The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-15 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 15, 1855.:

1
wrote in most affectionate terms, acknowledgiag the receipt plseed in Ms. which mulideme nee very rapidly, in
of the money, which he said should be placed out at into- consequence Mike mal and activity with whist he managed
rest, sad signed himself " Eva d t. yours William." the sffain of the compsny, and the direetore raised tee
He believed as many as eicht hundred love letters had been salary they had first . given him to 6001. a year. The pri-
written by the defendant to Miss Morris, and it was sneer remained In this position until the 22nd of Jaly last,
a matter of surprise to the learned counsel that when, from some inquiries which took place about some
6.. Bd. had not been charged for each of them when the vouchers relating to some re-assurances with the Home
3u
defendant had pleaded bus rc>off. (Lau4hter.) Howeacr, Cntiss Assurance Company, an inquiry took please, and
the 1001. Is. had been pieced in the defendant's bands, for it was then found that the prisoner mu a defaulter to a very
which he promised to return to the lady 261. per cent., sad considerable amount. A cheque for 2311 Ifie., which bad
be bad set up m a defence that he had invested the motley, bean given him to transmit to Birmingham, to pay for M-
end a setoff, which, it must be admitted, was not a very comp in the Birmingham ,
eftthrough the
poor girl. He would any's agent at Birmingham, had net be pi::: away
moneyotiongevtouwbasaddsbtthecisinvested,
but was kept for thet purpose. It then tarn,d out, that out of sin re.as-
shctha creditablet
wayt
heof il
in the defendant's pretaien. The intiary trontinutii I turancts for which the money bad been given to prirmer, he
although Miss Morna's family were adverse to it, the lady had only paid for the four omit ones, keeping back the
could not be induced to break it off, and she, being urged to greater amount, for part of which the cheque
do so, went to reside with the family of a respectable linen- for 491. 16,. 6d. had been given him, but let
draper at Swansea, where the defendant had visited her, and them remain unpaid until the morning n
him uof the
having discovered that her mental acquirements were not 22nd of July, the money having been paid to po
equal to his own, he placed her in a school. It must be said the Bth of June. This money was paid partly by a cheque
that although the defendant had led his client to believe sent him on behalf of the company, from a Mr. Warren, of
that she was to be his wile, he had been guilty of no ins- Croydon, and partly by a cheque of prisoner's own, which
proper conduct, by the seduction of this young girl, and was subeequently dishonoured. Upon the let of Jane, pd.
this fact was much to his credit. He admitted the indium goner received a cheque for 2011. lh. Sd.
to pay a sum
lion of Mite Morris in first meeting the defendant, bat that owing at Birmingham for fitting up an office there for the
was no excuse for his conduct, and the step bad cost her company. This cheque the prisoner had used to pay a
dearly. The end of all her cherished hopes was that the private debt of his own. When these things were discovered,
isfensiaet, without formally breaking off the engage- the prisoner was requested to resign. The prisoner did so,
Mato married another lady, which left her a and said that he bad not any intention to defraud the com-
e
broken-leaned creature ; and when she had asked may, but that he had misappropriated the money. It
for her monsy , she was treated with contumely. was under these circumstances, and not knowing that his de-
He had ho that some other course would have (ideation. were so heavy as they subsequently turned out,
been taken y the defendant so as to have prevented sad open the account of his wife and family,thst the directors
his client from amnia, into a public court to seek redeem did not press heavily upon him at that time. Prisoner pro-
for the injury she had sustained. He would mention that raised to leave his furniture, as part security for the amount
he understood the substantial defence was, that the money he was deficient, and gave the company a solemn promise
which the defendant had received had been expended on that he would not do anything gnat the company. The
the education of his client, as well as for the expenses in- company bed treated him with kindness, and this be
I cared he her journeys to Rammate and different other (the learned counsel) understood would be used against them
I *ma. The defendant, when she was attacked with illness, in his defence.
had called is a physician, to whom he had paid about 301. The learned counsel then
addition called Mto confir. Stephen
CrackCck's%
Bat be we cok were these acts of kindnem, if such they one of the (Weston, who, in rm w-
eed& he eallekssaciest to compensate for the injuries la- denim entered into by the learned counsel, stated that
listed ? Kim Minis had been kept in a state of mental when he milled upon the prisoner to produce the vouchers
siedety sad suspense for five years, and he Masted she from the Hems Counties, prisoner said he bad them, and
would receive at the hands of the jury the redsses which pent the messenger down to fetch the book, but ultimately
she eseglit, and would leave that ,court without a blemish admitted that he had not got them as there was • question
en her eltarseter. of account between him and the company.
The plaintiff having mitered the witness-box, • coml. Croseexamised—We had done but very little business
Utica took plain between the counsel on both sides, when before the prisoner came as our secretary. He raised die
Mr. K. Smith said be had agreed to accept • verdict businem very much. He had the entire control, under the
he 901. diseetioa of the board. TM very greatest confidence was
Kr. Collier said that he felt bound tera that .the defend- placed ia him. He mid to travel, and appoint our
ant was meat anxious that the matt should have been country agents, and the company disbuned all his expense.
settled by the arbitration of some mutual friend. The de- and did not know minutes prisoner paid our cheques late his
Indent had acted in • very different manner to that retire- own Waken. A had been entered in the book
muted by his learned frimd. He would consent to a verdict sanctioning • past proceeding of the prisoner where be had
foe the plaintiff for 901. paid a sum received upon loan into his ewn bankers. This
Kr. Berm Martin expensed his approval of this course, was done after an explanation from him, but I did not
and accordia6l7 approve of it. That minute did not authorise prisoner to
A verdict, with 901. damages, was entered for the plaintiff. continue to do so. We once gave a dinner that cost about
2001. I do not know of the prisoner having been security
for Mr. Coeds, or Mr. Heiman. lie his said so, but I
do not know anything of it.
Tll- The witness then weal on to explain, that when the pri-
soner left them he homed another company,conducted upon
the same principle as theks ;
He
went there as director, and
was thee the secretary. He had been there about six
months. Prisoner then became insolvent, and put the
directors of this prosecution down as his debtors, and the
company opposed him. He had not passed. He had also
commenesd-an action against the company hr 6001. due to

EXCHEQUER CHAMBER.-.Tma 14.
ILIZOIL -ZOOM SONTICIII 00L11110011,.
LIAM, 0203111010 ow cumin&
PITO V. 112NOLD5.—BILL OP IICHANOI.
This was an action tried before Mr. Justice Coleridge,
and wee brought to recover 2001. upon a document, which
was alleged to be either a bill of exchange or a promissory
note, dated in Africa, end was as follows: " At eight of
this my third bill of suchen p, the first and second being
unpaid, please to pay W. S. M. Peto, or order, 2001. ster-
ling, and place the same, as by letter of advice, to the
as
count of Alfred Wrighton." Oa this instrUesent was
written, " Samuel Reynolds, Shim-lane, Bedminster, Bris-
tol." The draft and acceptance were both in the hand-
writing of Wrighton. There were cross bills of exceptions
to the ruling of the learned judge who had tried the cause.
One of them was signed some time since, but stood over
for judgment until the arguments in this case, which has
been frequently before the court, were heard.
Mr. fieneant Hinglake (with him Mr. Rowley) urged
that the document was • promissory note, sad did not re-
quire • stamp, having been drawn and executed is Africa.
Reynolds was the father in law of Wrighton, and when
the instrument was presented for payment to him, he said,
" I will pay the bill, but I cannot pay it now ; I will give
a bill at three months."
The learned counsel submitted that this was an acknow-
ledgment of the instruments such as would make the de-
fondant responsible, and that there was evidence to go to
the jury,
Mr. M. Smith and Mr. Prideanz appeared for the other
side, but were not called on.
The court were of opinion that the learned judge's direc-
tion was right, as there was clearly no evidence to tgo to the
jury. The verdict mast be eat aside.

MI DI

him for moues.
Mr. MINA a gentleman acting as secretary to the Home
Counties was called, to prove the transaction relative
to the rcusurance of the policies, and said that when the
prisoner , paid him for the four, he asked him to let
him have the other two without paying the premiums upon
them. Witness did so, and had much trouble to get them
back. Prisoner owed him a private debt of some amount,
which he paid with the cheque for 2011. 17s. Od., and it was
only by threatening to keep the balance that prisoner
returned the vouchers. Prisoner came and paid the pre-
mium upon the remaining vouchers upon the day the
directors bad written to the Home Counties office about
them. This witness admitted, in cross-esansination, that
there had been money transactions between him and the
prisoner, but not in any way connected with the present
ease. Witness was fond d sporting, and had sold prisoner
two horses. Witness had written some works upon sporting,
but was not a racing prophet; neither was he the "Joe
Muggias's Dog," of one of the sporting Sunday papers.
The remainder of the evidence,which was of a very lengthy
and complicated character, went to prove that the manager
of the Birmingham branch, having paid over to the prisoner,
upon the 16th of June, the sum of 1001. from a person
named Desks, the prisoner, instead of paying that over to
the company, bad need that money to pay for the offices at
Birmingham, and had given to the person from whom he
received it a receipt dated a month in advance. The pri-
soner had, it appeared, after giving his word that he would
not do anything to cut any discredit upon the Deposit and
General Life Amarillo. Company, put an advertisement
into the Times reflecting upon it, and the result was that
one of the directors had requested him to put lnc counter
advertisement; but this he had not done, being, when re-
quested so to do, the secretary of the new company. From
the ;general tenor of the answers given in the cross-
nomination it appeared that the baud of directors had been
negligent in inspecting the affairs of the company. and
seemed to have trusted nearly all to the prisoner without
overkieldnghle
Some otatesionts having been made by prisoner relative
to Lord Drumlanrig, the chairman of the company, his
lordship was examined, and said—l once bad from pri
weer a cheque for 761., either in August or July, 1853. u
director's fees. Ido not recollect sending from Limmer's
Hotel for a cheque for 801. I have lent the company Z.,001. ;
that was, I think, when I was in Scotland.
Yr. Parry then addressed the jury for the defence, and in
a mat forcible and pointed manner argued that the pri-
soner's defeleations were not of a criminal character, an im-
plied emikority having been given him to deal with the
engem of the company se his own. That it had not been
ehomatbat as had not paid the accounts required, although
not at the actual time ; again, the directors had, by their
subsequent conduct, treated the defalcations in a way that
showed they did not view them as winged ; and but that
the prisoner had become a rival to them, and made a claim
upon them, this most malicious prosecution would not
have been thought of.
The Recorder, in summing up, pointed out to the jury
the law of the case.
The jury having being abseat a short time returned a
verdict of Not Guilty.
Kr. Sleigh applied that prisoner might be let out on bail
to surrender to meet the other charges when preferred.
The Recorder said he saw nothing in the case to cause
him to depart from the general rule. The charge was a
very proper one to be brought forward, and prisoner must
be kept In custody until the prosecutors had time to cowl-
' der if they should proceed with the other charges.
The ease lasted from the sitting of the, court until past 8
o'clock.

COURT OF

CT.-JUNE 14.
STAN&

11170113 ra. __
IX RI IRO/IN.—WWI 111113,CANTILI PAILIIRE.
This was the examination muting in the case of &maul
Moritz Krohn, described u a merchant, of Bread-street,
Chear ide. The accounts, which hare recently been filed
(prepared by Messrs. Harding and Pullets), intend from
the lit of January, 1853, to the 11th of January last, and
outdo the following items :
Dz.

To creditors smeared
Ditto Midis( seenrity
Ditto to be paid in NI
Liabilities (per contra)
Profits
Dianne* in balaneins

.547,672 14 1
3,022 7 9
93 16 4
13,186 3 7

10,454 I 9
91 16 6

Total
Ca
By debtors—good
doubtful

14 1

3,077 13 10
31,000 0 0
4,006 14 T

By Krohn end Co of Melbourne
P 10113113
Ditto bold by erediton ;IOU i
Bills reeeteabie held by eredftore .....
Drawn out by 8. 11. Krohn
Merlin A. Krohn 7Ol 5
Trade lupe —„ .„ .. 4,520 3
"---........ — 1,40053 3
... ..... ... 71 4
5

lAw oasts.— ........
Laddßa ebts
Dal!dewy Ist et Jemmy, Ina
Liabilities (per *Was)

1,766 16 6
614 19 6

Total X76.04:1 a o
Mr. Linklater, for the ensign's, required an adjourn-
ment, to giro time for looking into the accounts.
Mr. Lawrence, on the part of the beakrupt, consenting,
len adjournment of ten days wee ordered.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.—Jobs 14.
WOW r 3. MIMS 111011111 AN.
Gawp Frew. 32, wee indicted for • robbery with vio-
lence, apes Williams Henry Hookwood.
The pmesestee slatedtbat be was a ship-builder and re-
sided is Oettege-grove, lifie-end-road. About • quarter to
tea o'cftek to the *venlig of the 16th of April be was on
hisv ra i home, and had just turned down from the high road
towa
lb sows buss, when something was suddenly passed
rowed lib ova frees behind, and in ea instant he felt him-
self wady saihmted, sad fell to the ground. He did not
see mew that he could recognise, bat just before he be-
came inemeible he saw the persons of three men" flitting "
(as he mid) before his eyes. When he came to himself he
found that his trousers had been torn, and that his pun.,
which contained • half-sovereign and some silver, end
a gold eye-glass, had been stolen. Ho tried to
mil for sasistaue, but was unable to speak, on
amount of one of the blvd vessels in the throat being
bunt by the violent* he had received. A policeman soon
afterwards cams up and assisted him home, sad on the fol-
lowing day his eye-glum MI brought to him.
Catherine Donovan, a lodging-bean keeper, proved that
the prisoner lodged with her, and that at the time ie
question he owed her some rent. Oa the same night that
the robbery was committed he brought her the eye-glass
that was stolen from the prolocutor, and 'eked her to pawn
and she did so on the following morning. The prisoner
told her that he had picked it up, but be did not say where,
nor give any farther information about it.
The prisoner, in his defence, repeated that be bad found
the eye-glass, and declared that he knew nothing about the
rolAery.
The jury found the ptisoaer Guilty, and the learned Judge,
after remarking on the very serious nature of the offence he
had committed, sentenced him to be kept in penal servitude
' for seven years.

NEW COURT.—Itna 14.
WORE THI LICORDZIL _ _

Charles WWiasaliinehelsea Bevan, 33, clerk, wee in-
dicted for steeliag certain orders for the payment of mossy,
to wit, upon the let of June, an order for the payment of
2011. 17e. Bd. ; upon the Bth of June, one for the payment
of 471. 18e. bd. ; and spoa the 20th of April, one for the
amount of 311. 113 e.
The prisoner was also indicted upon several other indict-
ments, to all Mwhielt he pleaded " Not guilty ;" and the
indictments MmdMt the micas above named, were laid
as the =1 pe diresters of the Deposit and Ge-
neral Life Gems, who were the muter@ of the
primmer at the Um the snare was oaramitted.
The primer, who hod been est upon bail, surrendered to
take his trial.
Mr. Berjeant Wilkins, Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Robinson
prosecuted ; and Mr. Fury aid Mr. Sleigh defended.
Mr. &demi Wilkins, la stating the ease to the jury,
raid that the me he wee about to lay before
them was of a very serious character, not only
as sleeting the prosecutors, but the prisoner at
the bar, who was a sea who up to this time lad bane a
• eheroster of the highs l deseriplies, Wing a reeks el esti-
elderable importance, eel apneaimportance, of wed odssenten.
• The shim xerabtaltreiesesr was a sesnewint tattiest*
ass, and ernmeel) therefore begged the jury
• Imlay, the Onset squibs es the feels lie was abent to
• lay Wen Om, ollberidee Ilse hoed enrolee raiworpilsto
I would sob, bed to a otweeden es to the reel state el the
r affair. The proweolers to these preesediege were the
r directors of the Deposit sled General Life Amuses Gm-
, pony, of mid* the odium had bees the seeretary. Toe
r prisoner was zt: no seenitary in 11162, at a salary of
4001. a your, bees, where the otiose of the t
om-
-1 nay are ellwelle, is IlrfOrstrat, Bleakfriate, ta lira in.
"Ns ibe Anigebbospireitent the small 11911446Ni0s wee