The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-26 00:00:00

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COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.-YzwriffiDAY.
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Than gee a minim te.diry Aft the proof of debts and
°hone el enigma in tbe ems et T. P. Rimming% described
M a wise nottist. win bail kept the Pion Gardens, in
Wysdkenweall. OantherwelL The wan was crowded with
creditors, ar rims trans ea latent is the peoseedings.
The eeleMra guise the lea stated that as the bankrupt
had see rapt any ludra lad bed an ewe beaded in a lid
of his delete to the alit einefgase, k wadi be seeenny to
kinglets soon If panda Amain often subjected ft
that Mt win a arson et smell We efeashOne. had by •
carver sod filer i• Lend Agra whist he 144 received is
partrand Re wick sad Mena dose for • Mr. Ryan.
The bankrupt wee the Inger of the Ma, which had paned
through sewed beads.
The proceeding. essapied a length of time, but no point
ad latent Wm%

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
NEW COURT.—YESTERDAY.
Emma rxa Becoanca.
CII•11011 07 ITTfiIING • SPUItIOOICIIII4I3III.
Robert Tube. aged 27, described in the ca:endar as a
broker, was indicted for utterieg a forged Ole quo for the
sum of 9L 65., with intent to defraud Edward Darrell, well
knowing the same to have been forged.
Mr. Panel appeared for the prosecution, which bad been
Instigated by the Trade Protection Society ; Mr. Huddle-
stone defended the prisoner.
From the evidence it appeared that, on the 16th September,
the prisoner called upon a Mr. Joseph Golding, a licensed
' victualler, and calling for a glom of ale, said he would pay
him be. that was due, and presenting the cheque in question,
which purported to be drawn by a Mr. Ellis on
Williams, Descon, and Co., asked to have it cashed, and
not any suspicion being entertained bat that it was genuine,
Mr. Golding at onos gave him the change, deducting the fie.
Upon the cheque being presented it was found that no such
a person had an account at the banking-house in question.
Upon the body of the cheque being ,examined,
it was found to have been abstracted Twat 'one
of Mesan. cheque-books that had been
issued by them as for back as the year 1832 or 1833, and had
been obtained in the following manner :—ln that you it
had been given to a gentleman named Bober*, carrying on
business in Hart-lane, Tower-street, he at that time banking
with the firm. The book, however, had been in disuse
for many :yeah, and had lain about amongst some waste-
papers since that period on a desk at that gentleman's
pace of business. The prisoner used to come there te see
a person named Smith, who had been allowed by Mesas.
Roberts to use the desk in question whilst his own offices
were undergoing some repairs, and on referring to the
cheque-book it was found that 26 had been abstracted.
It was attempted to be shown that there bad been a
previous uttering by the prisoner, but the evidence net
being at all conclusive, the court held that the guilty
knowledge on the part of the prisoner had not been seat-
' ticiently proved to warrant a conviction.
The case eventually went to the jury, who at once
acquitted the prisoner.

POLICR.-YESTERDAY.
MANSION-HOUSE.
CHARGE OP EMBEZZLIMENT.—Betvramin Hopkins Bond,
who was some days ego charged with havicg embersled a sum
of money the property of Messrs. Carrie and Co., bankers,
in Cornbill, was brought up for further examination.
Mr. Bush, of the firm of Bath and Menem, solicitors to the
Commi.tee of Bankers for Protection against Felonies and
Frauds, attended for the prosecution. The prisoner had
been in the employment of the firm of Currie and Co. be-
tween nine and ten years.
The following was the additional evidence in the cue.
Mr. Powell, clerk in the country office of the banking-
house of Currie and Co.. said—l keep the country cash book
It Is my duty to enter in it the particulars of all the bills and
drafts brought in for payment from the country. I produce
the book which bears an entry dated 17th October. I always
enter from bills and drafts only, and would refuse to enter
from any slip of psper handed to me by any other clerk. I
also keep a letter book, and it is part of my duty to enter the
letters of advice accompanying bills for payment. I turn to
the letter book of the 17th of October. I carefully ex-
amined both books, and I found is neither any notice of the
bill for 701., Brown, Leeds. lam confident if such a draft
had been received it would have been entered in the book.
(The 701. in the name of Brown wee the sum which the pri-
soner was charged with hawing abstracted from the amount
received by him on a particular day.)
In answer to a question from Alderman Carden, the
witness said that if the entry of a sum were omitted
from one of the books, it was certainly inserted in the
other.
The Witness continued—Slips similar to this produced are
kept in the drawer in the lower office, called the General
List Drawer, and that is open to the clerks. It is the duty
of the clerks to hand over to me the bills and remittances
for the country, and to put such slips in the drawer. The
witness having further described the practice of the house
with respect to bills, said that, to the best of his recollec-
tion, he had not seen such a bill as that of 701. to which the
prisoner had alluded in his account to the house.
Other witnesses were called to prove that which, if a broker
employed upon the occasion bad taken the data of the
bank notes as well as the names of the parties from whom
they had been received, would have saved all further trouble
in the prosecution.
The answer of the clerk to the broker to the Alderman,
who expressed his surprise at such laxity of dealing, was,
that his employer was disposed to do everything in his
power to relieve the banking house from trouble, tho
tinuance of which might make such establishments disposed
to have nothing at all to do with brokers in that way.
Mr. Bush said that if the suggestion of the Alderman were
adopted, all the delay arising from the circuitous evidence
produced would have been unnecessary.
Aldm. Carden thought nothing could be more simple
than the course he followed himself, that of taking down the
date. as well as the names.
Mr. Bash requested that the prisoner might be remanded
for a few days.
The prisoner said he had determined upon a certain course
of proceeding, and wished to be at once committed for trial.
Mr. Bush said the alderman must b. aware, from the ex-
tremely complicated nature of the evidence, that it would be
necessary for the prosecutors to produce a link which was
not like.y to be broken by legal ingenuity.
The prisoner—" My mind is made up on the subject. It
is my intention to plead guilty to the charge. I therefore
wish to be tried in the present session."
Mr. Bush—lt is my duty to object to the application of
the prisoner. The prisoner certainly never subjected himself
to suspicion of want of integrity, except upon this occasion,
and I should be disposed to take his word that he would
plead guilty when brought to trial. But 1 have • serious
duty to perform, and it is as easy for the prisoner to plead not
guilty at the Central Criminal Court u guilty, and to impose
upon me the necessity of bringing forward the witnesses,
whose absence would atones settle the question of his inno-
cence.
The prisoner-1 declare that I shall plead guilty to the
charge.
Alderman Carden said he was perfectly satisfied with the
reasons urged by Mr. Bush for the further remand of the
case, and ordered the prisoner to be brought up on Wednes-
day, on which day his committal to Newgate should take
place.