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London, England, 1855-09-22 00:00:00

THE BANKRUPT BANKERS

On Wedgesday William Strahan, Robert Afakin
Bates, and Sir John Dean Paul, Bart., were placed at
the har before Mr. JARDINE, for final examination,
charged Kith feloniously disposing of a large quantity
of foreign securities, lodged with them for safe keeping
as bankers.

Mr. Bodkin appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Parry appeared for Mr. Bates.
Mr. B dkin, in opening the case, said there were five
witnessed clerks in different banking houses—named
Metcalf, Stafford, Potter, Mitchell, and Franklin—in
attendance; and as their absence from busin

would occasion some inconvenience, he propo

to call those gentlemen, and intimate to the
their presence would be required next weel
different gentlemen were then called, and di
attend, as Mr. Bodkin desired
The

witnesses, Dr. Griffith, Wiley, Boyes, Pelly,
Young, Moore, and Hill were then bound over to
appear at the next session at the Central Criminal

Mr. Burnard, a stockbroker, residing at 69, Lombard-
street, corrected his deposition, which stated that in
1854 he purchased Dutch stock for the defendants ;

it ought to he that he effected a loan on Dutch stock
for the bank on the application of Sir John Paul, to
the amount of thirty thousand pounds, upon security
of Dutch 2i per Cents. _ _

Mr. Bodkin said the state of the case was now
so far advanced, that to-day he should ask for a

committal

The first witness called was

Mr. Bell, the official assignee to the fiat, who deposed
that on the 16th of June, some days after the fiat, he
went to the banking-house, and Mr. Strahan informed
him that the bonds of Dr. Griffith would not be forth.
coming. He thought the word sold was used. The

conversation took place in the parlour behind the shop.
Mr. Strahan and Mr. Bates were present. As official
assignee he took possession of the money. He asked
Mr. Strahan if there was a book in which the securities
were entered ? Mr. Strithan and Mr. Bates looked at
each other, but made no answer. Sir John Paul, he
thought, was walking about the house. Some Dutch
Bonds came into his possession, but they were docketted,
and they had been delivered to the parties to whom
they belonged.
Mr Parry.—Was Mr. Bates present in the parlour
when the conversation took place ?

Mr. Bell said he was not sure that he was there at the
preciie moment the conversation took place between
hims .1f and Mr. Strahan. He did not take part in the

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conversation

Mr. Jardine said it was immaterial. No jury in the
world, or any man of common sense, would think that
Mr. Bates was not cognisant of the purpose of the con-

labour

Charles Aubrey was indicted for stealing a watch
lue 51., the property of William Gamier, from hi:

On the 12th of May last the prosecutor, a farrie
living in Smith-street, Westminster, had been drinkir

lifferent women, and late in the evening he was
s the company of a prostitute, whom he accompanied
3 a coffee-house. where they had some gin. She
natched his watch and ran away, and as he was pur-
aing her the prisoner put out his leg and threw him
o-day I down, and then got away himself. He met a police-

soner had got to the top of a house in Snow's-rents,
they proceeded up the stairs, and the prosecutor got
through the trap-door. He walked about the roof

searcliinz in the darkness for the prisoner, when un-
fortunately he stepped over the parapet, and fell to the

ground, a depth of nearly forty feet, severely fracturing
his arm and shoulder. A man named Davis and a
woman he cohabited with were in bed in the house,
and they were woke up by the ceiling of their room
falling in upon them. They got up in consequence,
and on going to the passage they heard a female voice
say, " Charley, I've got it," to which a man replied,
" All right." They swore it was the prisoner who
said, " all right." This was just before the prosecutor
fell from the roof. Hearing a noise Davis went out to
see what occasioned it, and he found the prosecutor
insensible on the ground, and assisted a policeman to
remove him to the hospital, whore he lay in so dan.
gerous a state that it was thought necessary for the

was positive as to the prisoner's identity.
Mr. Ribton, for the prisoner, urged that his identity
was not sufficiently proved, and called two witnesses,
who attempted to prove an alibi.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and several former
convictions were proved against him.
Mr. Bodkin sentenced him to six years' penal
servitude.

Henry Alford, collector in the service of the Eastern
Counties Railway Company, was indicted for having
embezzled various sums of money which he had re-

ceived as their servant.
The prisoner admitted the receipt of the money, and
that he had not accounted to the company for it, but
denied the felonious appropriation. He made a claim

.e with new cler

305., and it was his duty as a servant to account for
the money he received.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and recommended

Mr. Bodkin sentenced him to two months' hard

Herbert Templeman and Mathilde Schwendler Colbert
pleaded Guilty to a charge of keeping a common brothel

in Newman-strec

It was stated that possession of the house had been
given up, and that the parish authorities, who had
directed the prosecution, would be satisfied if the de-
fendants entered into recognizances to appear for judg-
ment when called upon.

The Court made an order to that effect, and the de
fendants were discharged.

John Marshall was brought up for judgment. He
was convicted on Thursday last of stealing a number of
articles from a furnished house, No. 3, Eccleston-ter.
race, Pimlico, which he had taken at NO/. a-year.
Mr. Parry said it was stated on the trial that the
prisoner had done the same thing in Bermondsey, but

the person who could prove that was not now in town,
so the Court would take it that no such statement had

been made.
Mr. Bodkin said it was clear to him that the prisoner
was h person to whom the word " swindler" would
apply. The sentence was that be be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for 12 calendar months.
William Lee was also brought up for judgment. He
had pleaded Guilty of stealing a pocket-bo,k, containing
115/. in notes from the pocket of a gentleman in Oxford-
street, and it was represented that he was a man of

means and respectability, and was formerly a merchant
at New Orleans. Several witnesses were called, who
gave him a high character. The address they gave for
him proved to be false, and no real account could be
gleaned of him. After he was remanded two men went
to the address the witnesses had given as the prisoner's,

and asked the person who lived there to say ft was Mr.
Lee's residence, and that he was a respectable man, if
any one called to enquire, as a Mr. Lee was in trouble
for assaulting a policeman, and had given that address,
so that his friends should not know of the scrape he
had got into.

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a person who had been picking pockets in Oxford-street
that it struck him as very singular. and it proved that
they had attempted to foist falsehood upon the Calla,
and he had little doubt that they were not unacquainted
with such transactions as had brought the prisoner to
that bar. He should have the circumstances placed in
the hands of the proper person, to see if there would
he sufficient evidence to bring a charge of conspiring to
hinder the administration of justice home to those
persons who had given evidence in the prisoner's favour.
The sentence was that the prisoner be kept in penal

,ervitude for six year

(Before Mr. WITHAM.)
John Kirby was indicted for stealing 70 pieces of
lead, the property of Aleasrs. Cubitt and Co., builders,

The prisoner was a carter in the service of the pro-
secutors, and on the 14th of last month .he had to
convey a load of old lead from Uxbridge-house to their
premises, and on the way he sent a woman to sell that
which he was charged with stealing at a marine store-
shop in Cleveland-street. The person in charge of the

shop refused to buy it, and the woman went away,
leaving it there. Shortly afterwards the prisoner called

The jury found him Guilty, and Mr. Witham sen-
tenced him to hard labour for six months.
John Harding and George Thompson were indicted
for assaulting Police-constable W. Leonard, 50 D.
It appeared that on the 14th August, about 3 in the
morning, the prisoners were knocking at a public-house
door in Portman-market to get gin, when the prosecutor

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