The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-02 00:00:00

POLICE-THIS DAY.

TRAMES.
about 45 years of
BmAfkrr.—An Irish sailor named Bartholomew M'Garry,
character, and whose certificates of service were marked
V. G. (very good)
both for ability and conduct, was
brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with feloniously
age, who has hitherto maintained a good
intermarrying with Mary Halloran, while his first and
lawful wife was alive.
Both wives were in court, The first, an old woman, very
poor and meanly clad, and many years the senior of the
prisoner ; the second, a younger woman than the prisoner,
and well-dressed. The first marriage was solemnised
according to the rites of the Roman Catholic
Church, in Ireland, as far back as the 18th of
October, 1833, and a certificate signed by the
priest who officiated at the ceremony was produced,
but there was no witness to the marriage present except
the first wife, and according to the present state of the law,
which has often been the cause of great injustice in cases
of this description, she could not be called to state the
simple fact that she was married to the prisoner. The
difficulty was got over by the admission made by the prisoner
to the police-constable who took him into custody, that the
old woman who claimed him as her husband and who was
present at the time was his lawful wife, and he was mar-
ried to her in Ireland. They had been living apart many
years, and in the month of February, 1861, he was married
to Mary Halloran, at the Roman Catholic Church, of St.
St. Mary and St. Michael, in the Commercial-road East
An Irishman who was present at this marriage was put
into the witness box. Re is a little old man, with a thick
Cork brogue, and his answers to the questions put to him
created roars of laughter. They axed me to go wid 'em
said the little max.

Mr. Woolrych—Did you go?
Witness—Bedad, they wint with me.

Mr. Woolrych—Did you give the bride away ?
Witness—Give her away, now. Och, now, could Ibe
doing that ? Shure your honour's wortchip knows better.
Mr. Woolzych—What did you do, my good man ?
Witness—l gave them both up to the priest.
Witness—And he married them ?
Witness—Fair, now, he jilt made them man and wife.

The second wife said that when she became acquainted
with the prisoner he said his first wife had been dead and
buried 14 years.

The first wife here groaned aloud, and exclaimed—
M‘Garry, now, did you tell her that lie of me.

Mr. Woolrych—You must be quiet, Mrs. M'Garry.
The first wife—That's my name your riverence.
The second wife then produced the certificate of the second
marriage, signed by the priest of St. Mary and St. Michael,
and said my husband told me the week before last that he
was married to this old woman.

John Barrett, 158 H, said—l took the prisoner into cus-
teedeyn. m
He said, in the presence of the two wives, I have
been married to both of them.

The first wife-od, may the Lord save you M'Garry ;
was there ever such a bad man.

The prisoner, after receiving the usual caution, said—" I
know I have done wrong, I have been married to both wo-
men. lam a most unfortunate man, I must put up with it."
Mr. Woolrych committed the prisoner for trial, and he
then asked the magistrate to allow the money, £2 16s taken
from him by Barrett, the police constable, to be given to
his wife.

Mr. Woolrych—Won't you give the second any. You
have dee?ly injured her P
The prisoner—She can work for her living, sir, the old
woman can't work.
The second wife—Have I not washed and mended for
you, M'Garry, and I have had none of the wages of your
last voyage I'
The first wife, clapping her hands, " God bless you,
M•Garry."
The prisoner then left the dock.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
COMMITTAL OF SYSTEMATIC SuoPLlPTEßS.—Margaret
Adams and Sarah Williams, charged with being in posses-
sion of a quantity of goods, consisting of pieces of silk, hand-
kerchiefs, arawers, f4cf, allbearing ehop manta, aud, .