The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-10-23 00:00:00

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EXTRAORDINARY BIGAMY CASE.

Charles Howard Hinton, 32, Acacia-road, St. John's-
wood, was charged on remand on his own confession,
before Sir James Ingham, at Bow-street Police-court,
with having committed bigamy by marrying Maud
Florence, his first wife being then and now alive.
Sergeant Crawford stated that prisoner came to Bow-
street Police-station and said he wished to give him-
self into custody for having committed the crime of
bigamy. He signed the following statement: "I
Charles Howard Hinton, of No. 35, Acacia-road, St.
John's-wood, a schoolmaster. FIAP 41,.4 ff:ro oclr
rouce-sergeant Crawford for that on
the 21st of April, 1880, I was married to Mary Ellen
Boole, at Marylebone Church, and that I was again
marriedtoanother woman, whose name I at present do
not remember, on or about January, 1883, before the re-
gistrar at Bow-street, Covent-garden. my first wife being
then and now alive." The first wife stated that she
did not wish to prosecute, but that her husband had
given himself up as a matter of conscience to them
both, as they did not want to have a secret in the
house. Maud Weldon, formerly Maud Florence,
living at St. Albans, said that she was married to
, the defendant on January 19, 1883, at Bow-street
Registry Office. She knew him as Howard Hinton,
and married him in the name of John Weldon.
When she married him she knew he had been
married beiore, and that his other wife was then
alive. She Ii ed with him about a week after they
were married in Argyll-square, King's-cross. He
went back to live with his former wife, and witness
went away. Since that time, until very lately, they
had been intimate together. She was last intimate
with him about a month ago. He did not marry her
to injure her in any way; but in order to get a certi-
ficate for the sake of any children that might be born.
She had twins eight months after she was married. It
was to give a colour of legitimacy to any children
that might be born that she married, and not in
any way to injure the prisoner's wife. The certificate
produced related to the marriage. She first proposed
that they should marry. Sir James Ingham : You
knew he was married to another woman and thought
there was no harm in joining the other woman in
partnership? Witness said she did not think that
she was doing wrong. The witness, on being asked to
sign her name on the deposition, said, "What is my
name?" Adelaide Nettleship, of Melbury-ferrace,
Marylebone, said that the defendant was her brother.
She was present at the first marriage. He had three
children of the first marriage now alive. About
three years ago the defendant told her he had mar-
ried another woman. He told her he was going to
give himself up.—The Registrar of Marriages for the
Strand district produced the register of the second
marriage. Sergeant Crawford's evidence was read
over, and Sir James Ingham committed the accused
for trial.

iz steamship Indus, of Dundee, 1616 tons regis-
ter, belonging to Messrs. David Bruce and Co., of
London, and bound from Cardiff to Teneriffe, foun-
dered off Trevose Head, Cornwall, early the other
morning. The crew, numbering 30 hands, took to the
ship's boats at 4.45 a.m. At seven o'clock they were
observed from Port Isaac, whereupon the Richard and
Sarah lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution Was
launched to thAir 'tance, and safely landed 26 of
the seamen, the c.: hrr tour men being rescued by a gig
under the protection of the lifeboat.