The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-10 00:00:00

facts of the co -c awl the evidence lee -ho old have to lay be
foe them in support of the chore against the prisoners.
The indartment was trained iin. A- au act o f palianient
which was kuown in the Bankruptcy cenodidotion Act,
sad by the 27,15 t tiou of that act it was declared to be an
offence to remove or conceal the goods of a bankrupt with
intent to defraud the creditor,, and this was the offence
with which the !.ri.onei • were no. dusted. Ile then pro.
ceeded to elate that it would appear that in the year
10-ort, in the month of August, the prisoner Poole
entered into paitnw.hip with a person named
Samuel n.! they carried on a ven estee-
m' busies., as whole-ale lost and shue manufacturers,
bevies two place •of lousiness, ome in New l oxford-street,
and the other at Noothatupton. It appeared that in the
cause of their tousle,. they heroine very much involved,
and obtained large advances of money frown Mean. Graham,
Tubas, and IV, merchants, and at length in Augmit,lB6o,
they stopped pay... it, the amount I.f their liabilWes being
shoat WASP_ et which between NUM. and 7,018%. were
owing to Mow, I thtleitill Mill CO. for moony they had ad.
yawed. Mr. zo•rio.nt Itallantine then went un to give a
brief outline of the evidence he proposed to lay before the
jury, and said that penohno the bankruptcy he should
able to show that the whole the prisoners were concerned
in removing a Urge quantity of lona and shoes from the
warehouse of the bankrupts at Northampton, to a place be-
longing to the prisoner Cleopinau, pear that town, and
the most singular pat of the tranaction was that the
primes, Ventre. appeared to be clerk to the firm of
Quitter, Rall,and t'o.,who, were accountants of some emiuenoe
in the City of London. and who had been retained by the
bankrupts to examine their hooka, and make a statement of
accounts preparatory to their going before the Court of
Bankruptcy. According to his tastructions, however, he
should be able to show that this prisoner had taken a most
active share in the removal of the property, and when the
jury hid hiwnl the evidence, he believed they would enter-
tain no doubt that the whole of the prisoners were con-
cerned in a deiilwiate attempt to get monsoon of a consi-
derable quantity of property which, if it had been fairly
divided arming thcir creditor., would to sonic pa-
lest hare alleviated the loss they sustained by
the bankruptcy. The learned counsel concluded by
dating that the busieess of this country could
he waffled on without the mercantile classes en•
tertainiog feelings of conscience towards each other, and the
law: traders wen, always willing to inmost honest men by
giving them credit, but if that confidence was abused by
proceedings such as those that were now under considera-
tion, it must Decennially tend to destroy all continence, a id
great mischief nowt inevitably result.
The following evidence was then given
Mr. T. E. Stubbs, one of the tuanagers to the Court of
Bankruptcy, produced the proceedings is the bankruptcy of
Poole and Bryan. The petition to the court was dated the
gird of August, lelah and the adjudication of bankruptcy
was dated ou the same dla,.
Thomas Ileanl deposed that he was in the service of the
bankrupts Poole rid Bryan. They carried on businewe
at Northampton as boot and shoe manufacturers.
On the 13th of August the workmen in the ware-
house were toll be Mr. Poole not to come again
till the l•th. when they would be paid their wages; and
all the work was stopped. The warehouse was closed, but
witneas and Poole and a man named Woodford remained
on the premises, and Chapman came there occasionally.
After the workmen hod left, Mr. Poole gave him tannin
directions with regard to the gonils that were on the pre-
mien. He told him to go into the shoe-room factory and
pack-up ten trunk- with boon mid other articles of the
same description. Wane.s did as he was directed, and Mr.
Poole then told him to place the trunks on a van and con-
vey them to the house of a person named Pearce, at North-
atoptuo. Woodford. use of his fellow workmen, accom-
panied him. On the same day Poole told him to go to •
place called Earl'. Barton, near Northampton, when work
was being Mote foi them, awl to take up the whole of the
goods that were newly. He took It large hamper in a van,_
sad it was filled with loon of different kinds, and by
Poole's direction he took the hamper to Chapman's residence
at Kingotharpe, near Northampton, and it was placed in his
coach-house in his pre•ence. He saw Poole the name night and
told him what he had done, and he then said he wanted
him to go to London on the following morning. He did au,
and returned to Nertliaiopton on the 1:41, in the evening,
and went to the house of the prisoner Poole, and found him
there with Chapman and Venal. Chapman then gave
hint directions to 611 as many trunks with goods as would
All the van, and Poole was present when he said so. Wit-
tiest then packed seven tomes at the factory with goods.
He was assisted by Woodford, anti Cluipmao was present;
and when the van was loaded, Chapman told him to take
the goods to hi* house at Kimpthorpe, but directed him
not to go by the direct road, but by the Kettering-road, '
which was two miles further round. It was ten o'clock at
night when witness left the factory with these goods, and
Chapman received them at hishotme. When witness returned
to Nurthatoptoo. lie told Poole what be had done with the
' good Oro the bah witness was again at the factory.
The prisoners weir all there, sal Poole told him
to pack wow more goods, and he filled twenty
trunks with differeut articles. He was so engaged
the whole day. and when the trunks were tilled Chapman
told him to take them to his boson at Kingsthurpe, and be
did eta The trunk., were in a van and a cart, sod winom
drove the vas, and Woodford the cart. It was isall•post
twelve et night when they arrived at Chajonon's, sad- he
presentwhen the goods ware placed n the mach-
' house. He saw Poole the same night, end he told hint that
he and Vealris and Chapman were going to London on the
following rooming, and Poole told him to be at his boom
when they returned at night. On the morning of the 18th
I of Amgen witness was at the factory., and on the following
day Poole told him and Woodfoal to go to thapnans
home on Sundae night, the 19th, but they were not to go
until nine at night. They snot about sir o'cloek, and
Chapman took them into his kitchen, sod they remained
there until eleven ; end Chyme told them that be had
engaged a bans, and he wished them to remove the trunks
from the coach-house into the torn. Hu then went with
them, and they removed twenty-seven trunks and a hamper
from the coach-house to the barn and it was two o'clock in
the tooroiag lettere they hail finished.
Cronersmiued —Witness was two. years in Poole's em.
ploy, and wee oo pretty good terms with him. He was
able to speak to the dates of these trataintious, bemuse he
looted them dowse at the time. He thought it was rather
a singular thing for • nrvant to be ordered to remove goods
late at sight. He was asked by Mr. Dayesou, the solicitor,
to give the dates of the transactions, and he did so, and his
statement was taken down in writing. (A paper was here
' shown to the witness, and he said that the name at the
bottom was his signature.) He did not make any of the
statements contained in this paper. Witness left Pinta@
employ on the 30th of August, and after that he went to
Walsall to a situation that had been übtaised for him by
Poole awl Chapman with a person named Cooke. He left
that situation of his own accord, because hi. employer
would not advance him soy mosey. He did not see Poole
any more until he saw him is this court. He was not very
well pleased with him for sending him to Walla and
breaking up his home, but he never threatened that it
would he worse few him if he did not give him 201.
By Mr. Metcalfe—He saw the pannier Ventris paying
the wotkpeople on the Saturday. There were a great many
emPloYed,and the min them occupied fly. or six
roMe.
He believed that Mr. Peeve gave a cheque for the
wages. Mr. Pearce le ea auctiouter.
By Mr. Oaidp—Mr. Cooke, the person to whom he was
recommended at Widsall, he believed was a currier. He
had never heard that Chapman was his agent at Northamp-
ton. lie wan sure that he never told any one that be took
the goods to lifeapthorpe weeks before the bankruptcy by
the direction of r. Chapman as the agent for Mr. Cooke.
In answer to other questions put hy the learned counsel, the
witoms denied Lame removed any of Mr. Poole'. property
and dispelled of it without his knowledge. In further cross-
exarninatiou he said he would swear positively that he
made the entries of the dates in the book ot different times,
and upon the same days the transaction took place.
seosamiDed He went to see Mr. IJoawson, the attorney,
at the request of Mr. Poole, mad his father, who was called
Captain Poole. He made a statement at that time which
was taken down in writing. The wages were not puid until
after the goods bad been delivered to Mr. Pearce.
John .% oodfarcl, another man in the service of the pri-
sooer Poole and his partner, TM then called as a witness,
and be corroborated the evidence given by Beard, with re-
gard to the directioos given by Poole relating to the removal
of the goods from the warehouse to the premises of Chap.
man, at Kingsthorpe, and subsequently to the barn. This
witness also proved that by the direction of the prisoners
Ventris aod Chapman be took one trunk containing boots
I and shoes, oe the 17th of August, to the railway station, to
be conveyedto hoodoo, and the rt'llsprnan travelled
by the same nein. On the following evening when they
were about to remove some more of the goods Vienna came
up to them and told them that they were watched, and said
that they must give the parties.' chase.
In crameexamMistion this witness mid that be did not
think at the time that he was doing wren, bat shortly
afterwards some one met him is the street, sad told him
that he had does so. He spoke to the kit witness upon
the subject, and they both went sad gave information to
Mr. Newton, the trade nage,. This was about the rod
of September, or the beginning of October. lie remem-
bered a man named Young saying that he would be to
blame if he did not get 10f. cent oat of this of aikbut he
lower made an threats to Podolia what he would do if he
did not give him some mousy. Mr. Poole did say upon
ens occaason that he would not be intimidated by him and
Wart

If sTElijah Welton deposed that he resided at Kings.
thaw. near Northampton, and knew the prisoner Chap-
eaus, who lived mar him. He remembered his hiring a
have in the month of August, and he represented that he
meted to put a hone in it ; but instead of a hone he
placed a number of trunks cud a hamper in the barn. The
prisoner Chapman told him that he tad obtained the goods
from Mr. Poole as seamier in payment for a debt. Wa-
wa. afterwards removed them to his owe house, where they
wore subsequently taken possessim of by the meesenger
from the Court of Bankruptcy.
Mr. John Shapiembe, moreover to the Court of Beak.
eatery, deposed that a warned worn placed in his hand, on
the 2.lrd of August, and is consequence of information he
received he went oe the 29i0 to Mr. B'reton's, and there
took pweasaloa of twisty-Ws trunks and a hamper, contain-
ha shoes end beets aid the materials for making them, and
• hundred skins mapped up in lieeo. He .he found some
leeelepps i4e seeds, oa which them were engraved the
words hole sad Co.
Thtww *ono, a parson who Ira. employed at the fac-
Oy the pt.:Karr Pon!.. at Evora Barton, proves' that on
the l:;th of August i e filled 's hamper with boots at the
mount of the witness Beard.
kr. W. Pearce deposed that be carr:ol 0.1 the business of