The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-16 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, OCT. 15.
IN THE MATTER. OF THOMAS GOULD.
The bankrupt in this case was a wholesale stay-
maker, carrying on business in Cheapside, and, pre-
vious to the issuing of a fiat of bankruptcy, on the
20th of May last, against him, had absconded, after
putting into circulation a vast number of bills of ex-
change, many of which were stated to be forgeries. At
the last dividend meeting, bills to the amoent of 14,000/.
were proved.
Yesterday being appointed for the adjourned meeting.
the first claim sought to be proved was one for 3501., of
John Dixon, the bankrupt's son-in-law, which rested
upon an acceptance of the bankrupt's, given to the
claimant as a marriage portion.
The Solicitor to the fiat opposed the claim, because
there was no proof of consideration, neither was there
any proof beyond the acceptance, save a written me-
morandum by the bankrupt, the validity of which, in
consequence of his absence, was rendered diflioult of
proof to the assignees.
Mr. Commissioner FONELANQUE said he should defer
his decision until the next meeting.
A sum of 501. wase:claimed by Thomas William
Wood, the bankrupt's son, for wages, and entercd.
Mr. Russel appeared to prove a claim of 1,4094
11s., on the part of the Liverpool and Manchester
Join: Stock Bank. Five bills of exchange had been
discounted by the bank, in two of which a person
named Pasmore was the drawer, and the bankrupt the
acceptor ; and the remaining three were drawn by the
bankrupt, and endorsed by Pasmore. It was sworn to
by Pasmore in his examination, that the bankrupt was
indebted to him in the sum for which the bills were
drawn, and therefore, Mr. Stirling said, that this
claim should be entered on the bankrupt's estate alone.
Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE observed that he
should postpone the consideration of this claim until the
next dividend meeting, whe❑ Mr. Pasmore could be ex-
amined in the meantime.
The last claim disposed of was one for 451., for law
costs incurred with the Imperial Bank.
The Learned COMMISSIONER then adjourned the
further consideration of the case to Thursday.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Thomas Larrard alias Hobson, shopman to Mr.
Massey, watchmaker of Birchin-lane, was brought up
for final examination, upon the charge of having plun-
dered his employer of several watches.
Mr. Massey stated that the prisoner had been in his
employment about thirti en or fourteen months. Be-
tween eight and nine in the evening of Friday the 18th,
and Saturday the 19th of last month, the shop in
Birchin-lane was entered, and property, consisting of a
chronometer, watches, and jewellery, to the value of 701.
or 801. stolen. Witness suspected that the prisoner was
concerned in the robbery, and communicated his suspi-
cion to Inspector M.4Lean, with directions to have him
watched. On the 26th September the prisoner was
taken into custody, witness having missed a gold watch
which he had given to the prisoner to repair, and which
had never been returned. Upon that occasion the prisoner
blustered a great deal, but the inspector found upon his
person two watches, and the duplicate of a third, and
and witness identified one of them as his property.
Witness had mentioned, upon engaging the prisoner,
thit his last shopinan had robbed him, and had been
detected, and expressly enjoined the prisoner not to
take a watch or any thins else off the premises upon
any pretence whatever. After the search, the prisoner
refused to give his address, but witness, the inspector,
and a constable having ascertained it, went thither, and
saw a woman who said that she was his wife, and with
apparent candour helped them to search the premises.
She opened all the drawers without hesitation, except
one, and in that one, of which she said her husband had
the key, they found a pocket-book containing twenty or
twenty-five duplicates. Upon further search they found
thirty or forty more duplicates of watches, and other
articles. Amongst them were the duplicates of three
watches which witness identified as his property.

. .
Inspector Maclean confirmed Mr. Massey's testi-
mony. Witness also found, on the prisoner's pre:nises,
54 pairs of gold watch-hands, which were claimed by
the prosecutor, who likewise identified a watchmaker's
tool, which was made by himself,

Edward Crone (policeman No. 468), watched the
pri.,oner from his master's premises to two pawnbrokers'
shops, and from thence to his lodgings, in Collier-street,
Pcn!oncillc.

Three pawnbrokers produced three watches, which
were identitied as the property of the prosecutor, and
the duplicates of whist' had been found on the priso-
ner's premises.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
A poor women named Abbott appeared with an in-
fant in her arms before the Lord Mayor, for the pur-
pose of being passed to her parish, St. Martins-in-the-
fields.

Mr. Smart, the Vestry Clerk of St. Botolph,Bishops-
gate, applied personally for the order of removal in this
case, which, he said, was one of no ordinary description.
The husband of the female before his Lordship had been
an honest and industrious, but unfortunate man, who,
having been refused out of door relief for his distressed
family, after having received two quartern loaves of
bread per week for about a month from the parish of
St. Martin's-in-the-fields, preferred the alternative of
self-destruction to that of taking his family into the
workhouse. The unhappy man, whose name wrongly
appeared in the newspapers as Hubbard, flung himielf
out of the window, after having declared that he could
not endure the sight of his family in a workhouse, and
the wile was wholly unprotected. He (Mr. Smart) had
written a letter of which the following is a copy, to the
Overseers of St. Martin's-in-the-fields, but no notice bad
been taken of it :

St. Botolph, Bishopsgate.
To THE OVERSEERS OF ST. MARTINS'S-IN-THE

FIELDS.

"GENTLEMEN--I regret having occasion to address
you under very painful circumstances. You probably
may have observed, through the medium of the news-
papers, that a man recently residing in this parish has
destroyed himself in consequence of extreme dem itu-
ti.n. The circumstances, as stated to me, are as fol-
low :—About twelve months since Edward Hubbard
(the proper name is Abbot), the unfortunate person
referred to, was, with his wife and thri e children,
passed from the parish of Bethnal-green to the pa-
rish of St. Martin's-in-the.fields, upon which occasion
the workhouse was offered, but the man's necessities
being only of a temporary nature, and he being an
industrious mechanic, with an unpauperised mind, de..
dined that offer, and requested temporary out-door
assistance, which was refused him, since which period
the family have endured the most extreme privations, till
at length starvation actually presenting itself, he de-
stroyed himself'.
" I present this case to your consideration. The fa-
mily reside at No. 5, Skinner-street, Bishopagate.

. . "
I am, &c. _
“ T. L. SMART, V.C.

" 25, Sun-street, Oct. 12, 1340.

Mr. Bocker, the Rel:eving Overseer of Bishops gate,
said thnt the unfortunate man who had destroyed him-
self had commenced business prosperously with property
to the amount of 300/., but fell a victim to his good na
tore in giving credit to rople who never thought of pay-
ing him, and had been a very industrous holiest man.
It might be said of him that he was really the child of
misfortune, and no doubt was entertained that he had
completely lost his reason before he destroyed himself,
for he was much attached to his family.

The LORD MAYOR said that the circumstances were
greatly
to be deplored, and directed that the order of
removal should be irnmAiately made out.

BOW-STREET.
ONE OF THE QUEEN'S LATE SUITORS IN DISTRESS.
--A young man, of genteel shabby appearance, n:nned
Field Charies Woolett, was yesterdly brought before
Mr. Twyford, charged with stealing one apple from a
package of fruit in Covent-Garden market.