The Sun. — 1846-10-26 (London, England)

LAMBETH. Thomas Pim, alias Herbert Stanley, alias Peirce, alias Franks, a stout, aged man, who was described in the police-sheet as a "gentleman," was placed at the bar before Mr. Norton, on a charge of wilfully forging the name of Herbert Stanley to a bill of exchange for 631. 4s. ld., with intent to defraud Mr. William R) an, a wholesale stationer, of 10, Merchant's-quay, Dublin. Mr. Ryan, the prosecutor, stated that in the month of April last the prisoner took a paper mill, called Ballylough Mills, near Rathfarnham, in the vicinity of Dublin, in the name of Herbert Stanley ; anti soon after he was introduced to him (Mr. Ryan) by his landlord, who was a particular friend of his, as Mr. Stanley, a gentleman of considerale property from London, who had taken the mills, and who was about to carry them on with great spirit. Soon after this he (Mr. Ryan) did some business with the prisoner, and the latter being in his debt to the amount of 681.45. ld., desired him to draw a bill for three months for that sum, and he would accept it. Witness accordingly drew the bill, and the prisoner accepted it in his counting-house, in the name " Herbert Stanley." Soon after this witness came to London, and in conversation with a friend inquired if he knew any person in the paper trade named "Herbert Stanley." His friend replied that he had heard something of a person who assumed that name, but whose real name was Pan, and he (Mr. Ryan), in consequence of this intimation, was induced to make inquiries at the house, No, 7, Bradshaw • street, Old Kent-road, where he learned quite sufficient to satisfy him that Herbert Stanley was an assumed name, and that Thomas Pim was the real name of the proprietor of Ballylough mills and the acceptor of his bill of exchange. On his return to Dublin, however, he found that Mr. Herbert Stanley, alias Pim, had absconded, and made a hasty retreat from Ireland, having heard no doubt that be (Mr. Ryan) had been making some inquiries in London about him, and from that time until yesterday morning he had not seen him. It was then discovered by Mr. Jones, and there could be no doubt of the fact, that the prisoner had himself answered the reference he gave as to his respectability, for he referred to a Mr. Francis, 7, Bradshaw-street, Old Kent. road, and he (Mr. Ryan) had ascertained that tha• was the very house in which the defendant's wife and family resided ; so that the note which represented him to be a man of high respectability and property, had been written by himself in Dublin, and forwarded to London, received 'and put into the post here, and found its way back to Mr. Jones in the usual course. Mr. Ryan, in conclusion, said, that on arriving in London a day or two ago he gave information of the forgery to the police, and a description of the prisoner, and on that morning he met the prisoner in the Kent-road not far from his house, and gave him into custody. The prisoner then admitted his real name was Pim, and that he had accepted the bill in an assumed one. The prisoner, in reply to the charge, entered into a long and rambling defence, the purport of which was, that he had taken the paper mills near Dublin, in the name of a friend, who was very soon to have succeeded him, but who had since gone to America. It was his intention, he said, to have paid every person, and there would have been abundance of property on the concern to do so, and leave a surplus, but for the isssing out of a process of law with which he was not acquainted, and which swept away wholesale ten times the amount of property for a debt of 35/. Mr. NORTON, after loOking over the authorities on the subject, was of opinion that he had no jurisdiction in the case, the forgery having been committed in Dublin. The case was one, however, which in his (Mr. Norton's) opinion, required investigation, and therefore the officer would, if Mr. Ryan thought proper, convey the prisoner to Dubin to be dealt with by the magistrates there. Mr. Ryan said he certainly should take the responsibility of taking the prisoner to Dublin, as he had ascertained that for many years he had lived by taking paper mills and swindling various persons. The prisoner, who seemed very anxious to arrange the matter, was then removed from the bar.  SUICIDE OF A CLERGYMAN, AT EVERTON, NOTTS —This place was thrown into the greatest excitement on Sunday morning last, in consequence of a report that the curate to the Rev. Robert Evans had committed suicide, about ten o'clock. It seems that Mr. Cock, the curate, rose and dressed at his usual hour, but appeared to be labouring under some unpleasant sensation ; he paced about, went into the kitchen, kissed his only child, bid it good bye, then took it into another room, placed it on his knee, and immediately applying a pistol to his own head, discharged its contents into his right temple, and fell dead. The report of the pistol produced alarm in the family, who ran into the room, but the Rev. Gentleman died immediately. Various rumours are afloat as to the cause of the rash act ; domestic uneasiness is most generally assigned.' He was a very amiable and worthy minister, and his unhappy end has produced a most painful impression in the parish.