New Hampshire Statesman And State Journal

Forgery of Treasury Notes. On Monday, about noon, the hue and cry was raised in the streets of this city, after a person named James B. Henderson, an engraver, who boarded at a house near the City Hall, and who made his escape while under arrest on a charge of forging Treasury notes. The fugitive was speedily arrested and taken before B. K. Morsell, Esq. before whom the following facts were stated in evidence :-

The prisoner, on Friday last, presented two papers, purporting to be Treasury notes of the United States, of the value of $1,000 and $50. at the Farmers' and Planters' Bank of Baltimore, for which he received their notes and a premium.

It was soon afterwards ascertained that these notes were forgeries, and the prisoner was traced to this city, He afterward, before he left Baltimore, exchanged the Baltimore notes for Virginia Bank notes, The prisoner's place of residence in this city being discovered, a warrant was issued to arrest him on Sunday night. A clerk from the Baltimore Bank (Mr Cochran, jr. accompanied the constable, I. S. Beck, to the prisoner's lodgings; and while the clerk was left alone conversing with him, the latter contrived to slip out of the room, turn the key upon the clerk, and leave him a prisoner in the room. The clerk, however, immediately jumped out of the window upon the roof of a shed, and pursued the prisoner so hard, raising the cry of "stop thief." that he was soon overtaken and arrested. Upon the examination of the testimony and the facts. the prisoner, having admitted that he filled up the notes. was fully committed for trial.

Upon searching the trunks of the prisoner, various blank bank checks and notes were found therein; and a number of gold watches were also found in the prisoner's valise.

National Intelligencer.