The Sun. — 1838-08-27 (London, England)

TILE QUEEN V. .IC:.'57.`"NP row, At the sitting of the Court, • Mr. TnomAs rose, and requested that their Lordships wou, i u be pleased to appoint a day for the trial of the prisoners Myers and Pow, against whom a true bill had been returned by the grand jury for murder. Mr. PHILLIPS and Mr. BODKIN rose and said that they were both engaged on the same case and on the same side with Mr. Thomas, and they did not know by what authority he made the application. It was a case certainly in which many serious preliminary consultations must take place before ttny motion could be made on their behalf, to expedite the trial of the case. After some conversation an the subject between Mr. Thomas and the other Counsel, Mr. Justice BosANQUET—Th. application is certainly premature. Up to the time of the rising of the court the application had not been renewed, although it was understood that an intention to that effect had existed during the day on the part of the Counsel for the prosecution ; and it is now deemed probable that the trial will come on Monday. At the same time, however, as neither of the prisoners are yet in custody, it is in their power to postpone the further investigation of the case to any subsequent day of the session. It is probable that the case will be tried before Mr. Justice Bosanquet, the senior judge presiding at the present sessions, as the depositions of the witnesses have been placed in his hands, which is the course of proceed. tog usually adopted when cases of a serious nature are to be tried. Mr. Prendergast and Mr. Doane are engaged to conduct the case for the prosecution, while Mr. C. Phillips, Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Thomas are retained for the defence. Edward Kissac, aged 20, a young man of respectable demeanour, was indicted for feloniously forging and uttering a bill of exchange for 75/., with intent to defraud Messrs. Mas terman and Co., the bankers. From the evidence of the witnesses called it appeared that the prisoner was a young man of respectable family, and resided at Douglas, in the Isle of Man. On the afternoon of the 12th of July, he entered the Bell Tavern, Gracechurch!tree!, and ordered his dinner, which having been served, he inquired whether the landlady could send some respectable person to Messrs. Masterman's, to receive some money for him. She answered that her son would go, and the prisoner then gave him a letter directed to Messrs. Masterman, together with a card, on which his name was written, telling him that he would receive 751., which he was to bring to him. The boy presented the note, and the bill directly was discovered to be a forgery, and of course its payment was refused. The boy returned to his mother's house, but the prisoner had in the mean time gone away. Soon afterwards, however, he returned, and was given into the custody of Forrester, the officer. The prisoner subsequently wrote to a Mr. Richardson, at Douglas, enclosing two letters, which he requested he would put into the postoffice for him there. One was addressed to Messrs. Masterman, and purported to be from Messrs. Holmes, whose signature to the order had been forged, stating that the bill was genuine, while the other purported to be from the same parties to the prisoner, apologising to him for the inconvenience to which he had been subjected. The letters, however, were handed over to Messrs. Holmes, by Mr. Richardson, and they at the same time received a letter from the prisoner himself, confessing that he had forged the note, and imploring forgiveness, alleging distress as an excuse for his crime. The jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty.