The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-15 00:00:00

LAW INT

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Registrar Pepya.)
EXAMINATION OF MR. WELCH.

IN RE THE HON. RICHARD BETHELL.

in the ordinary manner.
Mr. Lawrence, for creditors, alluded to a claim made on
the estate by Mr. Anderson, of the Stock Exchange, and
requested Mr. Anderson to go into the witness-box.

Mr. Anderson said—l am a member of the Stock Ex-
chango. I claim £320 of the bankrupt. My first dealing
with the bankrupt was in March this year. I received in-
structions from Mr. Bethell personally to buy Spanish and
other stock. I believe all the matters were time bargain.
1 never delivered any stock to the bankrupt, nor did he ask
for any. I have speculated on his behalf to the amount of
thousands of pounds. The gross amount of purchases is
several thousands—not a great many. The general result
is a loss, but some of the transactions show a profit. I
was informed at the European Bank that the bankrupt had
a very good account there. It is the custom of the Stock
Exchange for the broker to pay any difference in default
of his principal..

Mr. Chidloy—And the money claimed is absolutely due

Mr. Lawrence then alluded to a claim made by a lady
for £9OO upon a bond.
The bankrupt, sworn, said that the. bond was a docu-
ment founded upon another bond whicli had been assigned
to the lady. It was quite true that Anderson's claim arose
out of time bargains. There were other stockbrokers em-
ployed by the b.nkrupt besides Messrs.. Anderson.
Mr. Chidley said that Mr. Welch was now in attendance,
and two or three questions would be put to him as to his
claim.

Mr. Welch sworn—The bankrupt owes me £1,050. I
lent Bethel' that money at various times during the past
year, and it is still due to me. There was a sum of £5OO
advanced on the 6th of May, 1864, and the sums pissed
from me by cheque and bank post bill.
Cross-examined—I have known Mr. Bethell six years.
I never lent him money before May, 1864. He applied to
me personally for £ 500. He said ho should soon receive
£5,000 or £6,000, out of which I should be paid. He gave
me a bill at the time.
Mr. Chidley—The bill was given up and a written
acknowledgment given of the whole amount.
Witness—l am one of the registrars at the Court at
Leeds. The promissory note is cut in half, but I did not
do it. I took Mr. Bothell's letter of acknowledgment, be-
cause I thought that would be sufficient with the cheque
h e had endorsed.

Mr. Lawranco then read the acknowledgment, which
set out that Mr Welch was not to bother tho bankrupt
who would pay him some diy or other or givo him secu-,
rity.

Witness—l have frequently pressed him for money.
Although he did not pay the £5OO bill when it became
due, I lent him £5O more soon afterwards because he asked
for it, and I had known him for a long timo.
Mr. Chidley objected to any questions as to Mr. Welch's
reasons for lending money.
The Registrar said, if Mr. Lawrence chose to press his
question he could not interfere.
Witness—Mr. Bethell was an old friend of mine, and I
did believe that ono day I should get the money. I lent
him money in February, 1865, for the same reason. I
Produce my bankrupt's book, but I do not want to have
it looked over. I was appointed Registrar in July, 1864,
and Mr. Bethell was sent abroad in May. Mr. Bothell did
not promise me to use his influence, nor do I believe that
I was indebted to him for the appointment.
Mr. Chidley carried the choice, and Mr. Lawrence said
he should require a deficiency account and cash account

for two years.
Bankrupt—l certainly did not keep a cash book.
After some general argument, the proceedings terminated.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A DISORDERLY HOUSE.—Andrew Glover, a broker, was
charged before Mr. Knox on a warrant with keeping a
disorderly house at 56, King-street, Soho.
Mr. Allen, of Carlisle-street, prosecuted on the part of
St. Ann's pariah.

Sergeant George Appleton, 26, having proved that the
prisoner was the keeper of the house and the person named
in the warrant,
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Mr. Knox committed the prisoner to the sessions on the
usual bail.

THAMES.

CHEAP BOOTS IN THE ST. KATHERINE DOCK.—William
Younghusband, aged 44, Michael Connell, 42, and Charles
Beaumont, 41, labourers, were charged with breaking open
a case containing new boots, in the St. Katherine dock.
and stealing a portion of the contents therefrom.
It appeared in evidence that several cases of boots, in-
tended for the Confederate soldiers in America, had been
returned on the breaking up of the rebellion, and were
deposited in one of the dock warehouses. One of the
cases was discovered to have been forced open, and a
portion of the contents abstracted. Yesterday afternoon
an officer, named Fell, discovered Connell on one of the
quays putting on a pair of new boots. His old ones were
alongside of him. Fell asked him what he meant by being
away from his gang, and where he obtained the new boots, to
which he replied that ho found them on the quay while
clearing it up. Soon afterwards Beaumont was arrested
with a now pair of boots on his feet, and his account of them
was that he found them in one of the dock warehouses
while moving some barrels, and, his own being nearly
worn out, ho made an exchange. Younghusband was
next detected. There wore a pair of new boots on his feet.
He said ho had had them a fortnight, and that he bought
them. They had not been worn more than an hour or two.
Other boots had been taken from the case. It is supposed
they had Peen disposed of in the same way as the prisoners
had disposed of the boots they had stolen, and when the
trhobem.bery was discovered the wearers left the dock with

The boots taken from the prisoners were identified, and
1e prisoners were committed for trial.

WESTMINSTER.

UNFOUNDED AND IMPROPER CHARGE.—Mary Shanallgn
single, a respectable-looking Irishwoman, was charged
with stealing two flannel petticoats.
Mrs. Mary Seymour, carrying on an extensive business
as a laundress, 103, Marlborough-road, Chelsea, said she
had been much robbed of late, and on Thursday week last
she gave some flannels to a woman to wash, and that
woman gave them to prisoner. They were hung out in
the garden, and as it began to rain prisoner and witness
took them in. They were afterwards missed, and then,
being suspected, prisoner was given into custody.
Mr. Selfo said it was a most improper proceeding to
charge the woman on that supposition.
Mrs. Seymour said she had missed other things. She
sent prisoner, a few days ago, to Westminster, with some
clean linen, and she did not deliver a petticoat up that was
given to her. The servant at the house never had it. She
had not the servant there, but the prisoner must have had
it. Her customers would not pay her till their property
was restored. She complained at the station and they
searched the pawnbrokers, but not finding the property
she charged prisoner.

Ann Cork proved giving the things to prisoner after she
washed them, and seeing them on the line to dry, but knew
nothing more of it.

In answer to inquiries, Mrs. Seymour said there wore
lodgers in ler house, and the garden wall could not be got
over. She thought she was justified in charging prisoner.
None of the property was found and none can be traced to
prisoner.

O'Leary, 228, proved taking prisoner.
Mr. Selle—The prisoner is discharged. It is a very im-
proper proceeding to charge this woman and bring her
here, and Mrs. Seymour may hear something more of it
and get into trouble.

Prisoner, with tears in her eyes, said she had been locked
up all night. Sho was a respectable woman and had been
in the neighbourhood three years without a stain on her
character.

Ur. Selfe---The chargo ought not to hallo boon mado or
taken against you.

THE HARVEST IN MIDDLESEX.—Harvest opera-
tions have, within the past two or three days, commenced
on the more forward soils in the county of Middlesex. In
the vicinity of Feltham and .Ashford and other places some
fine fields of oats are being cut, and would probably have
been carried by this time if the rain had not intervened.
Rye, wheat, 'and barley are all ripening- off rapidly, though
in some places the crops have been much laid by the late
hail storms.
The Devizes Gazette states that within the last few
days Dr. Bucknill, one of the examiners in lunacy attached
to the Court of Chancery, has had an interview with Con-
stance Kent, in Devizes prison, for the purpose of ascertain-
ing whether there was any ground upon which a plea of
insanity could be supported. The result of ithe interview
has induced the abandonment of any line of defence founded
upon such a plea. The only peculiarity which at all struck
Dr. Bucknill was her exremo calmness.

The bankrupt came up again to-day upon the adjourned
meeting for choice of assignees and proof of debts, Upon
the last occasion a considerable amount of wrangling en-
sued as to a claim made by Mr. Welch, the Registrar of the
Leeds Court of Bankruptcy, for £1,068, it being finally
arranged that Mr. Welch should attend and prove the debt