The Sun.
London, England, 1831-09-12 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, SEPT. 10.

Ann Rowell, a handsome young woman, aged 22,
was indicted for that, she being the wife of Thomas
Rowell, took, during his lifetime, one Henry Mill-
burne as her husband, against the statute.

Mr. BODKIN stated the case for the prosecution,
and it appeared to excite an unusual interest.
Philip Hooton is a sail-marker, living in Acre-
street, Wapping, and was present when the prisoner
married Rowell, in Poplar New Church, on the 29th
of November, 1824. He gave her away. Her
maiden name was Cobbit.
Mr. C. PHILLIPS (for the prisoner)—How came
you to be father to this child at the wedding, you
must have been then a child yourself ? Witness—
I was requested by Rowell. The prisoner at that
time was about 15 years old. Rowell lived with her
a month, and then left her in a state of destitution.
lam now 26 years old. I knew the prisoner was far
under t 1 when she was married. I was summoned
here by Millburne, the second husband. lam not
aware that the prisoner had seen Rowell since he
went to sea, six years ago. -I do not know that
when he left her abruptly he went to the uttermost
pat t of the earth.
By Mr. BODKIN—None of her relations were pre-
sent at the nuptials.
By the COURT—I do not know the name of the
clergyman who solemnized the marriage. I am not
aware that her mother knew any thing about it at
the time. Mary Ann Anderson was present, be-
sides me and the bride and bridegroom.
Mary Ann Inglis, the female alluded to by the last
witness, deposed to having acted as bride's-maid ;
she was then 19 years old.

By Mr. C. PHILLIPS--Has been lucky enough
since to get married herself. At the time prisoner
married Mr. Rowell, she had a mother, but no father
alive.

By the COURT—I do not know the age of R9well
at the time ; I will not swear that he was 21.
By Mr. C. PHILLIPS—The ages of the bride,
bridegroom, father, and herself, varied from 15 to
19 years.
The COMMON SERJEANT (to Mr. Bodkin)—Sir,
you have proposed to call Milburne, the second hus-
band, but before you do so, you'must prove the first
marriage in a legal way.
Mr. BODKIN—My Lord, I am quite unable to
obviate the objection.
The COMMON SERJEANT—The marriage with
Rowell is riot proved; where are the clergyman and
clerk, or a proper certificate ?
Mr. PHILLIPS told Millburne to take his wife
home : you will find the speculation you are making
fail you.
An unverified certificate of the marriage was pro-
duced, but not put in as documentary evidence.
The COMMON SERJEANT—It is teally a most ex-
traordinaiy thing that no person is here to prove the
first marriage, except those who appear to be parties
deeply interested.
Mr. C. PHILLIPS—My Lord, at all events, if the
marriage ever wok place, it was without the con-
sent of the parents and guardians. The whole
party were all minors, and the marriage was clan-
destine.
Robert Thomas Ovenden, of No. 45, Carey-
street, engraver, deposed that he saw a paper like
the certificate produced, at the house of the parish-
clerk of Poplar.
The COMMON SERJEANT—Witness, I warn you
to be careful. Did you not hear the prosecutor,
I.llillburne, at the Police-office, listen to the follow-
ing words of the prisoner, viz.—" I told Mr. Mill-
burne that I had been married, and he said if I
married him, nothing would hurt me ; and then he
went and got a certificate of my first marriage, and
then he married me." _ _

Witness (embarrassed)-4 do not know he heard it.
The COMMON SERJEANT—Why this hesitation ?
You must know, and unless you answer fairly, you
shall be sent to prison. Now, did you not, having
heard the young woman say so, afterwards ask
Millburne if her statement was true ? Did he then
acknowledge to you that he knew that at the time
be married this unhappy young woman, her husband
was alive? Witness (stammering)—He—he—he did.
The CoatiroN SERJEANT—OtIicer, don't let that
witness depart from the Court at present,—perhaps,
though, Mr. Phillips has some other question to ask.
Mr. C. PHILLIPS —My Lord, I have done with
him.

The COMMON SERJEANT told the Jury that he
would, if necessary, consult the Learned, Judges in
the other Court, as to whether the prisoner was le-
gally married to Rowell. My present opinion is that
she was not. There is no evidence, parole or other-
wise, to determine whether, if a marriage did take
place, it was by banns or license.
The Foreman of the Jury said that their minds
were made up that the indictment was not sustained.
Mr. Woraner, the Governor of Newgate, spoke
in favourable terms of the prisoner, and said she had
never cast eyes on Rowell from the time he aban-
doned her till he was pointed out to her to-day.
Obedient to the demand of the Court Rowell
stood forth.

The COMMON SERJEANT then ordered Millburne,
the second husband, and prosecutor, to stand up.
He obeyed, when the Learned Judge addressed him
to the following effect—he, however, listened with
great indifference :—" Mr. Millburne, you have
thought proper from some cause to prosecute this
unhappy young woman, who appears to be your
wife. You have admitted that when you married
her you knew of a previous ceremony (one can
scarcely term it marriage), hence you were not de-
ceived. The Court thinks your conduct highly d( -
grading; and I beg to tell you, that never in my life,
since I have been acquainted with Courts of Justice,
have I witne.sed so disgraceful a prosecutuan."
Mr. M:lburne—Allow me to explain.
COURT—Say what you please.
Mr. Millburne—My Lord, I was 19 years old when
I went to lodge with the prisoner's mother (Mrs.
Cobbit), and I admit that I married the prisoner,
and know that she had a husband. Some time be-
fore I married her she said one day, I have tidings
froth my husband, and I have 201. or 301. to receive.
She went out and then came back all in tears, and
said her husband was no more. After her grief had
subsided, Mrs. Cobbit, her mother, requested me to
marry the prisoner, and having no objection, 1 did
so; but I married her as a widow.
The CoMMON SERJEANT—Yon may stand down,
for your statement is quite at variance with the evi-
dence. The time of the public cannot be wasted
in listening to your unsatisfactory and inexplicable
explanations.

The Jury then returned a verdict of acquittal,
and his Lordship, in an emphatic tone, ordered her
to be instantly discharged, to the evident satisfac-
tion of every one but Millburne. His Lordship said,
that the prosecutor and witnesses, excepting those
who were disinterested, should not be allowed a
farthing expences.
Mr. C. PHILLIPS —So much for your speculation,
Mr. Millburne. Now the case is over, I can state
that the prosecutor is enamoured of a lady of pro-
perty, said to be the natural daughter of the Duke
of (whose mansion is near Charing-cross).
The unfortunate female who was acquitted has a
child near five years of age by her husband.

TEDDINGTON.—In this spirited little village,
which had for so many years witnessed the private vir;ues
and enjoye I the munificent benevolence of our good KING
and QUEEN, the substantial good old English feeling was
strongly displayed on Thursday last. Out of a population
of 900 persons, 450 men, women, and children, were re-
galed with a plentiful dinner of roast-beef and plum-pud-
ding, furnished by the subscription of the inhabitants.—
The churchwardens and overseers, assisted by the gentle-
men of the parish, performed the grateful office of carvers
and waiters, at a long table placed in a field in the centre
of the village, and protected from rain by an awning ; the
gratitude of the guests was manifested in their cheerful
looks, and in the hearty cheer when they drank the health
of " The King and Queen." After dinner the women
and children, with their husbands and fathers, partook of
tea, bread, and butter,. provided for them under the s.ine
well-constructed booth.

MURDER AT BILBOA.
(From the Limerick Chronicle.) too)
Another victim has been added to that bees 0
,boo,,
their sufferers which this lawless district has sesktoot,
their last account. Michael Griffin expired on
day morning at the county infirmary, from the
of three-gun shot wounds in his thigh, inflictedls,
he lay fast aleep on his straw pallet, in a card •
Bilboa, with his son and wife. The circtunstli
of the attack appeared in our last. On W.' to'
the Mayor proceeded to the county infirmsri,:
hold an inquest on the body of this unfortunate ir
and was assisted by Thomas P. Yokes, Esq., C 7
10,
Magistrate of Police. A Jury having been etor,do
led, Martin Griffin, son of the deceased, was sw:,,
and examined. On the night of the 31st of An
he vv,is in bed in the same house with his WS'
mother, and brother, when, two hours before Orj
crow, he was alarmed by hearing a shot &ell
the cries of his father ; the shot was fired into I%';
haus a through the door, and the bed lay oppositettlii;
immediately after heard another shot filed oil
.vj
the door; it was the first shot struck his fatherl,
it grazed the legs of his brother, who was in
same bed; there was no noise or signal given be
the shot was fired ; in half an hour after the cs,
::
was opened, and a written notice found outsitleff
the ground, it was brought in and read by the
of the fire. The notice was, that we should soil
death if we did not drop what we had in view
were at thiS time herding on the farm under
_I,
Wheeler. Ryan was the man who occupied it,
he was under notice to quit, though he still e°l
tinued on the farm ; the hou•e was in a bogy
the country lonesome.
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Mr. Yokes here explained—Some years ag?
Ryan, a wealthy farmer, held a large districtur
Bilboa under lease from Lord S radbroke, and
took in several score of under-tenants upon the
so that when his term expired the estate Was °I:4
yawl with poor occupiers. Mr. William Blonde,
Lordship's agent, who was murdered the other (OP
re-let the ground to those in possession, but it
of no use, and he was obliged to forgive the
heavy arrears of rent before lie could get them oolt
in fact they absorbed the proceeds of the WII°
estate to themselves and their families, and ght;
Blood forgave them some years of arrears before d
could clear the ground. They returned again, sri
he was forced again to put them out. When dll:
spec;able or wealliy farmer proposes for those 100
and attempts to locate himself, those people
sure to frighten him out by threats and intimidatit#'
conceiving that any other but themselves are usurPe:rfi,
of the soil. Mr. Wheeler tenanted a farm 01;
and lie was shot for so doing. Mr. Beery, anetbew
respectable tenant, commenced budding and Pii
proving on the estate, and he was served With.
ole
Rock notice to give up, or else —1 The vib
estate of Lord Stradbroke in this district coritte,
13,000 acre: ; and the people in that part of l:ef
country are all Ryans and Kennedys, and will
none but themselves to occupy it—thus prevents;
any person of respectability from living there. I l'Sge
had liberty from Lord Stradbroke to build a poll t
barrack there, and I am determined to go on olio
it, notwithstanding the systematic opposition whi'bei
is offered by those persons. A whole family tit ••
Connells) were immolated on this property o,,,Jehi
years ago, all arising from the same cause. I'l
mason employed to superintend the barrack has shed
week received an incendiary notice, that if he der
build a barrack for " Police or Proctors," lie sh°lll
suffer for it.
The Jury found a verdict of " Wilful nuclei
against some person or persons unknown.