Pierce Egan's account of the trial of Mr. Fauntleroy, for forgery : at the Session's House, in the Old Bailey, on Saturday, the 30th of October, 1824, before Mr. Justice Park and Mr. Baron Garrow.

  • Henry Fauntleroy
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[1824?]
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Credit: Pierce Egan's account of the trial of Mr. Fauntleroy, for forgery : at the Session's House, in the Old Bailey, on Saturday, the 30th of October, 1824, before Mr. Justice Park and Mr. Baron Garrow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    to the amount of 50,000/. I don't know whether the money found its way into the funds of the bank, as that rests with the partners themselves. I don't know whether they were drawn out on Mr. F/s account; Marten and Co. were our city bankers ; they received this =money ; Mr. Stracey would know whether this was applied to Faunt- •leroy's account or not; but the clerks know nothing of it. It was the custom to make entries to initials. We were merely ordered to make an entry of them in the ledger. [The ledger was now handed to the Jury.] John Henry Spurling called by the Attorney-General. In 1815 I was clerk to Mr. Solomon, who was stock-broker to Marsh and Co. On the first of June, Isold out the sum of 5000/. Consols for Miss Young, of Chichester. It is entered in the book. The amount of the money produced by the sale was 2956/. os. Then deducting 1 per ^centage, there was left 2950/. 2?. 6d. The amount was paid on the 1st of June, wirfi m.y draft, to the account of Marsh and Co. at the banking-house of Marten and Co. I delivered the note of the sale to Marsh and Co. The note of ssle was now put in, and read by Mr. Clarke. Samuel Plank called—I am a police officer, of Marlborough-street office. I apprehended the prisoner the 10th of September, at his banking-house, in Berners-street. There was a desk in the room where the prisoner was, which he locked after I went in. He knew I had come to apprehend him. The key with which he locked it, I took from his watch at Marlborough-street; I delivered it to Mr. Freshfield. I went with Mr. Freshfield afterwards to the banking- house, and searched the desk with Mr. Freshfield. There was a pri- vate drawer in the desk, and from it I took some more keys. There were papers there, and they were brought away by me. The prisoner was examined that day. The keys found in the desk were kept in my possession till after the examination. When I went, after the exami- nation, to the bank with Mr. Freshfield, we found two boxes. *' Fauntleroy was on one of them. I tried them with the keys, and they Ojiened them ; after that I locked the boxes, and delivered the keys to Mr. Freshfield ; the boxes were taken away by Mr. Freshfield in a coach. Mr. Freshfield, the Bank solicitor, was now called: I went to the house of Marsh and Co. with the officer, the day the prisoner was ap- prehended ; I made search there. I received a key from Plank the officer ; it opened the private desk of the prisoner; in the desk were found some other keys. After the examination I returned to the banking-house, and in a room at the back of the partners'room, I found two boxes : one had the name of Fauntleroy upon it. There was another box by it. I desired the officer to try the box with the keys, that I might not take the box of any olher person than the pri- soner. He did so; and finding from the papers that it belonged to the prisoner, I took it home with me. In the course of the same night I went through the whole of one, and half of the other. One contained a number of deeds, probates of wills, letters of administra- tion, and official documents. In the other, there were a great num- ber of memorandums, and diaries; also, the sale note produced. He found also the paper I now hold, (the paper alluded to by the Attor- ney-General in his opening speech.) Mr. Tyson, the clerk in the house of Marsh and Co. said, that the usual method was to put the sale note on the fi.le. It is copied into a ^ook by one of the clerks.