WHOLESARE FORGERY BY A CLERGYMAN. (From the Euiiopeav Mail).

Waikato Times, Volume III, Issue 145, 12 April 1873, Page 2

WHOLESARE FORGERY BY A CLERGYMAN. (From the Euiiopeav Mail).

Ax extraordinary case of forgery on the part of a Church uf England clergy man han just been bi ought to light at Muldlcaboroiigh. The alleged culprit is the Rev. Air Y.wopau Henry Moyle, vicar of Estoii, a village near Muldlcsborough. On the foi uution of the iron inanufacI tuuu^iinuot J.u.k«ioii, Gill and Co., of Ebtou, mfco a limited I company, Mr Moyle applied for JtlO.UOl) worth of shares, i ami ou rttptember 30 these shares were allotted to him. He paid up the mm of £3,500 in three calls, not as they fell due b.t m a lump sum. .Suspicion was rirst aroused witli regard to the cnciumtanee ot ammous shares in connection with Jackson, t .ill and Co, on the receipt of a letter by the seoietary alluding to a transaction of which ho knew nothing. Inquiries wen- immediately set on foot, which 1 exulted m the discovery that some one outside the company was using its name in older to benefit himself. This was ccmlinucil when the secietary bubsequently re- , ceived what purported to be 2'M fully paid-up shaies, ill awn in the name of the Rev. Vjvoyau Hemy Moyle, and purporting to be Healed by the company, attested by the secietary, and couutersigned by William Gill and Thomas Gill, together with a transfer signed by Moyle, purporting to be also in the pieseueo of the secretary. Tlie secietary communicated with tiie niamgiug director, who j was then lroin home. On hearing this he at once returned, aud placed the matter m the Gauds of the company's i solicitor, who in turn communicated with the Mutual Society, whoue head ollicos aic at Gresham buddings, I Guildhall, London, who, it was feaied, had advanced money j upon th.se spuuous doeumeuts. When the secretary of the company arrived in Middlesboiough, further inquiries left no doubt but tbat a gigantic fraud had been perputiated. The police weie duected to watch the residence of Mr Moyle. A strong desire being felt, if pobsible, not to mterfeie with him winle discliargmg his pastoral duties, they were told not to make an anest unless there was an j appeal auuu ot a dcsne to quit the neighbourhood. On the I ioliovwng morning .Moyle lett his house, apparently with | tlio intention vt going away, and he ™.ia ai.«,oriiiii).'ly airestea, aud bi ought lo thu iamyu clcrk'a othce, where the nccobiary evidtuce lo jiibtiry bis aneit betugadduced befoiu .i county magistrate, he was reminded to Noitlmlleitou foi a week \Vith I'feicuce to Jatkaun, Gill and (,'o ,no j po&siblu loaa or mjiiiy dv ucociio m consequence of theso . irauils ; and with lugard to tliu Mutual Society, we have j icaMiu to believe lhaC little, if any, loa» will ultnaatulv I fall to then lot. Tho share cerlilKates of Jackson, Ihll and Co. aie all forged, having beuu p> luted at Watering > and tiouu, oi London. Tlio st-.tl i. .i i^igery, as also tl. siguatuies of tvso ducctois and tin- &cciouaiy. bach shait ceititicateis also a loiguj. Mr Moyle w conccnio.l in laigo commeicial uudci takings in aud out of the Cleveland district, and it is rumoured iliac other charges ary hkely to bo pit-furcd agaiust him. j

The medicine chest of one of the Arctic whalers was broken open b\ homo ot the nutnes, who, thinking they had found a prize, proceeded to swallow the contents of all the bottles, liio surw\ors describe the result as startling, for the doses Here too Jarge lor even an Esquimaux. Scier.il of tho parluLei-5 ilitcl, and ithura wuntcvl to but couldn't. Hit it- nn man in Uleii s Jbulls, >ew }ork, who won't behe>L a»j btoriw about U.o sagacity of dogo. ile ea)a do o's 0 's ha\e not cominou nunse In pi-00l of hm asseition he rtlates lio« la puuu-l IvLM-osi-ue on .1 dug and act it on tiiu, just to Ij.ne .1 Miie urn and (he dog u -tuaily lan iiihlit the burn belonging n. nun, .nut l.n tlnix and mm. thu bam ou lire, tliou-u li J( . nun wlnotku lo linn to «.onu. out.