The Press. — London, England, 1856-03-01 00:00:00

ibute all to my own infamous an d by my villany. I cola go iishruent for my crimes. No • such crimes, but 1 can not upon others. J. SADLEIII. otherwise when you read this. Y. for Waterford, stated hatters from Mr. Sadleir on Ms death. The coroner Mr. Keating proceeded to me over his title deeds of •I have not used these deeds rurney a letter from Jumes, in , Gurney had sent to him— on by J. Gurney without my Joux SALMI n. lit, Feb. 'W. on which nothing is cancelled—lf on Monday the ' must be paid to East Kent and 2,000/.-2,5001. must he order at Right issued to day at orders falling due on Tuesday. for 6,2001. my favour. This .onclay not being advised—l can J. S. floster•terrace, 16, February, 1t1;,6. • infamy have I come step by crime—and m w I find myself :rimes of a diabolical character dsery and disgrace to thousands . whom all this ruin must fall punishments but I could never bear to ' those on whom I have brought • that I should not live. ly crimes—they sprung from have swindled and deceived any one—Stevens and Norris .• knowledge of the fabrication and by which I have sought .4 retrieving •hen I came to London. unravel acccunts and trans- questions as to my interest in the other undertakings. creditors if these cases are not East Kent and the Swi•s Rail ' Co are all liable to be entirely arc concerned. possession of all my letters this house and at Il'ilkinsons letters to me and all other wicked could not avail or I I leave after me and who and all owing to my criminal quitted Ireland—Oh that I had launch me into speculations. .s of a worthless kind and more remained as I once was honest and lived to see my dear Father .1 weep and weep now but J. SADLF.III. that be had applied to letter written by the de n-law) on the night pre would read that lady's letter, desirable. Dublin, Feb. 23, ISM. only received your letter of t, here. this morning. I now received from poor, unfortunate some light on the state of his As you will perceive, he usual manner nor even adds aelosed letter, and return it sincerely, Emma SLDILIA. 21, Lombard- witness said was in the hand as follows : alone hare caused all this a Brother, bat he is not to led astray by my diabolical all the support yon csn. Oh, gladness to save those whom that I was not callous to their the coroner, said, in corn -I,s request, he had taken and property. except the fr. Wilkinson's, of which of the firm of Wilkinson , Nicholas-lane, ststed that upon him on thelSaturday, MARCH 1, 1856. Iblame no one, but attribil Quartile of others ruined by more as a prinisl any to through torture could be too much for f live to see the tortures I indict u Telegraph to —, and others Mr. Robert Keating, M.: that he had received two lett Sunday week, the day of i having first perused them, M read D o m Robert.—James sent n Coohammick and Kilconnell-1 in any way. I gave J. Gums., trusted to me by him—which J This letter can not be acted 01 brother's express authority. R. Beating, Esq., M.P. T. Uziellihas a bank bill of due. It should be at once earn hank is to I.e saved 8011. n Railway for 2 Orders 6,200 L an paid in to kiln's to meet order Carrick. Gurney knows the on: All are adrised save the one fo must be taken up on Mondl not live. I, Gloster-ter Dear Robert—To what infa step—heaping crime upon crii the author of numberless trim and the cause of ruin and miser —aye to tens of thousands. Oh how I feel for those on wl —I could bear all punishments witness the sufferings of those such ruin—lt must be better th No one has been privy to my ny own cursed brain alone—l I without the knowledge of any are both innocent and have no k of Deeds and forgeries by me to go on in the horrid hope of re It was a sail day for all when can give but little aid to ut se ions. There are serious questions Grand Junction and other unite Much will be lust to the credi fairly treated. The Grand Junction the Eat ways the Rome lir e the Coal Cc lust now so far as my assets arc I authorise you to take per papers property ri:c tte in this And 18 Cannon Street. Return my Brother his le' papers—The prayers of one so would seek to pray for those will have to suffer such agony az sax. Oh that I bad never quitted resistsd the first attempts to lau If I bad had less talents of a firmness I might have remainei truthful—and I would have live and Mother in their old age—] what CAL that avail. Robert Beating. Esq., M.P. Sbamroque.)odge, Clapham Witness proceeled to say I Mrs. James Sadleir for the li ceased to her (his sister-in ceding his death. He would if the coroner wished it. The coroner thought it de Witness read : Dear Mr. Keating.--I only Wednesday, the 2 1 1th instant, h incluse you the le:ter I reedy, John Sadleir. It may throw sox mind at the time he wrote it. neither addresses me in his ust his signature. Please be careful of the inch to me. —Believe, me, yours sine Robert Keating, Esq., M.P.,' Buret, London. The inclosure, which witne writing of the deceased, was James is not to blame—l a dreadful ruin. James was to me too fond blame for being deceived and 1 seta. Be to him at this moment all what would I not suffer with gl: I her r ru i ne d . My end will prove at least the agony. Witness, in reply to the plianee with the deceased's possession of his letters at papers which be left at Mi Mr. Morrogh, solicitor, of l had taken the ears. :dr. Josiah WilLinson, o and Gurney, solicitors, 2, Sadleir bad called upo THE PRESS. and asked. fur money to assist the Tipperary Bank. Having already advanced large sums to Mr. Sadleir, Mr. Wilkinson declined to assist him further. With respfct to being in possession of a forged deed, Mr. Wilkinson explained that sumo time previous to Mr. Sadleir's death the firm had ad vanced him snob large sums of money that Mr. Wilkinson asked for security. Mr. Sadleir then lodged in his hands a deed purporting to be given on the purchase of an estate in the Encumbered Estates Court. This deed was not registered, and, on Saturday, finding from Mr. Sadleir's conversation that the Tipperary Bank was likely to be in difficul ties, Mr. Wilkinson that evening despatched his partner (Mr. Stevens) to Dublin in order to register the deed before it could be claimed by the creditors. This deed proved a , :omplete forgery. Witness further stated that, though the deed in question was a forgery, be doubted much whether Mr. Sadleir had committed so many as reported or his own letters seemed to indicate : Several of Mr. Stelleir's deeds had, from time to time, passed throu..;lt his hands to persons who had advanced money upon them ; but he ( witness) had no reason to believe that any one of those deeds was not genuine. He did not think there was a single person who had the deceased's confidence. He was a most reserved man. It was extremely difficult to cet any information from hint beyond what he ellose to impart. He believed Mr. Sad leir had written the letters which had been produced under great excitement. He (witness) knew much of his affairs, and he believed there was much in those letters that wag not correct. The coroner said it would be a question for the jut 7 to consider, whether Mr. Sadleir did really commit the extensive forgeries and frauds alluded to, or whether they were mere delusion-. The question with regard to property was very important; for if Mr. Sadleir destroyed himself in sound mind, all his property, his goods and chattels, would be for feited to the Crown. Up to the present time he (the coroner) saw no signs of insanity ; but if it could be proved that these documents were written under the delusion that he committed villanies which he never committed, that would be positive proof that he com mitted suicide in an unsound state of mind. It was due to the deceased, his friends, and to the public at large that there should be a farther adjournment. The jury expressed themselves desirous of further evidence upon this point, and after some discussion the inquiry was adjourned till the 11th March. With respect to the opinion of Mr. Wilkinson, the Times City correspondent writes on Tuesday evening that there is "no ground " for believing that Mr. Sadleir laboured under a delusion when imputing to himself offences of such magnitude, though upon the point there ma . ) , be some unnecessary alarm. Mr. Sadleir was chiefly connected with the Royal Swedish Railway, the East Kent Railway, and the London and County Bank. He was also greatly interested in the Tipperary Joint-stock Bank, and he likewise acted as receiver, or agent, for some Irish landownets. Urgent inquiries are consequently being made a s to the special nature of his transac tions in relation to each of these bodies. The writer observes : As regards the Royal Swedish Railway, of which he was the chairman, it appears to have been ascertained without donbt that he has issued an immense amount of the shares and obligations of the company without authority, although with genuine siknatures. Whether he has put forth any which are forgeries seems not yet to have been clearly es tablished. The capital of the company is 411 ,0701., in 51. shares, on which it enjoys a guarantee from the Swedish Government of four per cent. interest and one per cent. sinking fund, and the shares are parable to name or to bearer, at the option of the shareholder. A considerable number were forfeited fur non-payment of calls, and some time back, in order to avoid unnecessary sacrifices, the company obtained power to raise 100,00 on debentures or obligations. They required the signature of two directors and the secretary, and Mr. Sadleir, having ode tained possession of the unissued quantities for the purpose of completing them with his signature, seems to have got rid of them in the Stock Exchange, or in any quarter where he could raise money. The Dentinal amount thus made away with is reported to range between 21'0 0001. and 300,0001.. although probably the advances he received upon them were not more than a (earth or a third of that total. With regard to the East Kent Railway, it is stated that, with the exception of some arrears of calls. Mr. Sadleir is not directly indebted to that undertaking. In his capacity of deputy chairman, however, he induced the board to deposit '4,0001. of their unemployed capital with the Tippe- rary Bank on deposit notes. which fell due at the begin- ning of last week and were dialiononred. hi the case of the London and County Rank it is affirmed that no loss whatever has been sustained. Mr. Sadleir was chairman of that company, but obtained no advances from it except upon sufficient securities. Many reports having been in circulation to a contrary effect. it is understood that, in order to remove all doubt on the subject, the three new directors, Messrs. Nicol, Houghton, an.l Laming, who were last week added to the board, have required that the securi ties in question should be examined and reported on by some independent solicitor, assisted by the solicitors of the hulk, and that a resolution to that effect was passed this afternoon. The validity of the deeds held by the company front Mr. Sadleir is stated to have been fully tested by registration. hi relation to the Tipperary Joint stock Dank, it appeals that this establishment was promoted by 203 Mr. Sadleir in 1838, its head office being at Clonmel, with eight branches in the district. Although it paid dividends at the rate of six per cent. it seems to have made no return of the number of its partners, the amount of its shares, or its paid•up capital, and, with the exception of one or two families, the share/ udders are said to be persons of limited means. The families in question are alleged to be fully able to meet the claims that will fall upon them, but it is probable that the ruin or distress which will neverthe less be inflicted in this quarter was among the chief causes of the pain and selfrepruach described in Mr. Sadleir's letters. The most serious features of frand remain still to be advert e d to—namely, those committed by means of his opportunities as agent for the landed estates of noblemen and others, and also by direct fo►genes of titledeeds. The trust property made away with is supposed to be extremely large, and many deplorable circumstances are likely to arise in this part of the history, the full scope of which will probably never cows before the public. At present many of the sufferer* are themselves ignorant of the position in which they stand, and most likely several months must elapse before all the actual facts can be un ravelled. As respects the forgeries of titledeeds from the Encumbered Estaites Court, it is satisfactory to be able to state that only two cases have thus far been discovered, although very general inquiries have been made by some leading solicitors in Dublin. In one of these, so far from the forgery having been perfectly executed, the attempt is described to have been such as could not for a moment deceive the eye of any Irish solicitor conversant with the practice of the court, since it was deficient in no less thin four requisites, one of them being a certificate of the Com missioners for psyment of the purchase money. The other case was a conveyance of part of thy Portarlington estate, which was probably in be.ter form. Beyond these cases, it is questioned whether any will be found. Many of the deeds assigned by Mr. Sadleir passed through the hands of Messrs. Hallowes and Hamilton, of Dublin, and the London clients of these gentlemen have to-day been informed that iu none of these instances does any irregu larity exist. THE CASE or CORLEY V. CAMPBELL, tried at the Prerogative Court on Saturday last, presents some remarkable features. The question was the validity of an alleged marriage between Mrs. Campbell, late of 24, Cumberland-street, and Mr. Corley, barrister, of Verulem-buildings, Gray's-inn. The suit has been pending before the Court nearly five years, and presents the following facts :—Mrs. Campbell died at Brighton on the 11th of January, 1851, aged eighty-one, leaving personal property valued at, about 7,0001., and also a life interest of 12,5001., Three- and a-Qearter per Cent. Annuities. The latter sum was bequeathed at her decease to her issue absolutely, subject, however. to a life interest in the dividends in favour of any husband she might leave her sur viving. Her husband, Major Campbell, died in 1849, leaving by her an only son. On the death of Mrs Campbell no will was found, and her son, as a matter of comse, assumed that he succeeded to the property of his mother, and to that bequeathed to him by the will of his grandfather ; when Mr. Corley came forward, and stated that be had been married to her in June, 1850, at the Register-office of mar riages in the district of St. Marylebone. Down to the time of her death the deceased acknowledged and was known by no other name than Mrs. Camp bell. In that name she continued to sign cheques, and in every respect to transact business as &femme sole. She gave no intimation of her marriage to her son or her servants, or any of her numerous ac quaintances. Mr. Corley became acquainted with her in Paris in 1845, renewed the acquaintance, which had been dropped, in 1847, and from that time down to her death continued to visit her as a friend. Though the deceased continued to reside with her three servants in Cumberiane-street from the period of the alleged marriage until the 6th of August, when she proceeded with her servants for the autumn to Brighton, yet Mr. Corley never slept at her house in town, and only for two or three nights together at Brighton, and then on a different floor from the deceased's. To the period of her death he continued to occupy chambers in Gray's inn as a single man, and to be received as such at the deceased's house and elsewhere. On behalf of Mr. Corley it appeared that he was married to Mrs. Campbell in the presence of two witnesses selected by himself, and that the marriage was kept secret for fear of the son's anger. The signature in the registrar's book was sworn to, and though ber age, her residerce, and her father's name were falsely entered, the marriage thereby was not invalidated. Di. Jenner and Dr. Phillimcre appeared in support of the grant ; Dr. Twiss and Dr. Spinks were heard in opposition. The Court, after a careful review of the evidence, pronounced for the marriage, and de creed administration to Mr. Corley, as the husband of the deceased, while it condemned Mr. Campbell in the sum of 1501. nontine expewarunt. THE CONVICT CORRIGAN was reprieved at a late hour on Saturday last. The prisoner nearly fainted away on being informed of the fact. He bad taken a last leave of all bis friends. The erection of the gallows, and all the external preliminaries for nen lion, were nearly finished before the reprieve arrived.. Vast crowds of people were collected in the *sigh bourbood all Sunday ; but Moods) , brought Vielk disappointinest A