Knighting, the transfer-clerk who was convicted of defrauding the Great
Southern and Western Railway, was possessed of considerable property, the proceeds, apparently, of his frauds. A commission of inquiry has been held in Dublin with regard to his property : lawyers have argued the matter at great length ; and on Saturday last the Jury pronounced their decision. They found that the Crown was entitled to all Knighting's personal property, worth some 12,0001. : this the Crown will give to: the Railway Company. But Knighting also had real estate worth 3001. a year ; as he was not capitally convicted and subjected to attainder, this property remains his : when he has completed his six years of penal servitude, he can recommence life with this little fortune. That this should be the law has excited much indignation.
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