The Sun. — 1850-11-28 (London, England)

BALIANTINE—WitI3ASS was merely the accAtatant of the company, and did not succeed Mr. Meyer in the office of secretary. The (chairman of the company was Lord Lonsdale. He knew nothing of the prio.iner till the month of June in the present year, but he ,sad seen:him write two or three times. Mr. Roy was the solicitor to the company. He had examined the books i❑ the presence of that gentleman, and Mr. Roy ailed h s attention to the figures 41. ss. 10d., and said he was sure they were written by the prisoner. Mr. Roy was the solicitor of the company, and he had also acted as solicitor for this prosecution, but he did not know where he was at this time. He could state distinctly :hat he Bair the prisoner write upon one occasion, and he formed his opinion of the prisoner's handwriting from this fact, and from comparisons he had made with other documents. and from what Mr. Meyer the late secretary bad told him.  Mr. R. 11. Knight, a clerk in the office of Messrs. Roy *lid Co., also spoke to his belief that the forged documents in question were in the handwriting of the prisoner. _ _  Upon cross-examination the witness said, that Mr. W. Roy attended to the duties of the Whitehaven Railway Company. He might be the solicitor. He considered that the firm were the solicitors to the company. The firm was composed of two gentlemen. Mr. William and Mr. Richard Roy. It was more than he could say where Mr. Roy was at that time. He might be at home ill perhaps. Mr. CLARKSON here interposed and said he had sent for Mr. Roy. The cross-examination was then continued, and in answer to further questions that were put to the witness ',e said that he saw Mr. W. Roy at the office on the previous afternoon, and he understood that ho had met with an accident by falling from a chaise. He believed that the solicitor fur the prisoner had called at the office with a sub; mars for Mr. Rey to produce a letter, and this fact might have been mentioned to Slr. Roy, but he did not know that it bad. He remembered a trial connected with the company taking place in Scotland, but he had no quarrel with the prisoner upon that occasion, There was a meeting of the company More this trial, and he remembered Mr. Ray telling the prisoner to take the minute book home to the residence of Mr. Meyer, in order that he might insert a resolution between the last minute and the signature of the chairman. Lord Lonsdale, so us to make it appear that the resolu• tion bad been passed at the meeting. The alteration had reference to the period for making a call, and the hook which contained the entry was put in process in the Court of Scotland. He had never heard that the prisoner had accused Mr. Roy of making false entries in the books of the company, and thereby appropriating large sums of money to his own use; but he believed he did write a letter to Lord Lonsdale complaining of his being discharged from his situation, but in which nothing was said of any misappropriation of the funds of the company. The prisoner was not given into custody till tbree months after he had written this letter:  calling out, the other man proceeded to strangle her by twisting sorm.thing round her neck, from the effects of which she fell down and became quite insensible. She further said that on the Saturday night previously, during the temporary absence of her master and mistress from home, a wan wearing a mask called at the house, and the moment she opened the door he wanted to get into the house, saying he know where her master kept his cash box in his bed-room, and that he (the stranger) wanted to get it. That instead of letting him set his foot inside the slammed the door in his face, and that soon afterwards her master and mistress came home. She further represented that the same man that had come there with a mask had met her in Chiswell-street, when she was going up to see her mother, who lives in Wilton. gardens. Tabernacle-square, Hoxton, and induced her to go into a house with him in that neighbourhood, where he seduced her, adding that she had seen the same man on other nights when she went on errands, and that he was frequently loitering about the house where she was in service. Acting upon the information thus given, Mr. Superintendeut Haynes had an interview with the young woman on the subject of the attempt at strangulation she asserted was made upon her, and although she at first persisted that her description of what had happened was true, she afterwarcli, upon being closely pressed, admitted that the greater portion of her statemeat was untrue, and that she had tied the cord round her neck with a view to make it appear that some perseu had attempted to deprive her of life. The superintendent added, that the medical man who was called to attend the girl pronounced it as his opinion that she could not have tied the curl in the manner it was found round her nt'ck, and that it must have ueeessarily been done by some other party. " Now," said the superintendent " if the girl had died on the spot where she was found, and under the circumstances -described, with this ligature (producing the cord) round her neck, the supposition would be that she had met with her death from violence, especially after the elector's opinion had beet; expressed, and no doubt it would have caused much excitement. That in consequence of her having subsequently confessed that she did the act herself she was taken into custody on the charge of having attempted to commit suicide.  By Mr.