The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-04 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

A respectably-dressed man, named Samuel Collins,
described as a cigar-box manufacturer, was placed at
the bar, charged with having feloniously intermarried
with one Anna Maria Hornblower, his first wife,
Esther Isabella Collins, being then and still living.
The prisoner, who was proved to have been mar-
ried to the first wife in 1843, was given into custody
at the instance of the second, who stated that about
three years ago she became acquainted with the pri-
soner, who passed by the name of Smith and repre-
sented himself as a single man, and that after visiting
her repeatedly at the house of her father, where he
was received as her future husband, he proposed to
her that they should he privately married by license
in the country, and that when the time arrived for
an open acknowledgment of the fact to her friends she
should be at liberty to do so. She therefore accom•
panied the prisoner down the Eastern Counties Rail,
way to a town in Essex (the name of which she did
not positively know, but minutely described the
church), where they were married, in the month of
August, 1547, and immediately after the conclusion
of the ceremony she returned to her father's house in
town, and, being earnestly enjoined by the prisoner
to keep the marriage a secret, long did so, until she
some timq,afterwards accidentally discovered that the
prisoner had another wife living, when she imme-
diately tore up her certificate in revenge for the
prisoner's base conduct towards her, apprised her
parents of the position in which she was placed, and
gave instructions to the police for the prisoner's ap-
prehension.
A sergeant of the N division deposed to apprehend-
ing the prisoner at his house in Prince's-street, Hag-
gerstone, and that upon communicating to him the
nature of the charge against him he at once acknow-
leged the first marriage, but positively denied there
were any grounds for charging him with the second.
When called upon for his defence, the prisoner re-
peated the same statement he had made to the officer,
declared that the second wife's testimony was no-
thing but a pure fabrication, and said she had been
induced to make such a charge solely by jealousy and
vindictive feelings towards him.
The MAQISTRATE, however, saw no reason for
discrediting her testimony, and ordered the prisoner
to be remanded, to afford the police an opportunity
of tracing out the church where the prosecutrix so
positively alleged that the marriage with her had
taken place.
William Smart, who stood remanded upon the
timepiece and a large quantity
o the property of a poulterer
charge
householdrgaame de oGfrsotveeasl,inrg a
furniture,
esidin in Poole-street, Hoz ton, with
whose wife the prisoner had also ahsconded, was then
brought up for final examination.
Some further evidence was now gone into to prove
the prisoner's instrumentality in the removal of the
property, and the depositions having been taken the
prisoner was fully committed for trial, bail having
been refused. _

As soon as the case had been disposed of the pro-
secutor's wife made an earnest appeal from the wit-
ness-box to induce a more favourable interpretation
upon the prisoner's conduct, but, finding the Magis-
trate's mind made up, she then, with the greatest
coolness imaginable, besought him to compel her
husband to make some permanent arrangement for her
future support, as she was entirely without the means
of subsistence.

The MAGISTRATE, however, told her that after the
heartless profligacy she had exhibited in the whole of
her conduct, he was astonished at her audacity in
making such an application, and ordered her instantly
to stand down and quit the court; which she very
reluctantly did, but waited outside till the prisoner
was transferred to the van, when she repeatedly
kissed her hand to him, the gaoler ..refusing to allow
them to converse together.
LAMBETH.
man, who gave the name of Henry
A young
Wilson, was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott, and
charged on suspicion with stealing a surplice, a pulpit
cushion, and other articles from some church or chapel.
Police-constables Thomas Cannon, 50 P, and W.
Woodward, 157 P, deposed that about two o'clock on
that afternoon they stopped the prisoner in the Brix-
ton-road with a large bundle, and, on questioning
him as to what it contained, he instantly dropped it
and walked away. They, however, soon secured
him, and on examining the parcel they found it to
contain a clergyman's surplice, the furniture of a
pew, two cushions,' one of Palmer's patent lamps,
a set of fire-irons, and other articles, and all those
things they (the officers) were of opinion had been
stolen from some church or chapel. The pri-
soner refused to give any account of himself, beyond
saying he had recently come from Brighton. He,
however, added, they should learn a little more about
him if they took him to this court, as his history was
well known here.
The prisoner, who declined giving any account of
himself or the property found in his possession, was
remanded until Tuesday next.
Edward Stone alias Ginger, a notorious member
of the " swell mob," was charged with being con-
cerned with two others not yet in custody with
breaking into the house of a widow lady named
Tinkin, in Leipsic-road, Camberwell, on Sunday
evening last, and stealing therefrom two valuable
watches, the one gold and the other silver, two gold
chains, brooches, rings, and other property belonging
to that lady. From the evidence adduced it appeared
that on Sunday evening • last Mrs. Tinkin and a
young lady residing with her left home about half-
past four o'clock to take tea with a friend in the
neighbourhood, and on their return, about a quarter
before eight, they discovered that during their ab-
sence the house had been entered by thieves, and the
property before-mentioned stolen. The thieves, it

appeared, ,had first tried to get into the house by !
means of skeleton keys, but the doer having been
double locked, they could not manage it in that way.
They then broke a piece of glass in the parlour win-
dow, sufficient to enable them to undo the fastenings
and throw up the under sash, and thus they accom-
plished an entrance. The pris=oner was identified as
being one of the three persons seen coming from the
house, and who effected the robbery, by a little girl
who lives next door to the prosecutrix.—The prisoner
was remanded.