The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-24 00:00:00

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COMMITTAL OP A ROCHDALE FOOLIIZAPLEH

FOB rzurrar.

An investigation, extending over several boar,
took place at the City Polies Conit,Yanther, on T
into a charge of perjury against Mr. John Minsie,l=
stallerreanying on business et Rochdale.
Yr. Leveselas, on Whiff of the promention, stated ths an,
hoot which ntTred that in Isaaary, 1869, then ens a
in the Xsaabistar Bealuripay flout
egebierstrgesen.ed Bothwell end Bea,w
end gamel ineanthetarers, et Rockdale, and on the
that meal!, at the .sedan for choke ef aedCaer
sat meet of debts, in Xr. Com:Anions' Janette
Cant, the defendant made a pool, ha which he
said that the bankrupts were indebted Is bin Wore the
Cling et the petition in the sum of 1281., Let gook sold
and depend to them at their request, for which
son he, end no other person on his behalf, bed re.
abed " say security or satideotion whatsoever." It was
Eldtl,als statement that the perjury wee proposed to be sa-
fer it would be shown that no i.e than eve different
ef szobaage, "mounting in the eggregstn to upwards
of ma, had been received from the bankrupts by the de-
ihndant co woman of the debt, and paid away by him. Mr.
Charles Senior, rather at the Manchester Bankruptcy Court,
predated a file of proceedings in Messrs. Bothwell 's beak-
=lt did not oontain the defendant's deposition of the
to him, but in the list of debts this was placed at
1981. It also contained the appointment of the endilere
=e, bearing signature purporting to be the de.
tre. The wltnom bad mareinal in every piece for the
detendaars deposition where ft was possible to lad it, bet
without snores. The depositions of all the ether creditors,
eight in number, were on the file.
Mr. John Lamb, Manchester, who had soled as solicitor
for the bankrupts, deposed that he am the defendant swan
to the proof of the debt before it wal Med, and that on the
lklt ot4 March succeedicg, he (wits's') obtained a copy at
the depend= (predated), bearing the seal of the mart. Hs
alto saw the original deposition on the 17th of Ma y 7.
A whams was then called to depose that the t had
obtained perminion some time ago to look over the Ale at the
Bankruptcy Court, with a view to show that the
must have bean abstracted by the defendant ; but, ..dsr:=
not remember the preen, date tithe ormarreace, his evidence
wee not taken.

11r.www; James Bothwell, we of the trample, who
bad carried on the briars with bin father, Marl that bills
of exchange, at the following dates end for the several
anicautta specified, payable three months after dale (subse-
quently dishonoured) were drawn by the defendant upon the
arm ha his own favour :—Sept. I, for 621. 3e. ; Sept. 22, for
701. 12a. 61. . • Oot. 26, for 361. 16s. The first two of
these bdlsthedefnulant told the witniss he had paid away,
and that the third was in his possession altar their filler.
Oa the 7th January, 1869, the bankrupts endorsed two
other bills thaws upon John Charles Bothwell, brother to
the wiener, for 341. 2s. 6d. tech, which the elder bankrupt
gar to the defendant. At a meeting of meditate bald in
Bothdals, about thin time a resolation was pared agreeing
to accept a oompositioh! of 10.. in the pound from the
bankrupts, who, however, were wishful to pay only 6a. ed.
The defendant strennonaly opposed the smaller amount, and
the two bills named were given by the bankrupts to
guaranty 10.. in the potted to the defendant in preference to
the other mediums.

These were the circumstances having immediate retereace
to the charge of perjury, and Mr. Boon (Boots and Jail-
owes), with Mr. Foulkes, who appeared for the &hearse,
by cems-esamination and in ddmoe, sathavoured to show
that the present proceedings were instituted on secasat of
W. part which the defendant had takes is opposing the bank-
rupts, and that he (defendant) bad no Interest Is WY' •
false declaration before the bankruptcy arcumbatorter. It Me
defendant bad said, it wee through rporsam, and not with
any corrupt Intention.

Mr. Made asked the meaning of the term corrupt."
In this Gess it meant either that something had been said
which ought not to have been said, or that something had
been kept back for an improper purpose. What was the effect
of the defendant's roods'', P It was to gtve him a direct peon-
ale,, advantage over the other erediMrs. It had been said that
the bills were worthless, but that was not really material to the
charge. The defendant roust have received them suppoeleg
they were worth something, or why did he take them P It
was not a matter which could be settled Mars ; but they bad
the broad feet before them that the defendant had gone and
made a false cub in • judicial proceeding, sad he (Mr.
Mande) was afraid it was getting too common not to think as
math of an offenoi of this kind as it ought to be thought of.
It was • serious matter the way in which psegie weltered
with their oaths is some of the courts. The mdant had
put his bead to a direct falsehood, sad he mast be com-
mitted for trial.

On the of Mr. Boots, Mr. Maude consented to
admit the deaodent to Lett, on two sureties being found In
W. eaoh.