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London, England, 1846-07-13 00:00:00

nesses, against whom warrants have been

secure their attendance, the case was adjourl
Wednesday Next. The child is at present at Wk.
lebone workhouse.

CLERKENWELL.
On Saturday, a police constable named Shore;
charged an unfortunate female with improper e!,
was himself proved to have been guilty of the IL
which he made a ground of charge against the f 1
It was because she refused to return him a sib`
kerchief which he gave her that he made the col
in question. The prisoner denied this, but his wt,
called, and she identified the handkerchief as Per
band's property.
Mr. GREENWOOD discharged the female, -I
policeman's conduct is to be reported to the
Commissioners.

CROYDON.
On Saturday a good-looking young woman, itt,Plll4°s
not more than eighteen years old, named Jui,l ,
1
was brought before Messrs. Lucas, Keromis ana,
son, the presiding magistrates, on a charge of fli
intermarrying with Charles Wells at the P!013,00
of Croydon, her husband, William Egan, being of
Julia Coles, the daughter of the sexton.
Of
Sepulchre's Church, deposed that, on the 130
tewber, 1845, the prisoner, accompanied by s rdo ot,
to her father's house and gave notice of their letc
to be married on the following day. They „I,
cordingly married, and as they stated that t'
disappisinted in not having the attendance of 10
who was to be bridesmaid, they wanted her ~es
such, and she did so. She was sure the priss',:at
the same person who was married at the
question. .
rols
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The prisoner declared the witness was
There was no truth in what she had stated. ,oi
William Coles, the sexton, father of the 1.......,,e,,
confirmed her statement with regard to them'; olj
Charles Stevens said he was an acquainta!roost',
parties, and he remembered meeting the Pri'viri
Egan at the London terminus, and he accost:lP°, or
to the church, and saw them married, and sPenr
with them.
The prisoner here again declared it was a 11.,,, l
She had never been married but once.
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Charles Wells, the second husband, depose,.
was married to the prisoner on Sunday, the ss° ,
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at Croydon Old Church.
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By the Bench—The prisoner was taken
immediately after the ceremony, upon the
bigamy.
t il t'
William Egan, the first husband, being 1181‘-
Bench to give some explanation of this extrsdoe
affair, said that he and the prisoner had kept
Ot together for some considerable time before last
bar, and in that morth they agreed to be Ois Pill
$Oll
the ceremony, as had been stated, took plaelcotiall
pulchre's Church. At that time ho was eMP,t(ofj
mail cart driver, and us he was not in a pogo 004
moment to provide a home for his wife, they sod
agreed that the marriage should be kept secrete 0,11
she should go to service, and endeavour to robes 'ill
money, and he agreed to do the same, anavere°
had got enough to provide furniture, they i isv
tog. ther.
~ wets
The Magistrates inquired how long they . '
each other after the marriage ceremony? . Air A%
The husband said they stayed two, ruight7,par
shop, and they then agreed to the Plun'°of thes.
merit fie added, that in pursuancAe
some ts
merit they parted; and when he had save" 0 fur ih,j
he took an apartment, and bought furniture b
tool
the prisoner came to live with him, but p_elsoperj
been together many weeks before, the Pri obi
sconded, having previously made swBYbods,,l
the property, she could lay her iclFri
and he sold off the rest, imagining that he shooia 4
hear any more of his wife, and resumed his °suite/
tion of a mail cart driver. From the further a god
of the husband, it appeared that a few dsgtretis
route had been changed from Woolwich to 009
and very soon afterwards he received some in.
of k, SU
which led him to Croydon, where he actuaJoscrii
almost at the moment the completion of %eV,
ceremony between the prisoner and the man ~, '
the information he thereupon gave to the polio y
the apprehension of the prisoner. se i
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The prisoner, at the conclusion of the 01 weld
dared posi,,ively that the witnesses were miler
regard to the first marriage, and she was not I `rats
The magistrates said they did not see how to
sible that there could be such a mistake, Arid .
their duty to commit her for trial. .
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NoTlcE.—Messrs. Ferguson, of Holme 0fd klrci,
(trading under the firm of Joseph Ferguson),havill,VUT
time obtained an injunction in the Vice-Chaneet. rot
against the use of their trade marks upon Silent
;
having been deposed to at the trial that other he":,bri9
the defendant had so used them, Messrs. Fergus°"; A,l
public notice, in the hope that it will be a suflicielp olii-
to the parties in question, and obviate the neeessi4lo. ,
ther proceedings. Holise Head Works, near Cat #
30, 1846.
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PLUNDERING THE IU
BODY OF A MuRDERNOsI4O/
recent West Kent Quarter Sessions three young W f WO
women were indicted for stealing from the bodf °se&
Weeks, the fratricide, ten sovereigns, three shilling*t. lb., 9
moneys, laid in the indictment to be the propertl°o I'i,
Bishop of Rochester. It may be remembered i kill
autumn of 1844 a young man named Weeks was„tl;l
his elder brother, by being stabbed with a knife,q; 4d
called Weavering, a few miles from Maidstone. 4:,3111,
instantly decamped, and the result of the coroSerd
gat ion on the body wa, a verdict of " Wilful munriiiB g.
him. Nothing, however, was heard of him untii,;ble.tl was found in a pond, near the village of Bretl'a- WAY
aa nn
dd b
31,a assumingb
savingol rer . amFo differentir)°ie
at nameof
uf;,t-spiry
more than fourteen miles from the scene of the InVy
appears that immediately after the murder he
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arawNa.eoytiteoadsßearonemn
agriculturalcphal
company,
yy
conducting himself, he got a very exeellenatnd ch°strhaectite'reel?d
neighbourhood. By some circumstance, howel'Oal,
induced to draw the money be had amassed, all fotie
night of his existence he drank rather freely at Ad sty"'
shops, and on his return home tumbled into a iwn,aeTt!
drowned. His description, circulated amongst fttFf
led to the supposition that the corpse was that 1 foto e
sconded fratricide. The friends were instantly sentifleilj
by a variety of circumstances satisfactorily ilentaeiVol
body. fee prisoners first discovered it lying 41ive I,i
and, according to one of their statements,
,tu7/ in ratl2o7oi,
from the pockets of the dead man. Fortunate. 4 ,I*-.0 ,A'
objection was mooted on their behalf, and. prove" "iisiscipl
The property was said to belong t..;'," the Lord )
Rochester, but as the diocese of t_t;e county recent!y of
hands, the indictment was quashed, and the prisepaii
discharged.
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DREADFUL AccIIMNT IN A Al/NE FOR-rgwoieJ
MEN DnowNED.—Ttnao, FRIDAY. JULY 10.---'-e 0/
fearful mining calamity ever known in this county ,ted
yesterday Afternoon, at East Wheal Rose lead 0'1'6(.0;2
parish of Newlyn, eight miles from this place. rci tr
storm of unprecedented violence, attended with a s'7oooo°, resembled rather. the bursting of a watesspout;tof, heaviest mu, broke over the neighbourhood. o'l,o 11',.;
pourilig from Newlyn Downs collected towards t'601144,
Where the mine is situated, and rushing in torrents niell,
shaft quickly filled every level. Some of the PI ivy;
were alarmed at the first flow of water, made til6'ved 07
the surface and escaped, but we believe they were e bor:Ao
Others reached so near as to be seen from the surfsfi 'lO7,
Waisted by their previous exertions to hasten up t,:or , ,
were beaten down by the torrent and perished- ' 10/:
wore drowned in the mine, fllO
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On Sunday a fire burst out in the wood
eighie '
4t
re•
ana continued burning until the next day. AboOv' tA,
tares (about 20 acres) of timber were consumed. dis,"s'
attributed to malevolence, as this is the second thrsisof,
wood of Valmy has been set on fire within a few ~
Galignani.

BIRTHS. Vif
On the 9th inst., at the Parade, Poole, Dorsetsbil* ,
of Alfred Crabb, Esq., M.D., of a daughter.
~ ;4181.g
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On the 9th inst., at Albert-place, Kensington , 0'
~.' of V.
Mrs. Charles Deinard, of a daughter.
On the 9th inst., Mrs. Parsons, of Lower Tooting' X,
On the 10th inst., at Cambridge-square, HYdev` Jor
..„..r. tr,
nob,..rt Lloyd, of a son.
On the 10th inst., the wife of G. H. Lewes/ x'''''
ford place, Kensington, of a son. 0
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MARRIED.
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On the Bth inst., at Chigwell Chura gib , A 0 -
Parry, M.D., of Liverpool, to Eliza, eldest daughter
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DIED.
On the 28th ult., at Britonferry, near Swan tfi
Farquhar Cameron, Esq., aged 43. car
On the 30th ult., at the Trinity-ground, Deptford, of
Robert Dawson, aged 83. , 11. ge"
On the let inst., at Great Malvern, Mr. W. 11,,iy-t' D
On the 4th inst., Samuel Prest, Esq., of ' - roc
Cambridge, , O. pee
On the 7th inst., at Titchtield-terrace, l'et'e
Majyy Ruderieli Fraser, aged 84.
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