The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-26 00:00:00

EVENING,

built a considerable number of small houses, and when
the failure took place, two years and a half ago, there
was great depreciation in the value of property of
that description. The case was different now,
as one house, which was formerly valued at
2001., had sold for 20/. more. The expenditure
of the bankrupt bad been very moderate indeed,
as in two years and a half the total expenses were
only 2271 Finding he could not go on, he came to the
court on his own petition. The dividend would be re-
spectable, and he thought this a case deserving a certi-
ficate of a high class.
In reply to the COMMISSIONER,
Mr. PEARCE, for the assignees, said they did not offer
any opposition.
His Hottous said this was a better case than builders'
eases generally were, but he did not think it was a case
entirely of unavoidable loss. The certificate would be
of the second class. He would remark that the accounts
were considerably better than small builders' usually
were.
An immediate certificate of the second class was
granted

IN RE BESWICK.
This was also a certificate sitting in the matter of M,
Beswick, wine and porter merchant, Norwich.
A certificate in this case was granted without opposi-
tion. The bankruptcy took place prior to classification.

CENTRAL CRLYLIN AL COURT.
OLD COURT.
Before Mr. Justice Wn.masis and Mr. Justice

Ctiosirrow.)
Henry Woolf, 29, and Isaac Lyons, 29, described as
dealers, were indicted under the Bankrupt Law Conso-
lidation Act for misdemeanour, in having unlawfully
obtained goods upon credit three months before their
bankruptcy, under the pretence that they required such
goods for the purpose of carrying on their trade, with
intent to defraud.
Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Bagley were counsel for the
prosecution; Mr. Clarkson and Mr. liuddlestone were
counsel for the defendants.
The oircumitances connected with the charge were
fully detailed in the report of the trial last session, when
the defendants were indicted for a similar offence and
acquitted. It appeared upon that occasion that the de-
fendants had set up in business as umbrella and parasol
manufacturers in June or July, 1850, having at that
time not more than 300/. capital, and that. they became
bankrupts in November, 1851, the amount of their debts
being 5,400/., and the assets not much more than 1,5001,
and it was represented that a sum of 3,0001. seas totally
unaccounted for. The prosecutors of the former indict-
ment were Messrs. Ellis and Everington. and it wi.es
shoWn that on the 27th of September the defendantA bud,
obtained silks from them to the amount of 7001., which
were disposed of two days afterwards at a considerable
reduction on the cost price, and that the defendants bed
also for a long period been in the habit of pawning the
silks they obtained ostensibly for the purposes of their
business. The prosecutors of the present indictment
.were
..Messrs, Foote, wholesale silk merchants in
Spital-square, and the evidence in support of the
chargo went to show that during the months of Sip
tember and October, prior to the bankrup,cy, the defon-
dan: o'otsined silk to the amount of 700/. from Mee.ca.
Foote, .the greeter part of which appeared to have
been pawned by theni almost immediately afterwards,
anti when they failed they were indebted to the prosecn-
tors.to the amount of 2,300/. In order to'shoiv the frau-
dulent intention of the defendants, evidence was gi',lon
thet they hadmade false' representations to the prose-
cutors.vitila regard, to the amount of their capital, and
also as to the state of their affairs when they took stock
in July; and it was likswiso. proved that they had ob-
tained a, fere qaantity of silk from Mr.. Pawkier), a.
warehousemen in St. Pe.ul's Churchyard, which was &so
pawned very soon after it came into their hands. Ir
appeared, however, in cross-(•xamination, that the deal-.
ings of the defendants with Mr. Foote had been of a very
extensive character, and that`they had paid him between
4,0001. and 5,000/. for goods curing the fourteen mouths
they were in business, and that they had employed so
many as thirty or forty persons in their manufactory up
to the very moment of their bankruptcy, and that they
had supplied goods to a very considerable amount to
Messrs. Ellis and . Everington during September and
October, and that they had also made large payments
to Messrs. Foote for several months before their
bankruptcy, and nearly up to the time of ifs taking
place, 'and had reduced the extent of their original
debt to a very considerable •amount. It was also eli-
cited, as on the former trial, that after the bankrupts
had signed a declaration of insolvency Mr. Foote, who
was appointed the trade assignee,had sold the whole of
their stock by private tender at a reduction of 45 per
cent. upon the price at which the goods had been
voiced to the defendants, so that property of the nominal
value of 1,8001. did not realize much more than 1,000/.
It likewise appeared with regard to the goods that bad
been obtained from Messrs. Pawson, that a portion of
the silk bad actually been made up into parasols and
umbrellas, and that upon various occasions the defen-
' dents had redeemed silk which- they had pledged, and
had used in their business afterwards.
Mr. Creannsole addressed the jury with considerable
warmth on the part of the defendants, who, he said, he
. considered had been very harshly dealt with in
being compelled to go through the .ordeal of a
second trial, when the whole of the facts were fully
gone into on the former occasion, and the jury had ex-
pressed their opinion that there was no foundation for
the charge that was made against them. He
contended that there was not the slightest pretence
for saying that the defendants had obtained these
goods by the false representation that they required them
for the purposes of their trade, but, on the contrary, a!1
the evidence in the case went to show that they were
carrying on their business honestly, and that it•was only
owing to a temporary pressure that they felt themselves
compelled to raise money upon the gooOs they had, pur-
chased. Ile said it appeared to him thee all that could
be alleged against the defendants was that ,tees bad
been unfortungte, but he trusted the jury would not
lend themselves to this attempt to render them amen-,
' able to the provisions of a highly penal Act of Par-
liament, merely because they were not able to pay their
debts.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS having summed up, and 'ex-
plained to the jury the points upon which they were,
required to give their decision, they deliberated for
about a quarter of an hour, and then returned a verdict
of Not Guilty.
Mr. BAGLEY said there was another indictment
against the defendants, having reference to the goods
obtained from Mi. Pawson, hut, after the verdict that
had just been given, he did not feel that he ought to pro-
ceed with it.
A verdict of ' Not Guilty was accordingly taken, and
tbt defendants were ordered to be at once discharged.
The ;trial lasted nearly the whole day, and was not
concluded until half-past seven o'clock. •
, ;

NEW COURT.,
(Before the RECORDER.)
James Kimbtr, axt,effeminata looking youth, with col,
lar turned down in the Byronic style, surrendered to
tau° his trial for feloninuily shooting at William Crutch-
ley, with intent to kill and murder him. There wore
silt other counts in the indictment, varying the form in
whitth the offence was charged.
Mr. Ballantine and Mr: Robinson prosecuted; and Mr.
Bndkin defended. f

Ttle'Learned Counsel having stated the case, called
William Crutchley, a ladl4 years (tag°, who stated
that the prisoner was an acquaintance of his. Witness
liied with his parents in Ampthill-place, Rotherhithe,
ttnd was a clerk in the London Docks. Prisoner also
lived with his friends, and was a teaoher at a school.
On
,the evening of the 13th of January the prisoner
called upon him at his father's house and asked him to
accompany him to the house of a mutual friend named
Stebbins. 'He did so; and when Stubbing came out pri.
soner said to witness, " Now, am I liar?" Witness
said, " If I have said so, you have often called me
one, and I hafe not thought anything about it." He
.then put something; into my face twice, and I tut*
it was/a pistol. Witness was much frightened and stood
still, and prisoner a third time put it to his; face, hold-
ing him by the collar all the time,. and at last fired it.

Witness felt a sharp, pain on his cheek and nearly
fainted; they, then alt three ran different ways, and wit-
ness was ultimately, taken to the doctor's. His face was
very sore,-and one of his eyes, Was still weak from the
effects of ft.

~
Crosa-examined -- I know Miss Frances Elizabeth
'Payne. ' I go to' her father's house to learn drawing
with- her brother. I-have not paid her any attention.
I am only 14, and-have not begun to look after the girls
yet—(Laughter.) i,. • •, . • -
John Lambert,. a smith,} said he was in the Ploagh-
road . on the night in question, and sawlhem all there,
en
and from their mysterious. appearance he thought they
d
were .going.to„rob his master's place —(Laughter)
watched them. Saw the pistol, and then .they. all ran
_... ..
Mr.away Bomiri.—And then you ran away '
? Witness
—I did.--(lncreits.ed laughter.) , -tos
x cur, and
4 years of
Thomas Stubbing, another .youth abou ,• .
age, corroborated the statement of
the
1 the rP
risonerp missed
amid. much merriment added that
kis, aim at the prosecutor, and that .thewedding of the
pistol'had -bit bins in .thetiatt pistol was the property of
It was also proved;tb V
o. who was about to raffle it.
a boy
.about' 13 years 950, sso-in, e
memberio, and had a day
The prisoner.had gocenal
it
to show to others and induce
or two before, borrow . ,
and aftiffr the had sent 'it
them .• •n the rafga, •
~-, s , ~ . -affair
to joi
beak tO him.
done to the prosecutor was, by the medical
. The Hull be but trivial, and had scarcely
• - proved to
evidence, , .
any' traces.
where. the lt was, „at shown
..would-be assassin had •
„nee." himself. but :it, appeared that some days sub-
sequently he gave himself up to the police.
ar. RONINsoN said he proposed to call bliss
iss Payne to
blur,/ the prisoners intentions.
At this the'prisoner became exceedingly '
Agitated, and
the scene that followed . Savoured
very
strongly .
harlevcpl6. At first Miss pay-aS was •-- of the
not, to be found, upon
which she, not having been before
called upon. 'her subpoena. • At lengtheillistrate''was
Miss Payne, a
genteel-looking girl, about 16, made her
,and upon getting into the witness-box faintearell
this.- the prisoner, who had drawn large white During
d
a ham .-
kerchief fro ea. h.
ea. is pocket, began to blubber moat ltistily
-end. rushing wildly about the dock, called on his
":dear Fanny" not to , bear fake evidence against him.
Wet having been , restored, Miss Payne said that she
knew both youths, and a week before Christmas hart
;persuaded prisoner to make up a quarrel he had 'Phi'
'prOsecutor. ' lie 'said he had, but only 'to get what h.•.
could out of him, and 'that' day' Week" she Would hear of
'ibises quarrel: The prisoner then said he would give
litea.nOther. week; 'and then kill him:- Prisoner had!
maid''' ' he 'would 'punch Master Crutehley's head.
-„(Retars of laughter 4 ;• :1 , . . - I ----
most humorous-
• Air 8034-INaer the, del ..nCei4in - a
speech; ridiculed the importance that had been attached
e ed that the
to the affair by the prosecution, and coat nd