Posted on 09/06/2023 9:00:33 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
These malefactors were father and son; and their final exit from this life was attended by circumstances of the most heart-rending and melancholy description.
The father was a man of good property, and lived on his own estate at Llwyney Mapsis, in Shropshire; and he and his son were indicted for uttering a note of hand for twenty pounds, purporting to be that of Mr. Richard Coleman of Oswestry, knowing the same to have been forged.
It was proved on their trial that Mr. Coleman never had had any transactions with Mr. Phipps that required the signing of any note whatever; that about the Christmas before, Mr. Coleman was served with a copy of a writ at the suit of Mr. Phipps the elder, which action Mr. Coleman defended, and for want of further proceedings on the part of the plaintiff, a non pros. was signed, with two pounds three shillings costs of suit against Phipps.
Upon this an affidavit was drawn up and sworn by Phipps the elder, Phipps the younger, and William Thomas, their clerk, for the purpose of moving the Court of Exchequer to set aside the judgment of non pros. and therein they swore that the cause of action was a note of the said Coleman’s for twenty pounds, which was given as satisfaction for a trespass by him committed in carrying some hay off the land of one of Mr. Phipps the elder’s tenants......
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Severe. I wonder how they proved forgery?
Wow, and we think “justice” dished out by the Saudis is harsh.
A definite case of “honesty is the best policy”!
Doing genealogical research I discovered a relative from Pennsylvania who was convicted of ‘Obscene Libel’ in 1861. He was fined 1 dollar and 30 days in jail.
Seriously? When is the last time anybody was ever convicted of obscene libel lately? The courts would be swamped. (Being ‘obscene’ I would assume that he used some cuss words when uttering his libel.)
The poor fellow ended up dead in Maryland in January of 1862 while fighting for the Union in the Civil War... It doesn’t say how he died it just says ‘died’, but maybe he obscenely libeled the wrong person.
bkmk
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