A SENSATIONAL FORGERY CASE.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12365, 2 December 1905, Page 10

A SENSATIONAL FORGERY CASE.

SEVERE SENTENCES. United Press Association—By Elcctrio Telegraph—Copyright. LOxVDON, Noveuibor 30. In connection with tho case in which Mr Marshall Fox's name was forged, Bridgewatcr was sentenced, to five and seven years, Sliaekel to five years' penal servitude, and Holmes to fifteen jnonths.. Foster was tound not guiKy. [The London correspondent ot tJao '■ iii 1411s" givos tho account of this- remanmDiO case :—" A *>ir AUtieiwui jt'ox, a iich, Aiucnoan trauiug 111 uus country, Iwu au ouico in vioiowhiiCkmk, "Wtstnimscer, ana employed -Uite luury 'I'oovey as lius clerk ana eocroieiy. i«.s pciboti, througu ixMiuing vie uaveiusoinent of the luecUoal rrogrossive Alliance, in Uxtorti street, culled at tnat adureee, and taw ' Dr.' luluot ±>ri<ig,owater, tno manager, aud Lionel ilomics, hk ass.etant. unogewater is eaut to have passed much 01 his early lito in Australia and America. ilo treated Mite ioovey as a patient for noany two months, and during that time the two Became friendly. Mies Toovey went with Bridgewacer to rostaurante, and sho interpreted hie attentions as affec-; tion. During her many interviews with Bridgewater, Mia Toovey edmite that eho may have mentioned her association, with Mr Fox'e OIHOO. At her house in Strcatham Hill Miss Toovey had more rooms than she required, and she put up n notice that one was to bo let. A man who called himself ' Dean' rented, this room. He was very reticent, eaid h« had just lost hie wife, that he was engaged in the jewellery trade, aud was ehortiy going to America. Dean, whose roal natno nee Fisher, an ex-convict, one day called Miss Toovey'e attention to a damaged plant in the garden. She went to look at it, nnd lert her office keys on the.table. While she was thus absent Fisher took an impression of two, one for Mr Fox's safe, ih'e other for the offico door. ;Ho took other impreseione on other occasions* Miss Toovey ' also showed Fisher some photographs and testimonials, including some .letters which contained Mr Marshall Fox's signature. When sho was absent from the house Fisher conveyed one of signatures to a draughtsman named W. Fi Shackell. It was shown in tho Police Court that £he whole scheme to rob Mr Fox was planned by Bridgewater. After he had mado love to i»iiss Toovey ho cent Fifiher, an American convict, to lodge in her house as above described. With false keys made from his wax moulds Fisher entered Mr Fox'e offico in tho day-time, and opening the cafe, ho got poeseeeion of some blank cheques, to which SliacTtell forged Mr Fox s name for £BID. The cheque was cashed by Lionel Holmes; and a women named Elisabeth Fester, who parsed as Bridgewater'e wife, went to the Continent to change the bank-notes. A dispute arceo over tho division of the plunder. Bridgewator told Fisher that the amount rralieed was only £600. Fisher was afterwards captured and cent to prison for some other offence, and. having discovered that Bridgowator had chcatod him of a part of his share of the plunder, ho revealed the whole plot to th,o police. Bridgewater, Holmes. Shackell. and tho weman Frster were all arrestod. and th* story told against them by F : eher and M'sb* Toovey ie one of the moH; remnrkab'o ever heard in a Police Court. Miss Toovey was so innocent of having fallen among thieves that <iftor the forgery had b«en discovered the first person she went to with the *news of the event wns ' Dr.' Bridgewater. In the coins© of creeexamiiuition Fiehcr admitted to having been in prison many years for a long lisfc of crimes, which eVow him to bo ono of the ablest cracksmen In Europe or America."] fPRK«« AS'ATTATinv TKT.kriIUV ) WELUNOTOX. December 1. TW'TmJbot BrKlcownter , in iho liOndon cab'c to-day, i<; idohiicnil with John Hcnrv Brown.' nlins Jenkins, who, in November. 1595, was pcntonccd at -the Supremo Court, Wellington, tt> «is?htoon years , peri"! «orvitrwV for procuring abortion. While in Wcjlington Brown rmifiHcto<l a medial business wi+h Dr. Friekart, n woman, who is the Fi'ir-aboth Foster of tl)<» rvthle iMPSige. Brown was lil>erated from Cnol in 1902. en the ground of supposed faalinc he-alth. Ho> Mibspqnonthr bronrdit on action for wrowf nl troatmen+ n.csiin<t Dr. Teare, tho gaol surgeon. This was net sustained.