Some Selected Reports from The
Windsor and Eton Express
5th Nov 1836
Two Brewers
Windsor Police
Passing Counterfeit Coin - On
Monday a woman, of the name of Seagrove, was brought before the
Magistrates, charged with uttering a counterfeit half sovereign at the
house of Mr.Pursey, landlord of the Two-Brewers, in Park-street,
during the fair time. After hearing the evidence, she was remanded until
Thursday, in order to allow time to communicate with the Solicitor of
the Mint, and to have his opinion as to her being prosecuted. She was,
however, told she might be admitted bail, and on Tuesday two respectable
persons entered into the necessary sureties for her appearance on
Thursday. On the latter day an answer was received from the Solicitor of
the Mint, stating that it was his intention to prosecute, as the
prisoner had been in custody before on a charge of a similar nature. The
prisoner had, however, in the meantime absconded, and on Thursday she
was non est inventus, to the great mortification of the sureties, who
instantly set on foot the most rigid enquires after the fugitive.