PROSECUTION FOR FALSE WEIGHTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 345, 20 February 1856, Page 7

PROSECUTION FOR FALSE WEIGHTS.

To-day, Nsish and Forbes, bullion brokers, convicted »i the lost sittings of the Supreme Criminal Court of conspiring l" deceive, by the vi*-*.; of false wvi<fhts, all snoli p. is us as offered i>old to them fur sale, was brought up to receive judgment and sentence. ] v p;i«siui!f sentence, llii! (Jhirl ,J nsi'mcs commented, in forcible terms, upon I In* dangerous and highly crimi'ial nature dI ihel n lie nee <>f wliieb both piisonevs bad boon ciiii> ieijil. "It was (if as nefjiriou* a character as could have been diMiscd. The poor people who dealt with parties bnyinjr by weight bad no meaii^ of dctectn g frauds of ibis nature. They bad no rooiree l)ut (-> confide in the accuracy of the weights wbicli wee u^ed. It was a species of IVuid most difficult, of detection, if a person had but the air.lac'uv and wiclc.'dness to carry it mil." The sentenc of the court np.xi Nash 'v is, ihat \\ t - he im'nisniieM for twelve months in lta jranl, that he should pay a line of ,£.'looo to the Qncu. and that ho shtiuld be fuit!'.-- itnprisoiie-l until that (in-- Inpaid. The sentence; upon Forbes was twelve months' iinprisonnie'U in the same paol ; a line ol'X'oOOto thr. Queen, and fnrthor imorisonment nnt.l thai fine be paid.— Sydney Herald, Dec. 2i>. —[The ileliiujuents in this case are men of »reat. wealth, and have spent several thousands oi pounds in then- Ucieucu. N.uh

was transported many years ago, sve believe, for robbing the Bristol mail. Subsequently lie obtained a ticket of leave, and soon accumulated v considerable fortune, with which lie: made his way to London. In the British metropolis he stalled a splendid " turn out," and made himself notorious by the pertinacity with which he drove before the equipage of the Queen. Enquiry being made, ir. was found that he was a relumed convict, and he was again despatched to Xew South Wales. Me was known tv the black legs of London by the cognomen of " Flash Bill." Forbes, the son of an English baronet, for some years led a course of reckless dissipation, and for prudent reasons was sent to the colonies. Hi; married Nas'o's daughter. Since that time the old convict and his son-in-law had carried on business as bullion brokers.]