The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-11 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Mr. Bate, a fringe manufacturer in Moor-lane, was
brought up for final examination, before Sir Peter
Laurie, charged with bigamy.

At the previous hearings the first marriage was proved
by Joseph Totman, of Park-place, City-road, who gave
away the bride, Georgians Matilda Cartwright, on
Christmas Day, 1833, at New Pancras Church ; but
the second marriage having been solemnised at Shef-
field, there was a difficulty in producing evidence, the
second wife carefully keeping out of the way.
Mr. Hudson, the parish clerk of Sheffield, now at-
tended, and produced a certificate of the second mar-
riage, to Elizabeth Chapman, which took place on the
19th of December last. Mr. Jessup, an upholsterer,
gave notice to put up the bans. He recollected the
prisoner by his coming to ask him to officiate as father.
Hs did so, and the sexton was the other witness. On
the morning of the 19th the prisoner came to inquire if
he could be married. He asked the prisoner if he was
a fringe manufacturer, and the prisoner said he was.
From his anxiety to have the marriage as private as pos-
sible, without any parties accompanying them, he was
induced to take particular notice of the prisoner. The
following is the letter which he had received from Mrs.
Jessup
__

44 hear Friend,—Permit me, with impunity, se-
riously to address these few lines to you, concerning my
new situation, from which, if you are intimate with the
clerk of the church, you may be able, in some degree,
to release me. Now, dear friend, if
y
condescend to exercise your influence overou wouldtheel
rkbut
of
the church (if he is called upon to appear next Satur-
day), so as to make him, or rather persuade him, not
positively to swear to me as the man who was married
in the name cf J. H. Bate, you will very much oblige
me ; whereas it may be the means of saving me from
transportation. I am now in the Compter. If 3•ou
will but proffer your services to me I shall be extremely
obliged to you, and will ever remain your humble
servant,
«J. H. BATE."

John Wade, a City policeman, stated that he appre-
hended the prisoner at Clapham, where be had apart-
ments. A tea party was assembling. When he told
the prisoner his unpleasant business, he wished to go up
stairs, but witness would not permit that. The pi i-
soner then whispered to some of his friends, and said
to some one, tell Elizabeth she had better go to America.
Sir PETER LAURIE asked the prisoner if he admitted
having written the letter to Mrs. Jessup ?
The priSoner replied he should not admit anything.
Sir PETER inquired how the second marriage had
been discovered.
It was explained that his wife separated from him, on
an allowance, about eighteen months ago, but latterly
he bad discontinued the pension, which led to some
violent altercations in the street, and frequently ended
in her being locked up. Lately she heard that he had
married again, and by breaking into his work rooms, in
Moor-lane, one night while he was at Clapham, she
discovered where the marriage was solemnised. She
found a series of love-letters from the scond wife, who
appears to have been an upper servant in a respectable
family.
Several letters were produced, and the prisoner, who
is in his 23d year, was committed for trial.
THE POLES.—Joseph Alexander .who stands charged
with stealing 12/., the property of Mrs. Wreford, of
Beech-street, Barbican, was again brought up, but no
material progress having been made in collecting o7i_
dente against the prisoner, as to the stealing, he was
further remanded till Friday.'

lIIARYLEBONE.
THE LAST OF THE DOGBERRIES.—An old man,
named 111‘Carthy, muffled up in a huge great coat, with
a Welch wig on his cranium, was charged with having
been found drunk and asleep at the mouth of a com-
mon sewer, under repair, near Tottenham-court-road,
which he had been especially appointed to guard by the
parish.
A constable of the E division stated that he was on
duty about two o'clock that morning, when he was
attracted by a loud snoring noise issuing from the mouth
of the sewer. He went to ascertain the cause, and
found the prisoner lying flat on his back, fast asleep, his
head resting on a paving-stone, while his lantern had
rolled into the sewer. Almost all the lights, placed to
guard passengers against falling into the abyss, were

extinguished, and the prisoner being drunk he conveyed I
him to the station-house. I

Mr. RAWLINSON—W hat have you to say ?
Prisoner (shaking his head)-1 was no more drunk
than I ought to be, and quite capable of attending to
my duty if the policeman had left me alone.

Mr. RAWLINSON—What have you to say to being
caught asleep with the lights out ?

Prisoner—Lord bless-you, I've been an old parish
watchman, and quite used to that sort of thing ; but, as
for the lights, blow my wig if they were not burning all
as right. as a trivet.
Policeman—You must have been double.

Prisoner—l've seen double your service, and I knows
the duty of a watchmen afore sich a thing as you
was heard of ; but I'm now the last of my race, owing to
the new system of watching, whot ar'nt to be compared
with the old one ; by then people could sleep quietly in
their beds, and watchmen in their boxes, without being
disturbed by policemen stalking about the streets in the
dead of the night. Ah I shall never see such times
again ; everybody is for halterations and improve-
ment, as they calls it.

Mr. RAWLINSON—Persons might have broken their
necks down the hole.

Prisoner—No, I should have warned them of the
danger. _ _

Constable—By the snoring you made, I suppose ; you
were nearly tumbling down the gulf yourself.
Prisoner—Then old Charley would have perished
gloriously.
The last of the Dogberries was then mulcted for his
drunkenness, and the constable ordered to report him
to the parish authorities.