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FORGERY. - A forger, on a wholesome scale, has been committed for trial by the Oxford magistrates. Five charges were substantiated. The accused, William Wilmshurst, presented a letter of credit for £300. at the house of Messrs. Williams and Co., the bankers of Dorchester, in June last; it purported to be drawn by Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., of London, in favour of “W. S. Mason;” he obtained £267. on it: this letter of credit was forged. He passed a cheque for £10., drawn on Messrs. Robinson and Co., of Oxford, signing it “John Elison;” no person of that name had an account with the bank. . He forged a cheque in the name of Sir Edmund Filmer, on Overend and Co., for £3,724. 10s.; one for £251. on the London and County Bank, in the name of Mr. Plaidsted; and another for £310. on the same bank, signing himself “W. T. Taylor;” but it did not appear whether he obtained the money for these cheques.

(He probably got away with just over £300 which would be equivalent to about £30,000 today)