The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-22 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.-•NZSTIVIDAY.
Emu tIL Ilsnon Purr.
DIPIAUDISO In/ LONDON Doox COMPANY.
S.Baraegg, 33, rigout, woo soavieted urn two indialnasuts
changing him with uttering forged orders for the delivery of
geode, with Intent MI defraud the Loudon Dock Company.
Mr. BeHustles end Mr. Robinson were tor the proem.
lion, and Mr. Roddhates tighodad the Olean
It appeared that IM pigeon had hen semis/ co a very
extensive "SIM d plooder by mew of forged orders. It
was his swam In so le respectable wine merchants, and
upon repreatodhg that be omitted to purchase wines for
shipment M Amlrelle, Its received tasting orders, and
hewing by Me mow ebtalsed the particulars of the different
wines, he aftermath beetled op sampling orders for them,
and by this mean goineded, a several occasions, In obtain.
mining a ansidesable quaky of whop.
The pyinsuer was menteueed to be transported for seven
year..

THIRD COURT.—YernaDAT.
Boonsta. itcsesit. Ovum
CMS 01P BIOANI.
Walk's Augustus Moen, 34, gentleman, was Indicted for
bigamy with Mary Whittaker Greene, kis wife, Cecilia,
being then alive.
Mr. Ballantine and Mr. P.tny prosecuted, and Mr. Bo
bineon defended. The prisoner, who is a tall, handsome. mili-
turlooking man waken' large moustaches and whisken,
was fa.htonably attired in black with a white envie
Mr. Ballantine, in sating the ease (or the picot:titian,
said that charges of this nature were generally (as far as the
jury were coneused) merely confined to the actual facts of
the marriage, and that the other circumstances connected
with the offence were for the consideration of the court to
direct them in their judgment, and a. in this instance the
facts were abundantly clear, he should but briefly allude to
them. The prisoner, who, it was refloat, wu a mere for
tune hunter, and Itaci behaved most heartlessly to those who
had bemuse his victims, was married to his first wife in
1838, when she had a good fortune, and all that the
prosecution now knew of her was that she MU in Boulogne,
penniless, and unable to some over to this country. Without
entering into the eircurnstances under which he became rtc
quainted with his woad wife, he would merely rate that
eh' also was a lady of fortune, and that la the year 1848 he
wan married to her. After they had been married for some
time, during which period be expended a great portion of her
fortune, she became acquainted with the fact of the prier net
being a married man, upon which she immediately left him,
after which he oontmeaced hunting her, and holding out
threats, for the purpose of obtaining money from her, upon
which her relations, having obtain, d the necessary evidence,
took the present proceedings, which would be proved with-
out the appearance of the stand wife.
Mr. John Baker, the parish clerk of St. Mary, Doer r,
proved the marriage of the prisoner on June the 23rd, 1838,
to Cecilia Charlotte Frenchall. They stayed at Dour •
short time, and then went on the C.ntinent. Witness saw
the first wife alive in Boulogne about a fortnight ago.
Crowe:stained—At the time of the marriage the lady sp.
peered to be between 30 and 40. . _

Captain Mortis Barthel, a retired officer, proved the
identity of the prisoner, and the marriage with his first
wife.

Mr. John Farrell, parish clerk of Saint Magnus the
Martyr, in the City, produced the certificate of the marriage
of the prisoner with Miss Mary Whittsk-r Greene, "pinata,
on the 2nd of February, 1848.
Miss Emily Jess Greene, an exceedingly fashionable
lady-like looking woman, slater to the prisoner's second
wife, deposed to balm present at the marriage. It was not
until the July of 1849 it' she heard the prisoner had been
married I taxed him with it, and he said his first wife was
kinder to him than my sister. Her sister had been abroad
after she was separated from him.
A letter. partly in French and partly in English, and ad.
dressed to this witness tromp, isona,wee then put in and read.
Its contents, which were couched in a somewhat incnbereet
style, proved that the prisoner, partly by threats, and partly
by en appeal to her feeling", wished to let him again obtain
possession of her sister.
In giros'. ex imination, witness said that her sister was about
314 1 cannot say exactly when she is now. She left Dover the
week before last, and is somewhere en the continent. She
came from Paris to be married. I was living at Richmond
at the time. I heard from my sister about four days before
the marriage, and came up from Richmond to be present. I
did not then see the prisoner for above half an hour. They
left for Paris. It was in Ju'y, 1849, that i heard from zny
sister of his Deng a married man. I was then living with
Colonel Rose at Richmond ; he treated me as his daughter;
be is dead. At his death he left me money, but not any to
my sister.
Re examined by Mr. Ballantine: I was Colonel Rose's
adopted daughter; my sister is now very ill.
Thomas Barnes, a my p lice constable, said that he went
to a ppnbend the prisoner at Oddard's coffee howie,Waterloo-
road ; and when he rid him that he took him on a warrant
for bigamy, prisoner said, 't Ido not understand you, or
know what you mean." Wits's+, then told him ; and he
said he had a greater charge to make sgainst Miss Greene,
that of murder. He further added, there might be some
mistake; they might mean his brother.
Ater some further evidence,
Mr Robinson addressed the jury for the defence, cam-
plsining of the statements made by the prosecution, and
denying that the prisoner had any money with his wife be-
yond the amount spent for ordinary expenses ; and also that
it was most unfair that the first wile was not present, and
that the exact circumstances under which prisoner became
acquainted with his wives, both of whom were older than
himself, were not stand.
The learned counsel then called
Mr. Joseph Crawford, consul-general of the Havana,
who said that he knew the prisoner, who had moved in
the hest society at that place, and also at Paris.
This gentleman produced a letter from the prisoner's lint
wife, written in the mildest spirit, and expressing her inten-
tion of not being present at the trial, as it would only serve
to assist the ease for the prosecution, and could not aid the
position in which her unhappy husband was placed.
Mr. Gurney, in summing up, said there was no blame at
all to be attached to the prosecution for the aurae they had
pursued, nor was there any necessity for further wounding
the feelings 01 the tint wife by bringing her up to this
court as evidence. All the jury had to do with was the fact
of the two marriages.
The jury found him Guilty.
Mr. Ballantine said he unoerstood prisoner had 15,0001.
with his second wife. _ _

Mies Greene was recalled, and sold she believed her sister's
fortune wee above 10,0001., but it was settled on her.
The solicitor in the prosecution, who was also solicitor to
the lady, said it was above 10,000!. settled on her, but he
heard that the prisoner had di-eipated nearly all of it.
After some further discussion, the court said they would
take time to consider what sentence should be passed.
The prisoner, who 'toed with hie arms folded during the
whole of the trial, trying to look very unconcerned, then
walked on' of the do-k with a military step.
Mary Fitzgerald, 47, married, • decent looking woman,
was indicnd for feloniously intermarrying with William
Beckford, her husband bring then alive.
Mr. Clark prosecuted, and Mr. Bollantine, who bad been
retained through the humane interference of the under
sheriffs, appeared for (ho woman.
Mr. Clark stated the case to the jury, and in so doing said
that, although undoubtedly an offence bad been committed,
still the manner in which the charge had been brought for-
ward wu highly reprehensible and cast great discredit on all
parties, as no public wrong would have arisen if the proceed-
ings had never been instigated. The facts were these : In
1824 the prisoner was married at Marylebone to • man named
Fitzgerald, who, after living witk her some time, de-
serted her and enlisted in the army, first going with his
r, giment to Ireland, and then to India. She was then war-
ned to her second bulaind at St. George's, Bloomsbury, in
1831. After she had lived with him for six or seven years
Fitzgerald came home and came to claim her from her second
husband, who, however, continued to live with her altogethn
for sixteen years, and had five children by her. Finally the
first husband got discharged from the service, audit appeared
made use et the power the commission of bigamy gave him
to work upon her tears and extort money from her, she still
living with the second husband. Some disagreement taking!
place he left her, and for some time allowed her money to sup.
p in theehiblren, but ultimately withrawing that support, and
Abe Ming ill, they became chargeable to the parish of Rich-
mond, where they lived when the second husband made
known the whole affair to free himself from them ; that
proceedings were Ultra, and the poor woman taken from
a sick bed in the hospital, Find sat here for trial.
Mr. Bellantine having most warmly commented upon the
,hametul character of the proceedings, contended that she
might have thought her husband dead when she again
married.

The fury found her Guilty, and she was sentenced to
seen days imprisonment in Newgate.
Mr. Gamey said he should not allow the expenses.
The poor woman, who was in a fainting state a great por-
tion of the trial, was carried fres the dock.