The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-05 00:00:00

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The attention of tyre solicitor was called to two cases pre.
viously decided, which clearly showed the course -to be
adopted; but at the request of the solicitor, and to enable
him, if possible, to gainsay those authorities, and tooom-
municate with the trustees, which Mr. Banner else Vex-
pressed a wish to do, the sitting was adjourned until
Tuesday, when the matter might be deliberately argued.
argued by counsel, and an adjudication
place, under which a warrant:ives
which Thomas Margetts is new
the court. This history of the
cep necessary in consequence of that part
..ce set up by Mr. Bardswell, which consists of-a
-.ent to the effect that there was no deliberate inten-
ion to resist this court, 'but that orders had been long
previously given to close the gates effectually in re-
' an expected process and execution of som-
'ts, orders, be it observed, which,
this, court, or any other, reflect
upon any of the ,parties concerned, and the
which, as tending to a 1-- of tl-

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hiPs, when iron weapons were so close at hand, to the
a of life on the part of officers-charged with a civil pro-
s of one of Her Majesty's courts, will, I think, be repre-
, every right-minded person. The trustees and
Mr. Hassall, with the other gentleman, Mr.
Harmood Walcott Banner, had supple opportunity of
preventing such resistance as has 'keen offered to a process
of this court by the general order to barricade the pre-
mises of an insolvent trader, whose affairs they, or some
of them, knew full well had been submitted to the
control of this court two months ago. As the party
immediately charged with resistance, I have only to deal
'with the evidence as it affects him. Margetts is on
the premises when application for admission is made
by the messenger, who shows his authority, the
*arrant Margetts admits that he placed the men outside
the door, digering in his statement from that of the mes-
senger only as to the number of men, which, he says, did
not exceed seven, of whom, he further states, only one had
a spade, and another a lever. After he had received the
order from Mr, Hassall, brought by Scambler, the police-
man, which again proved the character in which Mr
Gaskill desired admittance, he still withholds admission,
the gates being salt barricaded, and additional resistance
being provided by means of a prop placed against the
door of the office ; which, when first visited by the mes-
senger, was fastened by lock and chains only. There is
no doubt that resistance, in this case, was made by Mar-
getts, independently of the last act, which' I don't press
against him, because the prop appears to have been placed
there by the doorkeeper, a person under him ; and that
such resistance amounted to contempt of this court. But
Ins conduct appears to have been partly influenced by a
very reprehensible order, some time since given, to barri-
railr the premises. The court will not deal towards him
as severe a measure of justice as it would have done under
other circumstances. On looking through the evidence,
I find that Margetts states that, after receiving the mes-
sage from Liverpool, he made no further resistance, but
that, on the contrary, he assisted 'one of the officers of the
court to enter.

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Mr. GASKILL. the messenger of the court, observed that
the statement was incorrect.
His HONOUR : Well, as the case has been disposed of, I
shall not allow that to influence the decision. I think
the justice of the case, so far as Margetts is concerned,
will be met by an order for his committal for three days,
or until this court, or the Lords Justices, or the Lord
Chancellor shall otherwise earlier order.

Mr. Evklis stated that the order for delivering up the
bankrupt's books, without prejudice to any lien which Mr.
Banner might have, had been responded to in this fashion ;
,a number of blank books had been delivered to the official
assigve, is which, they had not been able to discern one
account affecting the estate.

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