THE CONVICTS ROBSON & REDPATH.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 505, 5 September 1857, Page 3

THE CONVICTS ROBSON & REDPATH.

Mr. P. Johnson, the official assignee under the bankruptcy of Robson, accompanied by Mr. Morant, the solicitor for the assignees, proceeded to Newgate, and had an interview, in the presence of the Governor, Mr. Weatherhead, with Robson. On Tuesday the Crystal Palace Company presented a proof for nearly £18,000 against Robson's estate, which was opposed by Mr. Bagley, on behalf of twenty-four trade creditors. These creditors have formed a fund, not only to oppose the proof of the trade assignee, but to call upon the commissioner to suspend the'dividend upon the numerous proofs already admitted. It is alleged, but we cannot certify to its accuracy, that upon an investigation of the company's accounts many irregularities have been discovered which have been improperly attributed to Robson. This led to the interview on Saturday at Newgate, in order that Robson, who since his conviction has manifested every disposition to declare the truth, should check the proof tendered by the Crystal Palace Company. Should that proof be admitted, it will nearly absorb all the funds, and leave the trade creditors with almost a barren state. The desire of Robson appears to be, that he should be at once sent out to some penal colony, where his natural and intuitive abilities will, doubtlessly, soon procure him favourable consideration ; and his wife, who was governess in a colonel s family, and is highly educated, and possesses considerable talent, has been promised the means to accompany her unfortunate husband. While Robson is endeavouring to do all in his power to assist his assignees in bankruptcy to wind up his estate, for the benefit of his creditors, Leopold Eedpath exhibits the most unflinching taciturnity, and pertinaciously refused, at his last "private" meeting, to disclose anything which would lead to the elucidation of the extent of the Great Northern Railway frauds. He justified his silence upon the ground of having been treated with great harshness and cruelty by Mr. Mowatt, the secretary of the company, and the assignee of his estate. His examination, as well as Robson's, has been adjourned sine die, the trade creditors not being at all satisfied in either case. Both convicts are still in Newgate.— English Paper.