Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1885-11-07 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

MONEY-LENDER'S CONSPIRACY  CASE.  At the Marlborough-street Police-court, London, Alfred Beyf us, Lincoln's-km-fields; Solomon Beyfus, of Bedford-square, and Philip Beyf us, of Russellsquare, have again appeared in answer to summonses taken out by Jacob Nathaniel Jonas, solicitor, charging the first named defendant with having unlawfully and knowingly, by means of false pretences, obtained from him £5499 185., in the form of a cheque, with intent to defraud, and with unlawfully causing him to affix his name and endorsement thereto; and the other defendants with conspiring with Alfred Beyfus in the commission of the said acts. Mr. Montagu Williams, for the prosecution, after stating the connection of a man named Saville with:a money-lender named Genese, and the part that Alfred Beyfus took, together with Genese, in prosecuting Saville for perjury, entered into the case of William Henry Palmer, who lately charged Alfred Beyfus, Genese, and other persons with defrauding him of his reversionary interest in some valuable land at Sydney, and recounted the proceedings in reference thereto before Mr. Newton, the 'magistrate of this court. Whilst the charge was under remand, and communication was being madewith the Public Prosecutor, Mr. Williams said that on. Sunday, the 20th September, at a public restaurant in Regent-street, an attempt was made by a man named Benjamin, with Marks, the managing clerk of Mr. Jonas, the present complainant, and the solicitor for Palmer, to arrange matters, an that the case might not be allowed to proceed further, Palmer to receive back the papers relating to his reversionary interest in his estate abroad. At a meeting subsequently held it was agreed that £6OOO should be paid by Alfred Beyfus into a bank in the joint names of a jeweller named Phillips and Jonas, the present complainant. that £5OO of the amount should be applied in lieu of a small portion of the reversion which they could not get from Genese, he being a bankrupt at the time, and handed to Palmer • £3OOO was to be given to Saville, in order to din-. charge his claims; and the remainder Jonas and Phillips were to hold as trustees. Two cheques were accordingly drawn upon the amount to recoup the prosecutor, in the names of Jonas and Phillips; and then it was represented by Alfred Beyfus that if Jonas could get Phillips s signature to the cheques, they could be exchanged for stock, so that they could be sent back and cleared at the bank, and then all trace of the transaction would be destroyed. Mr. Williams entered at great length into subsequent transactions between Alfred Beyfus and Jonas, and mid the evidence would show that the former unlawfully and by means of a trick obtained the cheque from Jonas. Mr. Williams then called Mr. N. Jonas, solicitor, of Norfolk-street, Strand, who in that capacity had prosecuted Alfred Beyfus, and two others, Genese and Morclaunt, or Moses, for conspiracy, in this court. After this and some further evidence, the case was again remanded.  Tim well-known Parisian banker, M. Fremsel, has committed suicide. No cause is assigned for the act.  A THEATRICAL fr.cas isaS occurred at Accrington. Henry Robert Gribdall, stage manager of Mr. Brinsley Sheridan Grilley's "Money 'Company, summoned Derry Calliford, another member of the company, for assault. During a performance at the Prince's Theatre a quarrel arose between the parties, which partially stopped the performance, defendant striking complainant in the face with his open hand. Defendant pleaded provocation, but witnesses denied this, and the magistrates bound the defendant over to keep the peace for six months in his own recognisances, and to pay the costs of three witnesses.  AN extraordinary dynamite explosion has taken place in the laundry attached to Lord Leitrim's house at Milford, county Donegal. One of the servants placed seven ounces of dynamite on the top of the laundry stove to dry, and allowed it to become too hot. It exploded and almost wrecked the building. One man and three laundrymaids were in the building at the time, but they escaped with a severe shock from the concussion.  THE North-Eastern Railway Company, in view of the depressed state of the Northern ironmaking industry, have conceded to the Cleveland pig-iron trade a rebate off the carriage rates upon ironstone, coke, and limestone of one per cent, for each shilling per ton fall in the price of pig-iron, besides allowing the minimum sliding scale of rate to be 31.5. instead of 355. as formerly.