The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-17 00:00:00

IN RE J. G. RAMAN.

The bankrupt was a coal merchant of Deptford. The
li.,bibties, as shown by the accounts of Mesas. Hart and
Co., are about 4,800/.
Mr. Lawman. opposed ; Mr. Reed supported. It ap•
geared that there had been an attempt at a composition of
in the pound, but it had not been carried out. An
adjournment was ordered for additional accounts.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(THIS DAY.)

(Before the Common Serjeant.)
steiseaait CU A RGE .*.••AIN ..0 A PRIhuN WARDER.
Alfred li illiu.ny formerly a sub-warder in the House
of Correction, surrendered to take Lie trial upon a charge
of steiding 2f. los. the monies of James 'toward.
Mr. Poland pr oecated on behalf of the visiting justices
of the prison; Mt. I'ater was counsel for the defence.
The circumstances of this case were rather remark-
able. On the ZAh of November a young man, who
passed as Thomas Burton, but who was the son of the
prosecutor, amid whose real name was Thomas Howard,
was convicted of felony at the Middlesex Sessions, and
sentenced to five years' penal servitude, and after his con-
viction he was removed to the Middlesex House of Cor-
rection preparatory to his being sent to the Peui-
tentiary at Blillbank to undergo the sentence of
penal servitude. The prisoner was one of the
warders of the }lease of Correction, and he had
charge of the tread-wheel where Burton was at work ;
and according to the evidence of this witness, the pri-
soner made a written communication to him to the
effect that he was " all square," and that he was ready
to serve him in any way he could outside the prison.
In consequence of this the man Burton wrote on a
piece of paper, with a pencil, which were furnished to
him by Williams, a request to his father, a beer-shop
keepor in Shoreditch. that ho would mend hint five half
sovereigns by the prisoner. The 'attar, subsequently,
called upon the father of the man Barton and showed him
the paper, and at the same time told him that if the
money was sent it would be of great benefit to him. In
comeNeence of this the father of Burton, upon two
different occasions, handed the prisoner the sum
of V. lOs., and in answer to a question put to
him the prisoner said that this would be enough
money to last the son for three months. No money, it
appeared, was ever given by the prisoner to the man
Burton, and in answer to his repeated applications to him
to know whether he had received any money from his father
and mother, lie distinctly said that he had not, and made
several excuses for not getting it. What hail taken piece
sulakquently came to the knowledge of the prison autho-
rities, and the prosecutor went to the prison and identi-
fied the prisoner as the man to whom he had paid the
money, and he was at once taken before the governor,
Captain Colville, and upon his being asked whether it was
tee that he had received any money from Howard he ad-
mitted that h had done so, and at the same time said that
Le had appropriated it to his own use. According to the state-
ment of the men Burton, the understanding between
him and the prisoner was that the money obtained from
his father was to be apnropriated to the purchase of food,
as lie said he was very hungry.
The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sen-
tenced to twelve months hard labour.