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London, England, 1834-02-01 00:00:00

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, JAN. 31.

(Before Mr. Justice HOLROYD.)
RICHARD ARMSTEAD'S BANKRUPTCY.-CAUTION TO

WITNESSES.

A proceeding of some novelty occurred to-day,
and which is of some importance to parties who
may he summoned to give evidence before the
Commissioners, who neglect to obey the SUMMONS.
The bankrupt is the late proprietor of the Liverpool
Amphitheatre, and the attendance of Mr. J. J.
Bird being required to speak to certain transactions
between him and the bankrupt, a summons and
letters were sent to Liverpool requiring his atten-
dance, which, however, were not attended to, and
a messenger was sent to Liverpool to enforce the
orders of the Court.

Mr. Bird was this day brought up in the custody
of the messenger of the Court, the official assignee
having previously by letter requested a statement of
his dealings with the bankrupt. In reply to the
summons Mr. Bird pleaded indisposition; but from
certain circumstances the Commissioner forwarded
a messenger to compel his attendance. At the
close of the examination of Mr. Bird to•dsy the
Commissioner compelled Mr. Bird to deposit ‘s ith
the Registrar of the Court the amount of all the
messenger's expenses to and from Liverpool, as well
as to ineeL all the fees, before he was discharged
out of the custody of the messenger. The Court

made this order in consequence of the party sum-
moned not having complied with the summons, and
directed the money to be impounded till the result
of the evidence should be known.

The necessary expenses of parties summoned
when the orders of the Court are observed are
usually paid.

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, JAN. 31.

(Before Mr. CONST, Chairman.)

ROBBERY AT THE MASQUERADE.—John Isaacs,
the son of an attorney, was indicted for stealing a
gold necklace, a pair of gold ear-rings very hand-
somely studded, and other articles of jewellery of
great value, the property of Mrs. Davenish.
Mrs. Davenish and some friends went to the late
Masquerade at the Italian Opera, where the prisoner
and a party of persons of the Jewish persuasion also
were. At that time in the morning at which the
prosecutrix was about to retire she took off the ar-
ticles mentioned in the indictment, and placed them
in her bonnet, which was knocked down by some
person in the room, and the articles of jewellery,
which were very valuable, and which were in the
bonnet, were scattered about the floor. She saw the
prisoner, who had been annoying her before, pick up
the articles or some of them, and forthwith gave
him into custody. The property was afterwards
produced by a person connected with the establish-
ment at the King's Theatre.
Mr. C. PHILLIPS cross-examined this and several
other witnesses at considerable length, and then
called a host of persons for the defence, who gave
the prisoner an excellent character.—Acquitted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION HOUSE.

A man named John 11Marthy was brought be-
fore the LORD MAYOR, charged with robbery.
Charles Nash. carman to Mr. Allan Mason,
Brooks's Wharf, Upper Thames-street, had received
orders to go with ten sacks of flour to Holloway
from Brooks's Wharf. As he passed the new Post
Office, on his way thither, the prisoner overtook
him, and told him that he had got the wrong note
of delivery, and that he (prisoner) had got a pot of
beer for running after him and luting him know his
mistake. Witness asked the prisoner who had sent
him, to which the latter replied that a young man
on crutches had given him the job. Witness
thought that all was right, as a clerk on the pre-
mises was lame, and he said, " I must go back, I
suppose, as that is the case." And back he drove
to Thames-street. He left the cart with the flour
near Vintners' Hall, and went down to the wharf,
where he soon learned that he had been deceived.
Suspecting that the flour was in bad bands he ran
back us hard as he could, but both flour and cart
were gone. He then informed Daniel and John
Forrester, who really appear to act by instinct in the
pursuit of depredators of all kinds, and they soon
brought intelligence of the matter.
Daniel Forrester stated that having been informed
of the disappearance of the cart he and his brother
went upon the scent, and at twenty minutes after
six o'clock they saw a cart near Duke-street, and
with it were two men, who looked as if all was not
right with them. Upon being approached they
ran away as hard as they could. One of them
escaped, but witness came up with the other, who
was out of breath. There were only six sacks of
flour in the cart, so that the thieves must have dis-
posed of four on their way.
John Forrester was convinced the prisoner was
one of the men who were with the cart, and had
taken to their heels.

The prisoner was committed for trial.
Anne Brennan, was brought up for final examina-
tion, charged with having concealed the birth of her
child, and fully committed.
Alexander Brannan, who was some days ago
charged with having forged a check for 101. upon
the banking-house of Messrs. Smith, Payne, and
Smith, was brought up for a second examination.
In consequence of the publication of the first case
against the prisoner other persons appeared with
charges of a similar description, and it was soon
evident that he had dealt extensively and most in-
geniously in that kind of depredation.
A new case was entered upon against him.

Mr. De Lolme, of Rathbone-place, it appeared,
was one of those imposed upon. The prisoner had
gone into the shop and gossiped about articles; at
last he said that he wanted a watch for a lady, and
he pointed out one which he said he should like to
exhibit. He at the same time produced what
seemed to be a check upon Messrs. Greenwood and
Cox for 101., and signed " John Weston," and said
that he would return with the watch by four
o'clock. He was not at all suspected, until he far
exceeded the hour, and it was ascertained afterwards
that the instrument was a forgery. It appears that
the plan of leaving cheeks thus as a security for the
return of fancy articles has been very. successful ;
and the prisoner was remanded, in order that others
might come forward against him.
Edward Christmas Day, a man in the service of
Mr. James Franks, coffee-merchant, of No. 11,
L•swrence, Pountney-hill, was charged with having
robbed his master.—Committed.
BOW. STREET.

CURIOUS CHARGE OF ROBBERY COMMITTED SIX
YEARS AGO.—Yesterday a genteelly-dressed man,
wearing spectacles, and speaking in a strong foreign
accent, although calling himself by the English
name of Heathcote, was charged with stealing a
ruby and diamond r!ng, of the value of 301.
Mr. Francis Joseph Burke was Neapolitan courier
to a gentleman named Higgins, who had large
estates in Naples as well as in England, and in the
year 1828, when in this country, he became ac-
quainted with the prisoner, and was then in the ser-
vice of M. Louis, the French giant, who had exhi-
bited himself here. Witness at that time wore a
ring set with rubies and brilliants, arid at the request
of the prisoner, who said it was exactly the sort of
thing that would take the fancy of M. Louis, he
intrusted him with it to show to the latter. He
had no sooner got possession of the ring than he
absconded from the employment of M. Louis, and
witness being obliged to depart for the Continent
he lost the ring altogether. He had been several
times to this country since, and on each visit endea-
voured to find out the prisoner, but could not suc-
ceed until Thursday, when he met him, and gave
him in charge to a constable.
The prisoner said the ring had been made-a pre-
sent to him by the prosecutor, and that after he
received it lie had worn it twenty ti nes in Mr.
Burke's presence. The prosecutor seemed greatly
astonished at this statement, and solemnly declared
that it was utterly false.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
HATTON-GARDEN.
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Yesterday Frances Purchas and Alice Trigg were
brought up for final examination before Mr.IiOGERS,
charged with having practised the most aggravated
impositions upon Lady Sugden ; Mrs. Dodson, Se-
cretary to the Cl'ieen's Lying-in Charity ; Mrs.
Rackham, 41, Woburn•square ; Mrs. Daniels, of
Russell-square, and several other charitable ladies.
The case excited considerable interest, arid the
office was crowded by ladies who attended to iden-
tify the prisoners.
Mrs. Rackham stated that, on or about the 21st
of December last, the prisoner Trigg called at her
house and requested to see her, when she appeared
to be pregnant, and represented herself to be so, arid
that she was in great distress, with a large family,
and unable to provide for them, her husband being
out of employ. She said that she called at the sug-
gestiOn and on the recommendation of the Rev. Mr.
Lonsdale, and witness gave her a filled-up ticket for
relief on the Charitable Sacramental Fund. In a few
days afterwards she again called, in company of the
prisoner Purchas, who supported her, and she ap-
peared to be exceedingly ill and far advanced in
pregnancy. Witness proceeded to the hall, and the
prisoner then begged of her to grant some instant
relief, as Trigg was on the point of delivery, arid
%%as momentarily expected to be confined. She
sat down on an arnpeliair, and seemed to be in

the most acute agony; and becoming alarmed for
her safety, conceiving that a baby might be born
on the spot, she was extremely agitated, and looked
her up some baby linen and other relief, and gave
them some bread, cheese, and porter before they
quitted the house. They then requested her to
afford them some relief from the Charitable Sacra-
mental Fund, and on inquiring what sum was
usually given by ladies from the fund, the prisoner
Purchas replied," 10s. Gd.," which witness imagined
to be exorbitant, and she gave them 55., expressing
a hope that they were not imposing upon her, when
Purchas replied, " Oh, no !" and told her that if she
applied to the Charity the money would be returned
to her, which, of course, witness did not think of
ever doing. Purchas then said that she had known
Trigg for five or six years; that she was her land-
lady; and spoke in the highest terms of her cha-
racter as an industrious, sober woman, deserving of
charity, and that she (witness) need not be suspi-
cious or afraid of their imposing on her; and that
she had merely attended her as a friend, through
pity, as she was in a dangerous condition. Witness
was excited in their favour, and she pas'ed a high
compliment on the apparent humanity of Purchas,
when they quitted the place, Trigg having all the
appearance of a woman in the pains of labour. Wit-
ness even.ually ascertained that the whole was a
designing imposition, and that numerous frands had
been committed by them upon other ladies round
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the same persons who practised the fraud upon her.
Mrs. Dodson also identified the prisoners as hav-
ing imposed upon her, by representing that they
were recommended to her by Lady Sugden.
Mr. ROGERS committed the prisoners to the
House of Correction for three months each, and
during that period to be kept to hard labour.