New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-03-11
Court OF GENERAL sEssIoEs-MARcH lO.-Beh
Recorder HoYF,fAN

COURT OF GENERAL sESsIoNs-MARoH lo-Bef0re
James johnson and John Dunford pleaded
guilty Of forgery in the fourth degree demanded.
c.ny in having stolen piece Of dry goods from the store OF
Messr.. Lord Taylor. Reuanded
sweeuy and pnen Shea on the lat OF January last Re
In the matter Of Felix Delacroix. The patriarch"
Of Ludlow street Jail has been released The defendant was
in July 1867 the suit Of Joseph Dusor and hed
bail by order from the Supreme Court IN 5000 upon
plaintiff for absconding April 1861 from Mons Belgium
whsre he carrying the business Of Banker with about
1sposing Of property with intent to desud h- creditors
The case form smother has been before almost
Jsdge In the State during tine past year
and that defendant has been in jail eleven mo-
and a 3 Ss's .sS E.'sf S
Recorder The plaintiff was scented by Mesrs spt-
sron He was hr.t represented by Messr- BURNER and
Clinton aerwaTd by hessrs Eschsrege Edwards Cook and
punuins and hnsly BY he''r' James NJ. Smith and h0Fa0
Judgment was entered against the defendant in May 1893
10, $40 ls4 execution issued against his person The
application before the Recorder for the petitioners
Hchss a. an noyent and imprisoned debtor under tie 9Th
article Of % Rs's BEEN s S%s Ss @ fo p % y
before the Recorder which has been borne
with gree; fortituds considering there ave no emomens
TO him tor zach services The Recorder granted the de-
endan, di'charse yesterday His opinion is as follows:
"Th, hr u which DeaeroX penib.r at Mons ow ed
Ms DeIoI alarre sum ofmoney The evidence e,ab.he.
Of the fr assets paid to his wife money nearly suf
c-ni pay the debt OF tie rr to her On tbeir arrival
Penus yvania, IN the Of NJ de Wilde. which
Dels.o'x hsl assumed On the previous application before
Tor cschAIge denied the apple alton, because the
petitioner had included JIM his schedule Of a.sets the Cory
property. held that the legal title be;ug in him under his
he bound To state II in his schedule ard
bis Wife, equities she had any. could be established in
suit between her and the as Before my decision
made aud pending the former application before the Cory
pro pey sold aud the proceeds Of paid 10 petitioners
This unwise aud illadysed in MY judgment;
bu, do not that IL affect the law oil this
case OF the disposition I ought to make 81 It,
On this second application the petitioner has stated fully in
hs hdue that the property Ia Cory bad been sold aud the
proceeds received by his wife Upon his examination before
he stated upon information derived from his wife that
she had expended all In payment Of debts and
family sIp-nses &c. He had right 20 have his wife
sned his behalf but his counsel produced her before
be examined by the contestants they desired 80 to DO
They declined TO examine her, think under these ccun
ought upon the evidence that this money
has all been expended In the manner stated II was that
expenditure legitimate The petitioner Is fraudulent
debtor beyond doabt. He ia fugitive from home,
not such commend him much favor. lie has. how
yersy nj. money gone with his reputation and his home
for long time hAs been prison But Il TO
that in b. j. entitled 10 BIZ. discharge, because cannot
say upon the evidence tina, he hiss any property which
forth IN his schedule that he has made any
Of his te beneh Of himself family
or TO derand his creditors Nor has he compromised with
any Of in order 10 obtain his discharge His one
within the sAtse The law does not contemplate that
drhor however fraudulent he have been Is to be forever
aud tbint this must have the discharge
he a.ks for