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EXPARTE PICKSTOCK, IN RE-PICE.B TOGE, AX ALLEGED
,

13ANKEUPT.
This waaaneti.*;-n from
City, who had been an extensive private banker, and
agent for Guernsey, Jersey, and the Channel Islands,
praying that the fiat issued against him might be su-
perseded, on the ground that he had committed no act
of bankruptcy.
Mr. James Russell and Mr. George Russell hr the
petitioner, and Mr. Swanston and Mr.- Anderdon for the
petitioning creditor, who opposed the prayer of this
petition.
Mr. JAMES RUSSELL said that in the course of his ex-
tensive business as a private banker and agent, as well as
a merchant trading to foreign countries, the petitioner,
Mr. Pickstock, had necessarily large dealings in paper,
and the failure, in July last, of an eminent Guernsey
house in Lombard-street, with whom he had discounted,
had involved Mr. Pickstock in its consequences, and com-
pelled him to suspend his payments. The fiat in this case
had been issued on the petition of a Mr. M'Donald,who had
been a correspondent of Mr. Pickstock at Honduras, andfor
whom the latter had acted as private banker and agent. Mr.
M`Donald, it appeared, arrived at Liverpool from Hon-
duras, in May last, in an unsound state of mind. On
the 9th of July a docket was struck against Mr. Pick-
stock, on the petition Of this insane gentleman, the fiat
issued on the 22d, and the adjudication took place on the
29th. It was not until the day previous to 'this hearing
that •Mr. Pickstock Or -his legal advisers were made ac-
quainted with the nature of th act of bankruptcy alleged
to have been committed by him. On Monday last, how-
ever, an affidavit had been filed by a Mr. Duncan Sin-
clair' who, it appeared, was the son-in-law of Mr.
M`Donald, in which he stated, that on or about the 9th
of July but he could not state exactly the day) he, Sin-
clair, accompanied by Mr. M`Donald, went to the office
of Mr. Pickstock, in Clement's-lane, saw Mr. Pickstock,
a.nd_ou, being _informed that. Mr. 11`Donald was below,
Mr. Piekstock said to deponent "go down to him and
not in, and I cannot give him any money."
.row; the. Learned Counsel observed, it was upon this
eipression, 4' tell him I am not in," that the allegation of
an.aet of bankruptcy solely rested.. But Mr. Sinclair's
statement on this point was most solemnly. denied upon
oath by Mr. Pickstock and three or his clerks. The
.Learned Counsel haviug read and commented on .these
affidavits, submitted that the balance of testimony was in
favour of Mr. Pickstock, and that under the circUrn-
stances of. 'the case the petitioner was ex debito justithe
tc have the fiat annulled.
Mr. G. RUSSELL followed on the same side.

• Mr. SWAtiStON and Mr. ANI3EADON, on the part of
Mr. M`Donald,• urged that Mr. Pickstock was evidently
in.a desperate state of insolvency, that whilst his liabili-
ties exceeded 50,0001., his assets wore 8,000/. only. The •
best thing, therefore, for him, was unquestionably to have
his affairs administered through. the medium of the Court
of Bankruptcy.
Sir J. CROSS (without calling on the other side to
reply) said, this was a case of admitted insolvency, and
so far .was a proper case of bankruptcy if the fiat could
be sustained. But it appeared that the petitioning cre-
ditor was in an imbecile state of mind, or at-least of
memory, and therefore incapable of making an affidavit ;
so that whether he could ever sustain the fiat, even if a
-valid act -or Fankrunter had be'en otnlntlittintrOVaS very
doubtful. Looking, therefore, at the circumstances, he
was clearly of opinion that the truth was on the side of
Mr: Pickstock. In saying this, however, he did not
mean to impute wilful and corrupt perjury to Mr.
Sin-
clair ; but he did think that it was reasonable to assume
that mistaken. The order of the Court was, that
the fiat be annulled—the costs to be paid by the peti-
tioning creditor, or those who had made use of him in
this matter.

him to the ground, and he was then kicked and beaten
by both the prisoners and several other men,
and when he was ultimately secured by the police,
it was found that he had received most severe
injury ; and Mr. Jones, the surgeon who exa-
mined him, was at first fearful that it . would
prove fatal, but the prosecutor ultimately recovered.
The prisoners absconded immediately after the outrage,
but true bills having been found against them, warrants
were placed in the hands of the police for their appre-
hension, and Tidmarsh, a constable of the L division,
met with Watkins in Kent-street, and attempted to take
him into custody, but he made a most desperate resist-
ance, and it required the aid of several policemen to se-
cure him ; and he then said he supposed he should be
"lagged" (transported) for that - Collier's job. The
prisoner Seton was afterwards apprehended, and both
were idantified by several witnesses as having been cot-
cerncd in the assault upon the prosecutor.
Matthew Richards, a waiter in the booth in which the
occurrence took place, corroborated the evidence of Col-
lier as to the brutality of the prisoner and his compa-
nions towards him. He also said that while Collier was
upon the ground he was kicked about " like a football,"
and one of the assailants said " his (Collier's) eye was
out ;" and another answered, " Yes, and his - brains
shall be out, before we have done with him." And
shortly afterwards a cry was raised " to finish" him, and
a tall man, in a smock frock, slipped off the frock, and
drew a table knife from his sleeve, and made a rush at
the prosecutor as he lay upon the ground, as though he
would have ripped his bowels open, but he was fortu-
nately prevented from carrying the attempt into execution.
Mr. BODKIN addressed the Jury on behalf of the pri-
soners, and said that he could not attempt to shield them
from a conviction for an assault of a most brutal and ag-
gravated description, but he submitted that there was no
proof that the prisoners intended to murder the prosecu-
tor, and that the evidence only substantiat4.4l3o.charge
of assault:
Me_ sergeant TADDY having summed up, the Jury re-
tired to consider their verdict, and during their absence
the Learned Sergeant ordered Collier to get into the wit-
ness's box, and he told him that he perceived from testi-
monials that had been laid before him, that his conduct
since he had left-the police had been most creditable ;
and he also said that the manner in which he had given
his evidence, and his conduct in reference to the present
transaction, did him credit; and his Lordship added, that
he appeared to have acted in a manly and straightforward
manner. •

The Jury soon afterwards returned their verdict, find-
ing the prisoners Guilty of assaulting the prosecutor,
with intent to do him•some grievous bodily harm.
The prisoner Watkins then addressed the Court, and
said that he admitted he had. assaulted Collier ; but he
had no intention to kill him, or to do him any, serious
injury. .He then proceeded to Cliaige Collier with being
the associate of thieves, and with receiving the plunder,
and he said that the reason why Collier bore an ill-feeling
towards him was because he :picked' a man's pocket of
twenty-five sovereigns at Barnet Fair, and he gave him
his share, and in consequence of it being reported that
he had taken a hundred and twenty-five sovereigns, in-
stead of twenty-five, Collier said he had got a " cen-
tury" the better of him, and he would " lag" him for it
the very first opportunity that offered. He concluded,
by begging the Court to have mercy on him.
The Learned Judge told the prisoners the Jury had
taken a merciful view of the case, for if they had been
found guilty of the whole charge their lives might have
been forfeited. He was .bouneto pass upon them a sen-
tence of transportation for fifteen years.
The moment the sentence was pronounced a scene en-
sued that almost defies description. The prisoners, who
are most powerful men, rushed to the front of the dock,
and, with dreadful oaths, declared that they had been
" sold like bullocks.;” and they uttered horrid impreca-
tions upon the Judge. Mr. Keene and one of his assist-
ants laid hold of them,' and attempted to remove them
from the dock, but their exertions were of no avail
against the frantic tower of the two prisoners. Inspector
Collier, of the P division, and severat'of his mon,_jumped
into the dock, and a desperate struggle then took place,
during which some of the constable were kicked and
severely injured, by the convicts. The Court was in a
state of the utmost confusion. The women shrieked, and
business Isis -completely suspendek. A number of bad
characters who: came into the town in the morning were
about the Court, and the intention of the prisoners mils
evidently to excite them to attempt a rescue, but they
were awed at the firm demeanour of the police, tines:lld
not attempt any violence, and the prisoners were at
length removed to a strong room, where they were put
in irons.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Bel'ore Lord Chief Justice 'TINDAL.)