The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-06 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Aug. 5.
(Before Mr. Commissioner LAw.)
IN RE HENRY COLEMAN.

The insolvent, who described himself as a dramatic
author and lodging-housekeeper, was opposed by Mr.
Dowse and Mr. Macreo for various creditors. Mr. -Cooke
supported.
The insolvent was a bankrupt in 1838, and again in
1848, soon after which latter period he went to Boulogne-
sur-Mer, and commenced business in partnership with a
Mr. Harris, as ale and wine merchants, money changers,
and bankers. This business went on until August, 1851,
when he left Boulogne on account of not being able to
meat a draft for 3701. which he had given to a creditor.
During his absence, proceedings according to the French
bankrupt law were taken by the creditors, and while
Mr. Harris received his immediate certificate, the insol-
vent, not having surrendered, was condemned par contu-
mace to ten years' labour at the galleys. The insolvent
said he believed now that if he had surrendered he would
have obtained his certificate, but had been induced to
quit France by the knowledge he possessed of the se-
verity of the French laws relating to bankrupts.
A long inquiry was gone into respecting the 'thaposi-
tion of some furniture in the insolvent's house, which
was promised to be given up to the creditors.
In the course of the examination, the insolvent was
asked his means of livelihood since his return to this
country, to which ho replied that he bad written dra-
matic pieces, including two melodramas for the Maryle-
bone Theatre—Leila the Betrothed, and Poll of Padding..
ton—for each of which he received the sum of 51., the
mention of which sum produced a roar of laughter
throughout the court.
Mr. Commissioner LAW thought that some of the
creditors who had dealt with the insolvent as a banker
might have reason to complain of him, but as they did
not appear to oppose, the court could not do so for them.
As to those creditors who had opposed, their opposition
was of a general character, and not of a nature to induce
him to delay th© insolvent's discharge.
A discharge, conditional upon the delivery of the fur-
niture to the auctioneer of the court, was then pronounced.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Abraham Monheen, a flindoo Ingger, who has been a
great number of times in custody, convicted and punished
by various lengthened terms of imprisonment, for as-
saults upon women, was placed at the bar for final exa-
mination for an outrage of a similar nature upon an
unmarried lady residing at Sutton-place, Upper Hackney.
The case excited the greatest interest in consequence
of the publication of the evidence given at the first
examination, and the court was inconveniently crowded
throughout the hearing.
On the prisoner being remanded from this court at
the first hearing, after making a desperate attempt to
split open the head of the gaoler with a pewter pot
in the cells of the court, he was convoyed to the
House of Detention, where he was placed in a cell
alone, and immediately hurldled himself up in a ear-
aut., with an obstinate determination neither to take
food nor to speak to any one, though ho can
talk English with tolerable fluency. In this
morose temper and position he remained until
the following moreing, when one of the turnkeys
went in to look eler him, and the prisoner instantly
hurled a heavy missile at his head, and the next day
so violently "assaulted another of them that they
found it necessary to lock him up in one of what are
called the "silent cells." This, however, appeared
to have produced no beneficial effect upon him, and,
though confined in that manner until it was rt quisite to
bring him up to this court, the instant the officers of the
prison attempted to remove him to the prison van, under
the inspection of the governor of the prison, as soon as
he caught sight of the latter he made a desperate at-
tempt to inflict vengeance upon him, and it was only
with the greatest difficulty. and by main force, that he
was lodged in the van. Upon being brought to this
court he displayed such a vindictive disposition that it
was necessary to have four officers to lodge him in the
dock, whore he instantly crouched down upon the floor
with his knees up to his chin; and, Seaman, a conetable
of the H division, who frequently acts as a very useful
interpreter in such cases, was sent for to translate the
evidence of the witnesses to him. This, however, was
found to be perfectly unnecessary, as the prisoner at
once told him that he thoroughly understood all that had
been detailed against him, and launched out such a num-
ber of disgusting appellations towards the magistrate
that the interpreting constable was obliged to request
that all women might be ordered to leave the court
before he could repeat them.
Sergeant Mote, of the N division, and Bovis, 397 N,
were then both sworn to identify the prisoner as having
been tried, convicted, and sentenced to lengthened terms
of imprisonment for similar outrages upon respectable
women, and upon Mr. Hammill asking Mr. Vine, the
chief clerk, and Alderman, the gaoler, if they also re-
cognised the prisoner as having been before guilty of
such outrages, they both at once did so, and the latter
stated that the prisoner had been placed at the ber of
this court and punished repeatedly, not only for out-
rages of that kind, but for begging,
accompanied byattacks
terrifying threats, and also most outrageous
given by the prosecutrix and her sister
upon the police.
The evidence
women, who were eccele
two ladylike young named by
numerous highly respectable Mends, and upon whom
eariog to
the magistrate parsed a complimenter eulogium for
their fortitude in app prosecute such
behalf of the public, was then reduced ease on
r. Hurlstone, the second clerk, to depositions by
M
• in much thealsa
e
terms as those before detailed
but with
cir-
cumstances of aggravation, and
"a
exea
the prisonerdhdaitvlionng dog-
gedly refused to offer a single word l t tion of
his conduct, was ordered to be fully committed to New-
gate for trial.
The prisoner was then locked up in a cell by himself,
and on the van reaching the court the gaoler attempted