The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-04 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day).

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulbu:n).
IN RE LENSEURG,-.TUDGMENT.
This bankrupt was described of Drury Lane, &c, cornice
pole manufet turer, and applied a short t me since to pass
his examination, tut the accounts were very unsatisfactory,
and Mr J. Hart, of the firm of Hart Brothers and Hayles,
had been appointed to examine and report thereon,
His Honour now said that the bankrupt admitted
that the accounts were inaccurate and erroneous,
and his excuse was that he placed his confidence in
a man of the name of Smith who had betrayed hie
confidence and absconded. Smith was a man of
a great many aliases—Bali, Bye, and Chappin. It
appeared to him (his Hon .ur) that the bankrupt had not
suflic►ently excused himself, for he appeared to be a shrewd
and intelligent man, and not exercised sufficient caution fn
trusting Smith, who had been convicted of embezzlement
and suffered twelvemonths' impiisonment, and bankrupt
employed him without a character. His Honour held that
the default was from the bankrupt's own culpable negligence
in employing Smith without a character, and refused to
piss the examination, which was adjourned stne die, but
with protection to give the bankrupt an opportunity of ap-
pealing if so advised.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

iiIARLBOROUGH STREET

A " GENTLEMAN" SENT TO HARD LABOUR FOR DIS•
GRACEFUL CONDUCT IN KENSIN G TON GARDENS.-Mr
Frederick Roundel, gentleman, of the Warwick Arms Hotel,
Prince's. Equwe, Bayswater, was charged before Mr Tvr-
whitt with exposing an obscene book containing indecent
repraentations to the view of the complainant, Emily
Louisa Maine, a nursemaid, fourteen years of age, while in
Kensington Gardens.

Mr Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, ap-
peared for the prisoner,

Emily Louisa Main said she was a nursemaid at Bays-
water, and on Saturday evening, while in Kensington-
gardens with another nursemaid, each of them having
children with them, the prisoner came and sat on the seat
ihey were sitting on, and showed them a book with pictures,
Ile then shut up the book, and asked her to meet him at
haif.past 9 the same night, and go with him to a house,
where he would give her half-a-crown. As she was going
away the park keeper spoke to her, and asked her what the
prisoner had bee❑ showing her, and she told him.
In answer to Mr Tyrwhitt, the girl said she had often
seen the prisoner about !Afore, but he had never spoken to
her till then.

John Burton, park constable, said that in consequence of
nuumereus complaints of tha prisoner, he kept his eye on
him, and on Saturday evening he saw him sitting on toe
same seat as the two girls were, and saw him with a book
showing them. Ile spoke to the girls, and in consequence
of what they said took the prisoner into custody, mad found
the book upon him.

Mr Lewis having addressed the magistrate on the pri•
soner's behalf,

Mr Tyrwhikt said the case Ras clearly proved against the
prisoner, and his c,,nduct was first that of corrupting girls
and then making wretched women of them. It was through
such persona as the prisoner that respectable females were
prevented from taking fresh air in the parks. He should
commit the prisoner for three months with hard labour.

A second charge was then preferred against the prisoner
by a young girl named Agnes Burns, in service at High-
street, Notting-hill, and the case being clearly proved
against the prisoner, Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was the duty of
a magistrate, when these cases were proved, to inflict the
full punishment, and he should, therefore, commit the pri-
soner for a second term of three months, with hard
labour.