The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-31 00:00:00

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.

COURT OF REVIEW, GRAY'S LYN HALL, JULY 30.

EX PARTE WATKINS, IN RE KIDDER.
This petition asked an order of the Court requiring the
assignees of the bankrupt to make over to the petitioner
two shares in the Economic Assurance Office, which, at
the time of tile issuing of the fiat, stood in the bankrupt's
name, although the property of the petitioner. By one of
the rules of this association, none but Directors are enti-
tled to hold more than two shares in their own name ; and
it was presumed to be in consequence of this regulation that
the case in question had arisen.
Messrs. SWANSTON and ROMILLY were counsel for the
petitioner ; Mr. MONTAGU for the respondent.
The COURT was of opinion that the shares had only
stood in the bankrupt's name in trust for the petitioner,
and that therefore, according to the 79th section of the
Bankruptcy Act, the assignees were empowered and in
duty bound to make over the property to the right owner.
Prayer of the petition granted; each party to pay their
own costs.

EX PARTE WATSON, IN RE MABERLY.
This petition prayed the Court to order Mr. Maberly's
assignees to pay to them the sum of 6291., the amount of
notes paid into tha hands of his agent, Mr. Pellett, at
Glasgow, subsequent to the stoppage of Mr. Maberly's
London house, but prior to the arrival of intelligence of
that event in Glasgow. Several petitions on this point
have been already disposed of ; but the present case in-
volved a novel consideration, from a circumstance which
peculiarly affected the transaction. A parcel of bank-notes
and securities having been made up for the purpose of
being transmitted to London to the assignees, it was ab-
stracted from the banking-house in Edinburgh by a young
man named Chrystal, who subsequently absconded, and the
property in question was never recovered. The point in
dispute was, whether this parcel contained the identical
notes the property of Mr. David Watson, the petitioner.
Mr. BETIIELL supported the petition ; Messrs. SWAN-
STON and MONTAGU appeared for the respondents, the
assignees.
The COURT was unanimous in its decision. The claim
was for the value of notes paid into the hands of the agent,
and thence to the assignees ; it was therefore to be treated
according to the former decisions in similar cases. Had
the notes been traced to the possession of the assignees,
there would have been no hesitation in acceding to the
petitioner's claim ; had the notes been retained in Mr.
Blythe's (the Edinburgh agent) hands until the time of the
interference of the assignees, the same result might have
been arrived at ; but the petitioner having failed to prove
this by showing their absence from the lost packet, and the
respondents having, on the other hand, proved that they
were really contained therein, it was impossible to decide
otherwise than in the rejection of the petitioner's suit.
The parcel having been stolen on its way to the assignees,
they could not in justice or honesty be charged with the
deficiency, and were therefore not answerable for the value
thereof.

Petition dismissed without costs, but the costs of the re.
spondents to be paid out of the estate.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.--JULY 30.

Before B. ROTCH, Esq., M.P., Chairman, and a full Bench

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of Magistrates.)
Mary Ann Scott, a very pretty girl, aged eighteen years,
was indicted for stealing, on the 9th instant, at Brentford, a
pair of ear-rings, a ring, two sovereigns, and six shillings in
silver, the property of Elizabeth Smith.

The prosecutrix stated that she was the wife of a police
sergeant of the T divj3ion, and was on very intimate terms
with prisoner. On the day laid in the indictment she was
visited by the prisoner, and had her company until about
seven o'clock in the evening, when the latter left her to go
to her aunt's at Ealing. The next morning, when prose-
cutrix arose, she missed the property described in the in-
dictment, and, oninforming her husband of the circumstance,
he sent a policeman to the prisoner's dwelling to search the
prisoner and her boxes, when he found the ring in one of
her drawers.

The prisoner's aunt, a respectable old lady, stated that
the prisoner's intellect appeared very often affected, and sho
disliked to go into the streets because the children called
her Mad Moll.

The Jury found the prisoner guilty, and the COURT sem
tented her to be imprisoned one month in the House of Con
rection. She will be confined in the Infirmary.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARYL.EB ONE.
Yesterday, a queer looking fellow who gave his name
John Henderson, was brought up in the custody of a police
constable, on the following charge
It appeared, from the evidence of John Legg, 149 D,
that on the same morning, about two o'clock, as he was
on duty in Hyde Park-place, he found the prisoner sleep-
ing on the step of a door ; and, after much difficulty,awoke
him, when, greatly to his surprise and alarm, he began to
bark and growl in the most terrific manner, showing at the
same time a set of formidable teeth. The neighbours were
so frightened at this unusual noise, that many of them threw
up their windows to ascertain what was the matter. As
soon as the first fit of barking and howling had subsided,
the constable proceeded, with precaution, to convey this
ugly customer to the station-house ; but while he was
taking him along, he suddenly burst out into a new fit of
barking and howling, much louder and more hideous than
before, in the course of which he imitated, with great ex-
actness, the whole of the canine race, from the shrill
piercing notes of the terrier to the hoarse, deep-mantled
bark of the mastiff and bull dog, snapping at the same time
at the constable and passengers, who, thinking that he was
really under the dreadful influence of hydrophobia, scam-
pered out of his way with all possible celerity. He was at
length, with much difficulty, lodged in the station-house,
and placed on the floor ; but, as the fit continued, a pail of
water was thrown over him by way of a cooler. The only
dislike he showed to that element was by throwing out his
legs and arms as if in the act of swimming. He afterwards
seized a poker, and threatened to annihilate all before him.
At length he became quiet, and went into a sound sleep.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that he was, some time
ago, bitten by a mad dog ; and whenever he got a drop too
much, which was the case that night, he always laboured
under symptoms of hydrophobia, and conducted himself in
the manner described.
He was ordered to find bail.