POLICE
BOW STREET
Yesterday, Charles Stairs, the young man who was examined on Thursday last, respecting a check for 5l. which he had darwn on the Petersfield Bank, and passed to Mr. Dutton the boot-maker, of St. Martin's-court, who advanced him 3l. upon it, again underwent examination before Sir Richard Birnie, when he stated, that he was under an impression at the time he drew the check, that a friend of his at Petersfield had paid into the bank there a sum of 7l. 13 s. in his name.
Sir Richard Birnie asked if he could bring forward evidence to prove that fact.
A Solicitor, who attended for the prisoner, , the parties had been written to upon the subject, but that no answer has as yet been received. The prisoner, he said, was a most respectable man, and quite incapable of a dishonest action.
The prisoner said he had frequently drawn drafts on the town agents of country bankers before, without his motives having been questioned.
Sir Richard Birnie asked what the prisoner was? The Solicitor replied, that he was a gentleman, and lived upon his fortune. He therefore prayed for time, which the Magistrate granted. As he was about to be removed, the prisoner complained that he had been harshly treated in the House of Correction, the Governor having refused to allow him the use of pen, ink, and paper, to write to his friends, to apprise them of his situation, or to put a letter which he had previously written into the post.
Sir Richard Birnie seemed astonished at this information, and observed, that it should be reported to the proper quarter.