The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-July 31.

MANSION HOUSE.—John Sturdy who had
been a clerk in the service of Messrs. Smith,
Barry, and Co., merchants, in Leadenhall-street,
underwent a final examination before Alderman
Humphery, on a charge of stealing £7O which
they had entrusted to him to pay into the Union
Bank of London in September last. He was also
accused of stealing letters containing bills of ex-
change and orders for the payment of money ad-
dressed to Messrs. Richardson and Co., East India
agents in Cornhill, and several revolving pistols,
and a musical box, all of considerable value.
The material circumstances have been already
reported.

The prisoner, who made no defence, was com-
mitted to Newgate for trial.

GUILDHALL.—David Braun and Benjamin
Kortoske, lately carrying on business as hat and
cap manufacturers and general merchants in
London-wall, were charged before Mr. Alderman
Hale with conspiring together and with others not
in custody to obtain goods on credit to the
amount of about £35,000, with intent to cheat
and defraud their creditors. _

Mr. Metcalfe, instructed by M. A. Turner, of the
firm of Sole and Turner, conducted the prosecution ;
and Mr. Poland, instructed by Mr. Sydney, the
defence.

This case has been remanded from time to time,
and a few of the facts elicited have appeared, but a
brief outline of the evidence already taken will con-
vey a better idea of the importance of the case than
a lengthy report of the very voluminous proceed-
ings as far as they have gone. It appeared that the
defendants, who are bankrupts, filed their petition
for a piivate arrangement under the Bankruptcy
Act on the 10th Sept. last, and they were adjudi-
cated bankrupts under the new bankruptcy law on
the 13th January of the present year. They passed
their last examination on the 19th May last, and
the certificate meeting, which was fixed first for the
27th of last June, was further adjourned until the
14th Nov. next. The bankrupts were examined at
considerable length before the commissioner in
bankruptcy on several occasions and the notes of
those examinations were produced before the ma-
gistrate in support of the present charge. It ap-
peared from these examinations that two brothers
of Kortoske established themselves inCanada about
nine years ago, and acted as agents for Breun and
Kortoske, and subsequently established a firm in
London of the name of Fox and Co., who in turn
acted as the agents of Kortoskeßrothers, of Canada.
Goods bought by Fox and Co., and by Braun and
Kortoske, were shipped to Kortoske Brothers, from
time to time, until the year's account, which in 1852
was only £5OO, amounted to the enormous sum of
£30,000, in 1860 and 1861. The shipments during
the two months immediately preceding their
suspension amounted to £lB,OOO, which, with an
unliquidated balance of about £20,000, for which
they had advanced the money and received no inte-
rest whatever, made the total of their claim_o.
In
Kortoske Brothers something near £3B.v,°aus only
1852 their claim on Kortoske Brothers :vas
year
£5OO, and it had gone on increasingfaer
so large
since. They never asked for security heard of the
a balance, and when they eventuallytoske went over
failure of Kortoske Brothers,
ter of the property,
to Canada to see what had become
and ascertained that there little or no effects.
mode of doing business was,
One peculiarity in the modoods,
and shipped them
that Fox and Co, bought g
h remitted the bills to
to Kortoske Brothers, w.-°
by whom they were dis-
Braun and Kortoske,
counted, and the proceeds, or part thereof, handed
over to Fox andseparate
Co. A banking account
and Kort oaye, another by Kor-
toske kept by and as
third b yFox and Co., all of
toske alone, and d
which Kortoske b
ma e use of in his business from
time to time. Goods ought for Kortoske Brothers
were charged to Braun and Kortoske, because
peopl®
1.. would not trust the Canadian firm. The
bills remitted
were drawn on Fox and Co.
by gor-
toske Brothers, and endorsed by Braun and Kor-
toske, who discounted them. They also diSeOlinted

bills for Calisher, Kortoske's brother- ; Wil-
helms, of the Poultry, and others. They paid
themselves before handing over any part of the
proceeds of the bills to Fox and Co. They had
also shipped goods for Wilhelms, and drawn
bills on him for part of the money, and he had
yet to render an account of the sales.
Wilhelms never advanced money on goods, but
he had lent money and afterwards received
goods in repayment. They had consigned goods
to Calisher in August, 1861, the month prior
to the suspension, to the amount of £1,379, and re-
ceived goods in exchange for £1,366, consisting of
precious stones, which were afterwards disposed of
by Bernard Kortoske in Canada. Some of those
precious stones were afterwards given up by Calisher
and some by the bankrupts. In 1859 Fox disap-
peared from the scene, but the name was kept up,
end the bankrupt Kortoske made use of Fox and
Co.'s banking account for his own purposes.
Throughout the whole z)f the transaction deposed to
by Kortoske it did not appear that Braun was in
any way an ,active agent, the practical or manufac-
turing part of the business being carried on•by Braun
while the mercantile department was conducted ex-
clusively by Kortoske. The accountant who inves-
tigated the affairs of Kortoske Bros. in Canada, said
the estate would not pay a shilling in the pound,
and he added that there were no accounts in the
books of their transactions with Braun and Kor-
toske for the last twelve months.
From the evidence of Mr. Wilcock, a manfactnrer,
of Windhill, near Leeds, it appeared that Kortoske
bought of him a quantity of goods called Spanish
stripes in August last; which he said he wanted for
a customer in the East India trade for shipment.
The amount of the invoice was £403, the bill for
which had never been paid. He would not have
sold the goods had he known they were about to be
deposited.
The evidence of Mr. Collings, a calenderer and
packer, of Manchester, proved that as the agent of
Braun and Kortoske he had bought goods to the
amount of £448 Bz. 10d., seven bales of which were
sent to Niblett and Allen, packers in London, and
some were sent to the bankrupts. Those goods
were sent in August last, and he received two
bills for £3Ol 18s. 2d. and £142 10s. Bd., which
had not since been paid. He was answerable for
the goods, and had been scheduled by the bank-
rupts for the amount.
The Telegraph Clerk produced four telegraph
messages dated the 2d, 3d, and 4th of last Septem-
ber from N. I. Calisher, London, to Louis Calisher,
Royal Hotel, Holyhead ; from Juliette Smart (an
assumed name) to Louis Calisher; from N. J. Ca-
lisher to Mrs. Calisher at Birmingham; and from
Juliette Dash (assumed name), of 28, Norfolk-
street. Strand, to Louis Calisher—all of which mes-
sages, it was alleged, referred to the bankrupts'
affairs at the time that Kortoske was leaving Eng-
land for Canada.

Mr. Hart, the agent for Mr.Wilcock in the above
transaction, said he had also sold goods to the
bankrupts on account of other firms, who were cre-
ditors for the following amounts :—Abraham Tal-
bot, of Morley, near Leeds, £7B 4s. 9d.; Craven
and Wilson, of Rastrick, near Huddersfield, £69
10s.; Iredale and Lockwood, of the same place,
£lBl 65.; and Sheard and Senior, of Batley, £33
12s. 3d. Those were all first transactions. Braun
afterwards said he had plenty of private property
to pay every one 30s. in the pound.

At this afage the case was further remanded, and
the defendants admitted to bail, amounting in the
aggregate to £12,000.

COUN: IEY 111AJU L 1 AS.

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BOSTON-JULY 30.

Influenced by a continuance of delightful weather for
maturing the crcps the few samples of English wheat on
offer to-day met a very dull demand, at barely last week's
prices. Oats and beans as previously reported, the quan-
tity on offer being extremely small.