The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-06-26 00:00:00

TJPR•• BANKBUPTI BANKERS.

AT a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Strahan, Paul, &Co., .
on Tuesday; it was stated that there is scarcely a, tradesman
among the debtors under the estate, the legal. profession,
through themselves or their alients,hein,g the principal sufferers.
The two firms of Strahan,P.a.i.d, & Co., and Halferd & Co., are
r be found in a mi
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tion than the former. On Wednesday Mr. Robert Meakm
Bates,,the third partner :IN the firm, was plaeed.at-the bar of
Bow-street Police-court,. Wore Mr. Jardine, to:answer the-
chargo of having, in conanuction with Messrs. Strahan, & Paul,.
unl4wfully negotiated or otherwise disposed of certain deeds or
securities to the value of 0000, which had been entrusted to.
them. for safe keeping hy.'Dr Griffiths. Attempts, had been
made, it was then stated, to apprehend the other two partners.,
Sir J. D. Paul was, indeed, actually taken into custody on
Tuesday evening, at his-residence at Nutfieldi. neax Reigate:
The officers found SiWohnnt home, and succeeded in serving:
the warrant upon him, bukit being too late to return to Lop
don the same night-, alilowed their prisoner to go to bed, sitting.
up all night themselves-within view of his seem, Next morn-
ing they conducted.the prisoner to the Reigate station, arriVing
barely in time tosave the train. Tickets. were procured hur.
riedly for the three,.and, according to the. statements of' the
officers, the train was-actually in motion when Sir Johntook
his seat in a second:class carriage. The constables werefaow-
ing him into thesame-carria,ge, when a railway porter pulled
them back, exclaiming, " The train is inanotion, and yea can't
get in." 'The officers. replied, "We are-police-constables; he
is our prisoner,.andwe must accompany, him ;. resist us at your
peril." Tothis the- porters merely rejoined that they were
only carrying out their orders, "to prevent any, oneontering a
carriage while the. train was in motion," andhaving closed the
carriage-doonagainst the officers, the, train went off without
them. The constables state that they immediately represented
the facts to the.superintendent and showed him their authority,
but hie refused to "signal" the train, to stop, although consent.
ing to send a telegraphic message to. the London station.
This was done by desire of the officers, who proceeded to town
by the next up-train, which reached London-bridge only ten
minutes after the one they had. missed. On inquiry, however,
of the. station-master at London-bridge if their prisoner had
been detained, he replied that he did not know the person of
Sir John Paul by sight, and, had taken no steps in the matter.
The police-officers, who had. been in some measure disarmed by
Sir John's suavity of manner, had thus the mortification of
finding that their prisoner had effectually escaped, and through-
out the day no trace of him could be found. They were also
unsuccessful in their pursuit of Mr. Strahan, who was expected
to keep an appointment at the bank, but who did not make his
appearance, although anxiously looked for throughout the day.
Some formal evidence, respecting the disappearance of cer-
tain Dutch bonds belonging to Dr. Griffiths, and entrusted to
the firm, being given, the prisoner was remanded.
Since the examination of Mr. Bates on Wednesday, the
other two partners have surrendered themselves to the author-
ities. Mr. Strahan gave himself up that same evening, and
was briefly examined on the following day, when he was also
remanded. On Thursday Sir J. D. Paul surrendered at Bow-
street police-court, declaring that he had no intention of es-
caping from the officers who captured him. The three defen-
dants were placed at the bar before Mr. Hall on Frida3, when
Dr. Griffiths again gave evidence respecting the charge which
he preferred against them. Securities worth £22,000, chiefly
in
in Dutch stocks, he stated had been lodged the bank for
safe custody, Messrs. Strahan being merely empowered to re-
ceive the dividends, and lodge them to his account. The secu-
rities were now missing, and Dr. Griffiths deposed that Mr.
Strahan had confessed to having taken them, together with
similar documents belonging to different parties, to the value
in the whole of £lOO,OOO, to a discount house in the City, for
the purpose of obtaining adv?nces., The only object being to
take enough evidence to justify a remand, the further inves-
tigation of the case was postponed until to-morrow, Wednesday,
and the prisoners sent to the House of Detention at Clerkenwell.

LIVERPOOL COLLEGIATE
INSTITUTION.

AT t..a half-yearly distribution of prizes, on Friday,
the Rev. J. S. Howson, the Principal of the institution,
presided, in the absence of the Right Rev. the Lord
Bishop of the Diocese. Interesting addresses were
delivered by himself, atd by the Rev. Dr. M`Neile,
Mr. S. Holme, and other gentlemen: The following
is a list of the prizes :