The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-31 00:00:00

BE DAWEION DE VIDAZHUNT.

In this case, that of a military officer, reported a few
days since,
Mr. Ernest Reed asked for an order of the court to autho-
rise the assignees to seize certain furniture which the bank.
rupt had made over to his father•in-law immediately be-
fore his bankruptcy. Bankrupt was also possessed of •
racehorse called Rataplan, sod he had gives an order on the
Veterinary College, where it was now to be delivered up
to the assignees.
. . . .

The Commissioner said it was merely a ministerial act.
Be should make the order as a matter of course.

This was an adjourned examination meeting. The bank-
rupt, Robert Carter Bamford, was described as heretofore
of Cant Barks ; Ship Hotel, Charing-cross ; and late
of Sutherland-street, Pimlico, retired major in the army.
The debts are 5881. ; assets, nil. The expenditure had
been at the rate of 5001. a-year. The principal creditors
are for law coons in a suit for divorce, " Bamford v. Bam-
ford," and another of "Sewell v. Serrell and Bamford," in
which the bankrupt was the co-respondent.
Mr. Lawrence appeared for Mr. Sorrell ; Mr. Denny sup-
ported-
In the absence of Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque, an ad-
journment was taken to the 18th November.

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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

THIRD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)

John Fenno, 29, was indicted for feloniously receiving two
10/. Bank of England note. which had lately been stolen
front the person of Harriet Blackburn, he well knowing
them to have been stolen.

Mr. Poland prosecuted ; Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Kemp de •
fended.

It appeared that on the 15th August the prosecute: had
been to her stockbroker, and had received from him a sum
of 135/., part of which was in notes, and that subsequently,
on going to the banking-house of Messrs. Smith, Payne, and
Co. she had her pocket picked, and amongst the money
stolen were three 11W. notes, two of which were the notes in
question. On the 4th September the prisoner called at the
shop of Mr. Vaughan, money changer, in the Strand, and
there changed one of the notes iota foreign note*. It was
proved that on the same day he offered another of the notes
to Mr. Haas, another money changer in the City, who, before
changing it, took it to the Bank of England, and there
discovered that it was one of thenotes which had been stolen
from the prosecutrix on the 15th August. Mr. Haas gave in-
formation to the police, who traced the prisoner to an eating-
house in Basinghall-atreet, where he was taken into custody
and asked to account for his possession of the note. The
prisoner said that he was a professed gambler, and had
taken the note at Baden Baden. He gave an address which
turned out to be false.

The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. Poland then called Russell, the City detective, who
proved that the prisoner had been for • long time known to
the police, and was believed to be an agent for the sale of
stoles notes by negotiating their disposal on the Continent.
The officer added that when apprehended upwards of 300/.
in foreign notes was found in his possession.
The prisoner, when called up for judgment, said that he
had been engaged as a courier, and had never before had any
charge made against him. Ile admitted that he was a
gambler, and it was in that way the notes came in o his
possession.
The Recorder sentenced the prisoner to six years' penal
servitude. . _ _

Thomas Hale, 25, a labourer, was convicted offelonioosly
and maliciously maiming and wounding a cow, the property
of Stephen George Bouron.
Mr. Daly prosecuted, and Mr. Luton defended.
The Recorder, in paving sentence, remarked that the pri-
soner had been guilty of a mast cruel act towards a dumb
animal in order to revenge himself for some supposed wrong
on the part of his master, the prosecutor. The sentence of
the court was that be be kept to hard labour in the House
of Correction for the term of 12 calendar months.

Charks Meadows, 13, and Eli:a Noakes, 34, married, were
indicted— the first for stealing 11 bladders of lard, the pro-
perty of William Benjamin Blackmore, his master, and the
latter for felordoludy receiving the same well knowing it to
have been stolen.

Meadows pleaded guilty.
Mr. Way prosecuted, and Mr. Collins defended.

The facto Of this case; were extremely simple. The pro-
'senior having from time to time lost property from the
' shop and premises in which he carried on the business of •
butter merchant and cheese factor, in Church-street, Green-
wich, acting under the directions of the police marked
several bladders of lard, which were traced to • marine store
shop kept by the female prisoner and her husband, at the
rear of the prosecutor's warehouse. On the officers enter-
ing her shop she denied the possession of any such property,
but ultimately produced one of the marked bladders from
under a huge pile of raga, where it had been concealed.
The husband, however, was not forthcoming.
The jury having returned a verdict of Guilty, the prose-
cutor begged to recommend the female prisoner to mercy,
on the ground that he believed she bad acted under the
coercion of her husband, by whom he believed the
boy had been seduced into the commission of the offence to
which he had pleaded guilty. The boy had been between
two and three years in his (the prosecutor's) service, and
until recently had conducted himself honestly, and with
great industry. His parents were decent, hardworking
people, with • large family, and if the court would peas
upon him • lenient sentence, he would again take him into
his service, and endeavour to reclaim him to his former
habits.

The Recorder sentenced the female prisoner to three
months' bard labour, and the boy to four days' imprison-
ment, telling him he ought to show by future good conduct
his extreme gratitude to a very kind and feeling master.
Frederick Ccariser, 30, baker, was indicted fur feloniously
wounding John Jones with intent to do him some grievous
bodily harm.
Mr. M. O'Connell prosecuted, and Mr. Pater defended
the prisoner.
The facts of this case were these :—The prosecutor is a
fireman on board the ship Gladiator, which was lying on
the 14th inst. off the Custom.house wharf. Between 9
and 10 o'clock on the night in question he was passing the
Prince Regent public house, in Ratcliff -highway, when be
was suddenly attacked by seven or eight persona, who
pushed him about and kicked him, though he had not
offered them the slightest provocation. They left him, but
he pursued them &distance of a quarter of a mile from the
spot where the first attack had been made upon him, and
when he reached Wellelose-square he was again attacked,
surrounded by a mob, and in the mfli,r, stabbed three
times in the head, and a fourth stab in the left arm.
The prisoner was proved to have been amongst the
crowd, and two witnesses swore positively. that
they saw him stab the prosecutor twice in the
head. A policeman was brought to the spot, when the pri-
soner, who is a foreigner, rushed to him and said in broken
English that some boys had been robbing him. Re was,
however, given into custody as one of the as ndante of the
prosecutor. All the witnesses fixed the time of the occur-
rence at between 9 and 10 o'clock..

Mr. Pater, for the prisoner, said he should prove that the
prisoner was elsewhere at the time the row first took place,
and that if he had got mined with the wood crowd it was
by looniest. The learned counsel further contended that if
he had been a guilty partisan of the assailants of the prose.
cuter, the prisoner would not have rushed up to the police-
man the moment he saw him, and submitted that this act
was proof that the prisoner was an innocent man. If he had
bees guilty he could easily have escaped.
Witnesses were called, who not only gave the prisoner a
good character, but proved that he was at the Black Dog
tavern from half.paid eight to half.pest nine o'clock on the
night in question.
The Recorder having summed up the evidence, the jury
returned a verdict of Not Guilty.