The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1856-04-05
Extensive Frauds In England.

he London Advertiser gives some par.
particulars OF the lately discovered defalca>
ton Of Mr jouS S,pIlrR, member Of
Parliament aul chairman of the London
County Bank and swedish Railway Com
pauy, which WAS creating considerable TX
c,iemcut AID sng3e embarrassment in tinah>
cla circles Ihe aggregate fraud is about
fiye millions OF dollars, OF which u, $50.
600 is by way of over-issue OF the shares
and obligations Of the Swedish railway
he Advertiser SAYS
There D., every reason 10 hril~,e That
When all i, known It vnl be found that the
amount ol ltaAds of which the lato ilr
John Sadher has been guilty will not 6e
much under 600 600 First, it has been
ascctisued beyond all question, that VIZ
>ailirt had forged no fewer than 80 600
Roval swedish Railway Company shares
and obligations OF 10 each on which large
sums ol money were raised. lhI- forgery
hloua Il, 10 the nominal sun Of taio 600.
oul, d, u not vet known what amount he
was able to RAISE an thc shares aud obi.
eatious. ~ addition to these lot,efle.,
there are lofgruos of several deeds and
mortgages of estates In Ireland As re-
CARDS these, however the extent IS not vet
known. Boz perhaps the bolde.t and most
daring forgetls al all are those which relate
to the deeds Tor the purchase OF property
in the Remembered Estates ourt OF Ire,
land The forged deeds pVrport 90 bear
the signatures OF the commissioners, the
registers. the Chief clerk the solicitors inthc
various causes. and the commissioner seal
The extent TO which this class 81 lorgefles
has been committed may he lui,tred from
the lsc, that the stamp duty aloue on these
amounted to .eversl hundred pounds
A considerable number ST totle'les on
private individual. also hsve hlTeNSy been
discovered, and there Is ever, reason Ia he'
lleve tina, others vet remain 10 no ascer
tanned Those which have 'oeen detected
are supposed to amount 20 nearly Aloo,>
geo In addition to the classes ct iofge
RES already enuusefsird, NJ Sadler has
been guilty Of the as.ign"'ea; of deeds
he.d in trust hy hlm to ~ enormous amount
The draft, and all the forged deeds and
mortgages are in Nc IN HERS own hand
writing The iorgct'rs Of Signatures are
in every case remark ,blv successful Those
OF the Encountered Commissioners ARE
said 20 be so perfect that the most experts
encod sage could not dctec, the forged
deeds from the genuine.
The act OF sell destruction WAS, II Is
believed, rrecpitated by the circumstances
ot four ct the hulders.ot deeds relative 10
purchase Of ons -, the .ncumhcred estates,
who had advanced il0.O0G to Mr. Sader,
having on SATURDAY last gone over 60 ite'
land with hi. solicitors Tor the purpose OF
having the deed registered MIR Sadier
underworld to irustrare the intention Of the
party bat failed.
On the continent too, whore his usns>
actions were to An enormous extent great
alarm grevsll. In = letter which he wrote
before leaving Gloucester Square Tor
Hampstead Heath, where he pu, An end to
his existence. he declarea that without the
knowledge of any human being, unsided
aud unassis,ed, be committed the most da
bolical crimes OF which II MAS possible 60
be guilty. that these crimes must nov he
discovered and, rs they would involve the
ruin OF hundreds of innocent families, he
had preferred to die rather than witness the
suffering which they must endure
The crime Of suicide must have been
contemplated by Mr. SsdIier lor some time
before he committed the act, for he had
purchased Taylor on Poisoning aud had