The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-03-02 00:00:00

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CUMULI. —Feb, ft (Beton Ur, Baron limmx.)
CURIOUS OABIII OF BIGAMY.

Mary Simpson Carruthers, n hendume looking woman,
apparently about 3011 yam of Ilet, whil Mdisted for blewy
in having intermarried with Wallain Amu Wilson, at
(hold, on the let of November, 1138, her fennel'
band being then alive,
Mr. WOubray prosecuted, and Mr Campbell l'oeter
defendepiprisoner,
It ap that in May, 111311, the prisoner had been
driven n a gig to Sark Wilber over Ontdbridge, from
Osrlisle, biNehard Camiguin, 6 Wilder of Carlisle,
she then being only If years of op, and in the present»
of the driver, a HMI named Moore wee married by
Janet Nettie, the daughter of the tollbarAeeper, ati•
'ening to the law of Noothind. This event look plea
it two o'olook in he morning and 6116 oreet.ezainina•
lion elicited that a great deal 'of frolic and joking MI6
Ping on at the time, Carruthers saying they had anne to
be married, anti Janet Beattie wing she oould soon
menus that for them, making them join handl, and
asking them if they were single end willing to be Inf.
rid, whit% question' wen answered in the affirmative,
&Wand them to be lawfully married, The ceremony
wu preceded and finished by gland of whiskey for the
driver and husband, km, and the wine drove beak to
Carlisle, where there wee some evident* that the pri.
sone, who wee the daughter of 6 barber in Carlisle, lived
with °smithery about a month, In November In that
year William Amos Wilma, now s ~tertoaz vunnen
at Liverpool, wee paying hieaddreee.toth.pn.onerand
told her he had heard she was married, She denied it,
and be then pervaded her, or, le he said, she persuaded
him to nu of to Gretna and be married, end the are-
mony wee again performed there by another privet, the
village publieea, mimed Wien. After this the prisoner
appeared to have lived, with oeuelonal intervals of
'operation during quarrigii, with Wilda until the pre-

sent time. In 1846, at Liveniml, to satisfy some objec-
tion and to make the marriagesurer, they were married
again at St. Martin's Church, i Liverpool. Carruthers
died about four years ago, andthe crou-examinstion of
Wilson elicited that, after leing 19 years with the
prisoner, he had instituted thiqmosecution against her,
apparently with the intention' of marrying one Jane
Graham, who lived with him Ai his housekeeper, and
had a child by him. Scotch " uperts" proved that the
marriages in Scotland were lawful according to the
Scotch law,
His Lordship being of opinion lhat both marriage con-
tracts were clearly proved,
The prisoner was found guilty.
The learned Counsel for the defence then, in mitigation
of punishment, said he was instructed to say that the
prisoner at the time of the first inarriage, being a girl
of only 16 years of age, had in a frolic driven with
Curuthere, as stated, to Sark tollbar, but had no idea
, that the ceremony then gone through in the way
described was a marriage, and had afterwards persisted
to Wilson that she was not married, to whom she had
subsequently assented to be marded in Scotland; but,
not feeling satisfied afterwards with that marriage cere-
mony, liod been married again as Liverpool, and that
the present prosecution was really instituted by Wilson
to get rid of her, that he might marry another woman.
His Lordship said, enough had been stated to satisfy
him that this was not a case for punishment. Indeed,
he had been at a lose to uuderstaud why the prosecution
had been instituted, as the prisoner was clearly the wife
of Carruthers, who was dead, and not of Wilson. The
prisoner mast take care not to annoy Wilson, and he
should discharge her on her own recoguiranoes not to do
so, and she was now • free woman.
The prisoner left the dock apparently highly delighted
at the result of the trial.

RE-EXAMINATION OF DR. BERNARD.
Simon Bernard, the French refugee, who was
charged at Bow-street on Monday week with complicity
in the late attempt to assassinate the Emperor, was
again brought up for examination on Tuesday.
A French inspector of police having deposed to the
committal of the crime, Pierre Ferdinand Outrequin, a
commission agent in silks, deposed that he became ac-
quainted with Dr. Bernard while on business in London.
Subsequently, while in Paris, a letter was brought to
him, introducing • Mr. Allsop'to him as an Englishman,
who though he did not like to be duped, was not
niggard or economical, and who spoke French like •
native. Alison himself brought the letter, which ap-
peared to be written by Dr. Bernard; but the witness
could not swear to the handwriting. He had since seen
Allsop in • French prison.
A French police officer here deposed that the person
recognised by the witness as Allsop was Orsini.
Outrequien then produced another letter in the same
handwriting, as he believed, stating that the writer was
about to consign to him a pair of revolvers, which he
(the writer) would "gammon" Alison to buy; and
that Allsop would call for them. The letter also men-
tioned that there was • sample of • material distilled
from tar, for which • chemist would send. Anson came
next day, and said he had called for the pistols; he took
one box, containing one pistol. Allsop said he hoped to
get a German friend of his, Pierey, to take both pistols.
On the Sunday before the attempted assassination of the
Emperor the second pistol wail called for.
The wife of this witness corroborated much o/ his
evidence. She said the gentleman who called for the
second pistol left his name, written on a card :—"Fiery,
Hotel de Franco."

M. Morond of the Rue Montabor, said that in Novem-
ber last a person named Allsop lodged with him. He
has since seen this person (Orsini, in fact) in a P`renoh
prison. Allem had a passport, dated 1851, and vieed
by the Prussian Ambassador. (Mr. Bodkin, counsel for
the prosecution, said that this passport had been granted
to the real Thomas Allsop, and Orsini had travelled with
it under that name.) On the day of the attempt Allsop
want out with three others about six or seven o'clook,
and returned in a cab about nine. He was wounded
and bleeding. At about three in the morning he was
arrested by the pollee. One of the three who went out
with him was sillsop's servant, Gomez; another was
named Silva.

Mr. Bodkin now applied for a further remand.
Mr. Sleigh for the prisoner had no objection to the re•
remand, but hoped prisoner would be admitted to ball.
In an earnest speech the Learned Connie' called on the
kfasietrate to treat the defendant as if he was an En-
glishman, and not yield to apprehensions of a foreign
power. (This expreuion was reoeived with • tumult of
applause from the body of the court.)
Mr. Jardine felt that if he wujustited in the former
remand, he was still inure so. He should treat the pri-
soner exactly as he would an Englishman, by remanding
him without