The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-22 00:00:00

BANKRUPTCY-7 fr:f!'
(Before Mr. Commissioner Sal EPHERD.)
IN RE HUMPHREY
This bankrupt, who had carried on. business as an hotel
keeper in the Haymarket, came up for his certificate.
The bankrupt having been strongly opposed at his last
examination, the Learned COMMISSIONER asked what the
assignees intended to do on the present occasion?
Mr. Lewis, the solicitor to the assignees, said that as his
Honour had considered the bankrupt was entitled on the
accounts furnished to pass his last examination, they did not
think it right they should press the opposition further, but
leave the case entirely in the hands of his Honour to deal
with the whole case.
The Learned Commas's:nil/it—Then I am to understand the
assignees are satisfied.
Lewis—They are quite satisfied the bankrupt has
rendered all the assistance in his power to make up the ac-
counts, but they were not kept properly.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said that there could be no
doubt that the opposition was founded on good grounds, as
regards the accounts, which were not at first satisfactory,
nor properly kept ; yet, as the assignees themselves did not
oppose, he did not think it was a case in which he ought to
exercise his power to refuse the certificate. The bankrupt
had answered, without reserve, all the questions put to him,
and he had been very much illused by some of bis creditors,
and under the several executions his property had been
shamefully sold. He, therefore, considered the bankrupt
ought to have his certificate, and he should grant it
accordingly.

IN RE J. AND C. HILL.
INTEREST ON BOOR DEBTS.—To-day was arpointed for
the choice of assignees of these bankrupts, who had carried
on business as grocers at Reading.
The choice of assignees passed without opposition, but ill
the course of the proofs a point of some importance arose,
Messrs. Ridgway and Co., of King William-street, clatming
for a large sum and interest on an over-due account.
Mr. TURQUAND, the official assignee, could not allow the
proof unless there was a special agreement.
Mr. RIDGWAY said it was the custom of the trade.
Mr. LEWIS, the solicitor to the fiat, said he must leave
Mr. Ridgway to support his own case, as he, Mr. Lewis,
merely prepared the proof.
After a brief conversation, Mr. RIDGWAY said he would
not press his claim for interest, and the proof was taken short
the amount.

"Liverpool, June, 1846.
" Mr. Alderman Farebrother."
The Recorder proceeded to say that the law regarded
bigamy in its ordinary forms with a determination to deter
heartless vagabonds from committing it; but this case of
Miss Lovejoy stood out alone, for within a day of her mar-
riage all that she possessed in the world was taken from her,
except the clothes in which she stood; she was
even disallowed any thing to eat, and hardly
had the prisoner got her body cast into the sea when he re-
turned to England, to repeat the cruelty on another. It had,
moreover, been proved upon the trial that he had robbed
his first wife of her property and deserted her ; his object,
therefore, was evidently plunder, and that he pursued
by means the most cruel and inhuman that ever had
been Lused. He thought that this was the worst
case that had been recorded in the Court in
which they were; all the mischiefs which attended false
marriages had been more strongly brought out in this in-
stance than in any case he had ever known. The death of his
victim, if it was not absolutely caused by what had occurred,
was, in the opinion of a respectable surgeon, cer-
tainly accelerated by the treatment she had received.
The poor unhappy woman before she embarked
from England expressed her strong conviction that she
would never reach the shores of America alive, and this was
her conviction after she bad been dispossessed of all that she
had, and disallowed even the use of the necessaries of life.
(The prisoner here interposed, and denied the truth of all
that was vouched for by Mr. Cripps.)
The RECORDER said that the prisoner would have the
opportunity of an appeal, if he thought proper, to the
Secretary of State ; as for himself, however, he would
do his duty to the public and act in this matter up
to the law—for nothing so heartless, nothing so cruel had
ever reached his knowledge as that which the prisoner had
perpetrated on his victims, to their perpetual degrada-
tion. (The prisoner here reiterated his charge that his
victims were women cf bad character.) The Recorder
continued to say that, in addition to robbing them of their
last shilling, and wronging them by false pretences of mar-
riage, he now spared not their character, but despoiled them
even of that. But were it true as he had said, and if he had
picked them off the street, yet even such must and would be
protected by the law.
The Count then sentenced him to transportation for seven
years on each of the two indictments, the one period to com-
mence at the expiration of the other. He was sentenced to
seven years' transportation on Friday, on the charge of
larceny; but this sentence will commence and expire with
the first of the two sentences pronounced to-day, making 14
all only fourteen years' transportation.

MARLBMY-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
EXTENSIVE EMBEzzLE.Anrisir BY A SERVANT.— Wpm.
Grover; a young man of respectable connexions, was
charged with embezzling various sums of money, received by
him for and on account of his employer, Mr. George maw.:
son_, of No. 60, Tottenham-Court-road, confectioner,
The prisoner for the last three months had been acting as
agent and collector to the prosecutor, and it was aasechoiuns
tdsuftryomto
pay over all moneys that came into his bands on his -em-
ployer's account on the same day he received them. Within
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the last few days the prosecutor accidentally discovered that
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the customers of which he had made no
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Mr. MALTBT
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at the trial. sa iu it might be brought forward against him
The • prisoner admitted h • hehaving kept back the 2/., but said
meant to make i
prosecutor. t good. The 10s. he had paid over to the
Mr. Mallison denied his having
done so.
The prisoner's '
uefalcations are said to amount to betty' en 301. and 401.

CRUEL ROBBERY BY A YOUTH.-At the Ilford Petty
Sessions on Saturday, James Hatfield, the son of a e.irover, re-
siding in Whitechapel, was placed at the bar cLarged with
obtaining a sum of money from a poor woms.n residing at
Stratford, uttder false pretences. Elizabeth Purkess, the wife
of a Smithfield drover, residing in Beyce-yard, Stratford,
said, that on the previous Monday the accused called upon
her, and making a very sorrowful face, said, " Oh, Mrs. Pur-
kess, I have bad news to tell you, your husband has been
striking a man, and is locked up in Giltspur_street Compter,
and he has sent me for what money you have in the house."
She had only 10s., which she gave him, and he went away,
telling her, however, to come up to London as soon as possi-
ble, as her husband wished to see her. She did as he re-
quested her, and, on going to the Compter, found his story to
be false from beginning to end. The prisoner was committed
to the Central Criminal Court for trial.
THE SHRIEVALTY.—We understand that a requisi-
tion, signed by upwards of 500 of the most respectable mem-
beis of the Livery, *has been presented to Robert
Kennard, Esq., of Upper Thames-street, the wealthy it on-
merchant, requesting him to allow himself to be planed in
nomination for the office of Sheriff for the ezming yes, and
that Mr. Kennard has signified his mac&

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT:
(Before the BEcoanEa and Alderman GIBES.)
Application was made on Saturday to the Court, by Mr. •
Ballantyne, on the part of Falkland and Fabian, at present
in custody for the forgery of railway scrip, to have the case
postponed till next session. As the bill had been found
before the grand jury only so late as Friday night, the appli-
cation appeared to the Court to be reasonable ; but, in the
absence of the prosecutors, the Court wished it to be mentioned
again.
Mr. Bodkin, who, with Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Huddle-
stone, are retained for the prosecution, appeared this morning
to consent to the application for postponement.
The RECORDER, after considerable hesitation, ordered it to
be placed first on the judge's list for next session.
Joseph Mortimer, whose atrocious case tame on before the
Recorder on Friday, when he was found guilty on two
charges of bigamy and ore of larceny, and when he was
sentenced by the Court on the charge of larceny to seven
years' transportation, sentence on the other indictments
being reserved, was this morning placed at the bar to receive
sentence on the charges of bigamy.
The RECORDER said, he thought it right to inform the,
prisoner, before pronouncing sentence on the two cases of
bigamy on which he had been convicted, and to give him clearly
to understand that inquiry had been made by the Court,
and information had been received from most respectable
sources, and that according to that his case bore the worst
possible aspect which any case could bear, and that it was
clearly aggravated by his cruel and disgraceful conduct.
The Recorder held in his hand a letter from Mr. George
O'Malley Irwin, a gentleman of the Irish bar, who
wished to have the prisoner transferred to Ireland
to take his trial there if the charges should
have failed here, on a further charge of bigamy, in the case
of Miss Baker, the daughter of Andrew Baker, of Red fill,
near Boyle, in the county of Roscommon. With regard to
his marriage, the Recorder thought it right to inform the
prisoner that a respectable surgeon in Liverpool had drawn
the attention of the committing magistrate to the case of -
Miss Lovejoy by the following letter :
"Liverpool, 111, Dale-street, June, 1846.
"Sir,—From the newspaper reports. I perceive that a rose,
or rather a monster in human form, of the name of A. Mort";
mer, has been brought before you, charged with bigamy,
and I am happy to find that he is committed for trial, where
I trust his heartless villany will meet its deserts.
"One of his unfortunate victims, Miss Lovejoy, was for
several years a patient of mine, and a more confiding, kind,
or amiable creature never existed. Before she took the
un-
fortunate step which, I have no hesitation in saying, con-
signed her to an untimely grave, she mentioned the circum-
stance to me. I advised her strongly against the union, until
she knew something more of her future partner; but she,
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been allowed anything to eat.' The monster. was.
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seemed, I think he will not forget that when I left the room
I told him, that if that woman died, her blood would be on
his head.' I once more saw her, viz., on the day before they
left England ; she called on me, she said, for the
purpose of bidding me good-bye for ever.' She
again mentioned to me his brutal treatment, the details of
which were so atrociously revolting that I almost recoil
when I think of them. I wished her, even at the !eleventh •
hour, to reconsider her determination of accompany-
ing him, but she said, that although she believed
she should never cross the Atlantic alive, yet that she
had cast her lot with his, and it was her duty to
submit.' I do solemnly declare that I could most conscien-
tiously have accepted her expressions of the conviction that
she could not recover as her dying declaration ;' those con-
victions were realised, and her husband's object effected.
"I have the honour to remain, Sir, yours, very respectfully,
(Signed) "FREDERICK CRIPPS."
"Mr. Ald. Farebrother.
This letter was accompanied by the following note :
" Sir—As a matter of public duty, I have taken the liberty
of sending you the enclosed communication as it may tend
to corroborate the testimony (which is already very strong)
that Mortimer's brutal conduct to his wife accelerated her
death ; if it is of any service in forwarding the ends of
justice, my object in addressing you will be accomplished.
As the value of testimony depends upon the source whelice
it is derived, and as you know nothing of me, allow me to
refer you to Mr. Alderman Sidney, with whom I have the
pleasure of being acquainted,
" I am, Sir, yours truly,
" F. CRIPPS.