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

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FOUGERY OF AN ENDOBSEMENT.—Henry Eyre, aged
48, commercial agent, was indicted for having, at Liver-
pool, on the 27th June last, issued a bank post bill for
£5OO, with a forged endorsement, with intent to defraud
Messrs. Barned, the backers, 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
£5OO, which he endorsed over to Mr. James Paul, of
Dundee, and handed to his clerk, Mr. Brydone, to be
--' sent to Mr. Paul. This was done, Mr. Brydone
ra,t +ha bal in an envelope addressed to Mr.

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been posted, the prisoner, a poor Irishman, who was at
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 f.:500 in his
hand, and asked the cashier, Mr. Goodier, whether it was
Mr. Goodier replied that the bill was good,
ant 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 ;"

a good one

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 Licaeld, 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
charae, of forging this bank post bill, and getting it
asked
bui". The prisoner replied that he did get it cashed,
from a man
onname
ehat it was not a forgery, because he wrote his own
_ the bill at the banker's request. He was then
where he shad got the bill; and he said he got it
H e said that thisammall l I
he did not know but whom he took to be the
mate of a vessel,whom he met at an eating-house.
so; and that he then wti,at andt promised him £3 for doing
asked kiln
to
cash
the till,
ose name he had not ascertained,
,eomo
Ittiile bank and asked what
they would charge for d*
would char le £1 nsgs it, and that, having
g then, though he
dbfdennototlgdetthiety
cashed imrnedia,"..dy :pank, returned
of his own
to the eating-house, ,i,Thee
tbotliakdlletehneotuloito,:hee.
officer,
private money."
and then, at his own request, he wa..l
house in Oldhall-street, kept by a perso:n named ANoe elLtrinogft.,
where the police-officer was told by the landlord that the
prisoner was in the habit of coming ther4. but that they
had not observed any sailor there with him; a young man
had been in company with him sometimes, bi2t, in answer
to the prisoner's question, whether they had nOt. seen him
pay the money to the man, both the landlord and the
servant-girl denied having seen any such thing'. The
prisoner was living at the time in a very humble louse,
and with every appearance of
very badly furnished,
poverty about it. His attire, as he stood in the dock, w'as
threadbare and ragged. ExculPatorY evidence was pro.-

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.harwoman, and wife of a sailor, was charge
1g feloniously wounded Ann Limmock, at Li

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