The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-22 00:00:00

CRIMINAL COURT.-•(THIS DA

OLD COURT.
(Before the RECORDER and Alderman Gams.)
Application was made on Saturday to the Court, by Mr.
Ballantyne, on the part of Falkland and Fabian, at present
in custody for the forgery of railway scrip, to haV,e the case
postponed till next session. As the bill had bees'
found
before the grand jury only so late as Friday night, the kolil,i-
cation appeared to the Court to be reasonable ; but, in I..ue,
absence of the prosecutors, the Court wished it to be mentionet:
again.
Mr. Bodkin, who, with Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Huddle-
stone, are retained for the prosecution, appeared this morning
to consent to the application for postponement.
The RECORDER, after considerable hesitation, ordered it to
be placed first on the judge's list for next session.
Joseph Mortimer, whose atrocious case came on before the
Recorder on Friday, when he was found guilty on twes
charges of bigamy and one of larceny, and
sentenced by the Court on the charge of lareernY
years' transportation, sentence on the other in.dictme.
being reserved, was this morning placed at the bar 0 receive
sentence on the charges of bigamy. t 3
The RECORDER said, he thought it right to inform
when
tohes e wynentas
prisoner, before pronouncing sentence on the two cases ,Y 1
bigamy on which he had been convicted, and to give him clearlY
to understand that inquiry had been made by the Court'
and information had been received from most respectable
sources, and that according to that his case bore the worst
possible aspect which any case could bear, and that it was
clearly aggravated by his cruel and disgraceful conduct.
The Recorder held in his hand a letter from Mr. George
O'Malley Irwin, a gentleman of the Irish bar, who
wished to have the prisoner transferred
to Ireland
to take his trial there if the charges should
have failed here, on a further charge of bigamy In the case
•
of Miss Baker, the daughter of Andrew Baker, i';ed Hill,
to
near Boyle, in the county of Roscommon. With regnill he
his marriage, the Recorder thought it right to inform "-
prisoner that a respectable surgeon in Liverpool had drawl°
the attention or the committing magistrate to the ease in
Miss Lovejoy by the following letter:—
" Liverpool, 111, Dale-street, June, 1846.
"Sir,—From the newspaper reports. I
or rather a monster in human form, of the name of A. Molt,
mer, has been brought before you, charged with bigaatny,.arere-
pueeive that a man:
and I am happy to find that he is committed for tri I, wn
I trust his heartless villany will meet its deserts.
was for
Jtind,
"One of his unfortunate victims, Miss LoLovejoy,several years a patient of mine, and a more confiding,
to.
or amiable creature never existed. Before she took the
circum
t-
._ fortunate step which, I have no hesitation in saying, con-.
signed her to an untimely grave, she mentioned the
stance to me. I advised her strongly against the union,
she,un
she knew something more of her future partner ; but
.()..
poor creature, too soon gave way, and became the victim.
revo•
the scoundrel's machinations. She had not been marrieu
twenty-four hours before she bitterly repented the ir,.
cable act. In a few days she again sent for me, OSst into
c:on
fidential friend.' As soon as she saw me she btsr
tears, and said,' I am a murdered woman ; he has take): every'
91'
.
thing I possess in the world from me, except the clothes in sv hick_
I stand; and to-day (it was then afternoon) I have W..
been allowed anything to eat.' The monster was. 10.
an adjoinin room, and I went and remonstrated with him;
but he maintained a dogged silence. Callous as the fellow
seemed, I think he will not forget that when I left the room
I told him, that if that woman died, her blood would be on
his head.' I once more saw her, viz., on the day before they
left England ; she called on me, she said, for the
purpose of bidding me good-bye for ever:.' Sher
again mentioned to me his brutal treatment, the deb:alig °-
which were so atrociously revolting that I almost sZewil
when I think of them. I wished her, even at the felevel:th
hour, to reconsider her determination of accompany,'
ing him, but site said, that although she believed
she should never cross the Atlantic alive, vet that she
had cast her lot with his, and it was her duty to
submit.' I do solemnly declare that I could most conscien-
tiously have accepted her expressions of the conviction that
she could not recover as her dying declaration ;' those con-
victions were realised, and her husband's object effected.
"I have the honour to remain, Sir, yours, very respectfully?
(Signed) "FREDERICK CRIPPS.
" Mr. Ald. Farebrother.
This letter was accompanied by the following note:—
" Sir,—As a matter of public duty, I have taken theaiberty;
of sending you the enclosed communication as it may Sell
to corroborate the testimony (which is already very strong
i
that Mortimer's brutal conduct to his wife accelerated hes"
death ; if it is of any service in forwarding the ends of
justice, my object in addressing you will be accomplished-
As the value of testimony depends upon the source whence
it is derived, and as you know nothing of me, allow me to
refer you to Mr. Alderman Sidney, with whom I have the
pleasure of being acquainted,
" I am, Sir, yours truly,
" F. CRIPFS.

"Liverpool, June, 1846.
" Mr. Alderman Farebrother."
The Recorder proceeded to say that the law regarded
bigamy in its ordinary, forms with a determination to deter
heartless vagabonds from committing it; but this case Of
Miss Lovejoy stood out alone, for within a day of her mar-
riage all that she possessed in the world was taken from her,
except the clothes in which she stood; she was
even disallowed anything to eat, and hardly
had the prisoner got her body cast into the sea when he re-
turned to England, to repeat the cruelty on another. It had,
moreover, been proved upon the trial that he hsd robbed
his first wife of her property and deserted her ; his object,
therefore, was evidently plunder, arid that he pui,siled„
by means the most cruel and inhuman that ever 12-1
been lused. He thought that this was the worst:-
case that had been recorded in the Court Itt
which they were; all the mischiefs which attended false
marriages bad been more strongly brought out in this
in-
stance than in any case he had ever known. The death of his
victim, if it was not absolutely caused by what had occurree
was, in the opinion of a respectable surgeon, cell:
tainly accelerated by the treatment she had received.
The poor unhappy woman before she embarkea.
from England expressed her strong conviction that she
would never reach the shores of America alive, and this was
her conviction after she had been dispossessed of all that sha
had, and disallowed even the use of the necessaries of
(The prisoner here interposed, and denied the truth of all
that was vouched for by Mr. Cripps.)
The RECORDER said that the prisoner would have the
opportunity of an appeal, if he thought proper, to 01
Secretary of State ; as for himself, however, he watt
do his duty to the public and act in this matter
up
to the law--for nothing so heartless, nothing so cruel had
ever reached his knowledge as that which the prisoner tia'
perpetrated on his victims, to their perpetual degrada"
tion. (The prisoner here reiterated his 'charge that he
victims were women of bad character.) The Recorder
continued to say that, in addition to robbing them of their
last shilling, anti wronging them by false pretences of mar"
riage, he now spared not their character, but despoiled then
even of that. But were it true as he had said, and if he had
picked them off the street, yet even such must and would be
protected by the law.
The COURT then sentenced him to transportation for seven
years on each of the two indictments, the one period to com-
mence at the expiration of the other. He was sentenced to
seven years' transportation on Friday, on the charge of
larceny ; but this sentence will commence and expire with
the first of the two sentences pronounced to-day, making
is
all only fourteen years' transport.

MARLBROrt'-STREET;—ir
A ~ERVA NT.-- Wm.
pIS DAY.)
EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMXN'r
man of respectable connexions, was
Grocers, a young3,miro.neyGe,orregeeeivlsetailily.
him for and on account o
charged with embezzlingal om ay
e ra, f
Court-road, confectioner.
; three months had been acting as
collectorfo to the prosecutor, and it wad his duty to
_fvharisiouems sums
agent and
s o nT,
hoer
prisonerN o . 6 0 Totr t
thenh al
last
liithin
over all moneys that came into his hands on his em-
the prosecutor accidentally discovered that
ip)laoyyer's account on the same day he received them.
the last few days . _ .
the- prisoner bad received different balances of accounts from
the customers of which he had made no mention. no was
in consequence apprehended at his lodgings in Port`olgtl
street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, on Sunday morning last, by
Sergeant Fowler, No. 111 ef the E division.
The prisoner was fully committed on two charges of eni"
bezzlement, one of 2/., and the other for 10s.
The prosecutor said there was another case against the
prisoner.
Mr. MALTBY said it might be brought forward against hilt'
at the trial.
The prisoner admitted having kept back the 2/., but 9aid,
he meant to make it good. The 10s. he had paid over to, 141 e
prosecutor.

Mr. Mallison denied his having done so.
The prisoner's defalcations are said to amount to between
301. and 401.

CRUEL ROBBERY BY A YOUTIL—At the Ilford Petty
Sessions on Saturday, James Hatfield, the son of a drover, re-
siding in Whitechapel, was placed at the bar charged with
obtaining a sum of money from a poor woman residing at
Stratford, under false pretences. Elizabeth Purkess, the wife
of a Smithfield drover, residing in Boyce-yard, Stratford,
said, that on the previous Monday the accused called upon
her, and making a very sorrowful face, said, Oh, Mrs. par-
kess, I have bad news to tell you, your husband has been
striking a man, and is locked up in Giltspur-street Compter4
and he has sent me for what money you have in the house.
She had only 10s., which she gave him, and he weflt
telling her, however, to come up to London as soon as possi-
ble, as her husband wished to see her. She did as he re-
quested her, and, on going to the Compter, found his story w
be false from beginning to end. The prisoner was coacmitted
to the Central Criminal Court for trial.
THE SHRIEVALTY.—We understand that a requisi-
tion, signed by upwards of 500 of the most respectable m fix"
bets of the. Livery, has been presented to Robert William
Kennard, Esq., of Upper Thames-street, the wealthy iron-
merchant, requesting him to allow himself to be placed in
nomination for the office of Sheriff for the migujpg yea twd
that DIA limed Illaiged is CA tk