Bristol, Wednesday, Sept....
The Times, 1824-09-10T00:00:00

kills was an inalctment against tise deten(tants tfr conspiring to defraud a Mr. Haythorn, a merchant of Bristol, of the sum of 1601. under these circumrtiance:.The defendant Bryant had connnitted an assault on Alr. Haythorn in 1822,fr which he proceeJed by actidn, and recovered damages, 1001. The tefendant was possessed af soine cottages near Bristol, and other property, on wvhich ex-cution on the jrdgment c *uld be levied; but before thc period arrived when exe- cution could be sited out, the tlefendant. with a man named WVilcox Sims, and several others, conspired to fbricate a -ced of ,nortgage, conveying the property to Sims, who was the brother-in-law of: Bryant. Bryant, after the transaction, caused himself to be arrested I oa a sham debt, and finally obtained the benefit of the Insolvent i Debtors' Act. The persons who were to prove the case were thesm- selves parties to the fraud. There was nothing imnportant or curious in the evidence; we shall theretfrenierely give the testimony of Mrs. l,enrietta Cox, wvho deposed as follows:-.Mr. Cox, miy husband, is an attorney. Alas confined with the gout in April, 1822. and I went to his off ce.which is in Bristol, to take up his letters. I remember Bryant calling at the office about that time. Watkins also called there. I told the latter that Bryant had called and left a letter for my husband!. I asked hinm if he Inew Bryant. le said he did, and that he unxder- stood he was an injured man, as he believed he had not comnmitedt the assault; that he thought Haytlhorn was it man with plenty of inn. r8ey, and could get wimnesFes to awcar whiat he thought proper. He said he had asked Bryant if hie was not nfraid of an exeeutiou, ani that Bryant said he was afraid; and WVatkins said to hhn, ifhle wouldl be advised by hia lie would bring him through it with- out paying i shilling, provided there were a dozen executions against him. He then said he advised him to make over his pro. perty by mortgage to some one who would hold it in trust, and bryant said he would make it over to his brother-in-law if he con- I sented. Watkins then said, that his brother-in-law had co,n. 1 sented,andthatthedeed was preparetd. J asked li'atkinsif Ilt. Walker had prepared the deed. He said no. MWalker knew no- thing of the miatter; that it was prepared by Barlow, who was not an attorney, but knew more than half the attorneys in practice. Watkins satid they were to go to London to stay a few days, and that he saw Branit on the top of the coa:la, for London: that some hours after Bryant had left Bristol, he regretted that he had not consultpd with him respecting his; house and furniture; that his father went to Bryant's wife, antd comsulted with her on the propriety of removing lier goods to some lodgings; that she approved o the pLan; and that very night, about 12 o'clock, Watkins said, wit}: the assistance of his son, lie had re. moved the whole of the goods to the rooms he had taken in the hlot- well.row. At the beginning of the conversation, Watkins snid that Bryant war an ungrateful little rascal, and it wasi after that that he rep,eatedl al1 I have told. hMr. Sergeant PELL. stated that after having heard the evidence ofthe last witress, he was instructed to say that the defendants con- sented to have a verdict of guilty recorded against them. BRISTOLA WPDqESIAV'. SEPT. a. THIE KING V. DRYANT AND TWO OTHERS.