The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-06-23

wanted to buy saddle horse Mr. Herbert had known
HIM some time, and believing his statement. allowed
him TO take the horse for the purpose mentioned lie
Also obtained horse from Mr. Alphonsc Bouret under
similar circumstances The prisoner was not author
posed OF both OF them for $3.50 10 Mr. LOUIS Bernstein
OF Thirty hhh street. although Mr. Herbert valued his
oner testified that he lost the money In street car,
and other allegations OF similar nature having been
proved against him. he was found guilty, and yester-
day sent TO the State Prison for the term OF i've yeara
fELoxIoUs ASSAULT
George Brown Of No. Is Oak street, aged twenty
years, was charged with feloniousy assaulting John
Devine with knife infcting wounds his face and
head and also with stabbng in the arm Nary Curtis
who was with Devine Al the time He WAS found guilty
OF assault and battery and sent TO the Penitentary
Tor one year.
UrTERING yoRGKD BONDS.
Charles G. williamson alias Charles Stevens. was
arragned at the bar charged with uttering forged
bonds, knowing them 10 be forged The prisoner has
already been convicted under similar indictment and
sentenced TO five years. imprisonment in the State
Prison. Assistant District Attorney Rollins and As
sisant District Attorney Lyon appeared for the prose-
cution and the prisoner defended by Mr. A. Oakley
Hail. In opening the Mr.. Lyon stated that the
9th Of August 1879 the prisoner rendered forged bonds
for 81, 900 on the Buffalo and Erie Railroad 10 the
Guaranty and Indemnity Company and it would be the
duty Of the prosecution show that at the time he
uttered the bond he knew II 10 be forged On the DAY
In question he offered twenty OF these bonds Mr..
Ogden the president OF that company. He asked for
loan on them and received about seventy per cent Of
their alleged value. He executed stock
note In hts and after he de-
posted these bonds with Mr. Ogden he received
check to his order which check paid by the
company These bonds turned out two weeks after
wards 70 DO forged Between the % and Both of Augus
1878, The prisoner negotiated other loans the
issue, leaving tho bonds collateral There
all about eighteen or nineteen transactions He re-
ceived from Mr. Hardcnburg 81, 100 August o. and
on the same Day he negotiated twenty Of these bonds
receiving $l4 $50 from another On August 20
he negotiated thirty bonds the New York Central
Railroad, receiving SIS 000 On the 30th he offered
Messrs Eddy Co thirty bonds the Now York
Central, upon which he was 10 receive $4,000 II the
suspicious OF Mr. Hobrook had not been aroused and
which led 10 the fight OF the prisoner and his subso
quent In all there l20 of these bonds Of
ST. 600 each tho Buffalo and Erie and the New York
Central railroads. negotiated in twenty-elght days.
The prisoner had already been convicted OF burglary in
the third degree. Mr.. John Sparks Clerk OF
the Court OF General Sessions first called the
witness stand, but Mr.. Hall objected any evidence
being gwen under the indictment on tho ground that
II was an impossible Indictment tho alleged offence
having been committed an impossible day The in
dicment he said, was absolutely repugnant In regard
to any fact OF which the Court expected to tako
notice The indictment rccited previous conviction.
He sentenced TO four years and months which
term had expired whom tho alleged offence said
70 have been committed The indictment, in fact,
charged abi and did not set forth the manner OF
his discharge. Communication, he commended, WAS not
expiration Mr.. Rollins submitted that the prisoner
discharged by reason of hts sentence having
pired, part OF the term having been committed
count of good behavior. The question ably argued
at length both sides. Judge G,ldcrsleeve said he
would 0verrue the motion Tor the present Mr. Sparks
produced the records OF tho Court OF General Sessions
OF the 18th of February, 1859, setting forth the
victon and sentence OF Charles Stevens Tor burglary
Mr. W. l. Hull, foreman saddler in Sing Sing Prison,
identified the prisoner having been incarccrated
between 1869 and 1873 The hearing OF the will
DO resumed this morning