The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-12-15 00:00:00

SINfIULAR ('Ass.

At the Cleatsl..ll Petty 8•221111111 on Friday TAllra
Jane hunt, of Cleveland, appeared to an adjourned
solionons for having int i1m27111 of July last, at 1 "rig
Ashton, 'lolaos fully and knowingly signed a false
muff, to the superintendent registrar of the liedinins•
ter distriet for Pie litirisse• ,if powuring a marriage
without licvnow• between herself and one Albert !leery
viz. -that each .1 them was the age of
21 year., she well knowing that they wertfrespectitely
.1 the az...4 IS and 19 yrar. 'an, that she del at tho
None ii,,.,. know y and wlllingly make and sign a
deelaration that ole• I wlieved there wax no lawful
tondrate.• to the said Tharriao.. 'ahem. Mlle Well
knew that the father the plaid .11liert Henry
Ilippesby gin! not etbn.o•nt the tool intended
Illorrla.:e. The t., odetna. of Mr. 11. T. 11,
p,,ty t.w.k the not Us.
fr an defendant, was read ''sr. ul r, \V. C.
Anson, .dicaor, Ishall
11. m, 1,111,1 i was institut.l isy th.• Treasury. Emily
Iliiitt. wife of 'William Ilunt, a labourer, of
Clevedon, depoiesl that the defendant wan her
daughter. 111111 2.2111,1 IN' 19 y.•ara ..1 age on the Nrd ..f
January nest, and she produred the certificate of her
ilxitithfer'" ' irib. Richard Him...ley, is 1,11221rer
deteessl that .%lbert Henry Hippider,
then in Court, wax Itiv. 2211, ale' Ile Wax hen, sn
19th. of June, 1/10.1, and is. tor"duced a 11,1.1. with the
following rntry in his torn hatelwritong--," Albert
Henry Ilippisley wax born June 191 h,
wrele oust. :Liter his birth. It. did not know of hi"
marriage with the de enrient until afterwards, and
never gave his consent, and was not asked to do ...,
and he never spoke to Ow defendant shout any
marriage en 'theta the age et his *en.- rrossesansinisl :
Ile did not know that l'as 202 1.11111 Iler that /le Wag
willing that they should he inarried.--Mr. Henry
Tipper, of Clevedon, one of the registrars of marriage-,
for the fledminster district, delseed that on the 314
of Amulet lived be attended at tile reglider orriCe At the
rnien V.urLhs.nuaa, Fang Ashton, and Nfr. Fatm-ruiter,
the lleellty P.5,1r reziatrat, wax also present. At the
time of entering the marriage he asked Allwrt Henry
II ipl"ler htn age; he said be was •/1. Heals. asked
deterelitiot her age, and she said she was 19,
Ile (Mr. Tipper) had the ‘,.:spen/ a the
fat her, ern! Ile 211:11e11 a (.4111 teen...tit. Tl..,Rev. Stephen Henry Mashy, vicar of All Saint.,
Kurt ttttt ilelio2erl that *bent that end of Slag
or park. ui .Inne last the defendant and Albert. Henry
Itsikin.ley. wdon Ikea! in his tswisla, cause to hi.. 1,0112E1
and asked him to put mi their banns. He asked
then' for the consent of their parents, am he knew
them to be both under age. Ile baptioed Albert
llrnry Illippisley on the 22ful July, 11 /46tt. and he
produced the original register of baptist:la rhowing
this. The defendant and Albert Henry Hippisley
were unable to produce any consent of parents, and
he told theist he would not put lip the banns without
the written coneent of the parents, on both side.%
because they were both under age. Ile tried to
thismarte them from marrying at is. early an age, and
hi. pointed out to them both that it wan intisesibln
for them to get lawfully married without the consent
of their parent., and he alai. pointed 011 t to them that
the rermirementx for marriage before the Registrar
were in resipect of age precisely the 21111111 AB ft w
marriage in clowyh, and he believed the words he
lased were "140 it is no tote for you to think of going
to Aiihton, but you had better wait and try to lay tip
something before rill marry." The defendant, in
answer to the charge, said '' I am truly sorry, and
beg your pardon for giving my wrong age. I did not
know hie lure ; he would make me believe he was 21."
She wax eommittetl for trial at the nest eaelize, to let
held at Taunton, her father being accepted boil for
her alipearance.

Mira Annie Botterworth, A.R.A.M, a well.known
vocalist, has died after • long innate.
A number of Liberal Chuichmen at F.astborne have
aevered their con wction with the churclms in which
political pulpit references were recently mivle.
A number of forged vaccination certificates have
been diamirered by the Islington Bo•ril of Guardians.
l'rviceedings are being taken.
Noureddin Effendi, • brother of the Sultan, is
dead.

--F-o-ur of the inmates of the asylum for idiots
Nuches, Northern Brabant, were suffocated on Thur.,
day night by an escape of gas. Ten others were
seriously affected.
An epidemic, supposed to he cholera, has occurred
on board the Queensland Line steamer Durunda.
There hare been 20 cakes sn.l five deaths.
Mr. Spurgeon left England on Friday for the Con.
tinent, for a season of rest and recuperation after a
somewhat severe attack of rheumatism.
The Duke of Deronahire, at the rent audit held
Friday at Edensor, allowed 10 per cent. al...tem...it
to his tenantry on the Edenoir Chatewords
estates on the rents due Int Michael...a. lad. Dia
gra*e has al.° made large grant .4 manure, etc., to
his tenants during the year, etm.ralent to about 30
per cent.