A HEARTLESS CREDITOR.

Evening Star, Issue 3223, 19 June 1873, Page 3

A HEARTLESS CREDITOR.

A case that, from the facts before the Court, appears to disclose one of the most heartless transactions ever perpetrated, was heard by his Honor Judge Pohlman lately. It was an application for the discharge of a person named Robert Buchanan, who had been arrested or a warrant issued under a fraud summons at the instance of a creditor named James Cameron, the fraud summons having been issued on an order for the payment of costs in an action. The warrant for the arrest of Buchanan had been placed in the hands of Crawford, one of the Court bailiffs, but he, having heard that the debtor had been very ill, and also that he bad sick children even then in the house, declined to execute it. Mr Cameron, however insisted that the officer should do his duty, and thereupon the latter proceeded with him to the bouse of Buchanan. They found a mourning coach at the door, and found that one of the debtor’s children had died on the previous day, and that it was just about to be buried. Even in the face of this, Cameron desired the officer to proceed with the execution of the warrant, even if it rendered the attendance of the father at the grave of his child impossible. To his honor be it said Crawford positively refused _to do anything of the sort, and Buchanan was consequently allowed to go to the funeral. Still Cameron was determined, and having kept the officer at the house until the funeral returned, had his unfortunate debtor arrested there and then, and walked off to gaol. The next day an application was made by Buchanan’s wife, and on her affidavit and that of the bailiff, his Honor Judge Pohlman, acting under the authority vested in him by a clause of the County Court Act, at once ordered the discharge of the prisoner. Melbourne Herald.