The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-02-26 00:00:00

BRIDPORT.

MESTER BANKRUPTCY COURT, Tuesday.—Before
Mr. Commissioner Andrews. —Re Nicholas Longman,
Bridport and Maiden Newton, linen and woollen
draper, &a. Last examination and discharge—Mr.
Fryer for the assignees, and Mr. Clarke for the
bankrupt. —The official assignee read his report as
follows : The bankrupt owes to oreditors unsecured,
£2,353 9s. 2d. ; payable in full, f.:16 10d.'; due on
bills discounted. £43—total, £2,432 19s. 23. His
meets are—Good debts. £6Bl 18s. 103.; dcubtful,
£42 14s. 44. ; bad, £384 ii.. 73. Property given
up—Furniture, £200; stock-in-trade, £6OO ; fixtures,
£79; cash handed to official amigos*, £lO ;
policy of assurance on the bankrupt's life, worth £33
—total, £922 Si. Deficiency, £l,OlO lls. 2d. The
bankrupt's expenditure for the two years preoed•
lug his bankruptcy was £2OO and £250 respectively.
The whole of the amounts owing by bankrupt to
trade creditors are shown by the ledger, and
the sums so due amount to about £5BO, and were all
contracted in 1866. The remainder of the amount
owing to unsecured creditors, anounting to about
£1763, is due for cash borrowed and interest. The
bankrupt shortly before hisbankruptcy, was indebted
to Messrs. Williams and Co., bankers, Bridport, in
about the sum of f 1,272, which debt was guaranteed
to a certain extent by the bankrupt's father. The
bankrupt being unable to meet his liabilities,
instructed Mears. Edwards and James, accountants,
London, to dispose of the whole of his Bridport stock
in one lot, at a per-oentav of cod price, which was
done, and the sum of about .£1,490 was realised.
£1,350 of this sum was paid into the beak on the 6th
December laat, thus turning bankrupt's debt of
£1,272 into a credit of £7B, for which sum he has
entered them in his statement of accounts as debtors
to the estate. Mews. Edmunds and James are also
entered as debtors to the estate for £9O, being the
difference between the amount realised by the stock,
and the amount paid into the hank and their
commission. The creditors' assignee (Mr. C.
Bolland) is disposing of the stack at Maiden Newton
over the 001112kr, and the male is not yet completed.
The sums above stated as the value are the bank•
rupt's estimate. The official assignee has collected
£247 16s. 63., and has received £2OO from the
creditors' amignee.—The bankrupt use examined by
Mr. Pryor, but he was granted his discharge

801.00011 Pociak Saturday. Before G. B.
Berens, Hp., (Mayor). —Henry Cox Francis, late of this
won, was brought up in custody charged with having
forged • receipt for El Is. on the 3rd August last, with
Intent to fraud the Electric end Internstional Telegraph
Company.—Charles Henry Kerry, assistant superinten-
dent of the company at Bristol, said Bridport is one of
the stations comprised in the Bristol district. The
prisoner was the company's clerk at Bridport for about
two years till the 29th September last. On that day I
suspended him for irregularities. About the middle of
October an application was made to the company for
El Is. in payment of •pc bill. We examined oar books
and found that the sum bad already been charged 10th.
company. It was the prisoner's duty to mend in every
fortnight to the company at Bristol an amount of
receipts and expenditure called "a pay bill balance
'beet. I produce the "pay bill balmnoe sheet" for the
fortnight ending August 3rd, 1866. That is in the
prisoner's band-writing. In en item therein charged
' sundries el le included (according to the "sundry
sheer which waa attached to the "balance sheet.' and
I. also in the prisoner's hand-writing) • rum of El Is.
for the gun bill. With the above documents was
received from the prisoner • resin! for El 18., dated
August 3rd, 1866. parporting to be signed by J.
Gillingham. I produce that receipt. I am familiar
with the prisoner's hand-writing. On closely examining
the receipt I believe it to be In the handwriting
of the prisoner. There is an arrangement be-
tween the company and the Institation in which
building the eouthases ogee at Bridport is, that the
company shell pay to the Institution El Is. per year for
gas The prisoner was authorised to pay the guinea
dun in May, 1866. The prisoner took credit for the
guinea as if be bad paid it, and has had credit allowed
him by the company on the faith of the receipt for-
warded by him having been genuine, but which has since
been dimmed to be • forgery —John Gillingham said
I have the charge of the Bridport Literary Institute.
The Electric TAegrsph Company have an °Moe there.
I remember applying to the primeer in the asthma of
1866 for SI Is. Od. the thsount of theses bill dee by the
ethipany to the Institute. The prisoner never paid sae
that guinea or thy mosey on soooest of it. The rethipt
now produced signed "J. Gillingham" is not in my
writing nor written by my authority.—The prisoner had
nothing to my and was committed for trial at the next
amines.