The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-27 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE
COURT OF BANKP UPTCY. Aug. 26.
( Bei,l • r. Corn miti•iiinier FANZ.)
IN RE ORKIDGIL.

ins.o7vent, ricserib,i as of Eetlstreet, Red Lion square,
was prosed by .I,lr. Nicholls on the ground that he described
li.msef as of no ha •iness or employment, yet in two years had
ecotraeted debts to the amount of 2.0001., for which, accord-
ing to the insolvent's own statement, he had not received any
cnnsideratien or ;any property to give up. The Learned Coun.
tel -utankitted that his statement alone excluded the insolvent
fri,ni the h rorfit of an interim order.
Mr. Du srca tc. for the insolvent, contended that as the Op-.
g creditor's d.bt had been incurred on bills discounted on
large trio rest of no less than 47 per cent., the insolvent was
not responsible to the (reposing creditor.
'the Leaned Coxmisstowea said, that he could not eon-
sider thei ndividual conduct of creditors, or whether the con-
d et of m.e hid assisted the prospects and back. d up assertions
of expec anctes of fuiure fortune. The lending money. and
assi.(ing persons to keep up appearances, might do so very un-
intentionally. The Court, however, had not to look to the
conduct r f creditors, but to that of debtors.
Mr. Dos CAN said the opposing creditor was a bill broker,
and insolvent had never misrepresented his expectations to
him ; and he (the creditor) had no right to come in and claim
for money advanced on such usurious interest.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said that facts might arise so
that any person advancing money might meet with punish-
ment ; but he mint hear the case.
The insolvent was sworn, and said that up to 1842 he had
been a merchant at Corfu. and since then a clerk in a mercan-
tile house, at a salary of 250/. a year ; and had on the death
of his father, on expectancies, had incurred tke debt. He,
however, had only received 3501., but always expected more.
!slr. DUNCAN again submitted that a person coming into
Court to oppos, must come with clean hands, and not with
pro (1 in his having taken 47 per cent.
'the Learned COMMISSIONER said, that if people were to
Zit. nil on expectancies, and their swearing to their belief,
there y.ould he no end to fraud. The insolvent was not justi-
fied in toaking such statements.
Mr. DoNc• )4 said that the proof of the insolvent believing
a fortune was cowling to him, was giving up his situation.
The COMMISSIONER said it was a proof of idleness.
The COMMISSIONER dismissed the petition, with leave to
apple for a protectional order on the Bth of February. The
insohmt will be confined in prison until that time.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
Bt fore Mr. Bailin PLATT. )
cAcr4. a Peden, is labourer, aged 30, was convicted of an un-
n ral °fit:nee upon a child of the age of nine years—and
Mr. Baron PLATT ordered sentence of death to be recorded
against him.
FORCERy.— rOliam Coleman Balls, 55, a printer, was in-
,dicted with felonioustj' forging a paper writing, purporting to
'se a rccoiiit for 301.. 1 a drfiaud John Rand7il and others.
Mr. Ball,ntine conducted the case for the prcsecution, and
'lie. O'Brien defended the prisoner.
Feoro the atatement of the Learned Counsel for the prosecu-
tion. and the evidence adduced, it appeared that the prisoner
had been the Secretary of the " Uniied Brothers' Birming-
ham Provident Sueiety" for live years, and that they deposited
their fund: with the Yitisbury Savings' Bank; that the society
held its rneeting4 at the City of London public-house, Sidney-
-4treet, Ci'y-ro:d, and the crisosier, as the
among which werethe secretary, kept and
had access. to all the books of 'be soct
book both of which were
the minute book and the depositors'
Bank, upon
required to be produced, at the Finsbur*'s".we
.ooricty. It
th,, withdrawal of any portion of the funds of .'ll4e
~A the
appeared that the prisoner according to the case ai..7.7"
Rat of the prosecution, by the secretary of the society.
to the sank, and gave notice of the withdrawal of the UL
M!:
istated in the ind ctment, and that at the expiration of the
,!;ce , ttn, money wk= recetvid by the prisoner, he t.irging
of the trus'ees to the rectip,. The facts of the case
tar, t. 'thin the last few day- been tufty eiven.
CYBNIEN th&n addre,std the jury un behalf of the

;orison .r.
The jury fuun,; the pri-or er Gui ty.
Mr. Hai on PLATT, to passing .enien^e, said that the offence
the prisoner had eourltit• etf war one of a very seriou4 charac-
ter. ire tAai the sect-oar, of a savings' bank, and by the act
be had toriminted, he had pint). ered the poor depositors of
A'qeir b:rrl , ato he sentence, therefore, necessarily
71,,,5r be a severe one. He then sentenced him to be transported
r ten

POLICE IN l ELLIGENCE.
\ S/011,- /MUSE

v ell-ciresseti Margaret Scott, was
w'Ait pavintr r.-)bed a cow:try gentleimin of a
;gorse coniainmg seven sovereigns and six half-so‘e-
r:•:gd,.
The case proved to be one of those robberies which
nightly talcs, place with the assistance of men, who are
al,ays at hand to receive the money stolen, sometimes
by v:o elce, sotneAtnes by ingenuity, from respectable

;person..
The complainant was returning to his inn from New-
street, at about eleven o'cl ck the night before,
when the prisoner b 4 gan to caper and dance before him.
His arnta.i.uneint at such an exhibition was so great that
he never observed the lady touching his person until his
watch was halt out of his pocket. A policeman (Kinsey,
656) however bad silently observed her pranks, and
rsusoecting that there was method in them watched her,
:and siien was convinced that she was manoeuvring the
utleman out of his property. The policeman had seen
2. s:)abby genteel fellow. with whom she had been im-
raerfLately before whispering, suddenly quit her com-
pany, and th ti saw h.r " acting a scene," as above
dr.ecrib-,li At leiigru she tumid up a court, and the
p.)liceman ran torAard aid took hold of her, and asked
the gentleman whether he had been robbed. "No,"
replied the latk?r, but upon putting his hand into his
pocket he at onco missed his purse, and then told the
`l3Oll eusLn lid" GA's sake to hold the woman fast. The
Trisor_er then dropped the purse which contained the
r.,overeigi:s arid iiiilf-sovereigns at the policeman's feet,
and was ccaveyed to the srtion-h.iu*e.
The prosecutor informed S r John Pirie that he was
y sober at the time 4;:" Vie occurrence, acid that
cotrpletely deceived by the uncle tricks of the
si) dill'ereat from the usml adoiiled by

per iet
he wN

man

_ „ act(' r.
S-r J. Pi HIE applawled the conduA of Vie policeman,
that he mutt s(nd h, prison, r for trial.. Be
that rol)b,..,cies were commit it-d in great numb,,ri
erg• I.lAitt b ti:e assists' at of the wale companions of
most abandoned women of the town.
...or wished to avoid the inconvenience to
the Central Criminal Court wcuid

her

roseet

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aid that 5n such a case it would be
most criminal to forego a preiecutiov, and committed the

. I</E

pri2l3,ler cur trial

A voung ruin, named Philip Brinkman, was brought before
sir 61mi:titan Niarshall, locum (earns for the Lard Mayor, in
the „„„„„iy of Harvey. a Metropolitan policeman ( 4 R).
.charged Lavic.ff, pawoird a number of gold and silver
NratPhes en!ria,teil to him to clean and repair. It appeared
t-ketm t ststi:ari-tit of the constable, that within these few-
mant'a,, C-te pri.-oner, on the tkatli of his father, a watchmaker
,of long standing suit repute in the City, had succeeded to his
•shich he carried toa at 13, Union-street, Bishopsgate.
On S..turday week, the constable stated, the prisoner wa. t•tund
o the steam. at Gieenwi‘h, it, a state of mAd
irrtnll-
e3.:,.;:,threatening to thr•tw his daughter, a child of about two
. ivilitm he hail ith hi .1, into the river. On being taken
i.e t-sist,ti etc hint and gitv: one of the co. stables
sever kicks And severe tAlls, but wa- at length o,erpnwereo
and tak. ti to the s at 0.,-hou.e at Greenwich, where, on being
atc-arehe.J. ti•teen pa.vtibrok.irs' duplicates, relating to various
;44.41 and silver wai-M,es :41,1 other valuabte prop, rty, were
laund on hi:n. W en brought before Air. Gr ,ves, on the fol-
iomog al ay. the prisoner was a-ked what he was, arid to
whom duricates found on him belonged. After some hesi-
ta: ion, h.- repheil that he was a watchmaker, and that the
refs-red to watches which hid been left with him to
repair, and which he had suhequently pawned. As, on ex-
iattntiation ..f the duplicates, almost all the articles were found
•to hs,,e b..en pawn din mond in, the prisoner was transferred
ito the City for the further investigation of the charges against

Tice first case entered into was that of Mr. Morris Hart, of
daydon-sqinste, who said that he had entrusted a silver
watch to the prisoner to be cleaned. It was the one produced
by the pawnbroker, who, it appeared, had advanced 20s. upon
it. He (the prisoner) could not tell the market value of the
watch, bit it was one above all value to him, as it had been
brqueatt ed to him by hia father. The pawnbroker said that it
vas worth about 3/.
The p isoner, who seemed to feel his melancholy situation.
said nothing in answer to the charge, and was in this case fined
twenty shillinp, together with the value of the watch, or in
detati!t of payment to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in
liridewell for three months; he was informed at the same time
that the magi-trate had au'hority, if he saw fit to exercise it, to
order the prisoner to be whipped at the expiration of his term
kif imprisonment. The investigation of the other charges
:axainst the prisoner was adjourned until Wednesday next, in
.coalsequence of the absence of witnesses, until which day he
was remanded. _ _ _

A sturdy fellow, named Marriott, one of the cadger tribe,
was placed at the bar, charged under the following
circum-tances : It appeared that Messrs. Christie,
the extensive hatters in Gracechurch-street. were
about to transfer one of their workmen from their
,establ,shinent at Manchester to London; but, being ap.
:prehensive that from the simplicity of the man he
;might meet with some mishap on his arrival in London,
ttliey had taken the precaution to furnish him with implicit
directions in writing as to the course he was to adopt en his
reaching the great metropolis. tie arrived, as he stated, by
the Parliamentary train, at Easton-square, and found himself,
about twelve o'clock at night, at the Spread Eagle, nearly
opposite his etnployees house, and was walking off with his
luggage, when the to ison,sr claw up and insisted on carrying
asti'e of his trunks. which the complainant declined; but, being
strongly pressed in the politest terms by the prisoner, he at
length reluctantly for a moment relinquished possession of the
-truck, the prisoner obser‘ing that be was well acquainted with
4.he rim ; instead, however, of conveying the property to its
slestinctieu, the prisoner immediately started off towards
Thames-street, where the countryman, perceiving that the
-rime did not correspond with that of the street to which he
had bea'n directed, called on the prisoner to halt, and taking
the trunk from him retraced his steps, and at length retched
his master's whither the prisoner followed him and demanded
In;irpence, as the price of his politeness, and declaring that. he
would have that sum or wise the box as a security for it.
:Fortunately at this moment one of Messrs. Christie's porters,
-Vito had been directed to await. the arrival of the complainant
at the door of their house, came forward and gave the prisoner
tutu the care of a policeman, when he modestly reduced his
clamn to twopence for showing the gentleman his way.
&1r C. Ma tastiAtt—What induced you, prisoner, to take
this poor fellow en ouch out of his road ? Prisoner—l
thought the gentignian might like to look at the monument, as
he was a stranger in London.

t'iir C.. 31AKSHA LL—Yes, you thought that the corn-
-021,,a,t, was a st-anger, and that is would therefore be an
act of kindness on your part to lighten him of his trunk;
bia,t.,4 it, i, my opinion that you intended to ,teal it. I
biiall and you to Ilridi well as a rogu, and vagabond for one
month.
short, resolute-htftking man. dressed like a sailor, was
charg,i,ci by Mr. Gedye, a victualler, of llucklersbury, with
ui,,ing threatening language to him in his house on Sunday
evening.
Gethe stat-d that the prisoner came into his house
and wked for money ; not considering him a proper object,
lac declined giving the prisoner anything, end desired him to
withdraw, when the prisoner refused, and he was obliged to
tutu him out. On tt:is the prisoner was very abusive, and
said that he
,hoped soon to see his (Mr. Getlye's) house in
the same eondtion oaßlistopiapt, he had lately come from,
that to say, iu flames. The prisoner had previously stated
;that he was b..rn at. and had recently left Pittsburgh, in
tthe United States, in which a most destructive fire had taken
;Aug.
:Sir C. MARSHALL 'aid that such conduct on the part of the
prisoner was inexeu,able, as in every case where a native of the
United States needed and had a just claim to assistance, the