Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-09-16
Saunders, the FOrger.

The New Iork Tribune contains the following
narrative of the method in which Saunders perpe-
Taed the forgery upon his employers, and his sub
scquent attempts TO escape with he spoils:
II appears that young Saunders contemplated
this forgery for time, and practsed upon the
signatures, as 10 enable him to emhr the frs,
favorable opport rtuni'y which might present itself fnr
the accomplishment of his design. On Thursday,
the 3lst Of August, after having ascertaincd the
previous morning the amount Of balances of his
employers in various hanks, and obtained checks
from the respective check books, he proceeded, a.
lone and without, any accompicr, IN fill up, sign
snd endorse the several checks, which were after
wards paid, and Of which we have before given the
particulars He was about the storc until about
eleven or twelve O'clock lie then went round
and presented the checks at the various banks, all
of which paid without hesitation or the slight
est suspicion. He afterwards called Prime,
Ward & King. and n-kcd il they could draw on
England for $4,000 aud h,ng told that they
could draw for any amount, he left and went TO
| Brown, Brothers & Co., asked the same question,
aud received the same answer. At the latter place
/ he was recognised as Austen < WiImerling's
clerk, and was asked if he wanted the draft for
them, TO which he replied in the affirmative. His
being recognised was probably the reason of his
not returning to either place.
lie then went to Fmnkiin's exchange Office, and
also to Whnes, in Wall street, and a, these two
places he purchased ahou, $4,000 of sovereigns
and Bank of England notes. He then went to the
corner Of William street and Maiden lane and pur-
chased large handsome travelling trunk, which
| was sent 10 his boarding house in Duane street,
fIe next proceeded the office Of the agent of the
Great Western aud took passage in the name OF
some gentleman as from Ohio, and paid for IT The
sum of sos. He said the passage was not lor
himself but for another.
The next we hear of him, he was at his board
ing house in Duane staeet, telling some of his fel
low hoarders tha, his father had received com.
mission in the British Army, and that he was go
ing to England in the Grea, Western, He took
carriage and left for the boat; his money, with III,
, exceptions of the sdvcreigns and Bank Of Englant
a notes, amounting to abou, $4,000, in the sam
/ bills which he had received from the banks, wa
n contained in all old pocket handkerchief. The gol
Il he had in his sile pocket. Arriving a, the foot d
:. Clinton street, he found the Western had just lei
j.. the wharf lie Immediately called bolmen to tax
=, him on board, and polling OF for :he Western, 70
8, lowed her some distance down the liver, maxim
II signals which wire understood by the Western b,
P. she was unable lie to account of the curTeT
a until she reached tie Battery.
t. Saunders aud the hoi,men, after they had 8
about as far as Roosevelt street and not succcedIr
al in getting up with the steamer, became discourage
OF gave up the chase, and pulled fcr the lAndlse
as Fulton market Up to this period all his sohem
~ had succeeded, bu, now the sudden check on b
he adventures not only completely disarsnged all !
of Plans hut dshearened him; and as the boatmc
M whose faces were of course turned to the stern
So, the boat where he was sitting, necessarily caug
ny his eye at every turn, he thought he would be
led tected and became alarmed.
nj Previous to hs going board the boat he h
The provided himself with a small avng stone, for I
sh in emergency, aud he now managed to ShP
bic into tho handkerchief with the $4,000 Of not
an. unnoticed by the boa,men. A difficulty now P
,sj sen,ed itself as he was unall, to throw the bun