The case for the prosecution in connection with the Liver-
pool Bank robbery was opened by Mr. Gill at Bow Street Police Court on Monday. According to counsel's statement, Goudie, the ledger clerk, having practised forging the signa- ture of Mr. R. W. Hudson, with whose account he had to deal, forged in all twenty-seven cheques representing an amount of 2169,500. Of this amount 272,000 went into the possession of two betting men named Kelly and Stiles, whom Goudie met casually in the train returning from a race meeting, and soon treated with the most implicit confidence, believing that the large sums entrusted to them were invested in real bets. It was further alleged that this connection becoming known through Stiles or Kelly to Burge, a professional boxer and betting man, Goudie was interviewed by Mances, a friend of Burge, and on his recommendation put in touch with another commission agent in the person of Lamy Marks, with the result that a sum of 291,000 was paid over by means of six cheques, Goudie supposing that he was betting through Marks as a bookmaker. But hem again, according to counsel's statement, no bets were made, the entire proceeds being divided in varying shares between Burge, Mamma, and Marks. Of the persons implicated, Goudie, Kelly, and Burge were brought up on Monday, but Stiles and Mances have absconded, while Marks is alleged to have committed suicide. The case being sub judice, we can of course only state the facts without comment.
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