The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 180.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT.-JAN. 4.

(Beim the Cla et Commisetocer.)
,1:t. RE I. W. Y. CIII•NDLE/t.-7A LL EG ED_FIit4VD.

Thikin;;lvent, • butcher, in the New Cut, Lambeth, was
opposed by Mr. Dowse for Mr. Weaver, a meat sideman in
Nowgate-market. Es wee supported by Mr. Macrae.
The complaint urged on behalf of the opposing creditor
was, that the insolvent had closed his dealing with him by
ordering 601. or 601. of meat within • week or ten days
in November last, • short time before he petitioned under
the Protection Act, and Instead of paying him the following
week, he sent a part of the meat to hie brother's shop, and
the other part he had sold and appropriated to his own pur-
poses. Ile subsequently declined to make any arrangement
with the creditor.

Mr. Dowse submitted that the insolvent had commithd a
clear case of fraud, and that the court could not continue
the protection.
Mr. Maass urged in mitigation, that the heat of the
sacomer and the competition in tho neighbourhood had en-
tailed great lore's upon the insolvent, and had time been
given be would have been able to have paid his creditora.
The Chief Commissioner said it woe a use of the grossest
fraud, without one extenuating Mrcumstanoe. The insolvent
need not apply for a locg time.
No day was named for the final order, and the protection
wand.

(Before Mr. Commira( oiler Murphy.)
IN as JOUN FOWER

Mr. Bargood moved In this case to reduce the proposal of
the integrant from 601. to M. a year, and to be relieved from
the payment of the present quarter. He wee bandmaster of
the 11th Huseare, and his noon) was 2111. • year. He had
been overwhelmed with sickness in bis family. He bad paid
101. into court as one quarter, and found he could not con-
tinue the proposal. The learned counsel said the insolvent
had been very foolish in offering to do what he could not ac-
complish. Ile was not opposed on hos hearing, and had been
"impetuous" in proposing to pay 601. a year.
Mr. Commissioner Murphy said ha remembered telling the
lesolvent that the proposal was too large. How could he
grant this spplication without a rule nial f
Mr. ffergood said, as there was no opposition on the hear-
ing, the court could reduce the proposal without a rule.
His Honour assented, and granted the applization in the
terms prayed.

IN WI JOHN IT. CAULPTELD.

The Insolvent, manager of an entertainment, wee discharged
on bail 011 the hearing. Mr. Weston, licelowd victualler,
was one of the sureties for his appeanusee.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.
(Beton the Rewarder.)

Gorge Fred(' int Boaloft as, 24, a well-dressed young
man, pleaded guilty to two charges of forging receipts. Mr.
Platt was instructed to prosecute:.

Mr. Metcalfe. who defended the prisoner, meld that he was
in the 'melee of a gentleman who was in the habit of receiv-
ing • good many money orders, and he had obtained posses-
sion of revers) of these inatrumente, and had obtained the
money by signing his wearer's name. He believed, from his
instructions, that the prisoner, who received a salary of only
15e. per week, was =aloos to ingratiate himself with and to
make a show to a young lady to whom he had since been
married, and took the money with that object. The learned
scumsl added that a portion of the money was expended on
the purchase of a borne and chaise, and they had been given
up to the prosecutor.
The Recorder sentenced the prisoner to twelvemonths hard
labour.

John Francis Gelling, 38, erne indicted for feloniously
cutting end wounding Johanna Girdling, with intent to do
her grievous buddy harm._ _ _

Sharpe proeecuted; Mr. Tindal Atkinson defended
the prisoner.
Toe proeecutrix and the prisoner in this cue stood in the
relation ut man and wile to each other, but it appeared they
had been separated for two year.. On the day named in
the indictment they met accidentally, and the prisoner wamed
hie wife to accompany him home, but she refused to do so.
A sort of scuffle took place, during which the prosecntris re-
ceived a alight injury from a knife, but she admitted that the
prisoner In the first inatanas attempted to cut her @bawl, and
that he had wounded his fingers In so doing, and there did
not seem to be any evidence to show that the prisoner in-
tended to inflict any serious Injury upon his wits. In easy,'
to questions put by Mr. A,kinaon, the prnsecutrix admitted
that very shortly before the occurrence took place, she bad
gone to the re.idenos of the prisoner and removed every
article of furniture it contained.

The jury found the yrwoner Gritty of unlawfully wound-
ing, and he was sentenced to stz months' Imprisonment and
hard labour.

lica;TrrTllenry Cory, 27, clerk, pleaded guilty to two
charges i.l forgery.
Mr. Sleigh conducted the prossention on behalf of the
Rankers' Association ; Mr. Robinson defended the prisoner.
The learned counsel for the prosecution said it we. a
painful thing to have to prefer so merlons a charge spinet a
young man who we. undoubtedly reepectably connected, end
who bad conducted himself with considerable gallantry
during the recent war to the Crimea; but there was too much
reason to believe that he had been carrying on • regular
system of forgery since hie return to this country, and the
protection of the public therefore rendered it necessary to In-
stitute the present proceedings. The prisoner, since his re-
turn to England, It appeared had been going about the
country lecturicg upon the Crimea, and he bad ingratiated
himself into the confidence of a gentlemen in the neighbour-
hood of Croydon, to whom he had uttered the cheque. in
question. Oas of these cheques •ppar tly bore the signa-
ture of the pioneer's father sod mother, snd was represented
to be signed by Mr. Ashby, a milk; sear Croydon. Inquiries
were made which led to the discovery that the chequer were
forged, and the prieooer was then taken into custody.

Mr. Robinson addressed the court in mitigation of punish-
ment, mod said that the prisoner had conducted himeelt with
great bravery at RabicJays, and he was also at the battle of
Inkermann, and hd a horse shot under him. He had gone
to the Crimea es a volunteer during the Russian wer, and at
its conclusion he was discharged. and be bad no doubt that
since then be had got into difficulties, and this had led to the
oommission of these offences.

The Recorder said he regretted having to pass sentence
upon a person who had at onetime no doubt been respectable,
and who sr emed to have behaved bravely in the setvilie of
his country. The offence, however wa• one of a very serious
character, end appeared to have been committed with great
deliberation ; he therefore felt it to be his duty to order the
primmer to be kept in penal servitude for four years.
Witham Edward Clarke, 19, clerk, and it Clarke,
40, father end sun, were charged with forging • cheque for
731.4.. 2d., with intent to &fiend.

The younger prisoner pleaded guilty.
Mr. Sleigh, who appeared foe the prosecution, said that
after a cereittl examination of the depositione, he was of opi-
nion thut the evidence wee not sufficient to support thechar,te
velem the older prisoner, and, as the son had pleaded guilty,
be felt that the porpmes of kudos ware answered, and ebould
retentive withdraw from offering any evidence In support of
the charge against the father. According to his instructions
the case wee of a very painful and duoreming character.
The older primmer formerly held the position of a reepi,ciable
and reeprixed tradesman in the City of London; but, by a
eerie, of unforeseen eventa, he bed been mimed to the ewe
of the moot abject sod revere dieters+, and be helievi 3 there
was no doubt that the eight of the diorites and misery under
which he saw his father and We family labouring had ope-
rated upon the mind of the younger prisoner, and that
he committed the offence solely with a vier to relieve that
distress. lie was instructed to put the oourt in pomession of
these facts, and he raid he was pure that his lordship would
dad with the primmer as the justice of the case required.
Mr. Robincon, who appeared for the younger prisoner,
said that be had very little to add to the kind ataiteuent that
had been made by his learned friend, and be could only my
the he believed toe young man at the bar would never have
committed this offence but for the dreadful state of distrem in
which ha iiew his lather and hie family were existing.
The Recorder, eddreseing the younger prisoner, said he
was not *ware that be had ever barn.* been called upon to
per intend In ► ease that gave him so much pain, and he
hoped be waajustilied in parsing a lighter sentence than was
ever inflicted in a came of this description. He then sen-
tenced the prisoner to six months' hard labour.
A verdict of IVot Guilty wee taken as regarded the father,
and he was (Wdened from custody.
The cam of the two men, Higgins and Davis, who are
charged with • onnsilracy to defraud • Osman named
Gruneberg of money and bills of exchange, bee been re-
' moved by certiorari to the Court of Queen's Bench.
Georgo John Stow, 27, sad John Brown, 29, mere Ind ;riled
foe a Mareriary in a beee,shopiu Hill-street, Walwortlt.
Mr. O'Connell prosecuted : the prisoners wire defended by
Mr. Utley.
The evidence clearly established the guilt of the phonate,
and the jary convicted them both.
Evidence was then given that both prisoners had bees
several times convicted of felony, end had been sentenced to
penal servitude and transportation. One of the prisoners
obtateed his liberty fn IBM under a ticket of have, and the
constable stated that ever lace be had been at large be bad
got his living by thieving.
Bode prisosees were meowed to viz yews' penal servitude.

Ellen Clu,ay, 33, an Irishwoman, was charged with wilful
sad corrupt perjury.
Mr. Sleigh was counsel for the prosecution.
The charge arose out of an inquiry that took place before
Mr. lignewd, at the Worship-street Police-office, in which
the present prisoner charged a Jeweea, named Sarah Levi,
with stabbing her with a knife. It appeared that the pri-
soner bad been employed as a charwoman by a relation of
Mrs. Levi, and that some suspicion was entertained of her
honesty, in 0.0801111(113,0 of which she was not employed any
longer. Shortly afterwards, Mrs. Levi happened to go to
the house of an acquaintance Darned Hart, and she there
found the prisoner engaged at work, and she communicated
to Me,. Hart the enspicton she entertained of her. Accord-
ing to the case for the prosecution this put the prisoner
into a violent rage, and she rushed towards Mrs. Levi
with the intention of doing her some injury, and in no doing
she fell against the door, and cut her wrist very BOVE rsly with
the head of a screw that was sticking out. It mined that
after this the prisoner made a charge against Mn. Levi
of having stabbed her with • knife, and she wee taken into
custody and examined before Mr. Hammitt upon that charge,
end the prisoner, upon beiog sworn, stated that Mrs. Levi,
upon the occasion of their meeting at Mrs. Hart's, tcok a
knife from u:,der her apron and inflicted the wound in her
arm with it, and upon this evidence Mrs. Levi was re-
manded, and called upon to find bail for her appearance to
answer the charge. At the suhaequent inquiry, however, It
was made clearly manifest that there was not the slightest
foundation for the accusation, and in the result the prisoner
wee committed upon the present charge. These were the
main facts of the case, but the surgeon who
examined the prisoner's aim, stated that the injury she had
received vas a very serious one, and that it might easily have
been mistaken for one that had been inflicted by • knife or
any similar weapon.
The Recorder having summed op,
The jury, after some deliberation, .4equitted the prisoner,
and at the same time expressed an opinion that there was not
the slightest foundation for the allegation that Mrs. Levi had
made use of a knife on the occasion in question, end that the
prisoner, from the serious nature of the injury, might have
been mistaken as to the teenage in which it had been occa-
sioned.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Common Serjertnt.)

Airts Omni, 25, married, was indicted for robbery with
violence upon Patrick KeHard, and stealing from him a watch,
value 41., and one shilling and sixpence.
Mr. Way prommted, and Mr. Sharpe defended.
It appeared that the prosecutor, a provision dealer, wee
between eight and nine upon the evening of the 20th of last
month pealing through the City, when the prisoner come up
and begged for some trifling relief, telling him a long story
about the state of want which she and her family were in.
He out of kindness took her into a public-house end gave
her some beer, and bad not long quitted the house when she
snatched his watch from his pocket, and at the 'me time
handed it to tome man, who knocked him down and ituitently
ran off, but the police came up and secured the prisoner.
The jury returned a verdict of
It was then proved that in August lest year the prisoner
bad been convicted of a somewhat Mailer watch robbery from
the permit of a French waiter in the City.
The court sentenced her to four years' penal servitude.