A telegraphic message was received in Edinburgh on Thursday evening, from the Police authorities in Birmingham, to apprehend a young man suspected of forging his employer’s name, and obtaining, by the fraudulent signature, the sum of £80 from one of the banks there. The young man had fled from Birmingham about a week before, and was supposed to be in the neighbourhood of this city. Within an hour the fugitive was apprehended by M’Levy, who dexterously traced him out ; and the same night, intimation of the capture was telegraphed to Birmingham, from whence an officer was immediately despatched for the prisoner, with whom he returned on Saturday morning.

Edinburgh Evening Courant Tuesday 11 March 1851