The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-30 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME ClRCUlT.—MAnirrozrz, JULY 29.
°mow' Bms.—(9store Kr. Beres Bramwell.)

A great portion of the day was occupied in disposing of
cases that are unfit for publication.
The grand jury, at the conclusion of their labours, came
into court and made a presentment to the effect that they
begged most strongly to represent to his lordship the very
serious expense that was thrown upon the county and
individuals, and the great personal inconvenience
that was suffered by very many persons, from the
first day of the assizes being fixed for a Saturday. They
also begged further to mention that although the bu-
siness of the mere did not commence until 10 o'clock the
jurors were summoned to attend at half-past nine.
Mr. Baron Bramwell said that he personally bad nothing
whatever to do with fixing the days for holding the aerie's
capon this circuit, which devolved upon the senior judge,
r. Baron Martin. He felt called upon, however, to say
that from what he knew of the careful manner in which his
learned brother acted upon all occasions, and his desire to
do what was likely to prove most convenient to the public
and to all parties connected with the assizes, he felt certain
that he bad appointed days which he considered most likely
to carry out that object. If he had failed in doing so, it
must have been through proper information not having been
afforded to him by those whose duty it was to give him such
information._

The grand jury were then formally discharged from
further attendance.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Exrrxir, Jtri.y 29.
(Before Mr. Justice Keating.)
THII POST-OFFICE 11.088411174.
Thome, Nelellifif I, who had been convicted on the pre-
vious day of stealing two half•sovereigns and a letter, the
propert y of the Postmaster-General, whilst serving as a
clerk in the Exeter post-office, where he bad been employed
for nearly twenty years, was brought up, and sentenced to
10 years' penal servitude.
George Wodanobe, 37, a letter•carrier, who had pleaded
guilty on the previous day to stealing • post letter contain-
ing two half-sovereigns and eighteen postage stamps, the
of the Postmaster-General, at Torquay, on the 2nd
Cy,
was also brought up fur judgment, and was sentenced
to three years' petal servitude.

THE POLICE COURTS.

BOW-STREET,

George Thomas Suter, late clerk g the office of Mr.
Daogerfield, the vestry clerk of St. Martin's.in-the-Fields,
appeared to answer his bail, on the charge of embezzling
moneys belonging to his employer.
Mr. Le Breton, the barrister, instructed by Mr. Danger-
field, conducted the prosecution, and the prisoner was de-
fended by Mr. Abrams, of Bow-street.
Mr. Le Breton stated that Mr. Daogerfield was solicitor
to the vestry, and to several boards in the parish of St.
Idartin'ain-the-Fields, and the mote of certain estates of
those boards ought to be paid into his office. On the 4th
July, a letter bad been received from the prisoner, stating
that on the 9th September, when on the way to pay into the
bankers' certain moneys received from some of those estates,
be fell overboard from a steamboat into the river Thames;
that he was dragged out insensible; and that oo his recovery
be found that be had lost the money. Be
had subsequently replaced it, from time to
time with other moneys, hoping ta be able to
make it up at some future period. It seemed, however,
that the !moneys which had been received up to the 9th
September hod all been paid in before the prisoner received
any further moneys, and the sums now missing had been re-
ceived and misappropriated subsequently.
A copy of the prisoner's letter was then put in, and Mr.
Le Breton called _

Mr. John Diroger6eld—l am a solicitor. My offices are in
Craven-street, Strand. I am vestry clerk to the parish of St.
Martin's, solicitor to the vestry, and solicitor to the trustees
of the Holborn and Cockepur-street estates, and to the true.
tees of the Camden-town Cemetery estate. The prisoner was
clerk it my office, and received a salary of 80/., and two
emoluments of IW. esch. making 1001. a year. It was his
duty to receive the rents of these estates, to enter them into
a oillecting book, and to pay them into the account of the
several estates at the bankers'. Messrs. Drummond were
the bankers to the Holborn and Cockepur-street estates.
Mr. Dicks was tenant of the Holborn estate, to whose ac.
count he paid rent. At Chrietmae, 1861, there was due to
the estate 191. 3s. 91. from Mr. Disks for rent (with certain
deductions). That sum was never accounted fur to me by
the prisoner, except by the letter read. I have never bad
the money. Mr. Waite is also a tenant of that estate. His
payment of rent for the same period ought to have been
371. 13e. 2d. net. I have never received a chop* or mosey
for that payment. Mr. Reel was a tenant of the mine estate.
The rent due from him at the same date was 81. Ifs. Bd. set.
That has never been paid to me. Mr. Fleming Is a tenant
of the Camden-town Cemetery estate. There would be •
sue of al. 115 e. 6d. due at Lady-day, 1882, hem Mr. Flew
tag. I have never rewired that as oust. The beakers of
that estate are Messrs. Biddulph and Co.
Mr. William Hetling—l am cleric to Mr. Dick, pallfieber
of Reynold?, News aper. 26, Wellington-street, Strand.
The eismee prod dated ssa April, and drawn ay Mr.
Disk oaths Minkel Lomb" for LW. 3e. Pd., was &silvered to

me by Mr. Dick, and I handed it on the same day to the pri-
soner. who had called for it. I produce the receipt which
the prisoner pre me for that sum.
Mr. William Edward Jones, clerk at the Bank of London,
proved payment of the cheque in question, and
Mr. Pomeroy Earle, clerk at lifessm Drummond's bank,
proved that the money had not been paid into the amount et
the trustees.

-tome further evidence was given with reference to the
cases of Waite, Reel, and Fleming, end the primmer was
committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court.
The tail was reduced, on the applicatien of defendant's
solicitor, to tee sureties of 601. each, and himself in 1201.
Wiffiass Monte, letter carrier at Bethual-green, wee cent-
mated for trial for stealing a test-letter, containing money,
which was found upon him. It was stated that 14 other
letters were discovered at his lodgings.

WESTMINSTER.
A few days ago Mr. Eugene Plumber M'CartAy, solicitor
and notary public in Ireland, was charged with double
*am aad perjury in making an affidavit to obtain •
WSW* far his third alleged marriage.
The evidence in support of the charges went to show
that the prisoner was married on the 28th of January,
1839, to Catherine Crank, at Cltßing-ford, near Dublin, by
the Ray. J. G. T. Schultz ; that be was again married Gs
the 29th of June, 1844, to Miss Mary Anne O'Bryan at Bt.
Peter's, in the county of Cork, and again to Emily Verley,
at Si. James's, Holloway, on the 22nd of May, 1852, the
affidavit for which last marriage set forth that prisoner was
• bachelor.

Prisoner was then remanded upon the application of Mr.
Lewis, in order that he might procure further evidence
spinet him to complete the cases.
Yesterday, upon the prisoner being again brought up,
Mr. Wontner attended on his behalf, and the case was re-
opened, the validity of the first marriage being questioned.
The proof of this marriage rested upon the testimony of a
gentleman who was present when some ceremony was per-
formed, and the production of the following two letters
written by the accused many years afterwards to Mr. Miller,
a solicitor, which were repeatedly referred to, and which
should be read with attention :
"16, Eaton street, Woolwich, Sept. 6, 1880.
" Sir, —I could have wished that the recital of the mar-
riage of 1839 should exonerate me from committing a deli-
berate fraud in the marriage of 1844. It was some yews
subsequent to the latter date that the validity of • mar-
riage without banns or a license by a dissenting 'minister
was recognised. A U the circumstances attending the mar-
riage of 1839 strengthen the conviction it was worthies's,
until, to my consternation, the courts decided otherwise.
I was then • very young man ; the woman lived
with me previously and • certificate was had only to save
appearances. In 1(09 we separated ; the woman, so more
than myself, viewed it valid. She resided in the city of
Cork ; I also resided near it. She sever sought me. and
ke w when, I was residing. I was maned by license, in
1844, at St. Peter's, Cork. Frequently saw the woman Ia
the streets. Was never molested or accosted by her;
never made the least charge upon me, for Ithe, se well as
myself, attached no value to the marriage, and I remained
so contented until, as I have already said, the question was
raised on circumstances similar, and the courts decided
their validity. Hence lam fairly entitled to be absolved
from any fraud in making the contract of 1844." After
alluding to some legal proceedings being taken to camel a
deed of settlement, the letter concludes—" I am, your
obedient servant, E. A. /MAMMY."
A postscript says :—" I need scarcely add you shall find
me reedy te do any and every ad you may deem neomiary
tosecure Mrs. M.'s rights—am recompense for an involuntary
wrong it is justly due."

The second letter was as follows :
" Woolwich, Sept. 9, 18130.
" Sir,—The place of celebration of the ceremony of 1839
in Cullingford, • suburb of Dublin—the celebrant, the Rev.
Mr. Schultz,* Genus Lutheran minister, at has residence.
The register he keeps is in the Prerogative or Goodin:Mal
Court, Dublin, lodged and impounded there since his mar-
riages were first questioned. I can afford no information of
Crugh's death. I did hear it asserted in 1853, but where
I know not—it may have been Cork, the last place I
heard of her, but persons of her class assume
new names, and have aliases for every week of the year, and'
it may be no easy matter to satisfactorily trace her. She
was in London • considerable time after 1839, and in
Dublin also as 1011. There can be uo doubt that she was
in Cork early in 18.15, sad no difficulty in proving it. The
decision settling the validity of Schultz's marriages is well
known in Ireland, and I have no doubt many a heedless '
young man found himself snared by it as I did. (Here fol-
low some remarks about the settlement deed before alluded
to, and the letter is sived " E. A. leCurrier.",)
Miss Mary Anne o'&yani of 30, Westbourne-plans,
Eaton-square, was cress-erammed by Mr. Woutner—She
said she was first acquainted by her brother, Dr. O'Bryan, of
prisoner's first marriage in 18,2. She did not then behove
it. He told her about a year after that he had seen the
certificate of that • Witness was married fn'
1844, and continued to 're with him till 1852, when
he went away with Mims Worley. Witness fetched
him back, but he went away again with her.
tier friends wrote to him. She and her family
sold off his goods. Could not say whether her brother
took prisoner's position of sole notary at Queenstown • this
was the firstatime she ever heard her brother was a notary.
Never heard positively that be got it. Had heard Robert
O'Bryan was practising there as noterv. Was only se-
quanited with it by hearsay. When married to prisoner her
property was not settled upon her, but after being married
seven or eight years he settled it upon her in April, 1852.
In 1860 she was desirous of recovering the sole control of the
property, and instituted* suit in the high Chancery Court ;
he wrote the letters produced to facilitate her getting the
money out of court. She supposed he did it for that
purpose. Witness and prisoner were living together
in 1860, when these letters were written. Winans
had not read them before they were sent, but ported
them herself as prisoner was lame. Witness continued to
live with him after this, but left him when she found she
could. It was June twelve months when she last lived
with him ; bad since corresponded with him in answer to
his letters for money. Had seen him, but not frequently.
Had lived iu Belgrave and Warwick places, and there being
some arrears of rent an execution was put in, when she de-
clared herself to be • single woman, and wished she had
done so sooner. Could not say her brothers gave him into
custody on his coming to the house at that time for this
bitmli yr, Arnold—Thought it was after the marriage. with
Miss Verity that witeess became acquainted with the pri-
soner's marriage with Catherine Creagh.
By Mr. Lewis-9001. of the money she obtained from
the Court of Chancery, to facilitate the getting of which
the letters had been written, went towards paying priso-
ner's debts. „

Mr. Warrington, the only witness to the first alleged
marriage, ens called and croes.examined. He said he was
present at Schultz's when the prisoner and Catherine Creagh
were there ; he was present at prisoner's invitation.
Schultz Ina a very notorious person ; he performed mar-
riages when parsons had not time to contract them through
the church. There wag • ceremony of some sort goals
through. but he could not say what. Schultz read and
spoke in some form, and witness believed they were mar-
ried at that time. Saw no books used by either of the
parties. Never saw such • marriage before. Prisoner said
Le war anxious to make Catherine Creegh reparation, sod
marry her.
By Mr. Arnold—Could not say whether any religious
form was used at the marriage. Could not say whether
Schultz was in canonicals ; thought be saw the parties kneel
but could not say.
Mr. Lewis urged that the prisoner's own 'di:Marion in
the letters of manage was evidence of the fact.
Mr. Wormier add reseed the court with much force,
urging that before this case could be anataioed, it would be
necessary to prove the validity of the first marriage.
An Irish policeman was called to prove that Schultes
marriage had been acted upon am valid in the courts of law
in that country.
Mr. Lewis having urged that the bigamy was clearly made
out, and ought to be seat toe jury,
Mr. Arnold thought that with the letters and the evidence
of Mr. Warrington of a ceremony, there was a prima facie
case made outland committed the accused for trial upon
the first charge of intermarrying with Mies O'Bryan while
his former wife Catherine Creagh was alive.
No evidence was given in the other case, but it was stated
during the proceeding. that indictments might be preferred,
and that in such cases notice would be gives to the oppo-
site side, a course Mr. Arnold thought would be hard upon
the accused, after her family had suffered tea years to elapse
without • prosecution.
Prisoner was committed for trial at the Central Criminal
Court.

Mr. Arneld offered to take one surety in 201, ea he
thought it not a casein whkh the primmer should be locked up.

EOWSLILY AND BUXTON RAILWAY.—IL is now
decided to open the ant portion of this line from Rowsley
to Hassop-road on the Ist of August. By this increased fa-
cilities will be opened up for travelling to Bakewell, Heesop,
(hirer, and the surrounding neighbourhood. Other sicom-
niodation will be afforded for traosmittiag coal anal other
heavy goods The remaining portion of the line, which will
be opened for traffic on the lst of Julie, 1863, is now far
advanced towards completion. It is stated the tunnels,
which were consideied the chief obstacles, have progressed
rapidly. Two or three of the smaller ones are already com-
plete, and the others will all be completed by the end of
I the present year, but communication through them will be
obtained much earlier. The bridges are nearly all com-
plete, with the exception of Monsaldrie and Millersdale
viaducts. Monialdale is steadily progressiog, and it is
Isaid will Le completed before the end of the present year.
The great bridge of the line is Milleredale, which is nearly
ready for receiving the iron girders, which will be after
the design of those already erected Dearer Buxton, but much
more magnificent, as the height will be nearly double, and
I the span much greater. Those already erected over the
turnpike road from Buxton to Bakewell do credit to the
, designs of Mr. W. H. Barlow, engineer of the railway, com-
bining beauty with strength. When the line of railway is
' complete, it will open up some of the most varied &adman(-
' ficent scenery in Great Britain. The opening of this line
must, in woeeouince, prove e boon to the operatives of
Manchester, eld, and other large towns.-3Acffield
Independent.
Ten ELECTRIC AND INTIZIATIONAL MILLIGRAM
Cograirr.—At a meeting of the board of direeten of this
company held yesterday it was resolved to rereussend to
the proprietors, at the general meeting to be held on the
dab of August, to coadrm a dividend of 31. 10e. per cent. for
the lest bell-year.