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INSOLVENT DEBTORS'•COUR 7',

FUIDAY. OCTOPEIt C.

He had the exasienal use for the froat Grit mum. lie ncsar
bought the ItEse or furniture of my house; he paid me a guiea
E.-week. and took then: ty the 'reek. _ _

(Before Coirmissiarers 'Wire And ',ATV.)
Esther 11811, an elderly woman. who had bent before the Conn
on 4 previous dav, m d remso,ted for hasi:ig improperly sold a
life annitiiy. was this Iry again brought up. aril it apn:treil front
her stroviren. arid also !root aort of a person namelt-..layte. twat tae
cui wonoui was induced to part with an atmuity of 2.1. at two years
ptlie.l3%!, whereat., in 'Aryl, it was worth five yee.rs purchase at the
least. Soren of is:Town family had inducted hzr to assi;:. miler pm-
tions of hm. pro; my Ever to th ror, and now left Le to meet the
peoalty of inimarrounient for such cronduct.
31r, (30--”issi,.ner lioaegm....—This is evidently a act:tide:vs
Irani! praelivil on this panr woman, taunt hrx cunning rela-
tions voi.,!: to inn,:e their victim. _

Ann Lee. wile of t..e lit I.:!nesS, deposed to the seine facts as
stated bk her hip.bai.d. A great tle‘d of fluids v. ere delivered while
he lirot with us, %ye, liosi.ny, and jewellery but they neva re.
mained lore. Ile was thrsx weeks and a day in our Imre. and
his art:: fie Pre wzvks longer, and then the he went away.
Lsaniined by Mr. lie tr 1111 in tit: house wiles those& et
was made. but heard nothing to alarm me . • x tbsctor was sent tor
to Mrs. Wolfe. but I cannot say if Wet.: to this transaciieo
but certainly nut up that day. l Earl no.scitanis. My sister wn.
present when Mr. Eipliv CAlre. I spoke abort the Matwondi.
Same time aftzr, when 1t olfe came home, he told me lie bail
lost some valuable diamouds out AI the caphertrd. When Wolfe
was a few days in prison he amt fir me. and told me he had Lost
Mao:acids out date c phoard in the bedavert.
• rdirahrth Tyre elrrobormd this witness.
Mr. Kipling.-1 said, open the cupboard in the back bed-mote..
They looked into it. but saw no jeitels, nor was any csAet or boa
taken out of it. Any one might have had access to the venni, buts
not to the copboard. I saw money with the insolvent abaft a.
week before be went away ; I saw a :W. note, and a nite; theta
were many otters, but 1 cannot say what number of runes :The-
insolvent was in the act of giving them to the wife when I left
the room.

Mr. If i• %T n.— I am for the auditors, and I nodertake to say,
that if the t%ir slue of this annuity be paid into Court, that they
wi;l Le sat;,ti, d. •
Mr. Co.nnii,!oner Down w.—Nothiag can be moreair t and I
tell you, Mr. S:;3I,T, who have made this' purchase, to teke care
lest you may SWt fall within that cruse of the Act, by, shiel: you
will be lit.hle to tltree years' it: nrisonineet fur callueliag'to make au
unfair sale. •
Mr. Coos.—Mr. Shawe offered to pay 151. into Court.
Mr. Commissioner llowert.—Vott must know, Mr. Cook, that
is nothing.
Cone.—But. Sir, they said on the other side, that they
would ink:: the 131. as satisfaction d'ir a fair purchase of the an-
malty, together with the sum already paid.
Mr. Commissions? Bow x.—bet the creditors ascertain the
value of the annuity- ki the sum be paid diem, gad not longer
keep the poor woman in a prison.
She was then remanded.
Thomas Mercer was opposed in person by an upholsterer of the
name of Seagram, fur a debt of 1111. The insolvent had purchased
some goods of Scagram--he had paid hint in tart, but having u
family of eleven persar.s to support, he was obliged to part wall
some of the furniture and other matters. Ile was subsequently
thrown into prison, and now came up on his pelitiou to be dis-
charged. II is case wan adjourned till Friday next.
Walter Branseamba, nn attorney, was oppose,: on tielialf of Mr.
Zechariah Brown, on the the ground, that when he appeared as
petitioning creditor in the bankruptcy of one Samuel Drown, he had
offered to prove a debt of above Mtg. whereas in his schedule Is
was stated at many hundreds lower.
A Mrs. Ackerman, who was present at the meetings under the
Commission of Brown, positively swore to this fart, as well as a
person of the name of Ilandby, who were each cross-examined
by the Insolvent, but they still persisted in giving the 1111:11C
evidence.
Remanded till she nth of November next, with leave to amend
his schedule, and give four days notice to his opposing
creditors.
—.— Hayes, a reepectable-Inoking young man, was opposed
by a baker of the name of Creamer, fat a debt originally of 31.
The bmolvent had dealt with this humane baker foe about fifteen
months, and the bwlance of his amount was 21. which he could not
pay, as he just then had lost his situation. The Attorney's costs on
the Si. were 12:. more, and for this sum liayes was taken in
execution.

Etamined by Mr. Commitsirater LAW.—I beard of etc rob-
bt- firm Mn. IVolf heti/entice husband returned to tra.

We: Dlr. Pot.t.,,ott sugxesttd. that r 4 the case r..nst last a
considerable time, re, haps the four`. wonted defer its Walidrration.
.Me. c.onamistiobet llowrx.y-We have to •vr..t air }loather
rammissioners t.n yanicular businel at four e'eMett. and it would
be extremely incomtenieat Oat to attend to it. 14.1 it, then, come
on to-momm

......
M. HEATH.—There is an objection to to-morror, being
Sstuiday.
Mr. Commissioner Bowrx.—Very well, then; let it ears I::
precedence to any other ease on Monday morning.
The Court thou adjourtird.
—.—
SOUTHWARK SESSIIIAVS—FAIDAV, OCT. S.

31r. Creaser atrugolcd hard to have his pound of flesh, but as
there was no tread in the contraction of the debt, as the insolvent
had paid up regularly before, and as he bad boon sinta the month
of June last In prison, at the suit of this merciful baker, olio Court
very properly ordered his discharge forthwith.
Mr. Cremte, the baker, ailmittol in his examination. that he
said be would willingly lose all the money he had, in order to keep
this poor man all his life in a prisn.
at intern Bothow was again brought up, he having, as we an-
derstood, on a ftwmor day, refused to swear to his Schedule.
11fAN3ION-11()USE.
It will be recollected that the iollolVetit Was recently convicted of „mteeday John Levi, a hawker cy watches, and his wire were
a libel on Dr. if arburton, and that a Jury gave a verdict against i
barged the.tirst with having beaten John Cohen with his fiat.
hint for nOOL This sum he of coune introduced into his Schedule,
but on the application of 31r. ADOLPOI ON the Court were of opi. send the. other with having assaultcd John Cohen with a frying.
Moan that judgment not having hien yet signed, that debt must bet
The witnesses filled the room. and manifested the strongeot dis-
expunged,
position to swear anything at all that appeared likely to tell for
This day Mr. Ikabow again attended, swore to his Schedule,
their respective favouritew
and the Attorney for alr. Warburton expressed his satisfaction a;The complainant swore that be had lent ten shillings to Levi, to
the course now pursued by Mr. Ilenhow, which we understood td
be an arquicacence in the views of the (..0I
Scone prepare matters tor his marriage, nnd upon asking Ilan for it, was
minor defects were remedied in his Schedule, stud no fers.pposing.:cre-- treated in the most brutal manner by the person who was tinder ob-
ligation to him. Levi, who was a boxer, and went Hind
the name of
hitor appearing, Mr. lionbow was declared entitled to his discharge
Lee amongst the Fahey, struck lalm about the body, and broke Ins.
forthwith.
nalle, without any more provuotion titan was contained in the de-
Wolfe Ammo was next brought up, having been previously re- muted of his money. (The complainant was provided with the
manded to this day.
total asoompammonia of assault camplainn, and prothscri a ham!.
out C
Aof t the request of Mr. Irot.t.oex, all the witnenes were ordered
kerchief with sore red and some black evidences of vioknoso
ourt.
The Hack wounds had, he said, been indicted by Mrs. Levi, who
Mr. Commissioner Bolero read the notes of the evidence tnl an with nil the fury of a Christian, seized a fryincuan, and battered'
on the Zid September.. when Insolvent was remanded in contempt hi
visa
visage with it in such a manner, that he trace DO Meal.
for not answering certain mutations put to him. Mono between what he was and what he is. Mrs. Levi oaa not
Memoir said, there is a synagogue in Broker s.gsrtiens, Duke. without „octane, imm another parry. One of the ~ Peoplee...
street. I cannot tell how many houses there arc there, perhaps
amour to a warlike effort bv her example, struck hirit while he
eight or ten. Samuel Josephs lived at No. 2, at Mrs. Josephs'. era and under the etyota the frying-pan. which heat made
She ii ta3 relation Whim' Site was only a lodger. Barnard Jacks s won, and then dried it up with its burning beat. All was
also lodged with her. I have not seen him for two years past. I over that with the complainant, Mho swore that be made no eTott
saw him first at Bath, at the Blucher public-house. He was a era. to „tali"
teller, and of course bait no home. 1 first knew hint at Broker's- This accoant Of the business was sworn to be correct by half a
gardens, about, as I think, February, this year. He travelled with dosen Jews, who all engaged in a noisy emulation to convicer
me, and I trusted hint to a large. amoun. He bought watches the Lord Mayor that Mr:Levi was the most ilitreated of human
there, and also before, for which lie paid me. Meowed me at baton since the days of St. Stephen. and who expected nothing
times lOW. and more, hut not before February. In the country he lees then a" stoning unto death,' Loin the cruel persecutors era tan
owed me nothing. In Felintary I sod him some aterintl-hand other side.
watches, arid be p:::d me partly in money and partly in clothes. I Then came on the defence. The accused party and their friend,.
dealt with him altoli l' - fur several things, and he paid me at Jose a. in the heat of justification, called for the Okl Testament to swear
Coffee-house. I have no account of these things in my books. lie
Sought hosier, of me, and then I first made en entry in my book. by, before they spoke a word, and otErred, if it would add to the
ntensure of their credibility, to ,wear by the New, that the =eta-
This account (the account handed to witness) is the last account. tioa was a, inine as that made by pot ivii.u...ife.
beginning May 7, en;! (Wino May 111, 11124. The amount of
The LOOD MAYOR, however, did CM eltoole to administer aey
the account in that penis! is III.PL, anti I'l swear to it. The goods more oaths.
were taken to a racks. eillecl Duke. Josephs used to come to my It was then stated by the defendants and their friensla, that
house far the goods, an 4 having had large dealings, I trusted hint.
Cohen was the aggressor, that he threw part of a pint of " heavy"
The whole page enntaining this account was not written at one over Levi, who was no boxer, but a respectable man, and struck Lira
time. I booked the goats as they wen: taken away. I believe Ja- with great violence; that Cohen, rot satisfied with this revenge,
sephs went away about the 241 or 23:h of May. I kept no clerk. challenged Levi to fight, and actually dragged him into the street,
Duke did not know what the week contained when he took them where, as there sat no alternative, both stripped, and had tour ran
away. Jacobs and I travelled as partners about three years ago 1 gular rounds of fighting, to the great prejudice of Coben's face and
I after saw him in London. before n'ehruary the lived with Josephs body, and the total subjugation of his valour; that ('then refused
at 13m:ter's-gardens. All oar dealings were for jewellery. As to come again "up to the scratch." said he hail got enough, and
partners in the country, we hid dealings of 3or 40111-. and ulnae he that Mrs. Levi never handled a frying-pan, and never laid a fiagt r
ha. bought often tenor twenty pounds worth of goods. I dealt upon any hotly but her men husband, with whom she was still in
with item in March and April, and alto-ether, perhaps, to 50 or &1L the hoot.ymoon.
I otter. wild 'aim goads to the onto .at of 101., and sometimes Si) low Tire Loan 211.t1r011 was perplexed between these ennflirtrz,
as 2or 3/. There ate some accounts of those dcolingtzi
In the books.
holing; with him which are not -in statements. He asked the complainant
whether be had thrown the
I sometimes hadporter over Levi.L
books. On the 12th May I h:livered hint goods to the amount of .. lon reeourold through the morn, front the voices of an
310/. Ins. IVlten I trusted him for these goods he promised to pay Cohen'. party, both thou who had remamid those who had cot
use in three weeks, but before that period he disappeared. I fol. menthe re;„.
lowed him to Chen:cabmen when 1 hoard he was. I was three The Loan 3fATO a then asked Levi, whether the porter heal be;
1
weeks in fellow:n.7 him. On the 2Stla .flay 1 set out, because I thrown err him by Cohen.
feared there was something wrong. I was besides robbed of ve Tea, exclaimed all Loris party-men, women, and chilareo.
brooches. diamond car.rings, and pint to above 2001. This rob- I licth parties again shored a great impatience to be sworn. Th. y
bevy took place while i was in the country. All these things were
would swear by any thing at all.
in • wooden box, locked up in a closet, on the ground floor front Levi °tiered to let any body look into his mouth, which he and
room I put the box there myself, and my wife was frightened and , was cut by Cohen, who treacherously hit in the pipe be .a as
the key taken from bar. I bought the ear-rings of different per. ' smokino, and stuck it in his jaw. The tight was the fairest .n..e
sore.. and I sin sure the box tea. in the closet and all were paid for. that was ever seen.
Richard Kipling examined hr Mr. Coax E-I carry on business Cube os party-11 There was no fight; we'll sweet there a ..a
at Na,. IL. l'oulny ; the debt due to rue by the insolvent is near none."
71101. I lirst saw use insAvynt in March; and on the 311th of that Levi's party-" There was a fight; we'll take our oath of it."
mohth lo applied to sax for onoodo lie asked ma deal with me, a-td The LORD Maros. who heard with great patience all that t!a•I
cave me ar. ferc-ce to a Mr. Woodfairn. The first credit was been urged on both sides of the question, declared that hew_, :.o -
Mt/. 17s. re: the 30th March. lie gave me a bill, at two m I onths, plocly Its the dark as to its real merits. lie could not priatt.•. c
for 971. and the difference in cash. (In the Ist April lie again ;to meddle with neat: which was so much above Ma compretwaste• ,
rune for another nipply, to the amount of ill. 12a. 3d. I told him i and that, therefore, if the oanplainant was dispatch to pursue tree
I ahaulti expect cash. On the 2ii April he had goods to the value means of satisfaction, he roust go before a grand jury, and Terra:-
of 31. Its. fd . which he paid. On the lilt April he came again. ! aunt his satferings and write ga to them.
aril had rods to die amour.: of 431. 17s. 2ftl. Ile said he wanted i The donndant's party considered this a triumph, and ret•i, tr.-.
slot of giooes, and that a captain in the docks would pay for them , lane, fro.n which all the inhabitants ha! bon transterre,l 'a t•.
in pima*. This was not paid, except ten or &leen guineas, 1 3larsion-hcuse, (tunny; the exam:natio:l, must have rung walt the
which I received in three or four dartafter the delircry of the ' exultatic n.
goods. Or. the 7th the next item was black silk handkerchiefs and I Can's nine Trani, ti street-walker, was eminn'tted to It,i,.
stockings, amounting to twelve guineas, these, he also told tae, for assaulting Cl. Baton. last night, in Leadenh.ail.soreet. s
were far the captain. I asked Ins tome, but he would rot tell me. I atlncel abuse to the assault; and the Loan alaron expressed tos
071 the NI April he again called, having previously paid me
31. Ins. en.. and for some pieces of muslin which I never entered. determiootioa to thaw the streets of suyi: nuisances.
The prisoner nil she only asked time complainant for a ,
On thel4h April he had some cheap cotton !stockings. amounting stuff, which he refused.
to lb! lii. Ile called on the following they, and brought roe ~.
..
211. Ins, inelnding the fifteen guineas of which I have spoken. no.: nu area. 1.1%.!...--:,11, two notorious thieves, were tato nup c
' he then oydereal 321. to be all in airsstecainga. but not for the saspiewn of haws g rm.:bed" car on 11-eatnenelay evening of a .-at..t
captain. On the Eith April lie called again, arid or :lewd Irish
'to s•tid that he had forty chars of tea, but on reactor;
linens to the amount of V. 14. 41. and on the 17th he I rought me '" • • 't t •
ofres.; in_lhshopcglete street.
the Cataarin- It . eel .te
but
The porter was sinolg an
39/. 3a. and the balance he owed me was above 301. which I pressed
the car to watcn the tea, be was not present, and the carman
, lion to give me, but he said he could not, as he had several bills to
to
aohicr former.
per. I!,* said his wife had some hundred pounds coming to h.• scald
The Loan Manoa arimadverted on the tiedigerce of thy
tut notoing of his own prorerty. The next other was 724 II I
parties in rot crating forward in give proper evidence. It vat
(In the 2::a ,'.-oil he got some Irish linen, and on the 27th, to the
useless for the otilcers to t^.ke up thieve% if the parties robbed did
amount of 1141. 11/s. On the next day he ordered goals to :he I
not rant foreanl. A gerat number of tailcoat were kept constantly
amount ol I:II. 191. 3d. ir.cle:ling Irish linens and hosiery.
,w,_a_ticiritirtegmaloatidcedgaenagrtots ;ticlat.ewtilinhornieln‘s„4. tofo mewhircerhathtehevridew,rf,,iat;s.or,..,oat
then sa:d he was about buying the le the house. On the He
May Lc ;•ad goods to the amount of seem
2. and paid me 20!. On ‘"
the nth 3ta- in? paid Ott:. I went kr that sum to London-wal two well-known
were wiseitargeu well.known :teml .
fur want of eviacnce.
On Ow II tii lay ne ordered 129/. for Ital pieces of rinhors, and he i
pail Pl. On the Oth July there was anothm order. On the Ireit th r: GIILIMIAI.L.
was also erne to the amount of nat. The entire amount of prods Bnroat. TIIZATMZItT OF A WIFE.-Yesterday. a J.._
he obtained front me was 7151. 11;s. and the :lash he raid lel/. Inas dressed spruce young Mall appeared to =Dal/ to a coatynatat pi..
Finding I nos get an money, I wetto his house to sec it he h.AI joinedby U. wjks.
any goods, he havic.; l.ft totem The wife gave us the key of the The complainant, a young, genteel, pretty woman, stn i.l fe.7-
&Mtn r two or eltet persons were present. It cantair.ed only a few ward and charged :am with a brutal assault, &bum ye I.Mir Ve4e, a;A
general ill-treatment. She stated that site hal ta.ater du. e Le y
old anti dirty cloth:3. We examined the next roam, ad miler
rooms, hut could find to traces of am!, property. The wife Milord thing to merit his censure, much kits his personal violetwe ; hat,
now the keys. adding that the chess contained nothing. I calleil that since lie had bcoan to neglect be. trading business, and to I.7e-
tsar several Bars afar. and saw the tippets casually open. 1 have nacra racer, boxing matches, tad other aparting men nos. 131
seen morel. with the inst.:vent, who always !teetotal to :lave liel,tY temper and conduct. en.a manners in general, had :14: COMO: on., Ay
Of it. IL ~; Ihe hal some bills to pay with this money. Thar rhanac,l. (In Thur.:ay arc,* be struck her on the ti..al and
was pa a ai.snalay, ;aro time Wth or 111th 312 y, and a hew days hr, ass repeatedly, lighted her on the site, turned :Ile Sr.! tit is..
:',..0.r.! he Wear OM a town. I have ninth urns a person of the tnnm child (hot a fortnight oil) out of their bed, and eaio,, 'led
tame of Pe!-ac. a paan.broker, at lannion-wall, era asked hint if tbea, to li,em a damp bed tan onto &too, Tnin °on:iota to lay ~,,,,
herad any ?losietv good., I a soul to see them; but he would rot the :loan in order to pryserve her lite mom his brutality, she went
slier me to i-,: eet •!::.r.. I made this enquiry alone the month to hsi,.g with her nurse, whence she sent to ham for her own
of Jul y. '.;'Le intw:Y.nt culled me a swindler, and I teak him to the e'o has and those of her infant. Ile refused to give the clothes. and
llansfot.:: ...e. wl,fre he naulc ro cattiplaint of any robhont 11 ern :he=tened to sell them This trtatownt she cunsnl, rt.,: the
was rot •Intit t:',o Wi.tv,...dar after that he talked of it. mar,. sceew. :as sLe fat i brought him a handsome fortune, a: d waa
Ex-amino! by Mr. II Facto for the Intoleenc.-I wi!hed to see a ...aeons at the tiro; of tae assault Lonna the laness of a tetra; e*„.„.
Irtt,:r which the w.fe said stic received from insolvent, and he and tine,,,e,-.t.
she both roused n:.:-. In t'..e. course of aur dealings we had only This statement was enthemed by her twee, a personal frit
ft.:x.e larnll ready-ovular trar.saMons. I delivered all the gaods to of mitt defendant ; and alto by the .:aus.htor of the complaw
no oar but the W.s,t;vent. himself. ant's nurse. The uncle aide.!, that he fad asked the deencir
A:eat:nal...7 Lace examined by Mr. Pottocx.-1 keep the Ileuse stliethir he had any complaint to make against Lis vtit, as to a
in I,..ndan-seall. wire ‘rionifairn lodged, Ile came to me ir. proptietv of ordoct, and the heir:de:lt then denartil n be;
Ills I a-t wt:li ha .....V... for lodgings, and occupied as front went. I (;el" that he hat nit.
'le --. ^al ft • :- ' a .--pin".-'um its tat hrst pair 1:....k. The et fe%dr.nr, in hit lefenee, tale a very incoherett story

POLICE.

Ceirrge Chit and Ile-rd no:r7rin were put to the bar, on LT
indictment charging them with a won wanton and frond etuouth
op the person of a inghly ro,r mable young July, named M acker-
rte. on the 131 Au.mst last. in the llorough-mail.
The young lady, it appeared, hvd ,741 C to Veuxh.ll-gardens. in
company teat some friends, whom she accidentally missed on tear-
ing the Cram:eds, about half-past twelve o'clock. She according!),
called a coach, and was set down in the Borough-mad ; she had not
proceeded far when the priConey King came up to her, and took her
by the waist; she turned from him, and obsrryed, if Ire was a gen.
denten be ought to know bestir how to behave himself. This MO
no effect, and co his again attempting to lay hold of her, she hit
him a slap in the face, and called fur assistance. At this time she
was not above twenty yards from ber own dom. and Thompson
came up and said something to King. who Immediately struck bliss
Marken:de a rioltnt bloc on the bead, front the force of which she
f:11 on the ground. Luckily two patens raw the latter part of the
transaction, and rant her assistance. when the prisoners attempted
to escape. but IrtrE prevented, and at lenrh conveyed to the moth.
house, where they gave bail for their appearance.
The witnesses tailed clearly proved the outrage ; and the pri.
goners being callcd on rot their defence. attempted to justify their
conduct by ossert:rg that 3liss Alackenzie struck Kuig with her
patten without any provocation.
The Jury found them both Gailly.