The Sun.
London, England, 1831-06-08 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

A woman named Miles was charged with having
intermarried with John Cooney, her former husband
being still alive.
The complainant stated, that he had been mar-
ried to the prisoner for the last two years, and that
for the whole of that period, not even omitting ghat
was called the honeymoon, his life had been one of
indescribable misery, owing to the horrible temper
of the woman to whom he had been allied in marriage.
The Magistrate (Mr. HEDGER)-=You must have
had a very slight acquaintance indeed with the lady
before marriage to be so ignorant of her real temper
and disposition as you now describe. You allege
that she has another husband living, therefore let me
have the evidence of the charge of bigamy.
The complainant here produced a certificate of
the prisoner's marriage to her first husband, and
stated that he should be enabled to prove that he
was now living.
Prisoner—Cooney knew well that I had a husband
living when he married me. The base man has now
turned round on me, and wants to get rid of me,
owing to his taking up with another woman. Before
I married him I told him how I was situated with
regard to my other husband, but Cooney, by his
slippery tongue, won me over and married me, and
now wants to transport me.
Cooney—lf I don't transport her I know she will
murder me; she thinks nothing of taking up a knife
and letting it fly bang at my head. I am actually
afraid to sleep upon my pillow, under the dread of
her depriving me of some of my members. "Oh !
she's a blood-thirsty woman," added Cooney.

Magistrate—ls it true that you were aware of her
having a husband living when you married her ?
Cooney—l'll stand or fall by what I say. It is true
what the woman asserts. I did know that she had
another husband living, but she told me that she had
a regular divorcement at this very office; and I,
believing her statement, married her accordingly.
You must have known that there were no divorce-
ments, as you call them, entered into, or arranged,
at this office :—I can't read writing, your Worship,
hut she put a long sheet of paper into my hand,
filled with writing, saying at the same time that it
was a regular divorcement, otherwise I should not
have run my neck into a halter by marrying her.
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me, you want to harg or transport me, you don't
care which. Here the prisoner began to weep.
Magistrate--It would be a difficult matter to say
which was the worst of the two, the prosecutor or
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offence.
The Magistrate having been informed that the
prisoner's first husband was not in London, and that
he had been since married, discharged the prisoner
altogether; and she and Cooney walked home very
comfortably afterwards,