The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-25 00:00:00

IN NZ II AIWILL.

Tbe bankrupt was described u an engineering con-
tractor, of Brampton. In the absence of suounts the
examin' atioa sitting was adjourned. The debts are stated
at 6,3471. Cause of failure, failure of contrasts for the
Lubeck and Kliener and Belgerd and Dortelhew Railways.
Mr. Chidley appeared for the assignees.
Ix U lIIAAO DAVIS.

The bankrapt was solicitor and money agent, of War-
wick-msecent, Kensington, now a prisoner for debt
This was a sitting for examination and discharge. The
debts are 4,1711., of which 3,0004 is in respect of bills
discounted.
Mr. Bagley, for the assignees, and Mr. E. Reed, for
creditors, oppoesd, on the ground that the accounts were
unsatiatactoey, and did not disclose the facts connected
with a bill of sale which the bankrupt bad given.
Mr. R. Griffiths appeared for the bankrupt.
An adjournment was ordered.
11 ILI BANIOIL liIINBY Plllll.

This was another solicitor's case. The bankrnpt was
described as of Bermondsey, late of New Inn. This was
the sitting for examination and discharge. The aggregate
debts are 14,7931., of which 9,6841. are stated to be se-
cured. Assets—good debts, 486/. ; held by the
trustees under an assignment made May, 865, 3,2721. ;
ditto held as security, 8,1771.
Mr. Munn, appeared for the assignees, and Mr. Link-
later for the bankrupt. It was stated that the debts
under the bankruptcy, as distiact from those under the
deed, were small, and no opposition was offered to the
bankrupt receiving his order.
His Honour granted the order.

(Before Mr. Registrar Murray.)
IN Ri WALKINSILAW,

Th. bankrupt was an Fast India merchant, of 9, Gracs
church-street, and Burton-villas, Brixton. This was the
first sitting. The debts, as shown by the prelimina
statement, amount to 18,2331., of which 1160 i. is stated
to be due to Mr. W. Walkinshaw of Chimelhurst. The
other creditorsare principally resident in Bombay, London,
Liverpool, and Hong Kong. The bankrupt attributes his
failure to loses on consignments, andltorLann.ire by some of
his creditors. An assignee was now

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(BOOT° Mr. Baron Pigott.)

Edward Rafe, aged 19, labourer, was indicted for a rob-
bery, with violence, on Charles Jones, and stealing from
him 7a. fid., his moneys.
Mr. Griffiths prosecuted. This was a garotte robbery of
extreme violence, and the charge was brought home to the
prisoner on the clearest possible evidence, and the jury
without the least hesitation returned a verdict of Guilty.

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soner had displayed, and sentenced him to be kept in
penal aervitu for the term of five years, and that he
receive 21 lashes from the " army sat " at the expiration
of a week from that day.
Bartholomew Claremont, 35, leather merchant, and
Hogiaia Rodriguez, 23, interpreter (both Spsniards), were
indicted for feloniously and knowingly, without lawful ex-
cuse, having in their custody and possession certein plates,
wood, and dies upon which certain parts of a note or order
for the payment of money of a certain foreign state—to
wit, the kingdom of Spain—bad been engraved and made.
The prisoners pleaded not guilty, and when asked if they
would be tried by an English jury or one composed half of
Englishmen and half of foreigners, Claremont elected to
be tried by a mixed jury, while Rodriguez said he would
be tried by a jury of F.nglishmen. Claremont was pus-
beck, and Regina. Rodriguez was alone put upon his trial
' for the offence with which he stood charged as above
stated.

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Mr. Gifford, Q.C. (specially retained), and Mr. Poland
appeared for the prosecution ; and Mr. F. H. Lewis de.
fended the prisoner.
The case occupied the court a considerable time, but the
facts, which have already been fully laid before the public
in the police reports of the examination of the prisoners at
Clerkenwell pales-court, lay in a narrow arripaas. It
seemed that Claremont, in September last, arrived from
abroad, at a private hotel for Spaniards kept by a Mrs.
West in Guildford-street, and in a day or two afterwards
the other prisoner, Rodriguez (now on his trial) came to
the hotel and found Claremont,and they went out together
daily. It seemed that they called together on Mr. Neale,
a die-sinker, in Percival-street, Clerkenwell, and gave him
an order for certain dies, to print the stamps like those on
a Spanish note for 200 reels (or 40s. English) which they
produced. The work was undertaken by Mr. Neale, who
gave information to the police, and Inspector Thomas
Ambrose Potter and Sergeant Ranger, of the G division,
were set on the watch. By the activity of the officers the
prisoners were traced to the establishments of other trades-
men, of whom they ordered wood-blocks and other plates
to be made amid engraved, and when all the work was
completed the prisoners were taker into custody, with the
blocks, dies, and apparatus, in their possession.
Mr. F. H. Lewis addressed an able and ingenious de-
fence to the jury, and called several witnesses, who gave
the prisoner an excellent character,
Mr. Baron Pigott summed up the whole of the evidence
to the jury with great minuteness.
The • jury, after conferring a short time in their box, ex-
pressed wish to retire, and at a quarter to six o'clock left
the court in charge of a sworn officer. After an absence of
an hour and a half they returned into court with a ver-
dict of Guilty, accompanied with a recommendation to
mercy, on the ground that they believed the prisoner bad
been the dupe of others.
Mr. Baron Pigott deferred passing sentence until after
the,prisaser Claremont had been tried.