Birmingham Quarter Sessions: Yesterday: Before Mr. J. S. Dugdale, Q. C., Recorder: The serious charges against a Bankrupt: The trial was resumed of James Jones (47), draper, lately carrying on business at 29 parade, 16 Steelhouse Lane, and other addresses in Birmingham and at Smethwick, charged in connection with his bankruptcy, with not discovering all his estates to this trustee, not giving up all his property, concealing property, disposing of property bought on credit within four months of his petitions for liquidation, and not paid for, otherwise than in the ordinary course of his trade, and with accounting for his deficiency by fictitious expenses. Mr. Hugo Young and Mr. Harold Wright (instructed by Messrs. Barlow, Smith, and Pinsent for the Treasury) prosecuted, and Mr. Nathan (instructed by Messrs. Rowlands, Bagnall and Co.) appeared for the prisoner … (discussion of case) … The prisoner was examined simultaneously by Mr. Pinsent on the one side and Mr. Registrar Parry on the other, the one coming down to supply any deficiency, if there was any, in the acumen of the other. They were asked to take the result of that inquisition, and every word that told against the prisoner was to be relied upon, but anything that he happened to say in his own favour was evidence manufactured by the debtor so shield and screen himself …
[see similar – long discussion: Birmingham Mail: Friday 12th October 1883]
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