The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-20 00:00:00

IN Till NUTT= OP LOON FRANILIL..

This ease (reported os Monday) again came before the
court, and oceupied several bourn
Mr. Dowse appeared for Moran. Bolden, watothmaken,
Butabeap; and Mr. Reed for Mr. Waite, upholsterer
Newthrt=s-batte, and other creditors.
Mr. supported the application fir discharge.
Thor t, a young man, is a Oerman Jew. He had
boss is Weiser about nine mouths, and his debts, aa es
=mad dealer in fancy goods, were about 8001. He had
totes tallier to a large sum, and about 7001. by time
paean, to whom he bad entrusted considerable goods, sad
the parties were now either in America or Australis. The
insolvent had traded as " Frankel and Brother.," and also
en his own amount in Lesdenhall•street, u " Frankel and
C 0.," having no partner at the time. The brother was now
abroad. The insolvent, with his father and brother, had
resided at Doddington grove, Kennington.
The complaint eau the part of Maus. Soldeno was heard.
Throe watches were obtained on approbation, and three
others, the latter to be returned in two hours. The sir
watches were kept, and the debt wan 451. The other prin-
cipal opposing creditor was Mr. Waite. He had supplied
furniture to Lewisham, end was paid. Subsequently on
the :mortal of the parties to Kennington he supplied goods
to 951., which goods were claimed by the father, and a few
days back sold by auction. He held bills, and on the part of
the insolvent it was alleged that he had nothing to do with
the transaction, being at the time is Berlin.
It was urged, in addition to the treads on the two princi-
pal creditors, that the debts owing to the insolvent were
fictitious, and created to cover the property which the in-
golvent had obtained from hie creditors.

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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.
1370111 1111. MITI= CROWD= AND ■L /MICE CIOUPTOL

Thomas Clarke, 55, wee indicted ter stealing a letter, con-
taining a sovereign, the property of the Postmaster-GeneraL
Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Gifford conducted the prosecution.
The prisoner was defended by Mr. Parry.
The circumstances of this cam were of rather a peculiar
climate,. It appeared that the prisoner, who had been for
more than ten years in the service of ia poet-office, was
engaged ea a sorter, and that in consequence of some sus-
picion that had been created in the minds of the poet-office
authorities with regard to his proseadisp, a letter, in which
a marked sovereign wee fined on a card, was posted, and
afterwards delivered to the prisoner in a tray with a number
of other letters, for the purpose of being sorted, on the 14th
of August last, and two persons, named Forbes sod antes,
received instructions t, watch his movements after the latter
came into his possession. It appeared that there is a oat-
trireme by means otos iron grating, by which all that Bose
on in the sorting-room may be observed, and, accord-
ing to the evidence of these two persons, the prisoner took
up the Letter in titration, essmined it closely, and then
pressed it with both his hands, and after doing this, they
represented that he raised his hands over has head and
appeared to put something into his mouth. He was taken
into custody at once and searched, bat no trace of the coin
*odd be discovered; but upon the positive testimony of
the two witnesses in question he was committed to take his
trial upon the present charge, and would hays been tried
at the lest sessions, bet the trial was postponed. Upon the
supposition that the prisoner bad swallowed the marked
sovereign, means were taken during the period that he was
in custody to see if it should appear, bet nothing was heard
or sent of the missing coin until the 4th of the present
month, when it strived at the General Post•office,
enclosed is an anonymous letter addressed to the Postmas-
ter-General, the writer stating that the marked sovereign
was enclosed in order to save the innocent from punishment.
There was no evidence whatever to show by what means,
supped'', the prisoner had virally swallowed the coin, it
could have passed into the hands of any other person ; end
it appeared in the course of the evidence that the letter in
question would have Ewen passed through several officials'
hands connected with the post office before it would come
into the possession of the prisoner.
Mr. Parry made a most earnest appeal to the jury on
behalf of the prisoner, and he particularly urged upon them
the possibility that the coin might have been abreacted
from the letter by some other person, and that the wit-
name Forbes and Some might be mistaken in the repre-
sentation of what they saw take place on the day in
question.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Frederick Moat, 31, was indicted for forging and utteringl
a deed with intent to defraud.
Mr. Giffard and Mr. Rees conducted the prosecution.
The prisoner was defended by Mr. Parry.
The prosecutors of this indictment were an insurance
society called the " Times," in Ludgate-hill. The defendant,
it appeared, had effected two insurances on lives in this office
prior to the year 1854, arid had obtained a loan of MI. from
them. He subsequently was desirous of rating another loan
of 1001., and he offered several persons as his sureties, and
among them a Mr. George Cobham, a butcher at Woolwich,
and it appeared that a deed was eventually drawn up, and
some person attended at the office and signed it as Mr.
Cobham, and the money was then advanced. It was now
alleged that this signature was a forgery.
Mr. Cobham deposed that be knew the prisoner, and he
remembered upon ono occasion that he salted him toed
his security to the office is question for a loan, but he de-
clined, and the signature to the deed in question was a
forgery. He said that he himself subsequently applied to
the office for a loan, and the amount he received was an
application for 1001., with 91. Bs. 9d. arrears, and 81. Bd. for
the lawyer's letter. (A. laugh.) This was the first intima-
tion he had received that his name appeared to the deed as
one of the sureties for the loan.

Some letters were then put fa, by which it appeared that
when the prisoner wu informed that Mr. Cobham declared
that his signature wee forged, he admitted that he wu
aware of the fact, and said that some person, named Williams,
had gone with him to the office ■nd signed the deed, and
that this person had gone to Australia. It also appeared
that when the prisoner was taken into castody, be said he
was very sorry for what had occurred, bet be had no inten-
tion to defraud the company, and be wished to know
whether he could not make an arrangement to pay part of
the money and give security for the remainder.
The clerks belonging to the insures°, office were very
closely cross-examined by Mr. Parry, and he elicited the
facts that the iutrument in question wu partly la blank at
the period when the signature of one of the securities, at all
events, was affixed to it, and it seemed very probable that
it was fit the same condition when woe of the other signs-
tune were placed to it ; and it appeared that thus blanks
were filled up afterwards.
Mr. Parry, upon this, contended that the instrument was
not a deed in the legal acceptation of the term at the time
the offence was alleged to have been committed.
His Lordship, after hearing Mr. Oiffard I. reply to the
objection, ruled that it was a fatal cue, and directed en
acquittal.

THE CASE OF STBAHAN, PAUL, AND BATES
Just as the court was about to adjourn, Mr. Parry ad-
dressed his lordship, and said he bad to make an application
on behalf of Mr. Bates, whose ease had been mentioned in
the morning. The court had directed that he should re-
sew the o,iginal recognisance'; but it appeared that
only eae of his bail was in Wartime', the second surety,
his brother, Mr. William Bats., being absent. The
occurrence was purely accidental, owing to some mistake at
the telegraph Mai with regard to the menage that was sent
requesting his attendees:* ; but he said Mr. linters, of
Fleet• street, a patients who was perfectly well known,
was ready to enter bites recogoismtee for the appearance of
Mr. Bates on the following day, when his brother would
certainly be io attendance and renew his suretyship; and
be trusted that under these circumstances the court would

allow Mr. M'Lean W lincome doomed eon*
Mr. Justice Compeer NU that In tin shames of the
mumsl for the proseendoe, he should not take upon him-
self to interfere le any fanner. The case was a most
serious one; and unless the counsel for the prosecution con-
sented, be should not make any alteration with regard to
the bail.
Mr. Parry said. that what he required to be dose leo
really a mete matter of form, and he trusted that whatever
opinion the learned judge might have as to the obarsoter of
the case, he would not put Mr. Bates to the unnecessary
inconvenience of being confined in Newpte all night.
Mr. Bodkin at this moment entered the court, and upon
being informed by Mr. Parry of the nature of the applies.
the be bad made, be said he did not see any objection to it ;
and the court then allowed Mr. M'Lesa to be the second
aunty for the appearance of Mr. Bates on the following
day ; and that gentlemen was them allowed to depart.