The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-23 00:00:00

IN THE BANKRUPTCY OF CHRISTOPHER GREEN

This bankrupt, a wharfinger, at St. Mary's Overies
Dock, came up for his certificate.
The COMMISSIONER, in giving judgment, observed,
that this was one of the few cases in which that por-
tion of the Act enabling traders to have a fiat issued
on their own petition had been properly exercised,
and in which the intentions of the Legislature and
the spirit of its provisions had been fulfilled. By so
doing in this instance the property had been rescued
from the grasp of one creditor and fairly and satisfac-
torily distributed amongst all the creditors. In other
respects, too, this case advantageously contrasted with
most of the other cases which had come before this
Court. The expenses were small, and the debts set
down in the balance sheet as due to the estate, under
the head of " good," were in reality good ones.
There would be a dividend of 12s. 6d. in the pound,
and upon the whole he felt pleasure in granting the
certificate.
IN THE BANKRUPTCY OF W. JENNIN6S.

The bankrupt was a maltster in Bungay. This
also was a certificate meeting.
Mr. Bagley was counsel for the bankrupt.
It appeared that this man became much embar-
rassed in 1841. Having been pressed by a relative
for a debt, he assigned over to him a large portion, of
his property. Seeing that he had not sufficient assets
to meet all the demands upon him, he went to Ame-
rica. In his absence a fiat was issued, and when in-
formed by letter that such had been the case, he re-
turned to this country in March, 1842, but failed in
taking the steps proper for a bankrupt to pursue. He
only attended one dividend meeting, and did not
present himself to the solicitor for the fiat.

- Mr. BAG LEY urged the ignorance of his client,
and also that he had taken little more than the ex-
penses of the passage with him to America.
The COMMISSIONER observed, that although the
bankrupt's conduct had been improper in many re-
spects, he did not think it necessary to suspend the
certificate, because the bankrupt had in point of fact,
already undergone a six years' suspension.
Certificate granted.
The final order of an insolvent named Benton, of
Hornchurch, in Essex, a farmer, for whom Mr.
Bagley appeared, was adjourned, but protection was
granted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Yesterday all the persons charged on Saturday last
with having been concerned in forging bank-notes to
an immense amount upon the Russian Government
were brought before the Lord Mayor for re-exami-
tion. Mr. Ballantine appeared as counsel, and Mr.
Peachy, from the firm of Oliverssn and Co., of the
Old Jewry, as solicitor to the Russian Government;
Mr. M'lntyre and Mr. Vincent, as counsel for the
principal persons accused ; and Mr. Barnet, as soli-
citor to the rest. The prisoners wera placed at the
bar in the following order ;—Aaronson Leybe, Jacob
Friedeburg, Raphael Kauffman, and Solomon Musco-
vitz, were placed most conspicuously, as the chief
parties charged; and Yankee Tobias, Hackle Moses,
and Yellee Solomons, the wife of Solomon Muscovitz,
steod in a less prominent place.
The prosecution, as has already been stated, has
been instituted by the Russian Government, through
the embassy and consulate in London, for the purpose
of defeating the nefarious endeavours of a band of
forgers who were suspected of being engaged in
London in forging the notes of the Bank of the Em-
pire in Russia, with the view of ultimately introduc-
ing them into Russia, and circulating them amongst
the population. John and Daniel Forrester, the
officers, seized, in possession of some of the principal
prisoners, several thousands of forged notes after they
had broken into the premises in which the work had
been carried on.
Mr. Ballantine said, before any additional evi-
dence was called, he did not intend to press against
the three last named prisoners as principals, us he
had nothing to add to the statements already made
against them, and if the Lord Mayor had no objection
they might at once be removed from custody.
Mr. M'lntyre submitted that nothing had been
i!taited calculated to criminate Solomon Mtrsdoiltioitid-2
asked for the discharge of that prisoner; who had
merely taken the few notes found in his possession
from a person who was indebted to him, and could
not have been cognizant of the fact that any one of
them was a forgery.
Mr. Ballantine said he believed the evidence he
had to adduce would have reference to Muscovitz as
well as to the other three charged as principals in the
offence. Aaronson was the man who supplied the
money necessary for the accomplishment of the for-
geries, and the others were engaged in the various
operations, which had been so well watched that
every one of the prisoners had been traced to and
from the localities in which the notes were prepared
for circulation, and several notes were found in an
unfinished state, destitute of some of the formalities
without which they could not be current.
The evidence additional to that of Daniel For-
rester, the officer, given at the previous examination,
was as follows :
Mr. G. L. Lee, of 145, High Holborn, lithographic
printer and seller of lithographic materials, said—
Between the 20th and 24th of September, Friedeburg
and Kauffman came to my house and purchased some
lithographic stone for 2s. They looked at a press,
and asked me about the price, and whether I could
lend them one. On the 25th of September they
called again, and asked what I would charge for the
loan of a press. I told them the sum, and said I ex-
pected a deposit of the value of the press. They
went away, and called again in the evening bringing
Aaronson with them, and Aaronson gave me a deposit
of 41. ,upon the press, for which I gave a receipt.
Aaronson told me he was a wine merchant, and that
Friedeburg and Kauffman were two poor but honest
men, and that he had known them in Paris and
wished to assist them. They then took away the
press, and on the following Tuesday Kauffman came
to me again, and said he could not get the little press
to work, and I went with bim to a house in Newton-
street, where I saw Friedeburg. Afterwards I went
with Kauffman to Short's-gardens, Drury-lane, and
the press was brought into the room in which I was,
and I set it to rights and went away. I did not, I
think, see Aaronson afterwards. Forrester pointed
out a press to me which my wife, in my absence, had
allowed them to take, instead of the one they took
away at first, and which they returned.
Cross-examined by Mr. Vincent—l never saw
Aaronson at either of the houses I have just men
tioned.

.kriedeburg (to the witness)—Did you see any
other person at the house in Short's-gardens ? Wit-
ness—l think I saw another German there.

John Forrester said, I accompanied my brother for
.he purpose of apprehending the prisoners. Upon
searching Aaronson I found a receipt (here witness
produced Mr. Lee's receipt for the 4/. which was left
as a deposit for the lithographic press, and some other
papers). I went to Friedeburg's lodgings and found
a number of notes in the bedding.
Mr. March, of the Russian Consulate, examined
the notes, and said he believed them to be forgeries.
He pointed out a wrong letter, which he said satisfied
him that they were fictitious.
Mrs. Mary Ann Elsey said, I live at No. 8, Queen-
street, Soho, and am a widow. Aaronson came with
Friedeburg to take a lodging at my house on the 4th
of October for a Mr. Marchand. Kauffman, whom
I understood from Aaronson to be Marchand, came
the same evening the press came. All three of them,
Aaronson, Friedeburg, and Kauffman, had been there
before it arrived, looking at the apartment. Kauff-
man slept in the house till he was taken into custody.
Friedeburg and Aaronson were there every day.
Kauffman did something on account of which I
gave him notice to quit the day before. He had
brought a bad character into the house, and I men-
tioned the circumstance to Aaronson, who said he
would never do so again, and that he would leave the
house on Friday.
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In answer to a question from Friedeburg the wit-
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Friedeburg—.Dthing -erson Came up and opened her hall door
Ka offman's key, and she told him she would not
not
,that person go up stairs?
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