The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-13 00:00:00

AS,SIZE IN7'ELLIGENCE.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.---LINCOLN.
The business of this assize commence yesterday,
Mr. Justice Willes presiding in the Crown Court,
and Baron Pollock in the Civil Court. In the latter
court there were only six cases put down in the
list, none of which are of any public interest. The
number of prisoners to be tried is 20, two being
charged with wilful murder; the remaining 18
cases are very serious offences.

13ec thateooennl iss tee::
CROWN COURT.
forThhaevpinrigs,o
(Before Mr. Justice Willes.)
EXTRAORDINARY CASES OF BlGAMY._William
Brightman, alias William Brighton, was indicted
onnert,hwehlol7s
47 years
1842, at lleeping, St.
James's, feloniously married Sarah Wanty, his for-
mer wife, Martha Brightman, being then alive.
placed .
h e in
learned the dock,
Judge,w aisn
chair,
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Since
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tfahhemight
have
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saottnoerp afterr 0
he being exceedingly ill. Ho is a farm labourer,
andT when called upon to plead he pleaded guilty.
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in
passing sentence upon the
prisoner, made some very severe remarks on the pro-
,e consequence
having
prisoner and his new wife, they separated by mutual
prisoner married again.
the
eears had elapsed, and
atsdhe
caubt lapsete ee .n
Hs
sent
nef
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(i.
tfmho
for
no one who had the commonest feelings of humanity
j‘tvuroidauglledllyhfrtoovurednedervotehfr the clerk to the Spalding board of
guardians, he having applied to the board for parish
relief in consequence of indisposition. The prisoner
was then taken before the magistrates, and com-
mitted for trial. The prosecution was a most cruel
one. The prisoner might say he was sent there and
truly on the score of excessive cruelty ; ho might
say he had been sent there for the purpose of being
tortured; and he might say he had been sent there
murdered.(the jud3el) would stand
In short, rather
f thanor t hbeeptuhrep ose
prosecutorof
in the position of any prisoner in
i the calendar. The
belnghe
prosecution was no such thing, t was persecution ;
and the sentence upon the prisoner would be one
day's imprisonment, inasmuch as the prosecution
was what he had described it.
dock, and she plea
pri-
soner, was then placed in the . .
Icing married at Spald-
guilty to an indictment for ha,
M. Brightman,: who was the first wife of the -
in g• Michael Brown, Nov. 19,
band (the abovenamcd, male prisoner) being then
185. 8, her former hus-
alive. The sentence of the Court was that she be
imprisoned for one day.
'rile cases were more
The learned Judge said he should disallow costs'
of prosecution in both cases. 'r
fitted for a romance than a crinainal court ofjustice
and they ought never to have been sent there. He
had received from the minister and others of the
parish in which the female
prisoner had lived, a
requisition praying that the Court would deal
leniently with her case, as ,she had for nearly 20
years been married to a man, iutd had tried to con-
duct herself respectably. He iiad already made
some observations on the male
he must say that he adhered to them. The com-
mitting magistrate was not in fault. It was the
indiscreet,the ' • pri.c•oner's case, and
ill-informed, the most harsh unfeel-
ing person who instituted the pposecution that Vall3
to blquio for 411,