The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-26 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

CURIOUS CASE OF ELOPEMENT.—CharIes Jacobs, was
charged, at the Clerkenwell Police-court, for allowing his
wife to become chargeable to the parish of St. Pancras.
Mrs. Jacobs's former husband was for many years chief
clerk at this court, and having retired went to Exmouth
to reside. There he died, and his widow sent to town for
defendant to fetch the corpse and bury it in London.
Both the widow and the defendant returned to
town in the same train, and they appear to
have become so smitten with each other that
the widow took apartments in the defendant's house.
Within a few weeks of the death of her husband the
widow was married to the undertaker at St. Pancras.
Church, Euston-road. A month had not elapsed when n
pianoforte tuner of the name of Spring was professionally
engaged at the defendant's house. The newly-made bride
became enamoured of him, and in the result they eloped.
The parties were traced to Leytonstone and Waltham-
stow, where they were found cohabiting as
man and wife in a cottage. The wife soon
after her elopement wanted some of her former
husband's money, and the defendant, not choosing,
to give her any, she instituied a suit in one of the vice-
chancellors' courts to compel him to restore it, whilst the
husband, on the other hand, took proceedings in the
Divorce Court for the dissolution of the marriage, and the
grounds he set up for doing so were the elopement and
cohabitation with the co-respondent Spring. But before
the case came on for hearing in the Divorce
Court, an arrangement was come to, with the
sanction of the Vice-Chancellor, and a deed °'
separation signed, one of the covenants of which was
the division of the former husband's property between
the widow and the undertaker, and the withdrawal of
both suits. Mrs. Jacobs having spent her portion, then
applied to her husband for sustenance ; but that being
refused, she, on the 17th of December, went to the parish
of St. Pancras, and Mr. Stevens, one of the relieving
officers, assisted her and gave her an order for admissio
to the workhouse ; and as she became au inmate the pre'
sent proceedings were taken against the husband to NO'
pel him to remove the chargeability to the parish and to
support his wife.—The case was adjourned in order
allow of evidence of the wife's elopement to be produced.
SELLING DRINK TO A BOY.—A boy named Williarab
Smith, aged 15, was brought before the magistrates
Bradford charged with being drunk in the Wakefield-roan
It appeared that the lad had wantonly struck a son of
police-inspector in the face while the youth was standin4
in the road. He was brought to the station "
drunk," and said that he and five others had partakena
four quarts of beer, at two public-houses. He had 2s. 10
when he left home, but had given it to his companions t°
I pay for ale. The prisoner was remanded for a week.
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THE YORKSHIRE WHEAT CROP.—The presentof
a very trying season for the farmer. Since the end
November, what with heavy rains, floods, and the lore
frost, frost,. all agricultural work has been at a stand. 31-0
scarcity of food from last year's drought caused farraers
grass their seed fields late into the autumn, and biA w
small breadth, of wheat was sown, and which, where orb°
exposed, looks very yellow and sickly, and where in
low country it has been flooded, has perished altoget'lwro
The turnip lands have been husbanded by recourse to c°og
cake and linseed cake during the storm, but more WI
wheat will have to be sown than for many years.
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BIRTHS.
On the 22d inst., at 2, Wilton-street, Grosvenor-03'c°'
Mrs. Rouse, of a son. •fe of
On the 23d inst., at West Farm, East Barnet, the
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W. A. Bevan, Esq., of a daughter.
MARRIAGES. vawriA
On the 23d inst., at the London Oratory, George nvioi'
youngest son of the late John Hardman, Esq., .nolo'
frede Mary, youngest daughter of Joseph A.
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Esq., of London.
On the 24th. inst., at Christ Church, Heaton le of
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Walter Webling,Esq., of Pall-mall, London, t__,o . o
Margaret, youngest daughter of John Hall, Veep
Braman Lodge, Cheshire, and Min-y-gasth, ng
DE A TITS. r
On the 28d inst., at 14, Camden Cottages, Canaderl.
Henry Simms, Esq., aged 70. vo O,
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On the 23d inst., at 183, Clapham-road,
6John
Esq., late of the Cog Exchange, aged 6.
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Thursday, January 2;6, IS7I.