The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-06 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Jan. 4.
(Before Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN)

IN THE BANKRUPTCY OF NASD. AND NEALE-TIIR

REIGATE BANK.

In this case the bankrupt, Thomas Neale, applied
for his certificate through his counsel, Mr. Bagley, but
Ilis HoNouu adjourned the meeting until the result
of a claim against the separate estate of Nash made
by the assignees of the Maritime Assurance Com-
pany could be ascertained.

- A bankrupt named Corven, who kept what is termed
" a cheap shop" in the Hampstead-road, appled for
his certificate. Corven was a baker, and undersold
all his neighbours. Beginning with a small capital,
he failed considerably in debt, with nothing for his
creditors but the lease of the premises, value 5001.
The certificate was suspended for two years.
Mr. Hilleary appeared for the assignees, and re-
sisted the concession of protection, which was not
granted.

1
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
On Saturday Joseph Bassett was brought before
the Lord Mayor in the custody of Haydon, the officer,
charged with having robbed his employers, Messrs.
Joseph and Albert Savory, of Nos. 47 and 44, Corn-
hill, of three clocks and a great number of musical
boxes.
Mr. Bush, of the firm of Bush and Mullens, at-
tended for the prosecution, and said that, for the pur-
pose of making the case more clear to his Lordship,
he should briefly state the chief circumstances. The
prisoner had been hired by the late Mr. Thomas Cox
Savory, brother to those who constituted the present
firm, and a partner in the house, and had been treated
most confidentially by his employers, having been
' appointed to the superintendence of the whole of the
business of the premises No. 54. A circumstance,
however, occurred which caused suspicion of the
, honesty of the confidential servant, and it was ascer-
tained in a very short time that a large number of
musical boxes had been stolen, and that pieces of wood,
made into the form and size of the boxes, had been
substituted for them. The prisoner was, when the
I, robbery was disclosed to the establishment, appre-
hended, and Haydon, the officer, would state sufficient
1 to justify a remand until a more complete investiga-
tion could be made.
Mr. John Thomson, shopman and cleik to Messrs.
Savory, at their residence, No. 47, in Cornhill, said—
I went by the direction rily employers on the 11th
of December to their warehouse, No. 54, to assist in
taking stock, and I saw the prisoner there, and I
entered the stock in a book which I now produce.
The prisoner called the articles out. I entered under
the head of musical boxes about 169, and I also en-
tered a number of clocks. The stock in No. 54 con-
sists entirely of clocks and musical boxes. I produce
• two cases which were supposed to be musical boxes.
These are empty cases which should contain musical
boxes. The handwriting on them is the prisoner's.
I produce two other papers or covers, containing
blocks of wood, the covers made to resemble the real
leases. There are three of these blocks of wood here.
After this taking of the stock on the 11th I returned
to No. 47, the principal shop. Tne next time I went
to No. 54 was last night. I went then to take stock
according to directions, and I found all these things
in the state in which they now are. lam satisfied in
my own mind as to the state in which the stock was
on the 11th of December. On taking stock last night
I find the deficiency between the 11th of December
and the 3d of January to be in small musical boxes,
40, value 561. 14s. • in large musical boxes, six, value
321. Os. 6e1., which, together with thu deficiency of
four clocks, value 171. 195., gave a total deficiency of
l 06/. 13s. 6d.
The LORD MAYOR—You say you entered stock
to the prisoner's calling out on the 11th of Decem-
ber ? Witness—Yes, to a certain extent.
The LORD MAYOR—Did you ever know of any
stock being in this case (pointing to one of the empty.
cases) ? Witness—Never.
The LORD MAYOR—It is not the practice of the
house to have dummies on the shelves ? Witness—
It is not.
The LORD MAYOR—These, then, might, for any
anything you know, have been there on the 11th of
December ? Witness—Yes.
The LORD MAYOR—I would, in the case of taking
stock, have directed that the person calling out should
not be the person who had the stock under his care.
Did the prisoner give security to his employers upon
. going into his situation ? Witness—l do not know.
I have given security to them.
Mr. Savory (one of the partners) here said, the
prisoner did not give any security. He had been
taken by his late brother, and great confidence was
reposed in him.
The prisoner (to the witness)—What clocks are
missing? Witness—A marble clock, at 6 guineas;
a foreign bracket, at 61.; one foreign alarm, at 505.;
and another at 635.
The prisoner—They were right, I know, on the
11th of December.
Mr. Wrathall, also a shopman in the service of
Messrs. Savory, said—l entered the service of my
employers in February. I then was at No. 9, Cornhill.
I am now on duty at No. 54, Cornhill, into which ,
premises I went on the 18th of December, and I re-
main there in charge of the stock. Tile prisoner was
there, and I received the stock from him. I received
Ino book from him. I kept my own books. I see the
things produced. I never saw such articles as dum-
mies or empty boxes on the premises. I discovered
these (pointing to the pieces of wood in the shape of
music-boxes) myself, when taking them out of the
window to show a customer. I think it was on Fri-
day, the 20th of December, I took one from the win-
-1 dow, and found that it was a piece of wood. From
that discovery I considered it necessary to have the
stock taken altogether. The sum of my discovery
was three dummies and three empty cases.
The LORD MAYOR—What did you do after making
this discovery on the 20th of December ?
Witness—l mentioned it on the following morning
to my fellow-assistant, who advised me to represent
it to Mr. Sansom, who is at No. 47, Cornhill, in order
to have stock taken. I went, not to Mr. Sansom, but
to Mr. M'Culloch, the cashier, and told him, ;roin
what I had seen, I wished to have the stock taken. I
gave the cashier notice to that effect on Saturday.
The prisoner, upon being asked whether he wished
to ask the witness any questions, replied in the
negative.
Michael Haydon, the officer, was then sworn. He
said—l apprehended the prisoner at No. 2, Milford-
grove, Old Kent-road, in a house occupied by him
and his wife and five children. I told him I was an
officer, and that I called at the instance of his late
employers, Messrs. Savory and Co., to make inquiries
respecting some musical boxes and clocks that had
been stolen from their warehouse under circum-
stances which rendered it necessary that I should ask
him a few questions about it. Ile was very much
agitated, and could scarcely speak. At last he said,
" I know nothing about them. You are welcome to
search my house. You will find nothing here." I
searched the place, and received from the prisoner's
wife the two duplicates produced for clocks. I asked
him what answer I should consider he made to my
inquiries, and I told him that, in justice to him-
self, if he was innocent, he ought to clear the matter
up. He then burst out crying, and said, " I took
some of the things ; God Almighty knows it was from
want I did it. Pray intercede for me, and say what
you see here," and he looked round the room, which
certainly was in a wretched condition. He continued,
"I never could have done it if I had been batter paid.
I have a wife and five children, and but 11.8 s. a week,
which is not sufficient to keep them."
The prisoner—l also said I had a small commis.
sion of fourpence in the pound upon what I sold.
Haydon—There was not a word said by the pri-
soner about a commission. He distinctly said that
all he had from his employers was 28s. a week.
Mr. Bush at once proved, and the prisoner did not
deny the fact, that the prisoner had his board and a
commission upon all he sold, as well as the 28s. a
week from his employers.
The LORD MAYOR said he was glad that such an
explanation had taken place, and remanded the pri-
soner till next week.

GUILDHALL.
A respectable-looking man, about thirty years of
age, answering to the name of William Daraele,'but
who has at various times gone under the names of
" Thomas liittnee and W. D. Boase, highly re-
spectable gentlemen living in Cornwall, was brought
up before Alderman Lawrence, charged with uttering
forged mining shares.
Mr. Thomas Fuller, mining sharebroker, of 48,
Threadneedle-street, said that be received a letter
from the prisoner purporting to come from a Mr. W.
D. Boase, the purser of the Wheal Mary Anne, near
Liskeard, in Cornwall, stating that he (prisoner) had
some shares in that mine to sell, and desiring him
(witness) to dispos3 of them for him. He (prisoner),
in his letter, referred witness to another broker as to
his known respectability. Prisoner said he wanted
501. per share. Witness wrote to him, saying he
would dispose of the shares as soon as he (prisoner)
should be able to send him the transfer. Witness re-
ceived a letter in answer enclosing the transfer off' the
shares, purporting to be signed by i\ir. Bosse. Wit-
ness sold the shares for the prisoner, and sent the
transfer into the country, but having since found out
that it was a forgery, he had made good the shares to the
purchaser. Witness called at the Old Bell, in Holborn,
to see the prisoner, but he was not within, and he (wit-
ness) paid th 3 landlord of the house 501., who after-
wards paid it to the prisoner. Prisonf-r had given in-
struction to the landlord to get cash only for the
shares, and when witness offered a cheque it was
refused, and cash was ultimately paid. Mr. Bosse,
of the Wheal Mary Anne Mine, had been communi-
cated with, and his reply was that the shares were
forged, and that the prisoner Daniels had committed
the forgery, as the transfer was in his (prisoner's)
handwriting.