The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-20 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

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in an affidavit which he filed in the Court of Bankruptcy,
swearing that Miss Coutts Burdett, as a partner in the firm
of Coutts and Co., owed hi►n the sum of 100,000 i The pro-
cess, we understand, was entered upon, which in due time
would, if unimpeded, have dull• tlided in Miss Coutts Bur-
dett finding herself in the Gazette.
The COURT ordered Mr. Dolan to enter into his own re-
eoguisances in 1001., and two sureties in 50/. each, to appear
at the next sessions.
POST OFFICE,— John Tarnur was placed at the bar on four
charges of robbery committed on the Post-office carriages
On the South-Eastern and London and Birminghamßailways,
and another for robbing the Post-office at Grave-end.
The pri,o er pleaded Guilty on the first tour charges.
The ATTORNEY• GENERAL, who appeared to prosecute, said
that, unwilling to occupy unnecessarily the public time, he
would not press the remaining charge.
As there is a woman implicated in the same charges, who
will be tried next sessions, the Court' deferred sentence till
the particulars were then laid before it.

John Charles Young, described as a chemist, was placed at
the bar, indicted for stealing a post letter, containing a half-
!.overeign and a shilling, the property of the Postmaster.
General.
Mr. W. Scalthorpe, one of the presidents of the London
District Post-office, said, in consequence of some suspicions
he poste(' two letters at the Aldgate receiving-office, one of them
directed lo "Mary Donoughue, Mr. Doolan's public-house,
Sack ,vell-street, Dublin, Ireland," and containing a half-
sovereign and a shilling, marked. Another of the leers
was addressed to "Miss Coventry, North Brixton." If these
had been posted at the Aldgate receiving-office before 8
o'clock in the morning of the 20th, they ought to have
reached the General Post. office about 25 minutes past S.
Witness was at the Ger.eral Post-office that morning, and
examined the letters sent from the Aldgate receiving-offices
and found Miss Coventry's letter on the top of the bundle of
paid letters; to the Irish letter two stamps bad been af-
fixed, and that letter was not found at all. The bill ac-
companying the letters should give an account of the
stamped letters, and that was found to correspond with the
letters sent. The witness, taking with him the letter in-
spector who posted the two letters, and a constable, went to
the Aldgate receiving-office, where he found the prisoner, to
whom the witness discove -el himself, and said that there was ar
letter which had not been sent. "Oh yes," he said, "
sent it; Miss Coventry's was sent." He was asked what had
become of the Dublin letter, which had been dropped into the
box, but made no reply. He was immediately searched, and
the marked half-sovereign and shilling, together with the
letter, the seal of whichcwas broken, were found upon the
prisoner.
Other witnesses were celled, who confirmed the testimony
already given.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clarkson prosecuted, and Mr. Ballan-
tyne was retained for the defence.
A technical point of law was raised on the wording of the
indictment, and the circumstances of the case, as compared
with the terms of the Act of Parliament. The question
raised was, whether the letter in question was a post-letter,
in the terms of the Act, the address being fictitious.
Baron &ALPE reserved the point for the opinion of the
Judges, and directed the jury to find a general verdict
against the prisoner of stealing half-a-sovereign, which, Ito'
cording as the Judges decide will be, of stealing from a post.
letter, or of stealing a half-sovereign, the property of Ur. W.
Scalthorpe.
The jury found accordingly, and sentence was deferred.
NE IF COURT.
BIGAIVIT.---Joseph Mortimer, indicted on two different
charges of bigamy, and one of larceny, was placed at the bar,
and pleaded not guilty on all.
On the first charge of bigamy, it appeared, by the usual
evidence from the parish register, that the prisoner, in 1839,
married Josephine Langhorne, who was proved to have been
alive in New York on the 25th of March of the present year:
But it was also proved that, on the 7th of June, 1944, he
married Caroline Wright, his first wife, Josephine Mordants
being at the time alive.
The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, handed in
a written paper, alleging that according to the law of the
United States, where he had become a citizen, he was
le-
gally separated from his wife—both mutually agreeing to
this on the consideration of giving her a power of attorney
to collect certain money for her own support.
Tee Learned RECORDER, in addressing the jury, said that
the prisoner, a native of Ireland, was a British-born subject,
and whether he had become a citizen in the States of
o_
Ame-
rica, or whether anything had been done in the matter f
sY
divorce by any Court there competent for the purpose, of
which, however, there was not a tittle of evidence before
the jury, he nevertheless still owed allegiance to the British
Crown, and was amenable to British laws.
The jury, after consulting a few minutes, returned a verdict
of Guilty.
The second indictment charged the prisoner with marry-
ingi Mary Susanna Lovejoy, at St. Phillip's Church, LiverP°
his loriner wife, Mrs. Wright, being at the time alive. b
Mr. Shutwood, brother-in-law to Mrs. Wright, was led'
questions put by the prisoner, to make some rather unplea-
sant revelations. He said that the woman had left the
pri-
soner in consequence of a theft he had committed on herself,
having taken up her gold ring and absconded. The prison.e r
returned to her a second and third time, and as frequentif
made off with money belonging to his unhappy wife. _
Isabella Kay identified the prisoner as one of the parties
concerned in the marriage with Mary Lovejoy at Liverpool _
The Jury atter a short consultation returned a verdict or
Guilty.
The case of larceny, on which the prisoner was further
indicted, has already appeared in all the papers in all thoo
details ao peculiar to the case.
Mrs. Loyer, who lived at 7, Chapel-court,
Unlon-s. as
Whitechapel, stated that she advertised for a situation
cook and housekeeper, and that in consequence she had re.
ceived a letter from the prisoner effering marriage, and repre-
senting himself as a New York merchant, with an income
in thecomeof
columns of The Sun. An agreement to marry was
mutually resolved on. From the Rainbow Coffee-house,
Commercial-road, to another residence in Duke-street,
Grosvenor-square, and thence to Paris, went the New York
merchant and his future spouse, who, with a liberality quite
amazing, defrayed all the expen es, and kept Mr. Mortimer
well in pocket. They returned from Paris after a fortnight's'
sojourn there, and took up their residence at the Omnibus
Coffee house. The poor woman's funds were by this time far
reduced, for after one large payment, she had given him an-
other of 271, and now proceeded to pawn her wearing ap-
parel to keep Mortimer in money. All was pawned, except
a few articles in a box, which were the subject of the present_e.
o
inquiry. Mrs. Loyer removed from the Omnibus C
house to the Rainbow Coffee-house, her consort
theconsheonx to
and also begging to be allowed to bring along
their new lodgings. She gave him permission, and never
saw him again till the 18th of May. On the 15th of that
month another advertisement caught Mortimer, though an
old stager.
It was given in evidence that the box was found at the
Duke's head public-house, Queen-street, Chelsea. There too
was Mr. Mortimer, and on his person the key of the box,
which contained the articles belonging to Mrs. Loyer.
The prisoner was most indefatigable in giving every an-
noyance he possibly could to the Court and the witnesses itt
the course of the inquiry.
The Learned RECORDER sent the case to the jury, and'
told them if they had no doubt that the prisoner had used
stratagem for the purpose of obtaining possession of the box,
which he afterwards carried away, they would find him
guilty of a larceny as set forth in the indictment.
The jury in a short time returned a verdict of Guilty as
indicted.

The Learned RECORDER, in pronouncing sentence on th•
prisoner, expressed in the strongest terms his detestation of the
unexampled baseness of the prisoner, who, not content with
having bereft the poor woman of all her money, obtained
from her under promise of marriage, had allowed her to
pledge her clothes to supply him with more, and took base
measures to get possession of the few articles of apparel
which remained, and then deserted his victim. He sen-
tenced him to transportation for seven years.
The Learned RECORDER reserved sentence on the tyro
charges of bigamy.

MARKET NE WS- ( Y TE RD A Y.)

CORZT-EXCSANGE.
We have to report the arrival of a very limited supply of Ellfllol
Wheat up to our market this week. The fine parcels that have V'
peered on sale have mostly found buyers, at Monday's quotations ;
yet the amount of business passing was small. Foreign Wheat, free
as well as in bond, was in moderate request, at very full prices.
Owing to the continuance of dry weather, the sale for Barley was
firm, and previous rates were well supported. Superfine Malt wBJ
quite as dear ; but other kinds were neglected. The Oat trade was
steady, and the currencies had an upward tendency. The same may
be said of Beans and Peas.