The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-03 00:00:00

OFFENCES AGAINST THE MARRIAGE

ACT.

The following cases of a new species of crime have

just came before the assizes at 'Warwick and Exeter.
The Marriage Act Amendment Act requires that notice ,
of intention to be married should be accompanied by a
declaration stating, among other things, that the parties
have resided so many days previous to giving such notice
in the district in which it is proposed that the marriage
should take place; and enacts that any person wilfully
making a false declaration, shall suffer the penalties of
perjury.

At Warwick, Edwin Dawson pleaded " Guilty' to a
charge of having made a false declaration before the
Registrar of Marriages at Birmingham, for the purpose
of procuring a marriage, contrary to the statute, &c.
On the part of the prisoner, Mr. Serjeant Hayes stated
the circumstances under which the present prosecution
had. been instituted, urging that justice would be satis-
fied by a lenient sentence.

It appeared that the prisoner had been a piano-tuner,
and that the father of the young lady, Miss Frances
Blanche Jesset, aged seventeen, a ward in' Chancery,
had, after the death of his first wife, become connected
with the prisoner by marriage with. his sister. Miss
Jesset, finding her home less comfortable after this

this second marriage, went to reside with the defendant's
mother, with whom the defendant also lived. An attach-
ment also sprang up between herself and him, and the
result was a marriage before the registrar, in order to
procure which the defendant had no doubt falsely
declared that he and the young lady had resided fifteen
days in Birmingham, and that the young lady's father
had consented to the marriage. A suit was afterwards
instituted, and the matter brought before the Master of the
Rolls, who did not think the case one that called for a
committal. His Honour caused the defendant to be
summoned, and ordered that all the property of the young
lady should be settled upon her, which was accordingly
done; he further directed that all costs should be paid
by the defendant, and that the papers should be laid
before the Attorney-General, in order that he might take
such course as he might see fit. The result was the
institution of the present prosecution. The learned
Serjeant concluded by praying that the sentence on the
prisoner might be lenient ; the father of the young lady,
although he had not assented to the marriage before it
took place, had immediately afterwards invited the
parties to his house, and had expressed no disapproval
of their union. The defendant had sustained great.
expense by payment of the costs, and auy punishment
snow inflicted upon him would be visited on the bride by
interrupting the marriage so lately consummated.
Mr,. Mellor, Q.C., en the part of the Attorney-General,'
said tl4he did not, wish to press for any unnecessary
punishment- - The Master of the Rolls, although he did
not think it was a case for committal, had thought it
right to lay the matter before the Attorney-Geneial,
who had instituted this prosecution.
The learned Judge deferred passing his sentence.
At Exeter, Caroline Marwood, spinster, 24, was in-
dicted for making a false declaration. The prisoner 'was
a domestic servant in the employment of Mr. Newberry,
a respectable farmer, living at Honiton Clyst, a village
about four or five miles from Exeter. She had been iu
his service for a year, when, on the 18th March, she sud-
denly disappeared. At the same time, Mr. Newberry's
son, aged 18, was also missing. From a rumour he had.
heard Mr. Newberry made inquiries at the office of the
registrar of marriages for the Exeter district, and dis-
covered that a person calling and signing herself Caro-
line Marwood, and describing herself as residing, and
having resided for .some months, at a place in the
Exeter district, had on the Ist of March given the
notice required by the Act of her intention to be
married without license to one William Newberry,
described as of the age of 22,. and also residing in the
district of Exeter. The prisoner was arrested on the

22nd of April at Cardiff, where she was living with
William Newberry, and was identified as the person
who had made the declaration at the registry office.
Iloniton Clyst is not in the Exeter district. It tran-
spired on the trial that the prisoner had since her
apprehension been confined in the county gaol of a.
child.

The learned judge, in summing up the case to the
jury, observed, that it was of the utmost importance to
society that the-penalties of the-Act should be enforced,
and that a statute which was passed in a spirit of
liberality towards the religious doubts of Dissenters,
should not be perverted for the purposes of secret
marriages.
The prisoner was found Guilty, with a strong recom7
mendation to mercy.
The learned judge said he would give that recenz-
mendation his fullest consideration ; and, seeing that
the prisoner had been already three months in custody,
and that this was one of the first prosecutions under the
Act, he sentenced her to fourteen days' imprisonment,
at the end of which period thEi gaoler stated she would
be in a fit state of health to leave the prison.

Lord Clyde gave, on Saturday, sittings to Mr. S. J;-
Barker, for his portrait in the picture of " The Relief of
Lucknow."

THE ADVENTURES OF A MODERN JACE. SHEPPARD.—
The following incidents in the life of a London thief will
show that in spite of all the improvements that hays
been made in prison discipline and the increased measures-
for security that have been adopted to prevent escape. •
from gaols, our arrangements are not yet perfect, and.
that the ingenuity of the incarcerated will at times work .
their own liberation. Stephen. Allen, alias Joseph.
Cooley, was convicted- in the latter name at the Centraif •
Criminal Court in June, 1850, with a man named Wil-
liam King, of stealing 11 gowns from the shop of Mr..
Harding,pawnbroker, of York-street, Westminster, on
whicho casion King was sentenced to seven years' trans-
portation, and Cooley to 12 months' imprisonment. He
served his time, but was again convicted at the West-
minster Sessions in August, 1855, under the name of
Allen, of stealing plate and jewellery, to a large amount
in the dwelling-house of Mr. R. G. Dickings, at St. '
John's, Hampstead, and the former conviction having
been proved against him he was sentenced to six years' •
penal servitude, lie was, therefore, sent to the Milbank.
Prison, where he feigned madness, and having succeeded,
in imposing upon his keepers and the medical officers,.
be was removed to Bedlam, and from there lie was sent
to Fisherton House, a criminal lunatic asylum at Sellsb-
my. He escaped from there in May, 1858, and came-
to London, but the police having been informed of it, he-
was apprehended in the Strand, on the 31st of that
month, by Inspector Foulger, of the City police, andi
conveyed hack to the asylum at Salisbury. He was
afterwards sent to her Majesty's convict prison at Dart-
moor, from whence he made his escapein October, 1859.
On this occasion he did not come to London, but worked
his way through Somersetshire until he came to Wells,.
where he was again apprehended on two charges of
stealing watches. He was committed to Wells Gaol to
take his trial on both charges, but while there he again.
effected his escape. After travelling about the country
for some time, he once more came to London, and was.
a few days ago again apprehended by Inspector Faulger
in Bow-street, only a few minutes' walk from the spot
where he was captured before, He was conveyed to,
Millbank Prison, where h is now undergoing his sen-
tence of six years' Pertai servitude, at the expiration. of
which he will be sent to Wells to take his trial for the
watch robberies.' He is a shoemaker by trade, and
boasts that the prison is not yet built that can hold him
long. The authorities will, therefore, have to keep a
sharp. eye on him.
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