The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-30 00:00:00

IX 11 A14701/4 lu FIRST CLASS

The bankrupt wee a jeweller and artist in hair, of 136,
Begestetreet. Tte pnweedinp in the certificate meeting
mere heard Oust • fortnight ago.
WI Honour in delivering judruseat said—This was an
spplieation by EMU for hie certificate. Porter was born
is Switzerland. He came to this country twenty .five year.
ago, wits, a, be says, a sovereign in his pocket. By industry
Sad great arti.tis talent be gradually raised himself into the
pennon of being the most successful artist in the kingdom
fn working up hair to be kept u memorials of affection, and
la Pebru.ry lo.t hod • shop in Begun. street, of which
Ribine, when announcing its withdrawal from public
eustioe, expressed himself thus : " Messrs. Robins beg
to announce that Mr. Charles Packer his bud's' the
pranhuir of the lease of Mr. Porter's celebrated hair em-
porium, 136, Regent-street, together with the goodwill if
Her business, and also of the entire stork ; the whole, there-

WM, II the-N.ly sad elegant embelliebiaents of the shop,
wyle of which bee for many years peat oh
tsiaad see Ear. peen renown, and melted the admiration of
MI a of tewe, together with the unique sad exquisite
gtlie wid remain intact, sad thus enable Mr. Packer to
eweste with despatch all orders that the nobility and gentry
may favour him with. Covent-garden, April 18, 1866."
refeetunau ly for Mr. Ferrer enthusiasm for his est betrayed
him late eat...nice which he had lot ready money to nine
ffiie spent to exhibit hie productions at the Great
P,zhibition, end 3,01001. more in decorating his shop
in the m .nuer described by Mews. Robins, sad
the result wee, that in February lost, Messrs. Holland,
who bad ferniseed the decorations, being unpaid, found
theateelves compelled to enforce their rights, and Mr. Ferrer,
ea
arriving et home one evening, found his wife is teen
awl the oilcan of the law in possession. He immediately
pat himself is emnannication with his solicitor, Mr. Jer-
emiad, and rewind to make himself bankrupt, and thus
Mean most distribution amongst, his creditors—the proper
OWN for en honest am to adopt. The sacrifice of pro-
perty war, hotline, tertible. He states that his stock, if
gold over the counter, would have fetched 12,0001. His
weigine, Mr. Saipwriebt, a worker in gold, Mlle has
wicked for his fur twenty years, and received from his
between 30,00i1, and 40,000/ for work done, sap that he
dose net think the estimate eareasonable, and yet his pee-
pony has been sold to Mr. Packer for 4,0001. A dividesd
of fils. in the pound was declared so early is the 11th
Msy, and a farther dividend of three shinier
sr mere is espeoted. The 15th cf June was fined
to his omelette, and under such circumstance" it would
have been of coon for this court to give to Me. Foner a
iheaelass certificate at owe, sad ezpress its With that he
'sight be enebted to resume his business, with the mid of hie
Ismer friend, and supporters. But saeldmely=ll.•
arose to his having his certificate at all, ems& that
be had removed end ernosaled property bet be ens lase.
Witnesses wire in consequent:at examined ea the filb
and among* others Forrer himself. The alleged enamel-
meat was of hair, some of it unceanalletarod, animas of it
plaited. Furter, when manned, made no meet of what
he had done. He said that when the Alain of the law
gems in under Holland's seizure he was very mach agitated
sad ossiesei, and removed at ones two portions of his pro-
perty, one consisting of manufactured goods, the wet
valuable pelt of the stock of the shop, which he removed
he fear of being used roughly by the sheriffs'
seems, the other portion consisting of numanufectered hair,
which he removed lest, Hits existence should be known, it
should injure him with his customers, by making them
tank he did not nee the hair sent him by them. At the
Mae time he burnt a considerable quantity of hair for the
seam reason. The burning took piece in the night, and the
removal on the morning after the seizure by Holland, and
before the b inkreptcy. His wife bad charge of the removal,
sad the pl Ire to which the property was removed was the
beam of llr. &grief, a friend of the bankrupt's of 30 years,
sad sauna respectable man. As soon as the bankruptcy was
declared, and the sheriff% officers bad withdrawn, and the
danger of rough usage had ceased, the bankrupt directed
his wife to bring back all the things she had taken
away. It is not denied that she brought back all
the valuable portion of the stock, but it is alleged that she
did not bring back the plaited and the unetanufedtered hair
sad this is the concealment complained of. Furrer's answer
Is, ia stab ernes, this, 1 did not know the hair was not
brought back. 1 told my wife to bring back everything,
sad I concluded she bad done en. A few days after the
bankruptcy she left for Switzerland, to look after property
there, left her by her father, and I did not see her fee •
kw time. I did not miss the property. I thought nothkg
about it. It was of no value." Oa the other head it M
alleged that ;the hair at Sagrine's and aurae ether bib
band in a cupboard in the house wham Noe bisibegie
lodged was fraudulently removed and onnedeill, ad was
worth 1401. This charge of fraudulent asonolioofill was,
Of course, a eery serious one, bat as 'My ollOr pert of
Ewer's conduct had been that of an benne net I thought
it my duty t i weigh every clement/MO ales eardsliy to
One whether the hair was really wineeeleE, or only for.
gotten, and I am convinced that it was an atameled. The
investigation commenced on the Bth Jane. Neither then
tier at any other time did he make any secret of his
having removed the things between the seizure and the
bankruptcy. Oa the contrary, it is admitted by the as-
sign that Furrer mentioned to him at once the removal
sad bringing beck of the things; foe the assignee aye
that a day or two after the bankruptcy be said to Forcer,
a. I hope everything has been brought back, for otherwise
it might affect your Certilleate." When the bankrupt was
examined on the Bth June, he at once mentioned that hie
things bad been removed to the house of his friend
Sir. &pine, who is evidently a potion s& who is
gaits incapable of being party to the sernealesent
of bankrupts' property. It is not alleged that the
bankrupt made any use of the hair left at Sagriae's
or that he ever went there to inquire about it. It seems
not to have been touched tom the day of removal. After
his examination, on the Bth of June, Ferrer took the law
maw of the court to a cupboard fa a room occupied by
his landlord, and showed bitn some of the hair alleged to
have bees concealed. The messenger on the wane day
might Saris 6, but he was not at home. On finding Nm
be replied " he did not know, bathe would inquire, sad
write ;" and the sent day he informed the memoseger
that his wife had some hair. Meanwhile Ferrer bed
spoken to &grind, who sweats that Yaw honed him,
" Übe had anything in his home belengleg le bit(Fomr)
be would give it to him," to which Sodded -replied he value*.
ewe Poem wee the right man to have it. but would 'squire."
The next day Ferrer wrote (bane, "If you will have the
goodness to deliver up to me anything which M. Farr*:
may have left at your hones belooging to me, I promise
that I shall deliver it to the official amigos% as it will be a
satisfaction to me to do so." Now, these two chance ex-
pressions, one in the evidence of Sagrisi, a gentleman of
naimpeachable honesty, " if be had anything is hie hones
belonging to him (Faeroe)," the other fa the beekrept's
letter to S.prime, anything Mrs. Ferrer may have left in
your house," ...maltose me that Ferrer then for the first
time had an idea that Ides. Forret had not fully obeyed
hie iustruetions to bring back everything. The expression
sworn to by Begrin6, If you have anything belonging to
me in your house," unpile* ignore.* is Forrer's mind.
The similar expression in Formes letter to Swine :
" Anything Mr.. Ferrer may have left straw hoses balmy-
/al tO me," equally implies ignorance In Ferrer's mind;
and as they are the natural expressions which would fall
fres art anxious eau, eat knowing how the matter really
stood, but knowiag how serious a charge ociessalsemat by a
bankrupt is, this makes the deeper impreseien am my mind,
and convenors me that he really adomt knew that the hair
Mabee& le't there. The heir at ilerlaterwes at ewe deli-
vered to the messenger of this amt. Wids regard to the
hair at the bankrupt's lodging, I believe MM Mat wee part
4111 some hair which the bankrupt bad ewer his lisput•
won to finish for the amigo. wig endive in guns of
sweeties et the bankreptcy, sail fee whisk be bad credited
He soignee. 101. is an aeonat be had with them for work
dose by him for them after the baakruptcy. It is said, M-
ind, that the hair in question wee worth 1401, end, as a
pro.. this, that it was geld for that erna. But to whom
wait sold ? To the purchaser of Mr. Forrer's busiasso—
to the person most interested to nprees all Mr. Forrer's
efforts to reinstate himself in business—to a person who had
hosed a eircut,r to all Mr. Forrer's customers, saki.: their
mama at lower charges. The purchaser attended before
me to give evidence manse the bankrupt, and is doing so
be said that had the hair been in Regent-street when he
bought the r °petty, be would have given 1,0001. to 1,6001.
sere for the business. To my mind, nth exaggeration
betrays the spied in which the evidence was give—the
spirit of trade rivalry. The wipes who sold it, and who
had been c ioneeted with Porter for twenty years, was
at least as good a judge as one lately w.f.( the
hasisees. sod, I had no idea that the hair was
se valuable." The bankrupt, in hb evidence en the Bth
Jew, said—" I set so value on it, nor did Mr. Shipripst.
It is of no value, but that I We it to teach my young
people." I have carefully weighed all thine eireemeteasse.
sad as I am s.t.,thod that the bankrupt did act eves know
that the hair was et &trine% and as I am also (*evinced
that this opposition lice been dictated by a spirit of trade
rivalry, I shell del wbat nthe ohmage of this charge I
should have dote. I Mel give Mr. Ferrer • Ant-ekes en-
tiAeste, 'emu fiep aphides that be is a very basest and la-
'Woes man, eel we baps Viet he may be able again to
sax a subsisting, helikssall sable fflmilys h 7 th• WM"
of his great arlieeie Werth
First elan cardinals amealleily.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS 001.1RT.-4t7LT 28.
Several bail mess wen beard ia anticipation of the ap-
pemshing adjournment of the semi foe the nestles, and

tee afthas •11061 imakaisat Is a me a Jaw
was repaid as ma et Ifesuailini. mal be admitted that be
bed sprayed k tb sok dander La a sankr of km.
Te &ewer (Mg. logpen) legalised before whom be
bad last appeared, aad be replied, before Murphy."
Officer of the eourt—What do yea mew. bJ " &herby • 7
Batt—Oh. I mean Commissioner Murphy. (Laughter )
Mr. Commissioner Phillips—Yon are rather tee familiar,
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I should sap. (L‘itighter.).-
The bail were arioepted. In the other case, WAIN Jew
was ane at the parties proposed as hail, medlar letshalmt
creditor complained that he went to his 1111161011111111 ti
flonntiediteb, which he tenod In a dirty plrM..d whilst
he was nuking taw:titles he had his poekMpk ed of hie
handkerchief, and was afraid of losing his watch. He found
he was in a den of thieves.
Mr. Commissioner Paillipe—From what he saw the toil
was not worth the slim stated in the &Hardt. The Jew
declared that he was, and es there was no evidence en the
tiler side he was accepted.