jury would recollect, agreed iu every thing but
those points he had noticed.
The Jury found her Not Guilty.
-The Pri-outer appeared to he extremely affected, and was
thrice obliged to be taken from the bar, The trial occupied six
hours.

CONDUGT'OF CORONERS.

ADJOURNED INQUEST.

A Joey was simmers/NI on Tuewlas
Mni ,to hold an Inquisi-
it
lion on the body of r. Jeuhtia Crau Hinter mod glazier, of
New Exchange-court, Strand, at the :itched House Tavern,
in the said court.
A person presented himself as Coroner, and having adminis-
tered the mond oath to the .fury. he accompanied them to take
a view of thr biody. After they returned to the Jury-room, the
Foreman remal keel. that the person who presided wns so much
intoxicated, as to he incapable of taking the evidence. and he
gospel-led that he WAS not the Coroner; and if he was the (*Aro-
oer, he thought that be ought out to come •to take an !swiped in
such n sinention. .
The assumed Coroner. uho said that his name was Futteter,
replied. in a manner almost unintelligible from the Fired of
the liquor he had drank, that " be came fur his governor, Mr.
Stirling."
The constable (Nettleton) said, that he hoped the Jury would
nest suffer the person to proceed with the Inquest, or lie might
he tonsured for it.
The .1 dry moastiononsly declared. Ihnt the engniry 0;00(141M.
prneeed, as they were of opinion that the y were not competent
to hold an Inquisition, not hissing been "legally WWI: and
empanelled by one of his Majesty's Cornoem.'
A long discussion took pl.,ce, in which the Jiffy animadverted
upon the conduct of Mr. Stirling. iu sending suds a person to
hold an Inquisitino.
On Thursday night the Jury. re-assembled. and Mr. Stirling
attended. and having sworn the Jury, they reviewed the body
of the deceased, and noticed some cuts about the forehead and
face, and marks on tse hack of the head.
The wit nes-es were again sworn. and from their evidence it
Appeared, that on the night of the lith irst. the deceased left
home about hall! nit eight o'clock, in pre feet hea'th. and alma(
'Mae o'clock he *us teenwt the corner of Turnstile. Ifolhisru. in 1
a convulsive St ; it took sit men to hold him, his convellsincs I
were so smug, that he tore their clothes. After he had Fero.
vered a tithe, he was taken to a watch-Atonie onSaffrsen-loill, and
was put into the usual place of security. On hiss way theme ho
fell several times backwards. and it was- sopnosed that a ve.sel
in the bead was ruptured. The deceased's wife hearing of his
confinement, went to the watch-honse. and was informed that he
I we' intoxicated. She told them that he never look liquor ;non
excess, and that he most he unwell. After some time the de-
ceased was brought out of the dark room ; he was quite insow-
sihle ; his wife procured a coach at five o'clock son Sunday
morning. being unable to get one before. and the deceased was
conveyed home. A watchman acootripanied him.
Mn. Gone informed the Jury, that the deceased's clothes
were wet through when she found him in the dark-room, and
she was informed that he was thought to be an impostor, and a
bucket of water was thrown upon him to bring him to his
Ames. When he nrrived at hnnie the sent for a surgeon. who'
said that he was dying, and he could not render hien any as-
sistance.
Mr. J. IL Roy, surgeon, deposed. that be had examined the •
hotly of the deceased, and was of opinion that the external s in-
knee wassuMcient on cause his-death. His frequently falling in
the mannerrirscribed by the witnesses would produce all the ex-
ternal appearnsiCem.
The Foreman or the Jury then roldresofsd Ihe Coronet npon
the impropriety of a ilreinkrei man belnesene so take an In-
quests Ise hoped such a recurrence would pever take place
again. %
The Coroner made no reply.
The Jury returned a verdict of—" Died %by the visitation of
God." .
An flagelsition sirne Olsen nn Friday of St. Ilarebnlample,
Bospltalots she body nf Mr. Jess. Clements, of Thilwieh. The
Slreented was In Ssisliklield.intrlsei sin Tuesday, when a blame
flat was haferfl6ll ha wean toush fright. lift,eisdenvoored to
smp the anisnal by seizing the bridle, !rot at the inuocot his feet
slipped. he fell down, and the horse and ein passed user hht
Italy. Verdict—" Aceideatal Death, by the wheel of a cart
passing ort.r. his body,"