Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1869-03-13
AUGHr IN The ,UiLS UAlIED
STATES DISTRICT COURT.

It ia amusing t, See how the thieves OF
the bankruptcy Ring" the Whisky
Ring" aud other " Rings" wri9gle AMI
visit when they iud themselves caught
10 the tolls and the lines Of circumvali"-
ton are being drawo around them. aud
exposures are about to be made. Al
instance of this occurred in the United
States District Court on Monday last,
when tho case of +. E. Norton. General
Assignee in Bankruptcy. agaist Sosthenr
Allain and wife, was called. This casr
came up on . rule to act aside certain or
(ders of the court which AIlaia alleged
bad been issued unadvisedly.
TIE facts are these ; and when we say
that the bankruptcy Of A. 5. Mansfield
was in question aud that d. D. Stone was
mixed up 10 it. members of the bar will
know that rich developments may b.
expected.
There we're negotiations last year be-
tween Messrs. Allan aid Mansfield for
the purchase BY the latter If the formers
plsntation in West Baton Rouge. These
negotiations, however, stopped short Uf
an actual purchase.
Since they were carried on. Mansfield
has declared himself = bankrupt, ami his
estate has been tskeo .possession Of by
E. E. Morton, general assignee and Chief
Of the Bankruptcy Ring" Mansfield.
On filing y schedule Of his property. did
not even pretend to v the Allan plan
tatiou. 1t il not to he found IN thu sch+d-
nie. Bot Mr.. H. D. Stone like William
Of Orange, when be landed ut Torbay, in
England, and said to the people come
tor alI your goods has c,me from Mas.
sschusetts, it would appear, for all the
goods Of the people Of Louisiana. Mr..
Stone sets up y mnst singular claim to
Mr.. Adams property. His prelension is
really amusing. He alleges he ohtsinrd
it from Mansfield in payment OF profess
ional services %(detending him. it is sup.
posed. against that bsrratry sccusatio"
Of last year-the casting away Of a
steamship for the purpose Of recovering
the %iusurauce). Mr.. Stone therefore sp-
piled for and obtained from Judge DureiI
|a~t summer 10 injunction to prevent the
Sheriff from selling the property under n
writ issuing from q State Court. An
injunction was accordingly issued on bis
psrte application on behalf of Norton.
assignee. 1t is alleged that 10 petition
or st6nsvit was fled to obtain this wri,
iDjunctioo-a writ than which there il
o important-none which entails
more serious coDseq"eD noes to the parties
concerned, and no notice Was given to any
one. 10 December Mr.. Stone again sp-
piled to the Court aud obtained on bis
rx'psrte application and without notice
any one, without affidavit or any other
proof to sustain it, an order enabling him
to control certain portions of the property.
10 the meantime, Cakes Ames, y large
creditor Of Msns6eld's, tried to purchas.
Mr.. Allan and his wife their title to
he property. Failing 10 this, q motion
made BY Norton, assignee, through
Stone, before Judge DureIl, to sell tie
property as if the ownership Of it we're in
and for the purpose Of putting
he proceeds in Norton's hsuds.
This motion is resisted by Judge John
A. Campbell and Gen. Harry 7. Hays,
Gums for Allan aud wife. The rule to
yet aside these proceedings, came ID for
argument, as We have said, on Monday
asst. 1t was plainly seen that the coun
rel for Mansfield, Norton, Stone and
)skes Ames (Merrick aud Billioes) were
Tor time, a common trick Of
Awycrs who have . bad cause. On the
tbsr hand the counsel for Allan was
'%erfectly ready to 90 Oh with the trial. {
'e'ay was granted aud the Judge assign q
d next Monday evening, at I p. M, for ,
be trial Of the motion. ].
The attorneys for the assignee, desiring I
. smother it. asked f,r . private discus !
IN Chamber, go that the public .
hon'd know nothing Of these attemp,s
t robbery by the Bankruptcy Ring
Judge refused this, xs be was bonnd !,
, DO, although he granted it substantial q
;, ana gave . very singular reason why n
t'ay might be accorded. He said tb+ o
was becoming more valuable
'ery day. That il NJ reason why
shonld delay justice ; and If his u
arrangement t" hear the argument IN this Il
lie III the evening was for the purpose.
Keeping the public from q knowl.dp~
the s~coundrelism and robbsries prsc. r
sed under cover Of official authority. the
'se will be met by a scrutiny which i,
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