The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-11 00:00:00

OZTLLS P. 08T7.1.8.

Dr. Spinke, Q.C., and Mr. Pritchard for the petitioner ;
Dr. Tristram for the respondent.
This was a suit for judicial separation, brought by the
wife of Captain Grylls, late of the 67th Foot, on the ground
of cruelty and adultery. In 1145.1. when she married him,
she was a widow of the Rev. C. Bradley. She' was the
daughter of Mr. Freind, a merchant, and had brought
the respondent some property. She lived with him
till 1859, and bore him a son and a daughter ; but his con-
duct we. such that she had left him. He had then gone
to Guernsey, and it was alleged that he bad formed en
adulterous couneetiou with a young woman there.
[The case was proceeding when our report left.)

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(THIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. Baron Pigott.)
THE ESTIESIVE POMMY EPON THE LEEDS BAN/.

norms Fikeloy surrendered this morning to take his
trial for unlawfully conapiring, with other person'', to
defraud the Leo& 'Banking Company of large sumo of
money.
Mr. Gifford, Q.C., and Mr. Poland conducted the prose-
cution ; Mr. Sleigh and Mr. F. H. Lento appeared for the
defendant. .

Another application was made to postpone the trial on
account of the absence of Serjeant Ballantine, who was
retained to lead in the defence of the prisoner, but the
teamed judge refused peremptorily to accede to it, and he
insisted upon the trial proceeding.
The learned counsel for the prosecution stated the case I
ho proposed to lay before the jury at considerable
length, but as the facts have been so frequently
before the public it will not be necessary to repeat
them. This proeecutlnn was instituted by the official
liquidator of the Leeds Banking Company which
stopped payment in the month of September, 1864, their
liabilities turning out to be very large and the stoppage
weeding most extensive mischief and ruin throe t
the whole district where the hook, down to the pond of
its stoppage, enjoyed a very high reputation. It appeared
that after the stoppage of the bank, the accounts were
examinvd by the tiquidators, and among the securities
they discovered bills of exchange accepted by a
summed company in Servia called the Meyilam-
reek Forest Company, amonnting altogether to
108,1410/. ; and the whole of these bills appeared
to be discounted for the prisoner, who carried on business
at Leeds and London, under the firms of Watts and Co.,
Whitby and Co., and FAgeley and Co. The prisoner also
seemed to have been connected with another firm, named
Teal and Co., and all the firms above mentioned were
said to be in come:ion with a person named
Van Chef but whose real name was repre-
sented to be Myer Jacobs. It was stated that hills for a
large amount, bearing the name of Van Chef, had been
originally discounted for the prisoner and for Teal and
C.o. by Mr. Greenland, the manager of the Lees Bank,
and in We year 1863 the amount of those bills was GO,OOOl.
At this time Van Chef had become bankrupt, so that
fr.m him there was no chance of obtaining any por-
tion of this large gum, Anil, according to the case for
the prosecution, the condition of the firms of Teal
and Co. and FAgeley and Co. was such that U
they had been pressed for the money they must
have inevitably become bankrupt. This being the
ease, it was suggested,, on the part of the prose-
cution, that the prisoner, m conjunction with other wises,
bad concocted a pretended company under the title of
the Merbanpack Forest Company, and that 'bills
were fraudulently drawn up for the purpose of
deceiving the company and obtaining further large sums
of money from thefts. It was not denied that there wet
a forest at Meydampeck, and that a concession of acme
sort or other had been granted to the prisoner, who
took a very prominent part in the aff dr,
but what was contended was that the whale
scheme was a fraud, got up for the purpase of
deceiving the bank and defrauding the idimeholdan
of more of their money. It will be reoulleiLtail th it Mr.
Greenland, the manager of the Leeds Banking Obriiiisay,
and who assessed a salary of 2,0001. a year for his err-
vices, was tried in this court for publishing a false State-
ment or balance-sheet of the Ours of the bank, and he
was sentenced to lb months' hard labour, but WWI libe-

fated on aocoura of the stale of his and he
was originally examined as • witness fo; the prosecution
in -the present case, but after this he proceeded to
Gamins, and he has ever sines refused or bays unwilling
to come forward, and it was stated by the learned connssl
for the prosecution that Mr. Greenland was very probably
concerned in the fraud that was oontempizted.
The result of the various operations appeared to
be, that in nonce of the representations that
were made relating to the supposed company,
the bills that had been discounted for Van Cief were
exchanged for bills purporting to be drawn in Survia
and accepted by the Meydampeck Forest Company, and
the amount of liabilities incurred by the bank was in-
creased from 00,0001. to 100,0001., and the whole of this
large sum of money was utterly lost. Under these cir-
cumstances the present prosecubon was instituted against
the prisoner, but the case had been adjourned upon various
grounds, from time to time, for a period of twelve months.
Mr. Grant, the first witness, was examined at very great
length, the effect of his testimony being to show that all
the supposed Idelydampeck Forest Company's hills were
renewed with the knowledge of the prisoner, and that he
gave directions to the clerks on his establishment to
purchase the foreign bills that were necessary for
renewals, and that he also directed that they should
be ante-dated 15 or 20 days to give them the appearance
of being genuine instruments that had been sent from
Meydampsak to this country in the ordinary course of
business.

A number of letters were then put in for the purpose of
showing that the prisoner had given, at different times, a
glowing descriptinn of theadvantages that werelikely tobe
derived from the concession of the timber in the Meydavn-
peck Forest, and that he had strongly urged Mr. Green-
land, the manager of the Leeds Banking Company, to
continue his &sentence, and to renew the bills that were
becoming due, and also to advance more money, sug-
gesting that if he did not do so, the result might pro-
ahly he that what he had already advanced would be
lost.
Mr. Grant then stated that the firm of Edgeley and Co.
did not fail after the stoppage of the Leeds Banking Cora-
puny. and some time after that event happened, he him-
tell became a member of the firm of Edgeley and Co.
In cross-examination Mr. Grant mid that he did not
bring any money into the concern, and all the benefit they
derived from him was the small amount of talent that he
was supposed to powwow. He also mid that the prisoner
had earned on a most extensive and respectable business
as a wuolleen merchant for many years previous to the
stoppage of the Leeds Bank. He had no doubt that the hone
fide business transactions between the prisoner and Van
Chef were most extensive, and that a very large sum
was due to the bank upon Van Chef a paper in reference
to these transactions. The witness went on to say that
he was aware that large sums of money were sent to
Meydampeck by the prisoner for the purposes of the
speculation, and he went there on several occasions to
carry out the business, and he had heard that several
ships had been chartered for the purpose of bringing
timber to this country. The witness also expressed his
opinion that the speculation would have turned out a suc-
cessful one, if the Leeds Bank had been able to continue
to render assistance to the prisoner.
The trial Was proceeding when we went to press, and it
wee expected that, it would be adjourned until to-morrow.

POLICE COURTS.-(THIS DAY.)

THAMES.
MACiallef.i ?sum

Charles Brown, aged 45 years,whTitleacribedhinmelf as it
farmer, of 96, Anthony-street, St. George-in-the-Emit, was
brought before Mr. Paget charged with unlawfully con-
with others to steal two sovereigns from Charles
Wi "ckmaon, a seaman, of 23, Bucklestree Whitechapel.
It appears that the prosecutor was beset by a number of
sharpers, known as " inagemen," and was induced by one
of them to go into a public house. The prisoner soon after-
wards appeared, and in the course of conversation said he
had a piece of land on his farm which a railway com-
pany required. His lawyer told him to be very care-
ful, and not to Nettle with the railway company hastily.
He took his lawyer's advhw, and bad just received I,BW.
for his land through his lawyer, and ho was determined
to be very careful among strangers. He then inquired
the time of day, and the prosecutor mid be had no watch.
The prisoner said his watch was stopped, talked about the
seamen of the great " tom " called " Loonun,"
and exhibited a pocket-book, in which there
appeared to be • great many Bank of England notes. •
A conversation then ensued as to what was neceseary to
make the character of a gentleman, and the argument
seems to have been illustrated by the confidence which
one of the persona present, an apparent stranger, ex-
hibited in the prisoner, by lending ham three sovereigns.
The prisoner afterwards left the room with the prosecutor,
but did not take the opportunity of abusing the
stranger's confidence by running away with the
money. On the contrary, he was so charmed
with this manifestation of faith in his honesty
that he returned the three sovereigns, and added a fourth
as an acknowledgment of the confidence reposed in him.
Afterwards the prosecutor was induced to " leud " the
fellow two sovereigns, and while another man
engaged the sailor's Attention, the prisoner and two
of is confederates left the house, and made an attempt to
escape, but the sailor au •mg them followed, and de-
tained the prisoner until tthhee police arrived, the other two
men escaping with the fellow's pocket-book and " bank
=tea."
The prisoner was remanded for a week.

THE SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY.