The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-15 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

SINGULAR CHARGE OF BlGAMY.—Richard Batley, a
man about 40 years of age, of very forbidding appearance,
was placed at the bar, before Mr Selfe, charged with felo-
niously intermarrying with Priscilla Moffatt, his former
wife being alive at the time.
The second wife was put into the witness-box and, being
sworn, was about to give evidence, when Mr Salfe said he
would not hear her testimony until he had had proof of the
first marriage.
The second wife, a tall and rather a flee woman, then
stood down, and Mr Selfe inquired where Sarah White,
whose name appeared- on the police-sheet as a witness,
was.

Mr Hawkes, an inspector of the B division, said that she
was a very aged woman, 75 years old, and was unable to
attend. She was the mother of the prisoner.
The second wife said that if she had time given her she
could produce the necessary evidence. She was proceeding
to make a statement, when. Mr Self e repeated he could not
hear her.

Daniel Marsham, 116 F, said he was in James-street,
Covent-garden, last night, when the second wife came up
and said she wanted a man taken into custody for bigamy.
Shortly afterwards the prisoner came out of a house in Hart-
street, and the second wife charged him with unlawfully
marrying her. She said that if time was allowed she (Luld
prosecute, and she then produced two certificates.
The certificates were then handed to the magistrate. The
first related to the marriage of Henry Batley to Elizabeth
Inay, at South Hackney Church, on May 19, 1838, and the
second, of Richard Henry Batley with Priscilla Moffatt, in
Australia, on the 11th of July, 1810.
Mr Selfe—Did the prisoner say anything when taken
into custody ?
Witness—He did not deny it.
Prisoner—l say nothing about it now—let the case be
proved against me.
Witness—He said he certainly had been living with an-
other woman, and, when the certificate of the first marriage
was produced, did not deny that she was his wife.
Mr Selfe—What evidence is there, even supposing you
identify him as the husband in the first marriage, that the
first wife was alive when he married the second ?
Second wife— She was seen alive six years after he mar-
ried me.

Mr Selfe said the case ought not to have been brought
before him. It must be taken before the magistrate of the
district where prisoner was apprehended.

MARLBOROUGH-STREE F.

EMBEZZLEMENT.—Francis Titchner, carman, in the
employ of Mr Edwin Chesney, wino and beer merchant, of
No. 19, Blenheim-street, Oxford-street, was charged before
Mr Yardley with embaLling the sum of £3 received on
account of his employer.
Mr Chesney, said that on the 12th inst. he gave the pri-
soner some goods, to the amount of £3, and a receipted bill
for the same, to deliver to a customer, named Allum, in
Craven-street, Strand. The prisoner delivered the goods,
received the money, and returned, but never handed the
money over as he should have done, and he had since ab •
seated himself from his employ.
Davidson, 301 A, said that in consequence of a commu-
nication from Mr Chesney, he apprehended the prisoner at
No. 25, Nassau-street, Middlesex Hospital, when ho said
he knew nothing about the money, and that he had never
received it.

George Webb, clerk and traveller to Mr Allum, of
Craven-street, Strand, proved paying the prisoner the sum
of X 3.

Mr Yardley committed the prisoner, who still denied re-
ceiving the money, for trial.
The prisoner asked to have some money found upon him
given up, but Mr Yardley refused the application, stating
that it evidently was part of the money for Mr Chesney.