Kingsley, Arrested for Forgery

ARREST FOR FORGERY.– The Charlestown (Va) Free Press says:– “On Saturday last, an individual named Leonard Kinsly or Kingsly, who had been for some weeks boarding in a retired situation at Harper’s Ferry, was arrested on the charge of attempting to convert public property to his own use by means of forged letters. He was committed by G. B. Wager, Esq., for forging the name of Benjamin Moor, Master Armorer, to a letter sent to Horatio Ames, of Falls Village, Connecticut, ordering a large quantity of iron to be sent in the name of the U. S. Armory, to the care and order of George W. Ellsworth, Baltimore, who, he stated in his letter to Ames, was head clerk in the U. S. Armory. It is supposed Kinsly intended to be in Baltimore in his assumed name of G. W. Ellsworth to receive the iron, and of course to sell it speedily and pocket the proceeds: thus swindling Ames out of a large quantity of iron. Letters of the same character were sent by him to J. W. Edsy, of Rockaway, New Jersey, who is also an iron master.”