Charles Hunt

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 13th July 2025

1842 - New Norfolk Colonial Hospital Admission dates: March 1842 Ship to colony: Caledonia Remarks: Admitted with ophthalmia Resource: HSD104/1/1

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Ron Garbutt on 20th March 2020

Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 20 March 2020), February 1820, trial of CHARLES HUNT (t18200217-42). CHARLES HUNT, Royal Offences > coining offences, 17th February 1820. 391. CHARLES HUNT was indicted for that he, on the 12th of January , at St. James, Clerkenwell , feloniously did dispose of and put away, a certain forged and counterfeit Bank note - (setting it forth No. 6736, 1 l. dated December, 22, 1819; signed J. Tilbury) - with intent to defraud the Governor and Company of the Bank of England , he well knowing it to be forged and counterfeited . SECOND COUNT, the same, only calling the forged instrument a promissory note for the payment of money, instead of a bank note. TWO OTHER COUNTS, the same, only with intent to defraud Robert Thomson . Counsel as before. ROBERT THOMSON. I am a baker , and live in Exeter-street, Covent-garden . On the 12th of January, between six and eight o'clock at night, the prisoner came to my shop with a 1 l. note, and asked for change for Mr. Rogers, a grocer in the Strand - he said Mr. Rogers was short ofchange, and had sent him; he was dressed in a dark coloured coat and waistcoat, a worsted jacket under his coat, with red wristbands, a white neck-handkerchief, and without his hat; he had a grocer's apron on, turned down in the front with a fringe to it, and fastened behind with a hook; Mr. Rogers is a customer of mine, and I gave him change without the least hesitation - he rang the silver on the counter and while he was so doing, I wrote on the note, "Rogers, grocer, Strand, January 12 - 20" - (looks at one) - this is it; I folded it up, and put it into my pocket. Next night my attention was called to it, and the day after I found it was forged. I applied to Rogers, and found he had never sent him. I am certain he is the man. Cross-examined by MR. BARRY. Q. Was it dark - A. Yes, nobody else was in the shop - I am certain he is the man; I have a strong gas light in my shop. I paid the note away with fifteen others to Mr. Wilson, and marked them all. It was returned from the Bank. Q. How long after did you see the prisoner - A. I first saw him ten or twelve days after at the Brown Bear , public-house, Bow-street, with nine or ten others; I went there to see a painter named Brown, and saw the prisoner; I knew him directly, but did not charge him with it, as there were so many bad characters there. Immediately as the prisoner saw me his head dropped on the table, and he never lifted it up again, except when he took his hat off to wipe his head. Two days after, Brown and Maidment came down to me, and took a description of the prisoner - I heard he was taken. I understood he lodged at that house. LEWIS ROGERS . I am a grocer, and live in the Strand. I deal with Thomson, and live near him; I never sent the prisoner to him for change. I never saw him before to my knowledge - I sent nobody there. JEREMIAH MAIDMENT . I took the prisoner into custody at the Brown Bear , public-house, in Bow-street, on the Saturday morning after I had received information from Thomson. Cross-examined. Q. Did you find any bad notes on him - A. No, two good ones; I took him in the public-house with another. I had been after him some time - the upper part does not belong to the public-house. JOHN LEES . I am an inspector of Bank notes. The note is forged in every respect, and is not the signature of Tilbury. JOHN TILBURY . I am signing-clerk at the Bank; there is no other of my name. The note has not my signature. (The note was then put in and read.) Prisoner's Defence. Brown knew I was at the Brown Bear . I rather think he told Thompson that I was in the habit of passing bad notes, as he once told me so himself. I never had one in my possession. GUILTY . - DEATH . Aged 17. Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice Richardson. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/print.jsp?div=t18200217-42