The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-05-31

SBNr ON.-The continued case of Edwin Cooke,
charged with feloniously endorsing the name of J..
v. Crawford upon a negotiable note drawn by the
said Edwin Cooke for sos o. payable four months
after date to the said J. v. Crawford ORDER and
purporting to be endorsed by the said v. Craw.
ford, with intent to defrsud, came up before his
Honor yesterday.
MrJ. v. Crawford was first called for the com
monwealth. He deposed: Some time last summer,
one day while in the Farmers Bank of Virginia,
my attention was called by Mr. Williams, think it
was to Tote for s95 06. He said he had felt 1t to
be his duty to show it to me, because he thought
from the looks of the writing that there was some
doubt as to its being my signature endorsed upon
the back of it. l looked at the endorsation of nv
name, and pronounced it to be forgery. l never
wrote my name upon it. Cannot say what has be
come OF the note. | enquired at the bank some
three or four days after this, but informed that
it had been taken out by whom did not know
Immediately advertised in the papers for it. Ed
win Cooke was the drawer of the note, which was
made payable to J. v. Crawford The last holder
and endorser of the note understood to be man
named Christian, who resides at the college.
think the note was dated about the 18th or 10Th of
hpiAJ AO0S, ahu was iOi iOui uOutub MT WlNlamS
was the receiver of notes on deposite. This one
was made negotiable and payable ct one of the
banks.
The counsel for the accused here stated that tx
did not DESIRE on the part of Mr. Cooke to examine
any witnesses at that time. They had thought pro
per to postpone any introduction of testimony on
the part of the accused well as the cross exami
nation of witnesses until some future time in ano.
Their place and they had been brought to that con.
cluson by understanding it to be rule adopted By
his Honor TO send on all cases where testimony was
presented tending to convict an accused party of
certain grave charge.
The Mayor stated that the law which guided him
in his action, was clear and positive enoining that
he should enquire into the probable cause of alleged
misdemeanor, and send on or not according to ties.
tmony. He might differ with members of the bar
as t. what constituted that probable cause.
Robert Hill was then sworn and exam ned by the
Mayor-A note for Ss5 C6, payable in four months,
was brought tc me by Mr. Cooke, as a seller of pa
per- last year. l sold the note to Fl. J Christian,
professor in Richmon College. At the time when
there was some talk about Mr. Cookies committing
forgery, Mr. Cooke came to me and asked me 10
buy the note for him in order that he might satisfy
Mr. Crawford and other gentlemen that it was not a
forgery. purchased the note from Mr. Christian
and gave it to Mr. Cooke. Do not remember the
date OF the note. Keep memorandum of the sale
OF notes generally, but frequently it is ten or twelve
days before post them. Have not seen the note
since gave it to Mr. Cooke. / had an order from
Mr. Christian to get it out OF the bank Got the or.
der by paying for the note. Ireceved some prop.
artv in Mprchaater AZ l. f
the note.
MIR Crawford recalled by the Mayor. Mr. Cooke
never called upon me for the purpose of satisfying
m that tde note was not forgery. He did speak
to me about the advertisement in the paper for the
note, and wanted me to keep it out charged him
then with having forged the note at that time and
do not think he denied the charge. He did deny
it to others.
Mr. c.. V. Williams, receiving teller at the Farm.
ers' Bank, testified that en- the 18th of June 1852
Mr. Il J. Christian deposited note drawn by Ed.
win Cooke, endorsed by J. " Crawford dated
10th April 1852, for the sum of sos 06, payable In
four months, on the 10th and 18th August The
note was returned on the 2sth of June, upon au-
thority OF an order from Mr. Christian
Messrs Mosby Woodson and Cornelius Crew
were then called to the stand, and the Msyor
stated that it having been represented to him that
Mr. Cooke had been guilty of offences similar to
that with which he then stood charged, he should
proceed to examine these gentlemen with reference
to these alleged charges. Messrs August and
Crane, counsel for the accused, objected to this
mode of procedure, on the grounds first, that evi
dence relating to other charges, should not be
brought in here, but that the prosecution should
proceed step by step and count by count, and Sc
condly that for the protection of an accused party
the law required thst complainant should swear
TO, and be responsible for a warrant authorizing
an arrest 80 that in he should bring false
and unjust prosecution he might be held account
able for it.
The Mayor then said that he should commit Mr.
Cooke to Jail for examination upon the charge pre-
ferred by Mr. Crawford, of forgery, before the
Hastings Court in June next; and although ne ala
not think that he in in admitting the eVi-
dence of Messrs Woosson and Grew in the manner
proposed and at this particular juncture, without
special warrant, yet he would take until thursday
In order to consider if the law did not unquesuon
ably sustain the of procedure ne nad ADOPT
| ed Mr. Cooke was then remanded to jail.
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