New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-17

I Of No "a widest Mr. Eewklrk was then que'honed
- .,A % 4, and stated that he had boughtit OF Pat
rick Cooney sf No 22O Second st. Wlliamsourgn Tue
truth of which statement Cooney when questioned u'u
! M, depv He wss taken before Justice Welsh sua
made an affidavit tina, he bought the copper OF TWO per-
,op, one Of whom Is known by the name OF Boa'man
lin and stated that he thought he could ind the men,
hut aer having been allowed between three and four
weeks 10 hunt them up and falling to do 50, he was yes
terdsy brought before the magistrate and committed 70
prison.
RARARous ASSAULT UPON CHILD
A man named VIM. Lyons was arrested ON Thursday
night by Officer Collins tf the First Ward, on complaint
Of Julia Gibney No IS Washingtonst, who charges that
Lyons beat his SOD, lad of years of age In most
shameful manner. The cbld's whole person waI dread
fully lacersted and bruised by he heavy blows which
be had received from a thick rope Toe brutality ls
said to have been committed by the father In
qucnce of the child having been unsuccessful 10 beg
gipg tour upon which he had been sent. Lyons was
locked up by Justice Bogat
CHARGE OF FALSE PRETENCEs.-AG Ger
man named Louis schafer was yesterday arrested by
Officer Elder of the Lower Police Court charged with
Sophia Wolf to paper by Of which she was
che ated out of $780, The accused was held by Justice
Osborn for examination.
TIE CASE OF GEORGE G. HAMILTON,
CHARGED BY A. B. CoRw1NE, ESQ, U,<S. Consul AT
PANAMA, WITH FoRGERY.-DeeisioH Of The Magistrate
in reference TO The Jurisdiction In The Maer-George E.
Hapiton was brought before me by warrant issued
upon the oath Of A. B. Corwne, who complains thai.
Hamilton In the early part of the month of January last
forged the following letter with intent to deraud him
aud by which he was, the Let of February following
at Panama, defrauded out of twenty-five thousand dol
| lars;
NEw.YoEK Jan. o. 1852.
| SIR: You hereby authorized to draw bt tnree
DAYS sight on the Ocean Bank of New YORK City, for
and to the amount Of $4,000 provided said drafts are
used for the purpose Of forwarding the passengers
pec ed In your charge steamship Pioneer, from Pana
| ma to San Francisco.
! Assistsn, Cashier of Ocean Bank, NY. City.
NEwYoRK, Jan 90, 1852.
GEO F. HAMILTON Sir: You are Instructed to pro.
coed 10 Panama with the passengers holding through
,ickets and In you are disappointed In the Monu-
mental City, make the best possible arrangements you
can 10 forward them, and should your funds fall short
you will draw us in favor Of Hon. A. b. Corwne,
our Consul, for the amount you require. We expect
yen to be punctua and act with all the dispatch you
| possibly can. Your obedient servants
SPOFFoRD q TILEsroN,
w. J. T. TAPscoTT & Co.
The facts as presented by Corwne are, tina! II anil
ion Immediately previous to the LIST of February, ar
rived at the sthmus direct from New York. with about
two hundred passengers, who held through tickets Of
passage TO California. Hamilton, arriving at Panama
being without any vessel to convey his passengers for
ward San Francisco and without means to purchase
one applied to the firm of Corwne Bros Co. present
Al
the agent of spoford Tileston & Co.. and Tapscott &
Co He proposed 10 engage the said firm TO provide
,hp and forward the passengers to San Francisco for
the houses he pretended to represent and on punt
Of the purported makers OF these said letters Corwne
states that relying upon the said representations he did
not doubt that Hamilton in truth the agent of these
houses whose character and respectabiy he knew to
be unqueAhoned hesitaed to believe that the let
ters were true and genuine and adds that, upon the
stb and credit of the,e papers and Instruments and
his confidence In the integrity Of Hamilton and the
truth of his statements he undertook to furnish aud
forward and did provide vessel and carry these said
passengers from Panama to San Francisco at a cost of
more than $4,000
Is further proved by Corwine that after making this
outlay, he dispatched messenger with the letters (ac
compahied by HaInion) to NewYork, where, on arrv-
ing It discovered that not only Hamilton not
On agent Of either Of these firms but also that the let
ten were utterly false and fictitious.
The defendants counsel, without going into further
examination, subui.ted that taking Corwines relation
Of this after TO be strictly true, Oense had been
committed in New.Ycrk; that ii any crime bad been
committed It was committed at New Grenada, where the
false papcs were uttered and had their effect or tina!
if G should DO Otherwise determined, still the defend
ans could not be kcd on the grougd that the insIru
ments themselves the subject of forgery In this
that if genuine they would create liability ia
part Of the parties making them that they simply
false tokens, false writing, amounting perhaps to
fase pretense Ia writing Il is true, as stated by
counsel that TO give jurisdiction the crime be laid
md proved TO be In this City Il muss DO shown thl,
The forgery was committed in the City and County OF
NewNoIk but Is not equally certas thatthe utterng
OF forced papers Is part Of the oense of forgery aud
therefore proof conclusive that the papers are forged
where they are published. It's by The law
forging Tiabe only where the false papers made TO
oo rate for fraud and the Of counsel In relying upon
the case OF Rsthbun is that In that not the forgery
but The uerng Of the forged paper, knowing It to be
false which 10 ar Independent and distinct oense from
false msking-is not indctable ia the County where
the forged Instrument made, but must be tried 10
TIE County where the publication occurred Tnat Of
fepae 10 trable where an ofense is cOnsumma.ed is
undoubtedly true, as in the cited where poi.
soIous drug was with intent 10 destroy lfe incl0sed
by letter from ore State party In another andthere
produced death and where person one side Of the
Dividing line Of two States with intent murder fired
gun. killing another Ia the djoining State But the
sppcaon of the law goverDlngn these cases does not
control in the case under consideration, and for the
reason tina, in the the ACT Of killing, and not the