The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-06 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

MIDLAND CIRCIIIT.—WARwmc, Motels t
Dimwit Coonv.--(Before Mr. Berm Bramwell.)
Morrie Levi, • clothier and wholesale tailor, having two
large establishments in Birmingham, was indicted for a
breech of the bankrupt law. Tile indictment wee laid
under the Met section of the Bankruptcy Act, and came
within the portion of the section which readers it • mis
demeanour to do either of the following acts—remove or
conceal property sixty days prior to adjudication of bank-
ruptcy, or dispose of it within three menthe before the
Cog of petition, otherwise than as • bona gds transaction,
for the impose, to the intention in either cue of defraud-
~g the
Mr. Field, Q.O. Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Wills, and Mr.
Markham were retained by the &limit of Bankruptcy at
Birmiagbani, an for the endgame, in coodactieg the prow
cation; Mr. bigby Seymour, Mr. Berjeant O'Brien, and Mr.
Fits-James Stephen defended the prisoner.
The case excited • great deal of Interest, bevies in varl-
ets forma occupied the attention of Mr. Coosmindema
Sander, the magistrates and stipsodiery at Birmingham,
es well u the Lord Chancellor in the Oast Chancery.

The primmer was in a lugs way of bunnies, and one
commercial traveller and oommission agent alone sold par-
cols of goods for him for such sums as the following
Mawr. Menton, the Binaries, London, 3601. Kama.
Wormy and Baxter, Birmingham, 1,5001. ; Mr. PM;
Dudley, 15001. ; and other equally large amounts, ha a few
rounds. Bs remind large supplies of reedymnade
quantities of woolen, linen, cloth, and cotton goods,dammel
in the piece so well as made up, and glom from the very
heot, Pens home. In order to realise quickly he was ia
the habit of selling hundreds of pounds worth of goods at •
peke so little below the real value as to allay
suspicion on the part of buyers. Be was not always
so careful, however. Bonn gloves sold in Birming-
ham were remold to Mews. Foster, Porter, and Co.,
Loam. On examinieg them the London Arm were
so surprised at the cheapness and quality that they tele-
graphed to the Paris maker for some at the Name prim
A member of the Parisian home mine over to Beetled, and
proceeded from Leedom to Birmingham, where he investi-
gated the traumatic*, and returned tally satisfied the goods
were his manufacture, bat utterly usable to account for the
manner in which they had got into the market at that prise.
Lest November he bad bills els osesiderable amain ionise!,
and wee premed for payment by Misers. Janice Murray,
James Hardy, and John Kershaw, woollen merchants,
Manchester; Atkinson, Leeds; Myers, Loudon ; Gilpin,
Leeds, do. Batten appear to have been brought to a crisis
by the bankrupt offering a compceition to his coeditors,
antoript whom were Moms. Murray, Potter, sad Non*
Manchester ; Messrs. Booadeld, Bradford; Mr. James Moore,
Manchester, woollen warehousemen ; and Mr. James Oland,
Bradford, stuff merchant. Finding his liabilities would be
13,0001. or 14,0001., with meets of Lee than half the amount,
he executed a deed of amigninent, on the sth of November,
et all his effects ; and this was the set of bankruptcy. A
first meeting of creditors was held at Birmingham on the
7th of November, and was attended by Mr. John Smith on
behalf of the primmer, and by Moms. Gillibrand and Co.,
miositants, Manchester, on the part of several moditon.
At this meeting a committee wee appointed to investigate
the affairs and conduct of the insolvent. The coalmines
MUM themselves that fraud bad been monad be by
the (prisoner, and determined, for the credit el the
imereantEle moniusity, that the proceedings against
Ida should be thoroughly ventilated. Another meet-
ing was held at Mlaaomeehh es the 11th of 'Noma
her, when thirty or forty creditors attended, some of these
Irvin coos from 'relayed. It was agreed to isdemnifr the
cost el proceedings. It appeared from the s se-
eountant's investiptioe, that be had largely Increased his
wholesale puroluiessjust before his bankruptcy, yet that then
was a deficiency of fully 8,0001. He bed also omitted from
the documents handed to Mr. Howell mention of times-
None with fellow coantrysten (being a Genus Jew), to cm
of whom he had sold goods to the moue of 5,0001. A re-
ward of 5001. was offered to any pence err venom who would
give such intonation as would lead to a discovery of a '
kegs quantity of weans, Manchester, and Bradford
goods, fraudulently meowed from his private premises
is Woroestermtrost. Bhutinghtin. Mr. James Money,
whom Manchester Ana were criallten of Levi in No-
vember for 7301., smompanied the mil-knows detective,
Masten, of Birmingham, Mr. Carpenter, and Mr. Old-
Amid, on the 9th el November, to the house of nom-
berg, in Worcester at the rear of which there was a
minininniastiosiwith establiehment Edglaiston-
gm& In goienberg's bedroom was found a lugs quantity
of goods, emaisly leaving any room to tam round, and a
mond let was found fa another part of the home. Item et
the stosk, whisk would altogether be worth VOW,
wee MO in WM, maimed. 'applied by Me.