The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDL ESO Al' EVEN NG AUGUST 20, 1855.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

the case, it would be impossible to convict him of the
offence. There was no evidence that Pinkerton ever
received the sheets. That was the first doubt. And if he
did receive then, did he do so with a guilty knowledge ? The
case was surrounded with doubt, and therefore he con-
tended that the prisoner at the bar ought to be acquitted.
The prisoner had up to the present time possessed a good
character ; and, coupling this fact with the doubts that
surrounded the whole case, he felt confident that they
would unanimously arrive at the conclusion that the
prisoner was not guilty of the charge imputed against
him.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
IN RR WM. E. YOUNG.

The balance-sheet in the case of this bankrupt, de-
scribed as of Sun-court, Cornhill, Cross-street, Man-
chester, and Dale-street, Liverpool, ship and insurance
broker, underwriter, and merchant, has been filed by
Messrs. Harding and Pullen, and commences June 24,
1849, and ends April 15, 1856, and shows—Dr. to
creditors, unsecured, 3.8,702/. 7s. Gd. ; ditto fully se-
cured, 8,873/. 14s. Gd. ; ditto partially secured, 2,1211.
ls. ; ditto salaries to be paid in full, 380/. 18s. 2d. ; lia-
bilities on bills (58,465/. 4s. Bd.), of which 24,1101. only
are expected to be claimed against the estate ; risks on
underwriting (about 62,000 t.), in respect of which bank-
rupt estimates that about 10,000/. losses may be proved
against the estate ; brokerage profits, 60,7281. Os. 2d. ;
premiums, &c., for underwriting, 121,0601. Os. 93. Cr.,
by debtors, good, 22,5381. 6s. ; doubtful, 11,672/. 19s.
Bd. ; property given up to official assignee, 13,455/. (less
salaries, 3801.) ; interest in adventure on teak, 2,000/.—
(the bankrupt had joined with Messrs. Sycre, Walter,
and Co. for the purchase of teak, which was shipped per
Commodore, which was never after heard of ; the teak,
however, was insured, and bankrupt's share will be
about this amount) ;—consignments, 928/. ; liabilities as
per contra, 34,110/. ; property held by creditors fully
secured, 9,294/. 15,„ 41. ; ditto partially secured, 115/. ;
trade expenses—interest 3,4981., law 648/., domestic
and personal 9,927/. ; losses (sundries 28,329/. 10 e 3 '.,
bad debts 1,494/. 4s. 43., on underwriting 111,933/. 7s.
ld.), total 141,757/. is. Bd. Amongst the creditors are
Messrs. Adamson and Co., Aberdeen, for freight, 2,966/.
Bs. ; Green and Co., Blackwall, 1,979/. ; R. Green, do.,
1,0221. ; John Hay, Sunderland, for balance purchase
money of ship Walmer Castle, 4,3211. 13s. ; Palmer,
Mqiillop, Dent, and Co., 1,865/. ; James Miller,
Queen's-road, St. John's-wood, 2,199/. ; Geo. Leslie,
Aberdeen, 1,606/. ; Cooper and Ayes, Leadenhall-street
(cash, March, 1856), 1,000/. ; Chaplin and Horne (rail-
way carriage), 1,354/. lls. 6d. ; Pickf"rd and Co. (do.,
March and April, 1856), 1,765/. 14s, sd. ; Taylor, Pot-
ter, and Co., Liverpool, 578/.
The meeting for the last examination is fixed for the
2d September next. The balance-sheet extends over
119 folio pages.

One of the jurors wished to know, before the case
proceeded further, whether the property was found in
the apartment in which Pinkerton resided!
Sergeant Thomas stated that the rooms in which the
bulk of the property was found was locked up, and
appeared to be perfectly distinct from the other part of
the house.

Witnesses were then called, who gave the prisoner a
good character for honesty, straightforwardness, and
industry.

The jury returned a verdict of guilty.
There are four or five other indictments against the
prisoner.

The Court then adjourned for rerreshment.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CRUELTY TO A HORSE.—John Ford, an itinerant coal-
dealer, was brought before Mr. Beadon, charged with
cruelly ill-treating a horse, by driving it in an unfit
condition.

George Walker, a constable attached to the Royal
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, stated
that about half-past nine this morning he was passing
down Piccadilly, when he saw the defendant driving
a horse and cart. Witness observed that the horse
appeared to suffer from pain, and went up and
examined it, and found a large raw wound on its back
wider the saddle, two wounds under tho kicking strap,
and several wounds under the crupper. Witness to!d
the defendant he ought not to work the horse in that
condition, and took him into custody.

There are no cases in the list for to morrow.

The defendant, in answer to the charge, said
that the horse was a regular kicker, and when
he had a kicking fit he always cut and bruised
himself as the officer saw. He was obliged to work the
horse in order to get a living.

CRIMINAL COTTR,T.—(This Day).

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Martin.)

Mr. Beadon said it was all very well for the defendant
to make that excuse, and asked him if he would like to
work covered all over with sores I

Charles Arnold, 23, cheese facttor, remanded from
last session, was indicted for feionioubly omitting and
neglecting to surrender himself to the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, he being a•bankrupt.

Defendant, who shook his lead, replied in the nega-
tive, and was fined 10s., or seven days.

SOUTHWARK.

The present charge was male under the 251st sec, of
the Bankruptcy Consolidation Act, and it appearod that
the prisoner occupied a shop, 20, Commercial-road
East, where he carried on the business of a cheese
factor. He then became indebted to Messrs. Haycock
and Co., wholesale cheese factors, 7, Old Fish-street, in
the sum of 571. After that he shut up his shop, and
went to 15, St. Dunstan's-hill, sand commenced business
as a wine merchant. The prosecutors, being unable to
obtain their money, filed a petition in bankruptcy
against the prisoner on the sth "Oct., 1855, and he was
adjudged a bankrupt on the following day. The 24th Oct.
and 27th Nov. were the days appointed for his exami-
nation, but he did not appear in person or by agent.
Nothing was heard or seen of the prisoner until the 13th
of June, 1856, when he was apprehended at a beer-shop
on Walworth Common. The policeman having a know-
ledge of the prisoner asked him if his name was Arnold.
He replied, " No, it was Edwards," but afterwards
admitted it was Charles Arnold.

SUSPECTED ROBBERY OF A VALUABLE TELESCOPE BY A
NATAL APPRENTlCE.—WalteriOttey, a respeetable-look-
ing young man, who stated himself to be an apprentice
on board the Hydaspes steam-ship, belonging to the
General Screw Steam-ship Company recently returned
from the Crimea, and lying in the Southampton docks,
was brought before Mr. Combe charged on suspicion of
stealing a valuable five-pointed naval telescope.
The manager to Mr. Barnett, a respectable pawn-
broker in the Borough-road, said that on the 31st of
July the prisoner entered the shop and presented the
telescope in pledge for 255. Witness examined it, and
finding it to be very valuable he asked him where he
got it. He replied that his uncle gave it him, and that
his mother knew that he was about to pledge it. Wit-
ness asked him where his mother lived, when he gave
a direction in the Old Kent-road. However, not
being satisfied that all was correct, be told him he would
advance him the sum required if he brought his mother
with him. He then left the shop, and not returning
witness gave information to the police. Inquiries
were made at the ada.lress he had given, and that was
ascertained to be false. Nothing more was heard of him
until Tuesday morning, when a female came to the shop
and asked for the telescope, stating that the prisoner
bad sent her for it. She gave the same address that be
bad, and witness told her that he should detain her un-
til she gave information where the prisoner was waiting
for her. A policeman was in attendance, and shortly
afterwards the prisoner was taken into custody.
Edwin Coleman, 53 M, said be was called in by last
witness, and he detained the female until she told him
where to find the prisoner, who told him that he pur-
chased the telescope at sea for 103. and five ounces of
tobacco. The telescope, almost a new one, in a leather
case, wad here produced. It had the maker's name,
Marratt, 63, King William-street, engraved on it.
In answer to the magistrate, the prisoner said it was
true what he had told the constable.
Mr. Combe remanded him to enable the officers to
make some inquiries about the telescope.

Mr. Poland for the prosecution called several witnesses
in support of the above facts.

Mr. Ribton for the prisoner took technical objections
relative to the proof of petitioning creditor's debt, and
the notice of bankruptcy being properly served on the
prisoner, which the learned judge overruled. The learned
gentleman then addressed the jury, contending that ac-
cording to the terms of the prosecut)rs trading, it had
not been shown that the prisoner was really indebted to
him in the amount claimed, and that consequently the
declaration of bankruptcy was illegal. He disc'aimed
on the part of the prisoner any intention to defraud his
creditors.

After some remarks in reply from Mr. Poland,
His lordship summed up. The law madeit an offence
in a person not surrendering after an adjudication, and
it was no question for a jury to consider whether or not
the prisoner had been properly adjudged a bankrupt.
He was of opinion that the offence had been proved by
the evidence, and that the prisoner was indebted to the
prosecutors in the sum of 571.

The jury found the prisoner guilty.
Sentence deferred.

MANSLAUGHTER,-John Dunning, 24, fisherman, was
indicted for feloniously killing and slaying Francis
Toorules.

Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clarke prosecuted ; Mr. Robin-
son defended the prisoner.

It appeared that the prisoner and deceased formed part
of the crew of the Royal Tar fishing smack, of Barking.
On the 11th July the smack was off the coast ot Hol-
land, and the master having left the smack to procure
provisions, the prisoner, deceased, and Charles Turner,
mate of the smack, went on board a Dutchman, where
they drank freely a quantity of spirits, and were much
intoxicated. They returned to the smack, bringing
with them some spirit they bad had given them on board
the Dutchman, and repaired to the cabin to partake of
it. Whilst there Dunning left the cabin, took a bottle
of naphtha from the hatches, and returned and sprinkled
it over the deceased. Shortly after his clothes were
on fire, and be was burnt so badly that he was sent home
to BArkurry the following day. He suffered very much,
and lingered until the 26th July, when he died. The
men were all so much intoxicated that they were
unable to give an accurate account of the trans-
action, and the boy who " was half asleep and half
awake at the time " of the occurrence was unable
to say how the fire happened. When be saw deceased
on fire he was lying on a settle in the cabin, near
an oil lamp, and prisoner was sitting by him. Brown,
the eldest apprentice, appeared to be the only sober
person on board at the time, and being alarmed by the
boy, he went to the cabin and roused the men, all of
whom appeared to be insensible. They contrived
to get on deck, and then Brown threw water over
deceased and extinguished the fire. Prisoner, the fol-
lowing day, said ho had no recollection of the circum-
stances, and the deceased told the master of the smack
that he did not know how it happened.
liis Lordship said there was no evidence against the
prisoner to show that he set fire to the man, and he
directed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty.

The jury returned a verdict accordingly, on which
His Lordship addressed the prisoner, saying he hoped
this would be a warning to him, and that he would not
get drunk again.
The prisoner evidently mistook the verdict for one
of guilty, and fainted away in the dock. On his re-
covery he was disoharged, and left the court with his
friends.

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