St. Louis, Mo., February 11. - George A. VINCENT, alias Charles PERRIN, alias WILLIAMSON, an exceedingly expert forger, convicted of attempting to swindle the St. Louis National Bank out of $6,500 by means of a forged letter of credit, has been sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. PERRIN was convicted by the Pinkertons, in New York city in 1876, of the forgery of New York Central railroad, and Buffalo, New York and Erie railroad bonds, in 1872, by which the forger realized $800,000. These bonds were negotiated in Wall street. John OLMSTEAD, the engraver; Andy ROBERTS and Steve RAYMOND were also convicted of participating in the forgery. WILLIAMSON was not arrested for four years. He was arrested while trying to pass a lot of seven per cent gold bonds of the Central Pacific railroad, California and Oregon branch, on Rollins Bros., bankers. His trial for the various gigantic forgeries resulted in a sentence of ten years' imprisonment, but having served a term in Sing Sing for burglary, under the name of STEVENS, some years previous, the charge of “second offense under the law” was preferred against him in connection with the trial for the bond forgeries. On this charge of second offense he was given five years additional, making a total of fifteen years. Six months after his incarceration, while he and another convict were working in the prison yard, he set fire to the bake shops and succeeded in making his escape. He fled to England, where he was arrested for extensive bank forgeries, and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment at Dartmouth. He is wanted badly at Sing Sing.
