The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-10 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

OUTRAGE ON A LADY.—John sWelle, a helper in
stables at Tattersall's, was charged with the following
outrageous conduct towards a lady.
A solicitor attended for the complainant.
Miss Charlotte Flower deposed, that she resided at
the Rev. Mr. Pemberton's, the Hyde, Kingsbury, and
that on the afternoon of the 24th ult., as she was walking
alone in the direction of Kilburn, the defendant passed
and repassed her several times. She quickened her pace
in order to avoid hini, but he persisted in his annoyance,
and at length, making a full stop, and looking her full in
the face, uttered the most disgusting and indecent lan-
guage. He subsequently held up a large stick to her
twice in a threatening way, at which she was consi-
derably alarmed. Fortunately, a pieman who happened
to be coming by, and to whom she mentioned the de-
fendant's misconduct, put her into a chaise-cart which
was going along the road, and by that means she got
away.
George Brough, the pieman alluded to, corroborated a
portion of the preceding evidence.
The defendant, on being asked what be had to say,
replied, that he was truly sorry, and that he should not
have misconducted himself in the way he did had he
been sober. _

Mr. LONG observed, that the offence was one of such
a shameful nature, that it could not be passed over
lightly, and he fined the defendant 405., and in default
of payment, one month's imprisonment.
ROBBERY BY A LODGER.—Mary Ann Pitcher was
charged with the following robberies:—
The prisoner had been lodging at the house of Mrs.
Forts, 2, Charles-lane, Portland-town, and while there,
two brooches, a shawl, and a silver watch (the latter
article belonging to another lodger) were missed. The
prisoner was at length taken into custody, and it turned
out that she had pledged the stolen property at the shops
of different pawnbrokers.—She was committed for trial.

CLERKEIV WELL.
EXTRAORDINARY DOUBLE MARRIAGE.—MaryCowIey,
a well-looking person, eighteen years of age, residing
in St. Helena-place, Clerkenwell, was charged before
Mr. Combo by her husband, William Cowley, upwards
of seventy years of age, with having threatened his life.
Mr. Woolfe, from the office of Mr. Flower, attended
on the part of the complainant, and stated the facts of
the case.

It appeared that the plaintiff, who is a nervous, weak
old man, although being six feet high and of propor-
tionate dimensions, made a promise to his deceased wife,
whom he called his " blessed sainted," that, under any
consideration, he would never marry a second wife after
her death. After her demise, however, although he was
in affluent circumstances, he fretted so much after his
" sainted" that he became wayworn and lonely, until
he was " piloted " into the defendant's family, who were
in the " cat's meat line." They " oft invited " him, and a
reciprocity of sympathy existed, or appeared to exist,
between Mr. Cowley, the plaintiff, and the defendant's
mother, who, with tears in her eyes, frequently al-
luded to her "late beloved," to whom she made a solemn
vow never to marry again. Promises are, however,
made sometimes to be broken, let them be ever so solemn,
especially under the peculiar influence of the tender
passion, which suddenly seized the plaintiff at first sight
of defendant's mother, and, in a moment of rapture he
proposed matrimony, and they were married in 1842.
They kept the wedding gloriously, and, what with the
drinking, the " light fantastic toe," the sounds of the
fiddle, and the other amusements, they kept it up until
daylight peeped. The next day the new wife repented
of so rash an union, and of breaking her promise with
her late beloved, and she told the old gentleman that she
would give him a written legal release from the mar-
riage if he would marry her daughter. He agreed to
the proposal, and took to himself a young wife. They
were married ; the wedding was kept up expensively at
plaintiff's cost. Ever since the union with the prisoner
he had nut enjoyed one moment's peace or comfort.
She annoyed him in every possible way, beat him till he
was black and blue, refused to sleep with such "an old
villian," threatened to stab him, to dash his brains out
with a rolling-pin, and told him to go to the lower re-
gions. The poker and other implements of domestic conve-
nience were frequently brought into active requisition,
and not only his head but his very life was in actual
danger, and he was compelled to apply for the law's
protection. "Indeed," said the old gentleman, "she
knocks me about just like a! shuttlecock.—(Laughter.)
And we have one child, your worship."—(Laughter.)
Here he put on a longitudinally woful countenance.
Mr. COMBS asked the defendant what she had to say
in her defence? Defendant—lt is all false; the first
fortnight he was kind, but ever since he has only al-
lowed me half a quartern loaf and two pennyworth of
bacon a day for our support, and a penny for our supper.
Plaintiff—You always had a rump steak for your
supper. You have robbed me, picked my pocket, pawned
and sold my property, left me without a bed, and driven
me to poverty. I
cant
i bear it any longer.
Mr. Woolfe said, if t were applicable to the question
at issue, he could " a tale unfold" to show that the
tilaintiff was an injured and persecuted man, and that he
had been inveigled into this strange sort of " double
union" for the sake of his property.
Mr. CO3IBZ ordered defendant to find bail to keep the
peace.
The plaintiff was formerly a respectable householder,
and well-known in the parish of Clerkenwell. The
Court was crowded.to excess by respectable inhabitants,
and there was at►
iimpression afloat that a charge of
bigamy mightprobably be instituted against the plaintiff.