Rutland Herald

The Rev. Dr. Bailey, a clergyman of the church of England, was recently convicted of forgery and sentenced to transportation for life.

The New York Commercial, gives the following particulars of the nature of the forgery, and the evidence:

"The forgery committed by Dr. Bailey was a promissory note for a large amount, purporting to have been given to his sister, Mrs. Bailey, by an old gentleman of great wealth and very penurious habits, whose name was Smith. The note was produced by Dr. Bailey, after Smith's death, alleging that it was given in acknowledgement of a large sum deposited by Miss Bailey with Smith as her banker.' The executors contested the claim mainly because they could find no entry of the alleged deposit in 'Smith's books, and he was known to be very methodical and careful in business transactions. At the trial Bailey swore that the note was given on a certain day and hour in the vestry room of his church: but unluckily for him, a witness was produced who was enabled to swear that he was with Smith (for whom he was building a house.) in quite another part of London, at the very time designated by Bailey. The witness identified the day by the fact, that on the same day he was married. The verdict was for the defendants, the executors, and they then preferred the charge of forgery against Rev. Dr. Bailey.

'At the trial of Bailey, it was proved that he had borrowed a receipt given by 'Smith, from a tradesman who had paid him some money, and by comparing the forged note with the receipt, it was evident that the signature to the former had been traced over that upon the latter. But the best testimony against Bailey, was that of a poor Irish man whom he had bribed to swear that he was present when the note was given, but who repented and divulged the fact, producing also a paper, in Bailey's writing, on which was set down the matter Bailey wanted him to swear to."