The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-24 00:00:00

LAW INT.

I—This Day,

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Beforo Mr Registrar Winslow as Commissioner.)
IN RE rARSLOIv.-205 IN THE POUND.
This bankrupt was a butcher at Royal Hill, Bayswater,
and this was a meeting for last examination and discharge
The debts ere stated at MR, and the assets at £2,422,
but Mr Cameron, the official assignee, considered they are
overrated, but there can be no doubt they will pay the
debts in full.

His Honour granted an order of discharge, and granted
an allowance of £3O to be paid out of the estate.

IN ILE wiLLrAmsoNL
This bankrupt was a corn merchant at Norwich, and this
was a meeting for last examination and discharge.
Mr Sargood said that he appeared for several creditors,
and to ask for an adj )urnment, as there were allegations
against the bankrupt of concealment of properly; and the
question was whether the Court would direct a prosecution
r leave the assignee to charge the bankrupt before a magis-
trate.

Mr Bagley regretted that the bankrupt had not been
made acquainted with the charges, as no doubt he would
have been able to have answered them.

His Honour said the difficulty was that if the bankrup
were examined questions might be put which he was not
bound to answer.

Mr Sargood said that Mr Commissioner Goulburn had
held that the applications Were cx par to—that the bankrupt
could not be examined or heard.
His Honour ultimately adjourned the case for a fortnight.

IN DE MAGNUS AND MAGNI:S.
These bankrupts were boot and shoe manufacturers in
Gresbam-street, and the examination meeting was ad-
journed, no accounts having been filed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day.

MARLBOROUGLI-STREET.

DANGEROUS CHARACTERS.—Two men, named Francis
M'Govsn and John Healey, were charged before Mr Knox
with loitering in New Bond-street for the purpose of com-
mitting a felony.
John Sadler, 48 D, having given evidence,

Sergeant Ackrill, 15 F, stated that he had known the
prisoners for years as thieves. They were in the habit of
getting their living by going to houses under the pretence
of begging, and laying their hands on whatever they could
in halls and passages. M'Govan had been several times
convicted, once receiving a sentence of 12 months' impri-
sonment, and once four months at Bow-street for stealing
a coat from a ball. He knew the prisoners as the associates
of thieves, and to be dangerous characters.
The prisoners said they called at the houses to sell a few
pencils, but a person from one of the houses stated that
the prisoners said nothing about pencils whatever, and only
asked for assistance.

Mr Knox committed the prisoners for three months, with
hard labour each.

THAMES.

A STUPID YANKEE.—Aun INl‘Crthy, an Irish girl, was
charged with stealing £3 105 in gold from the pocket-book
of an American seaman named Alex. S. Robinson, who has
lately arrived in the London Dock in a ship under Federal
colours.

The prosecutor said he guessed he left the city of New
York about rix weeks ago. On Thursday night last he fell
in with the prisoner in a public house in Old Gravel-lane.
She took a cruise with him, and opposite Shadwell Church
they fell in with two other craft. The Yankee was asked
what ho meant by craft, and ho replied girls. He went
home in tow of three to 7, Bluegate-fields, Shadwell. Be-
fore he got there the prisoner took his pocket-book out of
his pocket and looked at She took 81 sovereigns out of it.
Mr Paget—Did you see her de it ?

Witness—Yes, sir,
Mr Paget—Well, did you stop her ?

Witness—No, sir, I reckoned she would put the money
back.

Mr Paget—What became of the pocketbook ?
Witness—She put it back in my pocket, I guess.
Mr Paget—Are you sure of it ?

Witnese—l calculate I sun.

Mr Paget—.When did you look in your pocketbook for
your money?

Witness—Not till next morning. When I missed the
gold I looked for her, and I have been looking for her ever
since. I fell in with her this morning.
Mr Paget—You allowed the woman to take your pocket.
book out of your pocket, and to take your money out of it,
and said nothing to her.

Witness—Well, I had not the presence of mind to look
to my money—that's a fact. I found three halfpence in my
pocket-book.

Isaac Pawsey, a police constable, said he took the pri-
soner into custody, but found no money on her.
Mr Paget said the sailor was the most stupid man he had
met with for a long time, and without any of the cuteness
of his nation. The sailor had lost his hard-earned wages,
and actually allowed the woman (a stranger to him and a
prostitute) to take his money out of his pocket-book without
saying a word to her. He discharged the prisoner. Is
would be useless to send the case Wore a jury,