The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-27 00:00:00

chattels John James
:Moore, seM4 tivht-
the principal in the late tea 7wa
possessed of at thedate of the .*--'ll4Liateo f i fey
sketch .of the proceedings is taken fitalatharortgin
'Whig:
4; Mr. William Wellington Godfrey was examined.
by Mr. Smith as to the nature of Moore's property.
He said that Moore.was the tenant of a house,
stores, and bonded warehouse in Skipper-street,
but his interest in that he considered to be merely
nominal. In the front office of the shop there were '
24 bags of cloverseed; worth about 1001. ; there
were in the bonded warehouse 137 packages of tea,
the value of which, without the duty, he estimated
at about 600/. He could not tell whether that tea
was Moore's own ; but, finding it there, he took for
granted, until the contrary had
been proved, that
it was Moore's. There were in the yard six casks
of starch, which he valued at 18/. There were two
packages of coffee, valued for about 15/. He coast
dered the furniture, gas-fittings, desks, &e., in the
house, worth about 401. So far as he could ascertain
from Moore's books, between bills or one thing or
another, there was about 1,0001. due to Moore, but
he could not state what claims might be against
him. In the whole, the property supposed- to
belong to Moore amounted to 1,7731. He did
not know that there was any balance to Moor's
credit in the bank. Mr. George Carruthers being
examined, stated that Mr. Geoghegan, of the
Bank of Ireland, held a security
of Moose's for •
700/., on which 1407 had been advanced. Mr.
Geoghegan said it could not be expected that 'he
would deliver up this document till all the bills
drawn by Moore had been_ paid, but he thought
they all would be paid. In answer to Mr. Oar-
ruthers,-Mr. Godfrey said, that 256 packages of tea
had been-moved by the Customs' authorities from
Moore's bonding stores to the Custom-house stores.
These 256 packages were valued for about 1,0001.
Mr. Young inquired why the Customs' authorities
took away these 256 packages and allowed 137 to
remain in Moore's store 4 Mr. Godfrey replied,
that it was because the former were warehoused by
Moore, while the latter were not. Mr. Smith said.
that by the Customs' laws the authorities considered
the 256 p tukages forfeited. A qu-stion was then
raised by Mr. Young and other jurors as to whe-
ther certain wines, brandies, (Sm. bel.'ngiug to Mr.
Samuel Gelstou, and warehoused in a store of
Moore's rented by Mr. Geloon, and of which he
kept the key, should not, prima facie, he con-
sidered as Moore's property as well as the teas
found in Moore's stores, and ultimately it was
ruled that they should he so co7,sliered. Mr. Gel.
ston, who at first refus9d to attend the inquisition,
ultimately came, at the request of the sun-sheriff.
He said he knew nothing of Moore, and declared
that he could not form any estimate of the value of
his wines and spirits, but they were worth,-he
should say, at all events, 2,0001. The jury ulti-
mately found that there were 256 packages of tea
in the Custom-house, removed from Moore's store,
of the value of 1,000/. ; that there was at present
in the hands of the manager of the Bank of Ireland
a ce t tin security or charge on lauds in Ireland, on
which the directors of the Bank of Ireland have a
lien, and which the jurors valued at 700/., less
140/., leaving 560/. as a balance ; and the jurors
further said that, at the time of taking the inqui-
sition, there were certain wines and spirits in a
cellar of the said John James Moore's store, which
wines and spirits have been claimed by Samuel
Geleton as having been bonded by hie), and in his
name, and they found that these wines and spirits
were of the value of, and did appraise them at the
sum of, 2,000/."

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DUBLIN, MONDAY EVENING.
THE BItOADSTONE TRAGEDY.

The Crown has sustained another defeat in the
attempt to make James Spollen amenable to jas•
Coe.

The commission was opened to-day before Barons
Greene and Richards, and the Utter having deli-
vered his charge, the grand jury retired to consider
the several bills sent up before them. After an
absence of about two hours, they returned into
court, and the foreman announced that they had
found "No bill" in the case of James Spollen,
charged with the robbery of the late Mr. Little.
Spollen is to be discharged from custody in the
ordinary course at the close of the commission;
and so ends the Broadstone tragedy.