The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-18 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

Jane Hannah Hapneo a well.dreued young woman, a
native of New York, surividered to take her trial for fe•
hmiously throwing upon James Haynes a quantity of std.
phuric aci.t. and thereby occasioning him grievous bodily
harm. _ .

Mr. Sleigh made a very earnest appeal to the jury on
behalf of the prisoner, and he said there could be Po doubt
that she had had to put up with a great deal of persecution,
and he urged the probability that while in a state of anger
and excitement she had seized the first thing that came in
her way, and threw it at the prosecutor, and that there was
no evidence to show that she had the slightest knowledge
tint the article contained in the bottle was of a dangerous
character. The learned counsel also commented at consi-
derable length upon the relations between the parties, and
said there could lie no doubt that the real object the prose.
cuter bad in view was to get rid of the prisoner.
The Recorder having summed up and directed the atten-
tion of the jury to the law in reference to such a charge,
they deliberated- for some time, and then returned a verdict
of guilty, hut at the same time recornended the primmer to
mercy on the ground that they believed she was not aware
of the contents of the bottle.

Mr. Sleigh submitted that this was a verdict of acquittal,
and after some discussion,
The Recorder said he thought the jury had better retire
and reconsider their verdict.

They did so accordingly, and after a short interval again
returned into court and found the prisoner Ouiliy, but re-
commended her to mercy.
Mr. Metcalfe again intimated that the prosecutor had no
desire that any punishment should be indicted upon the
prisoner, and all be wished was to be protected from her
violence in future.

The Recorder said be thought the beet mune would be
to respite the judgment to the next 1106400, and in the
meantime the prisoner will remain in custody.
Jane, Rteekland, 25, carpenter, pleaded guilty to a
charge of feloniously marrying Sarah Herbert, his wife
being alive.
The prisoner, when called up for judgment, made a long
statement to the effect that the second wife and all her rela-
tions' were perfectly well aware that he was a married man.
and that the prosecutor " fell in love" with him, and would
not let him have any peace until he consented to marry
her. _ _

The second wife and her mother, who appeared to be
very respectable persons, were called up by the Recorder,
and, in answer to the questions he put to them, they
solemnly declared that there was not a word of truth in the
prisoner's statement. The mother said that she knew the
prisoner was living with a woman who pained as his wife,
and she taxed him with being a married man, and he went
down opal his knees and swore to God that the woman
who lived with him was not his wife, and told her if
ever she cane to make a disturbance to ask her for her
" moninve lines."
The 10. e, o'er told the prisoner, in peeling sentence, that
be did not believe a word of his statement that the girl
and her parents were aware that he was a married man
when the murriage took place, and it was highly improbable
that they would have consented to it if they bad been
awarelbst he was already married. He then sentenced the
prisoner to eieiteen months' bard labour.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Common Serjeint.)

Ge..rvv Cott, steward, was iwitited for feloniously
marirs in 4 Lazily Marketable biz wife Frances being then
alive.
Mr. Met...-alfe and Mr. F. H. Lewis prosecuted ; and Mr.
Ninon defended. . _

It appeared that the prisoner was married to his first
wife opm2 the 21st of July, 1860, at Bath, by whom Le had
one child. and his wife wee in the family way with the
second child when he quitted her, and, according to the
prisoner's aorount, she after then did not answer his letters.
In May, 1%8, he met his second wife, who was then at
Sydney. living with her uncle, who kept a lodging-Louse
there. The prisoner was a steward in one of the vessels
tradiss 'betwcwin England and Australia, and after their
marriage, which was solemnised by • Snatch minister at
Sydney. the prisoner brought hie second wife to this coup.
try,
_wbere they lived for MOM time, the prisoner behaving
to her. The prisoner being entitled to some property
atßath, the father of the second wife went down to make
some Inquiries about it, and he there heard that the pri-
soner had b^eu before married.

Sir A. Stephen, the Chief Justice of New South Wales,
we: ermined, and produced the act for consolidating the
laws relating to marriages in Australia—the 19th Viet., cap.
30—and explained that by the. provisions of that sta-
tute, which came into operation in March, 18.103, a •
solemnised by any person, minister of the Gospel of any
nomination, was &legal marriage.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty. Sentence, three
month.' irnpri onment.