The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-11 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, 1851.

ILato intelligence.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—IESTERDAY.
9s.rma ma. CONRIOSJORP II teen.
Re MIDDLEWOOD AND FOSTER.
These bankrupts were silk mercers and drapers, of Leeds,
and to-day was appointed for the last smamination. The
amounts were trepared by Mr. Butler, Bssiughall-street,
and extend from March 10, 1849, to August 20, 1851. The
following arc the items:
To creditors £2,321 14
To Ilabl:lty, per antra
To
To
capital, Valet IN 1,
1013
Ts dWerencie la WOES

C 1,1332 8
Ca.
By rob to be soonated for by Wooten soda
Wigtll9l-11t
By tkotorr—God
a. Jima-trial
Bed
By property ere' op 363 8 6
By iesas of preroirre
By Mole express
Br lowro . . 679 10 6

pothers' drawings
By weakly, per coutra
Mr. Parker, for the pp Bchitisson, and 5 8
the bankrupts passed.assignees, offered no o
Mr. Torr, for the bankrupts, asked for an allowance fur
their journeys to London, the case haying been brought to
this court fur the convenience of the creditors. .

His Honour sanctioned the payment of part of the
expenses.
Ix at PtixasE._ .

This was the last examination meeting in the case of W.
Pheue, nho had kept the Green Man publichouse, Covent-
garden Market. The accounts had not been tiled and the
bankrupt had not surrendered ; he is supposed to be out of
the country. The amount of debts is shout 1,1001. ; the
lea and goodwill of the premises had realisul about 001.,
and there see some other assets.

lIE DENNING.

The bankrupt was described as a law bookseller and pub-
fisher, ofMeet-street, carrying on business in partnership
with John Kirton Gillian, under the firm of William
Denning and Co. This was the meeting for the last exa-
minatioa. The balance-sheet, prepared-by Mr. Thomas, of
Gresham-street, extended from the lit of January, 1311, to
the 79th of August last, and contained the following items
To creditors, 10.84.11.; ditto, secured, 1,9101.; liability,
200(.; capital, 5,13591. • amount drawn from firm of W.
Beaming and Co., 12,851.; amount received under a de-
cree iu the suit " Denning r. Saunders," 5,b32/.; rents re
ceived, 2,7901.; estimated value of life interest in col-
lieries, 9991 ti By good debtors, 3721.; property, 1,2001.;
ditto held by creditors, 1,8001. ; interest and law costs,
4,743/. ; personal ditto, 1'2,976/.; losses, 1,6191.; amount
introduced as capital into the firm of W. Denning and
Co., 10,001/1.; subsequent payments to ditto, 7,6911. ; lia-
bility (per cautra), :.001.
Mr. Lawrariee, fur the assignees, asked for an adjourn-
ment to give time to look into the accounts.
Mr. Wordsworth, for the bankrupt, consented, and au
adjournment for a month was ordered.

TSB POLICE COURTS.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Robert &rgennt, aged 13, and Booed Caswell, aged 1G
years, were brought before Sir Peter Laurie, in the custody
of John play, it 48 metropolitan police, charged, the former
with having robbed the warehouse of. Mr. liidc, Queen-
street, of 191. or 201. in gold and silver, the latter with
having received part of the money, well knowing that it
had been stolen.

Mr. Josiah Hale said, Robert Sergeant was en errand
boy in my employment. On Tuesday night I was called
up by the police at my house in Gresham-street, and in-
formed that the warehouse was broken open. I proceeded
thither with a constable, and fuund a policeman on duty
waiting outside. I found on entering the premises that a
drawer in my desk hod been broken open, and that 191. or
201. in gold and silver had been stolen from it. I had left
the warehouse at half-past 10, and kept the keys in my own
possession. The outer window, which looks into Queen-
street, and the shutters were open. The constable arid
I, after examination of shutter,
warehousa, were decidedly of
opinion that the robbery must have been committed by
somebody who had hidden himself, fur there was no mark
of forcible entrance. The prisoner Sergeant came the
following morning, and the inspector and 1 questioned him,
and agreed in believing that he was the thiet.
Inspector Mitchell—l examined the warehouse between
12 and 1 o'clock on Tuesday night, and found a piece of
candle burning in a small gallipot there. On further exa-
mination, I found on the desk tire other pieces of candle of
the same description as that manufactured by Mr. Hale.
They all smelt strongly of tobacco. On the following
morning I questioned all the persons in the employment of
the firm, and the buy's statement, as to where he had been
since the hour of leaving business was the most unsatis-
factory, and nobody had seen him go. I called
at the house of his aunt, with whom he resides,
and learned that all ho said was false. In the
boy's pocket I found some Lucifers smithy bowl of a tobacco
pipe, which contained some tobacco-dust. The pieces of
candle which I found looked as if they had been carried in
the pocket. Mr. Hale let the boy go at a quarter-pat 8
o'clock ; but I sent round to the statious, and he was appre-
hended afterwards at Greenwich, with Caswell, the other
prisoner. There was lying upon the desk, which was
broken open, a piece of paper, on which appeared in the
prisoner's writing, the words—" Remember Hackett's
gang." Hackett was the celebrated house and prison-
breaker. 1 have ascertained that Caswell, who is stated by
his father to be an incorrigible reprobate, has been the
constant companion of Sergeant.
John May, It 45—In consequence of information which I
received from the Bow-lane station, I went to a coffee-shop
in Greenwich, and found the two prisoners in bed together.
They told me at once their real names. I asked them what
had become of the money one of them had taken from his
employers. They replied that they knew nothing about it
and that they had money of their own in their possession.
Upon Caswell I found two sovereigns, a half sovereign, and
twopence. He said he could prove it to he his money, fur
be had, while in a boat on the flume., picked up a gentle-
man who had tumbled overboard from a steamer, and who
gave him two sovereigns for the service; and he told me
the other prisoner had given him a sovereign out of some
money which the boy had accidentally Annul, as well as a
suit of clothes. Sergeant then told me, pointing to his
tramper*, that I would tied in them some of the money he
had found. I turned out of his pocket four sovereigns, six
half-sovereigns, and Sa. 10.1. in silver, and 3id. in copper.
I found also in the room two new suits of clothes and
the bill for them. Sergeant, in answer to my question, whe-
ther he wished to account for the possession of the money,
replied that he bad found a bag containing sovereigns on
the steps of his employer's door, while sitting there on
Tuesday morning ; and he also said that he had paid for
clothes for the other prisoner and himself.
Sir Peter Laurie asked the prisonep whether it was their
wish to say anything.
Sergeant—Yes. I went to work on Tuesday 'morning, as
usual, and there being nobody in the warehouse, I sat
down on the steps, and I felt something hurt me : and upon
looking down, I found it was a bag containing sovereigns ;
so I picked it up and put it in my pocket.
Sir Peter Laerie—And you had it when you went to
your work ?
Sergeant—Yes.
Sir Peter Laurie—Did you tell Mr. Ila'e about it?
Sergeant—No, I did not say anything about it to him
at all.
Caswell—l was sitting at the door with my mother on
Wednesday, when this boy called me and said he had found
some money, and that he would not go home with it, as
he knew his aunt would not let him have it. So we both
west to Greenwich by the train that night, and he bought
a suit of clothes for each of as, and gavme a sovereign.
As fur the two other sovereigns, I picked up a gentleman
out of the river, who would have gone down but that I
was near in a boat, which I had taken at Rotherhithe.
(Laughter.)
Sir Peter Laurie—What sort of a gentleman ?
Caswell—A young one. He turned into a tavern ro
and gave me the money, and 1 came away.
Sir Peter Laurie-1 shall commit you both for trial at the
Central Criminal Court, and you may produce the gentle-
man there who rewarded you fur your kindness.
BOW-STREET.
Goys Moulton, a young man of respectable appearance,
ins charged, on his own confession, with embezzlement.
Police-constable 83 F stated that on Thursday afternoon,
IS be was on duty in Lincoln's-inn-fields, the prisoner, who
was drunk, went up to him and charged himself with em-
basing 1001., the property of his employers.
In reply to the magistrate, the prisoner said that he was
a commercial traveller in the employment of Messrs. Ferin
and Walsh, of Glover-street, Preston, tea dealers, at a
salary of 701. per annum ; that he had embezzled and spent,
not 1001. as he had stated to the constable, but about 301.,
which he had been sent out to collect in Lancashire and
, Yorkshire. He had been away three weeks.
Mr. Henry remandzd the prisoner, and directed the in-
spector to write to the firm.
I Charles Appleby, a student-at-law, was brought before
Mr. Henry for final examination, charged with obtaining
money under false pretences.
The prisoner had been an assistant at a school in Chelten-
ham where the prosecutor, Mr. Thomas Frederick Judd,
had been a pupil, and in the month of December last,
having accidentally met in Hvde-park, near the Crystal
Palace, a conversation ensued respecting their future
prospect, and the prisoner having represented that he was
a barrister, in the habit of taking pupils Intending to adopt
the legal profession, the prosecutor immediately consulted
him respecting the expense requisite to have his name en-
rolled as a student ; upon which the prisoner expressed his
" readiness to facilitate the object of his ambition, and carry
him through the difficulties which he could not possibly
overcome without the assistance of a person well versed in
such matters, such as he was ; in consequence of which ho
sold out stock to the amount nams.d, and having handed
over the proceeds to the prisoner, he went to
the Temple, leaving the prosecutor waiting for him
in the street until he returned with the raceway documents,
accompanied with the receipt of the tzeasozer, H.Compton,
there being no inch person at the time filling such a situa-
tion, saying "Now you are enrolled as • student at law. '
When the time arrived for the prosecutor to complete his
term by eating a certain number of dinners he made In-
quiries at the Temple, and discovered that the prisoner bad
not only caused his own name to be inserted on the bog's,
but was also actually eating himself in as a member of the
learned profession, and he gave him into custody.

Mr. Clarkson, who attended for the prosecution, called
the several officials employed in the Temple, from whose
evidence it appeared that the prisoner was admitted as a
student on the 2Sth January, and continued to dine in the
hall during the term, and the broker who sold out the stock,
together with several bankers' clerks, by whose testimony
the bank notes were distinctly traced to the prisoner's
possession.
The prisoner reserved his defence, and he was fully cam-
, mittcd to Newgate for trial.