In re Kretsch

HAND, District Judge.

I have read all the testimony taken on the discharg-e proceedings and nearly all that taken at the first meeting of creditors, and I agree with the learned master that the discharge must be granted, so that I shall confirm the report and grant a discharge.

In regard to the contempt proceedings, however, I shall make a somewhat different disposition. The master did not believe the bankrupt, and I am not inclined to believe him either. His testimony is full of misstatements, and, while perhaps some of these are to be accounted for by his ignorance of English, it seems hardly…