Title

Albert Whitehouse, Thomas Buckler and Robert Lormer [suspected of printing counterfeit bank notes by lithography].

Author

Sydney Gazette.

Source

Sydney Gazette (Sydney)

Details

29 June 1833, page 3, column 4.

Publication date

29 June 1833

Type

News

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

Albert Whitehouse, Thomas Buckler, and Robert Lormer, were brought up having undergone several examinations on a charge of being concerned in fabricating and uttering the forgeries on the Bank of New South Wales. Mr. Henry Allen deposed, that he has a lithographic press at work in Pitt-street, when the prisoner Whitehouse is employed by him in printing, as also the prisoner Buckler, occasionally. He was frequently absent from the printing-office, but not more than an hour and a-half at a time ; the notes could not have been printed at his press without his knowledge ; the notes were printed in the lithographic ink, but be could not say whether the impression was that of a plate or of a stone ; it would require, at least, two days to prepare his press for printing from a plate, and he is never absent that length of time. Being cross-examined by the prisoner Whitehouse, the printer-He admitted that there were other presses besides his in Sydney, viz. at the Commissariat Department, the Surveyor General's Office, and at Mr. Knapp's. The notes must been made at a press, as it requires considerable force to make the impression ; his press could with a force equal to the weight of four tons ; he had seen the prisoner Lormer, who resided with Richardson, in the printing-office, with Whitehouse ; but the prisoner, Lormer, accounted for that by saying he was a dealer, and had sold ten packs of cards on that occasion, which Mr. Allen admitted. Richardson said the case was hard as he had taken the notes from a seaman belonging to the Dryade, who had left the country. The Bench then committed the prisoners Lormer and Richardson for trial, intimating that sufficient evidence bad not been adduced to commit Whitehouse and Buckler, who must be discharged ; but they would recommend to His Excellency the Governor that they may be removed to a distant part of the colony, where they could not exercise that ingenuity for which, it appears, they had been transported to this colony, and beyond the reach of temptation. [Sydney Gazette, 29 June 1833, page 3, column 4].

Web address

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2212662

Last Updated

28 Jun 2024