The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-24 00:00:00

POLICE.- SATURDAY.

CITY POLICE COMMITTEE. EXTRAORDINARY
CASE or BIGANY.-A gentleman, whose name did not
transpire, attended and made known the following romantic
exploit of a young female, who, by craving the benevolence
of Sir Chapman Marshall, bad placed herself in York Castle
under a very remarkable charge of bigamy. On Friday, the
7th inst., a young woman, giving the came of Amelia Young,
applied to Sir Chapman Marshall, at the Guildhall police
court, for his aid in *.cing sent back to her native home.
With great plausibility she told her tale, her dialect favour-
ing the truth of her story. She said that when only twelve
years of age, she was stolen from a boarding school and
married to a young man who worked at plumbing and
glazing. They were separated two days afterwards, and
her husband was tried and imprisoned for enticing her
away—she having some pecuniary expectations. After he
was liberated he enlisted for a soldier, yid was discharged
after seven years of servitude ; but as he was a drunken
fellow she did not live with him. She learnt straw bonnet
making, and having an uncle resident in Marylebone, she
came up to London from York in quest of him. She had,
however, been unable to find him, and basing no means of
sustaining herself, and being in very distressed circum-
stances, she had appealed to Sir Chapman Marshall for his
assistance in getting back to Pocklington, near York. The
. alderman put several questions to her respecting different
parties at York, and finding her answers to be correct, he
directed that the inspector of police should be communi-
cated with on the subject. The reply was favourable to the
applicant, and 30s. was given her to proceed home by the
parliamentary train. It appears, however, that she only
returned to her native locality to add another link, as it were,
to her romantic history. As soon as she reached Pock-
lington, she was apprehended by Mr. Key, the police-
superintendent of the district, and on Thursday last she was
examined before the magistrates at York Castle, on a charge
of bigamy. Here her true life came out. She was the
daughter of Mrs. Ann Atkinson, who carried on the busi-
ness of Unman and brazier, in 1839, in the city of York. Her
daughter was then 12 years of age, and she made arrange-
ments to send her to school. On the 29th of April the girl
went, as the mother thought, to school ; but on her proceed-
ing the same day to pay the entrance money, she found that
her daughter was not there. A young man, of the name of
James Young, who worked in the parent's business, had
made some excuse to leave his work that morning, and did
not return. It appeared that the girl, on coming of age,
would come into possession of 2001., and Young, being aware
of that fact, had taken her off by the coach to Leeds, and
married her on the following day. The lather of Young aided
their flight, and at the next assizes at York they were tried
for abduction, and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment.
How they were separated has already been given. The
evidence adduced to support the charge of bigamy showed
that about four years after her first marriage—viz., on the
2nd of April, 1843, she was united to Charles William Eliard,
living at Pocklington.—ln her defence, she did not deny the
second marriage, but she stated that when she was wedded
to Eliard, her mother told her thut sh, a s not doing wrong
and that she was at perfect liher.) to marry again, the
former marriage being null and void, and that Young had
no claim upou her.—The magistrate, however, committed her
for trial.— -Sir Chapman Marshall, alter expressing consider-
able surprise at the plausible way she had imposed on him,
observed, it Ives difficult to guard against ouch impositions at
all times. He directed what he considered satisfactory in-
quiries to be made, and for the sake of deserving creatures,
he was sorry for what had occurred.—lt transpired Nat Mr.
Roe, the officer of Guildhsll court, received a letter from the
girl on her arriving at Pocklington, in which she thanked
them for what they. bad done, that she was not very com-
fortable, that she intended to again visit London in the
spring, and hoped they would do what they could for her.
MANSION-HOUSE.....STEALING A CASH Box.—Aticlrew
Schaffer, who was charged with having stolen a cash box con-
taining 341. 15s. 3d., in the office of the Patent Steam Navi-
gation Company, was finally examined.—The prisoner, who
is a foreigner Hell known to the police, was taken into na-
-1 tody by Davis, one of the most active f the body, and made
a desperate struggle to escape, but s'as overpowered by the
accidental appearance of some policemen who were passing
at the time.—Evidence was given that he had gone, fol-
lowed at some little distance by a young foreign• er (with
whom he had been frequently seen) into the offices of the
company, and that after hi, departure the eaah-box was
mired--The prisoner was committed for trial.

WORSHIPISTREET.—AN anuoir SHOPI. IFTEL—Eli-
zabetA &mills, alias ✓onus, alias Lloyd, was charged with
stealing a whole piece of merino cloth from the ajtop of Mr.