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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.Most ExTEvsive FonGEniES.—At tho Mansion House on Tuc-sday, Robert Ferdinand Pries, of No. 16, Grove-road, Bnjrtoa, merchant, vAs brourht be^oro Sir Robert W. Ccrden, in tho custody oJ Hocgett, S»e detecuvc office^charged vvilb baring knonlngly uttered forged bfuo of Sltor bv meano of ahich be obtained ^18,0U0. The oumo obtained by the SrtocmVr amount, it io believed, altogether to the enormous coo c? f35,C00. Mr Hallaotine instructed in one coce by Meooro. Crwtber and Maynard, and in another by Mr. Von Sandaa, attended for the procecntioa j Mr. WoDtner for the defence.-Mr. Ballaotioe oaid that be shoald oo the present ''caaioD merely call ni’.nesoeo whose testimony would be cafflcient to justify i remand in order tbat the police might puroue tho investigation aith ao little ieiov do possible in a caco of each ceriouo magnitude. The instance in proof 3f wxich he obould co l evidence referred to the sum of ^3,000, a part of the money advanced by one of the houses represented by him to tho prisoner spoti the security of bills of lading and other securities. Tbat outrs became lue on Saturday last, and the prieoner then gave a cheque for tho amount, vbich cheque was presented on the same day, and dishonoured at hio banker's.. a * m . i i _ I ^ A 4k.. k t /\ k «/%K Kloon after Abe presentation of the cheaue n clerk of the boue wbtch had leen thuo treated went to the prisoner’*:pccii — — prisoner o houoe, and saw his wife, who showediim a letter which abe bad received from her husband. That letter contained rtlite enough to abjw that the writer had committed the offence with which ie was charged. It expreaed Ms sorrow for having deceived Mo wife, called iron her to look with care to thetr children, and intimated that it wan hio ntentioo to put an end to himself. Tbat letter had, the learned counsel bc-ievKi, been soon afterwards burned ; but he would be* able to satlofy the ^ord Mayor that ouch a letter, written bv the pnoor.er to bio wife, had footed. At preeot he would produce evidence that the signatures to one of :he eecurttifo upon which the prisoner had obtained the money were for-leries.—Mr. Igaace Bchuloff said : I am a partner in the house of Prosper* Honteaux, and Co., foreign bankero, at No. 17, Gracecburch-atreet. I know the rrisoLtr well, and have had very exteooive money transactions with him. Re fa a merchant, in Crooby t nil Caambers. In consequence of a transaction fhich took place i took atejo for hio apprehension. —Mr. Ktmlie Adolph Ffermau: I am manage? of tho hou*e of James Holford and Co., of No. 1, New Broad street, bauhera. I know the prisoner. I received from him, on he 16t of J anunrv, these corn warranto (producing papers alleged to be forged :ecuritieo). We advanced 18,000 upon them. It was to be repaid on tbe llt;J iaet. fie put off the time of payment, and gave subsequently a cheque for £3,000, for Saturday, upon bia bankers, which cheque, u*. cur reporter on* lertood the witness, was not paid.—Mr. Samuel Barnard, confidential clerk ,o Meters. Brown and Young, lightermen and gronary-keiper*, at Bermondsey- wharf : I do not believe there io any other firm of our name in the trade. I have looked at tbe e^natures to the documents exhibited (the corn warrants). They are not in the handwriting of my employers, nor. I should say, were ;hev written with thetr authority, for the evident reason that documento )f thro kind uniformly pass through rny handa. Mr. ^ illiam F. lQgelow, prince a! clerk to Meooro. Monfeoux, SchnNtf, and Clt;., *aid : I went to tbe kooeeof the prisoner, in Urove-road, Unxton. I know hio handwriting. I saw a lady there, who showed me a letter in his handwriting. 1 read that etter so as to recollect the subject of the cmtcnta, and 1 distinctly recollect 3ne or two Bentenc- b. After he was taken into custody I went, accompanied tiv an t t cer, to the * naoner’a houtt* again, and asked f• r the letter, but was aoaMe t • i.btain it. -Mr. Bailnutire : 1 d you see the same lady who Bbowed you the letter ■—Wituesa : 1 did, and when I went into the passage to comlumcate with the detective officer 1 diuncily smelt tho burning of paper, nd cal'ed his attention to it. I am unable to obtain the letter. —Mr. Bnilnn-UM I.U' VU ... » — -----mo • Notice bhnll be given for the production of tkol letter by the lady, to rhom the prisoner is no doubt married, and if wc find that the letter hadeen destroyed we must give the best evidence we can as to its contents, lir K IV. Carden : Have you any doubt that the letter \ ou read, and which ras handed to you by the lady, was in the handwriting of the prisoner ' — Viirmso • I have no doubt of \t. The lady said when I saw her again that the otter was burnt. — Croso exaioir ed by Mr. Wontner: I cannot recall to my nind any occoBion upon which I oaw the prisoner write. I knew the letter o be from my knowledge of hi* handwriting end partly from what the lady old me. I knew hi* handwriting, end was confirmed in my opinion by rbst the Indy said. —Joseph Huggeit (of the City Detective Police): I took he orison or into custody at the station of the North V\ ef Tern Railway at nino Ykck on Saturday evening, juvt ao the train was about to etart. He wao in ne of the carriages, and had a firbt-claao ticket for Newcastle. He had with tm a carpet bog and a railway wrapper, lu tho carpet bog were clothes, all ew. I acked him to give up what property be had. and be handed ine a. /-» 1 1 . « . J » rs k i V M I r\ m /'At* a n rr\ tin#: » • i tic rv * vj uiui o*' v r j » . ;1.vas? Wig containing .s?I01 Ho. 9lt;1- 1 sold to him I was ud officer and tauotDuhlc him to go back to the City with me.—The prisoner was then remanded, mmderable sensation wao caused on ’Change in tbe course of the day by the evoilirg report that the prisoner nod obta’ned by iQeane similar to those •scribed in the evidence double the amouut of tbe sumo mentioned in the arse of the examination.Rniin-vv Tvmsi, - At Botr-street. on Wednesday, Catherine
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Sun, Jan 16, 1853
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