The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-28 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUBK.
hiesoreillw liessa•A. 23, and Mims Paltersoes, 34,
greasre lately of IE4 New Nora-raid, Isangrea, were
before the Lord Mayor with obtaining on credit,
three months of their bankrapiey, divers quantities
et lea, usonsti=lets fm several Emend ponds,
wYk West to
Mr. Sleigh, the bifirdaber, ecedusied the and
Mr. /f.* froen the elks of Mr. defended Pat-
terson. Zonal yes not defended.
Kr. IMO mid he appealed to conduct the owe
Mos pdsesses. whe wen chorged with fraudulently saint
ingwiles thsesimentiss of their bankruptcy, con-
trar Mitt' weateste 24 sad 36 Pic., cap. 134, sec. 2/1. He
further, seed to ohessetztatet conspiring to chest
sad datiaa end if the were borne out by
5T1411111114 he amid mac* toll to mind in his experience
a sem *wish* there had been a mac deliberate system
of obtaining geode from creation under the pretence of
carrying on trade in the ordinary way of business, and of
disposing of them fraudulently in the manner contem-
plated by the 11th dense of the 221st section of the Bank-
ruptcy Act. It appeired that these two persons opened a
grooer's shop at No. 189, New North-raid, in the year
1866, and one or other of them purthased goods from
different merobants, generally in small quantities, and
paying cash. In consequence of the regularity of
their transactions up to September last they had secured
an amount of confidence on the part of the wholesale mer-
chants which induced them, without hesitation, to sell
them goo* on credit almost up to the day on which they
closed their shop and left England. There were several
peculiarities in the cue, one of which was, that during
the whole of the nameactions the defendant Pattenon
always represented himself to be Mr. Hannah. He traded
as Mr. Hannah, and the other person now in the dock, the
real Mr. Hannah, acted as his assistant. These persons,
within three month% of their bankruptcy, which took
place on the 6th of January in the present year, succeeded
in obtaining from Messrs. Page and Co., tea merchants,
Fenchurch-street, Messrs. Inmy and Co., Pudding-lane,
and others whom he need not specify, somewhere about
20001. worth of goods, principally teas ; and it turned out
that during the mouth, of October, November,
and December Patterson bad taken himself to Glasgow
and placed himself in communication witauctioneers
there, and it really would appear as if they made t nil-
way the conduit pipe for transmitting these goods so soon
as purchased in London straightway to Glasgow, where
they were sold by a firm named Morrison and Co., and he
found that during the period to which he had called atten-
tion, from an early date in October till almost the time
when they closed their establishment, they sold through
Messrs. Morrison and Co. about 1,500/. worth of teas, and
received on account of these sales at various times a ram
of between 700/. and 8001. in ash. Upon the discovery
that the place in New North-ad was shut up, that the
defendants had drawn a sum of U. 6s. from the bank,
leaving 3d. to their credit, and that they had gone to
Scotland, they were adjudicated bankrupts, and Mr.
Brown, messenger's assistant in bankruptcy, went to Scot-
land, and at the Bridge of Allan saw Patterson, who was
passing as a person just come from America. Mr. Brown
put himself in communication with him, end
Patterson told him he was a mere agent in
the matter, but he certainly had instructed Mor-
rison and Company to sell the goods, and the
• money so collected by Patterson was sent to r. Hannah,
. at the headquarters in London. A warrant was 'ranted
for their apprehension, and they were taken into custody
by Detective Bull at a fishing village in the west of Scot-
land, eighteen miles from any railway station. They
seemed to have netted in cash some 700/. or 800 L of the
1,200/. for which the goods bad been sold, and no one could
complain of his describing this as one of the most skilful
systems of—swindling Se was going to say—but of obtain-
ing goods from creditors and disposing of them fraudulently
against the statute, which bad ever come under his lord-
ship's notice. To-day he would only produce such evi-
dence as would justify a remand, as he had witnesses
coming from Glasgow, and it would be impossible to
make much progress without them. But he might state
that on Patterson was found a book, of which he bad a
copy in his hands, and in that hook, partly in his own
handwriting and partly in the handwriting of Hannah,
were entered at full length their transactions with
a Messrs. Morrison regarding the sale of the goods,
and not (only was this done at full length,
but the defendants had condescended to give the
numbers of the chests of tea, thereby identifying the very
parcels of goods which they had just previously obtained
from the inerchant
iin London. There was another charge
against them, and t was that upon the 27th December,
the day on which they drew their money out of the bank,
with the exception of 3d., they went to a jeweller's of the
name of Hanson and purchased from him jewellery to the
amount of 161., giving in exchange a cheque upon the
bank, they well knowing at the time that they had only
3d, standing to their credit.
William Henry Burbidge, of the firm of Davidson and
Burbidge, tea merchants, 14, Little Tower-street, deposed
to the prisoner calling on him in the year 1866, and re-
questing to be supplied with grocery goods. Such goods
were accordingly supplied and paid for, the consequence
being that the defendant obtained the confidence of the
firm and in 1867 was supplied on cred it. He was now
indebted to the firm for goods sold and delivered between
the 30th of September and 10th Deoember, 181.7, the
sum of 164/. Iles. lid. A portion of the goods consisted of
2j chests of congou, supplied on the 17th October, 7 boxes
of congou supplied on the 29th October, 2 chests of oongou
supplied on the sth November. These goods were sold by
auction by Messrs. Morrison, of Glasgow. for the prisoner
Patterson on the 21st October, and the 11th, 25th and 26th
of November. Within the last few days he had discovered
that the person who represented himself to be Alexander
Hannah was the defendant Patterson, that Hannah Re-
sisted I'atterson in the business, and that the misrepre-
sentation was made with the connivance of Hannah for
the purpose of cheating and defrauding hie firm and other
merchants in London.
Thomas Henry Brown, assistant to Mr. Stubbs. one of
the messengers of the Court of Bankruptcy, stated that the
defendants were adjudicated bankrupts on the 6th of
January inst., and on the sense day be proceeded to Scot-
land, and under a warrant from Cou.missioner Winslow
le seized 4001. worth of tea which bad been pieced in a room
on the fourth floor of the house, 27, Elder-street, Edin-
burgh, by the defendant Patterson. On the Bth he saw Pat-
terson at theßridge of Allan,and he was given out se having
came from America. He admitted to witness that he had
deposited the tea at 27, Elder-street, Edinburgh, and in
reference to the goods sold by Marra. Morrison and Co.,
said he had instructed them to sell the goods, that the
proceeds had been paid over to him, and that he had acted
in the sale of the goods, and the receipt of the money, as
the agent of Hannah.
Detective Bull said be arrested both the defendants on
Saturday last at Whitburn,lB miles from Newton-Stewart,
in Scotland. They were living in the seine house, and be
read the warrant to them. Hannah said he had lost a
good deal of money by men he had hired to sell tea for
him, and he likewise was robbed of some money on
Chnstmueve. He was stopping there with his father
during the fishing sewn, and he expected a few pounds
from him to go and try his fortune in America. He said
he did not know how they could bring Patterson into the
affair, as he was only a hired servant, and he paid him 70/.
a year. Patterson said he was very and if he had been
acquainted with the English laws, he should have erne up
and given an account of himself.
The Lord Mayor granted • remand till Tuesday next.

11Y(b.

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BOW43TRKIIT.
(Concluded from yesterday's Express.)
Gustav Victor and Maxima Fordo* were brought up an
remand, charged with obtaining money by false pretences
from Hr. Herman Rick, a clerk in the Chanoellerie of the
Prussian embassy.
Baron Behmithals said—l recollect the prisoner Victor
owing to me on the Bth of January. st the Prumian
ictor Em-
to
busy. He sent in a letter, rod then I allowed V
have en interview.
Baron Blom—l now reside in Half Moon-street, Picca-
dilly. I have some reoolleotion of one of the prisoners
coming to me begging. I have never outhorieed kim in an
any way to make use of my name.
Louie Lavis said—l reeolnet the prisoner Victor
to 14, Hindeetreet, Manthener-equate, and hewaTkti
whether a putienisn named Enieriek lived there. I told
him there was not, but that two other gentlemen:aided
there—Mr. Kaiep and Baron Klink.
Police-constable Ithyroue—l am in the A memo Tie
prisoner Victor came to me a short time age, and told me
he had been living with a man named Emerick, who had
been • soldier is the Hartenrian army, and that athmonthe
ego he bad arrived from Paris. He said Emerick was
always very mysterious in his manner, arid hard up, and
that he hod supported him for some time. Emerick,
however, had at last told him that he wag going to Berlin
to aseassinste the King of Prussia, and thatitehad brought
Orsini shells from Paris for the purpose. Victor went an
to state that during the last four months Emetick's oon-
dition hod greatly altered, that he had now fine clothes
and plenty of money. He (Emerick) told him that the
money had been given to him by Baron Blom end two Ger-
man gentlemen, who lived near the square. On Fordere
I found a letter in Victor's handwriting.
Fordo» said all be knew about the matter wee that he
took • letter from Victor, and that he did not know that
there was anything wrong io it.
Mr. Flowers said there wee nothing to implicate him
seriouely in the can, therefore he should order him to be
due Dar. wen committed the prisoner Victor for trial.
Mr. Lewis then charged the prisoner with falsely libel-
ling Baron Blom, and cal
some of the former witnessed
to repeat their evidence.
Baron liehnithath—l am eseretary to the Premien Els-
bossy. On the oth of July the prisoner made the fellow-
ing slatareat to Met the Esebassy, whisk he afterwards
signed :—" Hedged Isere in Loudon for upwards of siz
months with • eolith Wilhelm Einerick, who stand him-
self to be an H.SHOVeriall officer, and that he had arrived
.4 hove Park. At fire this penes was entirely without
.sacs, but after awhile he moved money front onion
sonsepos„ amongst others fro, a certain Hanoverian heron,
who resides in Eaten-place. Latterly Zonal.* became
cierninly more naynerions, and talked about a duty he had
, to faldi—be must avenge George, him Idea, upsh the =dad
" of Pend& I drew ide attends te the hen thedle
Oman Bismarck was the imiter, but he persistedt
view. Yesterday, ha has esMee4 startedin Berlin. and
I have just sow niseived a letter from him. As lonia
is • dolman rasa, sad amens himself to be in pommel=