Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-28 00:00:00

A CURIOUS BIGAMY CASE.

In the police court, on Thursday, Mr. John Henry Bate, an English
gentleman, was arraigned, and waiving an examination, was held to
600 dols to trial on a charge of bigamy. The complaint was made at
t'te ins'ance of Mrs. Georsianna M. Bate, wiles° story is somewhat
singular. The case was about two years since before the lower
tribunals of the New York City for examination. and at that time
formed the sui-ject of a large number of newspaper paragraphs. It
finally died out, however, and was not heard of again unill its revival
within a 11, w days in this city. The lady, Mrs. Georgianna M. Bate,
allege, that Mr. Bate, the party defendant, was lawfully married to
her in England, Soma 22 years since ; that be sub:equsnt'y married
anot er woman in England, and was convicted of bigamy there, and
that in c msequence of her efforts his punishment w; s only one
month's imprisonment. These effsrts in his behalf were made, as
Mrs. Bate says, upa 1 his promite to live with her, and i o give up his
second wife. The promise was not kept, however, and the next that
was heard of the case was about nine years since, as Mrs. Bate
repre•ents, she caught her truant husband in Canada, and obliged
him, in the language of the p 'pars ofthe day," to pay her handsomely
for allowing him to go at large." The story is now, that after leaving
England, Mr. Bate was reported to be deaf, and the fam ly went into
mourning for him. Mrs. Bate, supposing herself a widow, married
again, and was after a while, astonished by the return of her sponse,
and was reminded of the nature of her conjugal vows by a judicially
irflicted pnnishent for bigamy. The twain was now about even, but
the lady soon recovered herself, and following Mr. Bate to this
eountry, again procured his arrest in New York, as absve stated. Mrs.
Bate says that the case against her husband has failed each time in
consequence of the absence of a witness of her marriage with him,
and now, having crossed the Atlantic for a third time, she alleges
that the cage is, in this particular at least, complete. The maiden
name of the proseeut ng la ly was Geergianna Mit'ilda Cartwright,
and that of the second wife, to whom the deettlant is said to have
'eon inanied in Suffield, Ergland, in 1833, was Elisabeth Chapman.
fmals is the ex.raordleary and almost incredible story of Mrs.
Georeanna M. Bate, and her statements are backed up by papers
pu-portiing to be ooples of records. Mr. Bate, for his part, chilies any
acquaints/ice with the lady who thus claims to be his original wife,
and says he 0117 knows of her by reason of the persecutions to wh ch
she has ralsjectet.i him for the past ten years. Mr. Bate we believe,
keeps a sort of a pu Michelase int .ie city; he is living with the
second wife, who is the Mother of fourteen of his children. The case
will be likely to excite sos7lo interest should it ever reach a trial before
a jury. Mr. Augustus Russ appears as counsel for the prosecution,
and Mr. James Eagaa for the ,derendatat.—Boston Traveller.

WHAT is COMING to LIVER. 00L on the
31st instant ?—Why,
THE GREATEST NOVELTY IN THE WORLD 1
WHERE IS IT TO BE SEEN ?
THAI'S THE QUEVTION.