7 DECEMBER 1844, Page 9

At Chester Assizes, on Thursday, John Kenyon Winterbottom, the Stockport

solicitor, who was twice Mayor of that town, was convicted of defrauding the Pelican Life Insurance Office, to the amount of 5,0001., by forged indorsements. His counsel took some exceptions to the sufficiency of the evidence, &c. ; and judgment was respited, in order to a consideration of the points of law. Other indictments hang over the prisoner.