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

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SEMI,' CHARGE AGAINST A MencnANT AT
BRISTOT--The magistrates for the city of Bristol were en-
gaged fur several hours on Saturday in the further hearing
of a cam which hail previously undergone two or three days'
preliminary inquiry, and which involved a very serious ac-
venation against a respectable merchant of the city whose
warehouses are at New King-street, Mr. John Gilbert, jun.
The precise nature of the charge is fur having in his poi-
session, under circumstances of a suspicious nature, some
casks which had been stolen from Messrs. Worthington, the
extensive brewer% of Burton-on Trent, and Mesita. Gray
and Co., also brewers, carrying on a large business at Bath.
The case appeared to excite an unusual amount of interest,
espeeislly among the numerous brewing finns of the neigh-
bourhood, and the court was crowded to so inconvenient an
extent, that some of the magistrate's had considerable diffi-
culty in finding ingress to the court. It may be useful, in
order to the better understanding of the case, to state the
circumstances which in the first instance led to any suspi-
cion being entertained against Mr. Gilbert. Ou the fitly
ult., six casks were landed on the Welsh Back from the
Sydney 'fruiter, conaigned to Messrs. Stevens, of this city.
John Powis, the regular porter to the vessel, received them,
and pat some pencil mark* upon them, according to his
custom, he becoming responsible for the goods after they
pass into his possession. On tae 9th he proceeded to deliver
them to the consignees, but before he completed the deli-
very, two casks were missing. They were return
beer hogshead*, and iu addition to the pencil marks,
were marked with red round the edges. Subsequently l'owis
discovered two cask, on the premises of Mr. Gilbert, which
he identified as those which had been purloined from the
Welsh Back. The pencil marks were there, but in other
ri-spects they had been disguised, the ends having been
whitewashed, and tallow having been dropped through the
taphole and rubbed round the edges, to give them the
appearance of tallow casks, in which Mr. Gilbert was a
ae der. (pan this discovery being made, complaint was
made to the justices, and Mr. Gilbert was required to attend
before the bench, mad give an explanation of the circum-
stance* under which the cask had come into his possession.
In compliance with this request he appeared before the
justices, nod stated that he had received the casks, iu the
regular way of busine,s, fro:n a party iu Wale., to whom
he could write ; and in order to enable him to procure the
attendance of that person, and to give time for Messrs.
Stevens to communicate with Messes. Worthington, the
inquiry was adjourned. At the adjourned investigation
Mr. Gilbert produeed Mr. James Morgan, a cooper, of
High-street, Newport, who deposed that he had sent some
casks to Mr. Gilbert. and he believed that that in question
was one of them. The brands were scraped out when he
sent them to Bristol, but they were not whitewashed. The
witness =Mid that tallow had been in the cask, and on that
found at Mr. Gilbert's being exhibited to him he said he
believed that that bad had tallow in it, The cask was
examined, and appeared to be a beer cask, and there were
grains gill adhenng to it. The witness said tallow casks
were often used to keep grains and wash in, but Mr.
Ilerapath, one of the magistrates, having closely examined
a piece chipped from the barrel. gave it as his opinion that
the cask never hail contained tallow. Subsequently to this
other casks were found, which had been sold to Mr. Dur-
ham, who is au extensive collector of casks for the Africa*
palm oil trade, and among thew was one which could be
particularly identified by its number u having belonged te
Mr. Gray, of Bath, but which had been whitewashed, and
from which the name, branded on no less than six parte of
the barrel. had been cut out, apparently with ea iren
scraper similar to one discovered by tbe police in Mr. Gil-
bert's warehouse. At the adjourned inquiry on Beestrdeg
Mr. Stone (of the Western Circuit) and Mr. H. Behan
geared fur the defence; Mr. John Ayre, jun., ef the film
of Ayre and ('alder, conducting the prow-reties. Thwelly
charge gone into was that of Messrs. Gray sad Co, in
reopen of a hieh witnesses were called to show that ea the
9th of August Mr. Gray was on a journey to saw cus-
tomers in Wales, and amongst others called span a Mr.
Davies who keeps the Compasses Tavern et Meek Giener-
ganehire, and to whom he had in May seat foram barrels
or beer. While there he saw some empty ern of his, one
of which he particularly noticed, making a memorandum
of its number. About three weeks afterwards this cask
and three others were sent to Bristol by the Beath Abbey
packet and placed upon the quay, where it remained safely
for some days, but was ultimately, u were the others,
stolen. The numbered barrel, but much disfigured by the
erasures and whitewash, was found among those sold from
Mr. Gilbert's warehouse to Mr. Durban:. It arseared that
Mr. Durham hail not dealt with Mr. Gilbert personally, but
with one of his foremen, but the principal had afterwards
referred to the sale in a conversation, saying, " I under-
stand that you purchased some casks of me. I have nine
more foe sale." The magistrates considered that the evi-
dence did not connect Mr. Gilbert, and the examination
was adjourned, to examine the party by whoa the sale was
eeadeetad, Mr. Gilbert's bail being enlarged.
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