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London, England, 1844-09-14 00:00:00

apprehension and commitment for trial if the crime
had" been there committed." Now, we know of no
such offence abstractedly as "fraudulent bankruptcy,"
and the difficulty which presents itself is simply
whether the offence charged should not be one which
is cognisable by our laws in order to give the magis-
trates jurisdiction and power to commit to gaol.
Mr. James—lf that were the case, it would en-
tirely subvert the intention of the Legislature in pass-
ing the Act of Parliament.
Alderman Ginns—lt appears to me that the of-
fence proved should be one upon which we have
power to adjudicate here.
Mr. James--What is the meaning of the term
" fraudulent bankruptcy" in the Act of Parliament ?
It must either mean nothing at all, or that if a man
commit that crime in France which is known to their
laws, and if discovered in this country, he should be
delivered over to the French authorities. We must
put a liberal meaning upon the Act, and thus carry
out the intention of the original framers of it.
The LORD MATOR—I do not hesitate to grant a
warrant in such a case. I think lam perfectly ius-
tified in taking an extended and liberal view of the
Act of Parliament; for it is obvious what th( inten-
tion of the Legislature was, although that in eot
may be somewhat mystically explained. I grant the
warrant, under all the circumstances.
The warrant was then put in the hands of aini. 1
Forrester, the officer.
BOW-STREET.

Yesterday Emily Brochwell, a servant in the em-
ploy of Mr. Fairbrother, printer. No. 31. Bug-street,
was brought before Mr. Jardine, charged with having
stolen 1001. in gold, the property of Mr. -Milian
Cunningham.
She did not appear more than fourteen years of
age, and cried bitterly.
It appears that Mr. Cunningham rents the tip
floor of the house occupied by . ;r. Fan-brother,
and on Friday morning, at a quarter to nine o'clock,
his wife missed a purse containing 1001. in sove-
reigns, from a drawer in her bureau in her chamber.
Information was immediately given at the police-
office in Bow-street, and in the afternoon constable
Pocock, of the F division, proceeded to the h,,use,
and asked some questions of the prisoner, as well as
the other domestics. She repeatedly declared she had
not touched the money, and left the room crying.
While the officer was talking with her master (Mr.
Fairbrother), she returned with a small bag of printed
cotton hanging over her finger, and handed it to Po-
cock, saying she had found it in the water-closet. On
opening it and counting it, it was found to contain
1001. 10s., being ten shillings more than Mrs. Cun-
ningham had missed. On going to the water-closet
Pocock found the purse, out of which the money had
been emptied, and which was sworn to by Mr. Cun-
ningham.
The prisoner said she knew knothing more of it,
than that she had found the money in the water-
closet while cleaning it out.
Mr. JARDINE remanded her for further examination.
CLERKENWELL.

Robert Nunn was charged with assaulting his fa-
ther and mother, George and Harriette Nunn, re-
spectable persons living in Torrington-street, Tor-
rington-square, and also with threatening the life of
his mother.
It appeared from the statement of the parents that
the prisoner was two years Ago apprenticed to an ex-
cellent business, but had not been there more than a
few months when he came home and entreated of his
parents to send him to sea. They accordingly fitted
him out for sea at considerable expense, but he re-
turned home after the first voyage,. and became so
dissolute that there was no restraining him. He
spent whole nights on the town, and when he re-
turned home, if either of his parents ventured to re-
monstrate with him, used the most shocking lan-
guage, and sometimes beat them severely. A second
time, at his request, they sent him to sea, but in a
few weeks he came home ten times more depraved
than he had ever been before. He was convicted at
this Court, on a previous occasion, of a most agra-
vated assault on his mother. On the previous night
they deposed that he came in about eleven o'clock.
She told him he should have been in sooner. He in-
stantly ran over to the bed on which she was lying
and struck her a violent blow, producing a severe
contusion on her left temple. He then left the house,
and when outside aimed a blow with a tile at his
father, who was sitting at the parlour window. The
missile struck him in the hand. He threw another
tile at him, but it did not take effect.
Mr. COMBE—What have you to say to this? Pri-
soner—l don't know that I hurt them.
Mr. COMBS sentenced him to pay a fine of 51., or
two months' imprisonment.
He was committed. On his way from the Court
to the cell he whistled a merry tune.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Alfred Walker, bug destroyer, who stands charged
with having stolen upwards of 5001. in money, and
some jewellery, the property of Mrs. Tarbox, the
housekeeper, from the residence of the Earl of Har
rowby, in Grosvenor-square, was yesterday brought
before Mr. Hardwick for another examination.
Mr. Pelham, who attended for the prosecution,
said as he was not in a situation to produce additional
evidence, because the police had not as yet suffi-
ciently matured their investigation, he must, in order
that the ends of justice might be attained, ask for
another remand for a short period.
Mr. Crouch, who appeared fur the prisoner, ob-
jected to the application. The obiect of Mr. Pelham
might be justice, but there was justice due to the
prisoner as well as the Earl of Harrowby. The pri-
soner had now been in custody for some weeks. The
evidence at the outset was inconclusive, and the last
examination tended to exonerate the prisoner from
even the suspicion which' the evidence at the com-
mencement might have raised. Under these circum-
stances he felt justified in asking the Court to release
his client from custody.
Mr. HARDWICK said, where justice required it, he
had not hesitated to remand an accused person for
several weeks, although no fresh evidence might have
been produced at each examination. There was grave
suspicion against the prisoner, supported by evidence
of no mean weight, added to which there was the
fact of the prisoner having previously been tried at
Newgate on a similar charge. These circumstances
amply justified the police in asking for a remand from
time to time, and the Court in acceding to the appli-
cation. If the police came forward and declared that
further time was necessary, he should listen to the
application.
Inspector Pearce, of the detective force, said he had
the strongest reason last week for believing that he
should have been in the possession of such evidence as
would have proved of a conclusive character. He
had been disappointed, but there was still a possi-
bility if the prisoner was remanded for a few days that
something might yet be done.
Mr. HARDWICK said he would remand the prisoner
until Thursday next.
In the course of the proceedings the solicitor of the
Earl of Harrowby, who attended on the former occa-
sions, stated that the Earl of Harrowby was not the
prosecutor, but that the whole of the proceedings ori-
ginated with Mrs. Tarbox.
An application was made on behalf of the prisoner
for the money found beneath his bed, as it was neces-
sary to have funds in order to carry on hi.. defence.
Mr. HARDWICK, after hearing the circumstances
under which the money was discovered, was of opinion
that its detention would not assist the case, and,
therefore, directed the amount to be delivered to the
prisoner.

A paragraph was copied from an evening news-
paper of Thursday to the effect that a Frenchman
had been dreadfully wounded by a Pole, who had me-
ditated the assassination of his victim. The details are

I little better than a fabrication. The simple facti,,
that a quarrel took place in a public-house, and the
complainant, who was at this Court on Thursday,re-
' ceived a few scratches of no moment, for which an
assault summons was granted.
QUEEN-SQUARE.
Martha Grant, alias Boddington' Eliza Harris,
Eliza Smith, William Lear, and Edward Collins,
with George Boddington, who has since surrendered,
the persons charged with being concerned in the late
' mysterious affair at Westminster, underwent a very
lengthened examination.
The circumstances under which the prisoners were
apprehended were of a most suspicious character.
Alfred Dark, a man described as a journeyman raker,
but who was well known to have been connected with
play men and others of a lawless character, and who
had left London on the Saturday previous with
George Boddington on a country excursion, was dis-
covered on the afternoon of Monday week last lying
dead in a house in Orchard-street, Westminster. As
he had evidently met his death by a gun-shot wound
in the arm, and as his property had been removed
I from the residence he occupied, at No. 3, York-ter-
race, Pentonville, the impression on the mind of the
police was, that he had met his death unfairly, and
had then been plundered by his associates. Dark had,
it appeared, separated from his wife about eighteen
months ago, and, although he allowed her a guinea
per week for her maintenance, cohabited with a
female named Eliza, and the police were much
strengthened in their suspicions by the circumstance
of this female having been found at the house where
Dark's remains were, added to the circumstance of
its having been denied to a person who made appli-
cation on the subject that Dark was dead at all.
These and some other points all confirmatory of
strong suspicion induced the apprehension of the pri-
soners, who were all found at the house in Orchard-
street, and some of whom were proved to have as-
sisted in the removal of the goods to a beer-snop,
where they were discovered. On the first hearing a
certificate from a coroner at Newbury, for the inter-
ment of the body of Alfred Dark, was produced, and
the police having begged time to inquire into the
genuineness of the document, the accused were re-
manded, but admitted to bail, in consequence of the
defence set up, having been that they were removing