The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-29 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.

Mr. Barnard Kenny, late of Surrey-street, Strand,
Surgeon and Apothecary, formerly of 337, Strand, in part-
nership with Mr. Stanton, Surgeon, &c., was opposed by
Mr. Woodroffe, on the part of a Mr. Sweeney, and in
person by Mr. Gibbons and Mr. Jones. He was supportcd
by Mr. Cooke.
An application in limine was made to adjourn the case
until a Mrs. Stanton attended. It was resi.ted. It ap-
peared that the late Mr. Stanton was a bankrupt in
1518, and Mrs. Stanton, his wife, purchased the furniture.
Mr. Stanton died in 1834, and left her by will all his fur-
niture. Mrs. Stanton had resided with her nephew, the
insolvent, he kept the house in Surrey-street, and all the
furniture was claimed by her.

It was proved that efforts had been made to procure
her attendance.

It was alleged on the part of the creditors that the in-
solvent had an interest in the furniture.

Mr. Commissioner LAW said enough had been proved to
require her attendance.
Mr. COOK applied to file an amendment to the schedule.
Mr. Commissioner LAW said it might be done. These
bail cases he feared would he very defective from the
haste with which the schedules were prepared.
The case was adjourned to the 10th of April. The in-
solvent to remain on bail.

ilenry Linging was opposed by Mr. Nichols, on the part
of a Mr. Stone, and the executors of a Mr. Jones. He
was supported by Mr. Cooke and Mr. Woodroffe.
In this case a preliminary objection was made to the
petition, under the new Act. The insolvent petitioned
the Court in 1831, which petition was dismissed ; he again
petitioned in 1832, when he was discharcd under the Act.
Both petitions were in the name of " Henry Lorder Ling-
ing," but the insolvent said he had used that name since
that period, and a vary little before. He said he was
christened at St. Andrew's, Holborn, in the name of
" Henry Samuel Linging," but he had never used the
name, be had passed as ‘• Henry Linging."
Mr. NicuoLs prayed, on these facts, a dismission of his
petition.

Commissioner LAW ordered the petition to be dis-
missed, remarking that the insolvent appeared not to know
his name. It had been lately Henry Linging, formerly
Henry Samuel Linging, and Henry Lorder Linging. A
person should petition in his correct name ; and, from the
circumstances menti:ned, he should refuse any furtler ap-
plication for bail.
The petition was dismissed, and the insolvent, who had
been out on bail, was ordered into custody.

WANDSWORTH PETTY SES

SIONS_MAncii 23.

DUEL PREVENTED IN HIGH • LIFE —CPptain Horace Pitt
of the Royal Horse-guards Blue, was brought up in cus-
tody of Inspector Turner, of the V Division, under the
following circumstances.

The In,pector, on being sworn, deposed that having
received information et a late hour on the previous night
that a duel was to be fought at an early hour that morn.
ning on Wimbledon Common, he proceeded there in com-
pany with two police-constables, and about half. past five
o'clock he saw two carriages approaching, in the first of
which were four gentlemen, and in the latter one. One of
the former gentlemen put his bead out of the window, and
perceiving himself and the two policemen he (the gentle-
theman) desired the coachman to turn back, which he
did, and the other carriage followed.
George Barney, a Police Constable of the V Divison,
deposed to having been placed on duty that morning in
High-street, Putney ; shortly after five o'clock, he saw a
carriage and pair, and a post-chaise, which was also drawn
by two horses ; suspecting that the parties were about to
fight a duel, he followed the carriages, but was unable
to keep pace with, and ultimately lost sight of them ;
almost immediately afterwards he met the defendant near
Cut-throat-lane," on Putney heath. Ile had a carpet
bag with him. He (witness) asked him what it contained,
but he (defendant) refused at first to satisfy him, but ulti-
mately delivered it into his possession, and on examination
he found it contained a brace of duelling pistols, powder
flaslc, bullets, &c. He then took him into custody.
The defendant, was called upon to enter into his own
security in the sum of 5001., and two sureties of 2501. each.
Lord George Gordon, and Drummond, Esq., of Bel-
grave-square, became the sureties, and the party left for
town shortly afterwards, in a post-chaise.
The names of the other parties, although known to
the Police, did not transpire, nor the cause of the in-
tended duel.

POLICE IN TELLIGENCE.

MANSION HO USE.

A young man, named John Brown, was finally examined
on the charge of having robbed a respectable elderly man,
named Morton, of 2001.

The prosecutor, who keeps the Horse and Groom
public-house at Edmonton, in which Mr. Calvert, the
brewer, had humanely placed him, upon hearing that he
had been robbed of the 2001. which was all the money be
had in the world, stated, that on the 2d of January he went
to the London Docks, and an elderly man asked, him what
he was looking for, and directed him to a vessel he in-
quired for. As he was leaving the Dock, the prisoner
Brown came up, and all three entered into conversation,
and repaired to a public-house in the neighbourhood.
The prisoner in the course of some talk which they had in
the public-house, said that he had been lately returned
from Bedlam, where he had been confined because he
roasted an ox whole in Gloucester on account of the enor-
mous sum of money bequeathed to him by old Jemmy
Wood, and that the person who got him out of this disa-
greable place was his friend Matthew Wood, one of the
executors. The prisoner added, that what on earth to do
with the money he had he did not know, and he pulled out
a heap of bank notes. The other person also spoke of his
fortune, and both seemed to have a great desire to give
cash to witness from their reliance on his judgment in the
charitable diffusion of it. They all agreed to meet next
day, and the witness was to bring some of the proper evi-
dences of respectability with him. Having four fifty-pound
notes at Calvert's brewhouse, where he used to deal when
in business, he drew the money and met the two gentle-
men of fortune, who succeeded in robbing him of it by
pretending to put it safely into his fob, into which they con-
trived to substitute a piece of brown paper.
The waiter at the public-house into which the prosecutor
and his two new acquaintances had gone, to make a cha-
ritable disposition of old Jemmy Wood's property, identi-
fied the prisoner as one of them.

The prisoner denied most positively that he knew any
thing at all of the prosecutor, arid said that he could dis-
tinctly prove an alibi.

The officer who apprehended the prisoner at Bristol,
stated that he heard a conversation between the prisoner,
and a man who was in prison on a similar charge, in which
they spoke of old Jemmy Wood, of Gloucester, having
left them money. Their object was to impose upon the
farmer, but they failed. The officer found upon the per-
son of the prisoner notes upon the Bank of Fashion, or
" flash notes," for 2,5001.
The prisoner was committed for trial.