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London, England, 1844-12-25 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 24.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Dec. 24.

IN RE LEWIS JACESON RANDALL.

This insolvent was opposed by Mr. Cooke, on be-
half of Sr. Riches. He was supported by Mr. Wood-
ruffe. _ _ .

The ease was before the Court on the 19th instant,
when the opposition was raised on the ground that
Mr. Riches had supplied the insolvent with money to
purchase furniture, which he was to sell, and retain
two-thirds of the profit, repaying to Mr. Riches the
capital snd the remaining one• third of the profit.
The insolvent in July, 1843, claimed the furniture
as his own, and the creditor in consequence brought
an action to recover 1101., but he only obtained a ver-
dict for 50/., at a cost of 931. 19s. law expenses.
The insolvent, in reply, alleged that the furniture
was really his own, and that the only occasion on
which he represented it to be Mr. Riches's, was in
consequence of an arrangement to defeat an execution
from the Court of Requests. Ilis books would show
that the property was his own.
Mr. COOKE then offered to rest his case on the in-
solvent's books, which were in the possession of an
attorney, who had a lien on them.
To-day some books were produced, and certain
items in one of them were alleged by the opposing
creditor to have been altered from the original entries.
In one case a sum of 3s. had been altered to 131. 135.;
another sum, originally 35., had become 6/. 3s. ; and
one of 6s. now appeared to Le 3/. 65.
A clerk to insolvent's former attorney deposed to
having seen another book, not now produced.
The insolvent denied ever having had any such
book, and declared that Mr. Riches was a debtor to
him to the extent of 200/. The items denied by the
opposing creditor were sums paid to him by insolvent,
on account of distresses made for him on account of
Dr. Moseley. Some of the money was paid into Mr.
Riches's bank, to support a floating sum ofso/., which
he was required to keep there. The banker's book
of the creditor was produced, but no entries were
there to be found, corresponding with the insolvent's
statement.

Mr. Coors urged that this case was one of the
greatest fraud. The insolvent had alleged that the
verdict against him had been obtained by means of
perjury, and had dealt out insinuations on all sides.
The books produced to-day evinced a greater amount
of crime than had been originally charged to him.
Altogether it was one of the grossest cases of fraud
and falsification of books that had lately come before
the Court. The suppression of another book was
sworn to by two parties, and, therefore, on both
grounds he (Mr. Cooke) prayed a severe remand.
Mr. WooDRVFPE having addressed the Court for
the insolvent,
The CurEr COMMISSIONER said he did not feel him-
self justified in remanding the insolvent for a breach
of trust, but during his long experience in this Court
he had never known a more premeditated concealment
of books. There was also clear proof of falsification,
one of the greatest offences mentioned in the Act of
Parliament. The insolvent has endeavoured to sup-
port his false allegations to the very last. The judg-
ment of the Court was, that he be remanded for 14
calendar months from the date of his vesting order.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
BOW-STREET.
A stout, well-dressed man, who stated that his
name was Bentley, was placed at the bar, charged
before Mr. Jardine with having behaved in a riotous
manner in a public-house in Holywell-street, Strand,
and also with having used the most insulting language
to the police at the station-house in Bow-street.
It appeared that the prisoner had at an early hour
this morning driven up in a cab, accompanied by a
woman, whom he represented to be his wife, and
celled for a glass of brandy and water. The brand
and water was taken out by the barman, upon which
the driver tendered sixpence in payment. The barman
said the price was a shilling, but if they would not
have it he would take it back. The prisoner said,
" Oh yes, I'll have it," and immediately knocked the
glass out of his hand and broke it. He then behaved
in so riotous a manner as to cause a considerable
crowd of persons to assemble, and preferred a charge
against one of having struck him. The parties imme-
diately proceeded to the station-house, and the charge
was made out, but when called upon to sign it the
prisoner refused to do so, saying " he would see the
inspector d—d first." The consequence was that the
charge was not taken, and the prisoner was ultimately
locked up.
Mr. JARDINE told the prisoner that his conduct
had been very gross, and asked him his station in
society, with a view to ascertaining what amount of
fine he should inflict.

The prisoner, in a haughty and rather insolent
manner, replied, " I am a gentleman."
Mr. JARDINE-Then I shall sentence you to seven
days' imprisonment in the House of Correction.—(A
laugh.)
The mode of dealing with the case was evidently
one which the " gentleman " had never anticipated;
and, in homely phrase, he appeared " struck all of a
heaj."

Yesterday Robert Hobson, the post-office keeper of
Walthamstow, who was brought up on Wednesdt.y
for embezzling ls. 10d., the postage of a letter ad-
dressed to Calcutta, was again placed at the bar to
answer further charges of detaining newspapers.
Mr. Peacock attended for the prosecution, and Mr.
J. C. Evans, a barrister, conducted the defence.
Peake, the constable, having produced several num-
bers of the Times, of recent dates, which he had found
with other newspapers in the prisoner's house when
searching it, under the direction of Mr. W. R. Scul-
thorpe, on Tuesday week,
Mr. R. Lloyd Pinching, a surgeon, residing in
Walthamsrow, identified five copies of the Times,
dated October 29, November 4, November 5, De-
cember 3, and December 12, the direction on each of
which was in his own handwriting. 'They were ad-
dressed to his sister, to Dr. Ross, and other parties
resident in Ireland, to whom he was in the habit of
sending his papers. Some of them had been posted
by himself, but a lad in his service generally took
them to the post-office, at the prisoner's shop. To
the best of his (witness's) belief; the papers produced
were directed and sent at different periods.
William East, a servant to Mr. Pinching, deposed
to having posted the Times newspaper, by his master's
direction:, at the prisoner's shop. He had generally
put them in the letter-box, but had, on some occa-
sions, a few months back, taken them into the shop
when they had been too bulky to go through the aper-
ture outside. They were always, at those times, de-
livered to the prisoner, or one of his sons or daughters.
Mr. Pinching stated that the address on each paper
was written upon the margin instead of an envelope,
for which a piece of string was substituted.
The constable said, that when the prisoner was re-
quested to account for the possession of the papers, he
replied, that he had lately purchased a quantity of
waste paper, and supposed they must have come
with it.

Another case of a similar nature was proved by the
evidence of a young woman named Eliza Antony, a
servant at IValthatristow, who identified a paper which
she had directed to a sister in Monmouthshire, and
the envelope of which was found in the prisoner's
bed-room.

Mr. JARDINE, after hearing the prisoner's counsel,
determined on committing him for trial, both for the
embezzlement and the misdemeanour.
Mr. J. C. Evans hoped that bail would be taken,
in consideration of the respectability of the prisoner,
whose wife and large family were dependent on his
exertions in business. The Rev. J. Freeman, of Wal-
thamstow, with other parties of equal respectability,
would, he said, be his sureties to any reasonable
extent.
Mr. JARDINE said he could not make any distinc-
tion in the case, and must therefore refuse the appli-
cation, so far as it related to the embezzlement.
The prisoner was then removed from the bar.
The second half of " E. C.'s" donation of a 51. note
has duly reached the office.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday James Green, a well-dressed middle-
aged man, of most determined aspect, and Ann Green,
his daughter, a little girl eleven rears of age, were
charged before Mr. Bingham with having been found
engaged in the manufacture of a large quantity of
spurious money; and also with having committed a
murderous assault upon two of the officers of the G
division of police.
It appeared from the evidence of Sergeant Bran-
nan, who was in such a state of suffering as to be
scarely capable of giving his evidence, that having re-
ceived information the prisoner was closely connected
with an extensive gang of coiners who had recently
put into circulation a large amount of spurious
money, he proceeded, between nine and ten o'clock
on the previous evening, accompanied by Cole, a
constable of the same division, to the house of the
prisoner in Bath-court, City-road. On knocking, the
door was opened by the younger prisoner, who, the
instant she saw the officers, called loudly to her
father ; on which the male prisoner suddenly made
his appearance at the top of a flight of stairs commu-
nicating with a room into which the street-door
opened. Witness rushed up the stairs in the hope of
seizing the man, and had reached within three steps
of the landing, when the prisoner exclaimed, " You've
not got me yet, Brannan, you b - thief," ar.d,
springing at him, struck him such a violent blow in
the chest with his feet, that he was instantly hurled
from the top of the stairs to the room telow, where
his spine came in contact with the edge of a chair,
and the prisoner, who was unable to check his own
impetus, fell with his whole weight upon the lower
part of the officer's body. Cole then seized the pri-
soner, and a severe struggle ensued between them,
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culation. The zirl, a determined little vixen, then broke
from his grasp and hastened up stairs, followed by the
witness, who found her engaged in picking up a great
number of base coins which were strewn about the
table. While the witness was securing this spurious
money the male prisoner, followed by Cole, burst
into the room, and seizing a large glass bottle fink d
with vitriol, dashed it at the officers, and a large
quantity of the burning liquid was in consequence
flung over their hands, faces, and the upper parts of
their persons. While the officers were in this con-
dition, the male prisoner pulled from under his apron
a bag filled with counterfeit coin and handed it to
the girl, desiring her to get rid of it; but the witness
Brannan succeeded in getting it from her and secur-
ing the other false coin on the table, the whole toge-
ther amounting to more than a hundred shilling and
bait crown pieces. The witness and Cole then
searched the room, which was fitted up like a regular
workshop, with work-bench and every description of
tools, among which were two very curiously manu-
factured implements, consisting each of a bright
double metal plate, 6 inches by 3, Rad furnished with
screws and nuts, for the purpose of securing the coin
tightly during the application to it of plating-liqaids
and acids, several bottles of which were found in the
apartment. The prisoner, it appeared never cast the
coins himself, but received them in a roughly manu-
factured state from other members of the gang, by
whom he was employed in finishing them and render-
ing them complete for circulation. Brannan said,
that during his struggle with the prisoner, the inju-
ries he had received were of such a serious nature,
that he was apprehensive he should feel the effects of
them as long as he lived.
Cole, the other officer, whose hands and wrists ap-
peared severely scorched and swollen, corroborated the
sergeant's evidence, and stated, that while he was en-
gaged in the struggle with the prisoner, the latter set
a bull-dog upon him, which bit and clung to him
with such pertinacity, that he had the greatest diffi-
culty in beating it off. Both the officers described
the resistance offered by the male prisoner as being
the most desperate they ever encountered, and said
that he was most actively aided in it by his daughter,
who exhibited a degree of violence scarcely credible
for a child of such tender years.
The male prisoner, in defence, declared that the
whole of the articles found by the police had been left
at his house only an hour previously by a man who
had promised to call for them a short time afterwards,
and that he was wholly innocent of any guilty use of
them.

Sergeant Brannan intimated to the magistrate that
he was satisfied, from the information he had re-
ceived, the prisoner had been carrying on this system
of fraud for a long time past, and that about a year
ago the prisoner's youngest child, a little girl about
two years old, had lost its life in consequence of
drinking some of the burning liquids used by the pri-
soner in the process of manufacturing the base coin,
the prisoner at the coroner's inquest accounting for
the little creature's death by a statement precisely si•
miler to that he now made.

Mr. BINGHAM expressed great regret at the inju-
juries the officers had sustained, and ordered both
prisoners to be remanded for a week, that the solicitor
to the Mint might attend and prosecute the case
against then.