The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-21 00:00:00

THE HUSBAND OF MANY InvEs.

Mr. Leonard, an inspector of the City Police, and
Green, one of his detective officers, attended before
Mr. Beadon, at the Marlborough-street Police
Court, yesterday, upon a charge of polygamy against
Gloucester Gale, whom they apprehended on Sun-
day, at a place called Marble Hall, one of the pri-
soner's residences, Egham.
The prisoner, who gives his age 35, but looks
older, is a slight-built man, has a somewhat sinister
cast of countenance, and wears large whiskers and
small moustache, which are of a light, or sandy-
colour. He had one arm in a sling, and walked
with a stick, or rather limped, which he said arose
from a recent attack of paralysis.
A brief outline of this case may not, from the
nature of it, prove uninteresting. It appeared that
he married, ten years ago, in the name of Gale,a
Miss Gee, of Turnham-green, and this lady, so far
as can be ascertained, appears to have been his first
wife. She always understood him to be a travel-
ler, and therefore has never been surprised at the
lengthened period-, of his absence, and states that
she certainly never had the most remote suspicion
of his marrying any one else.
The second marriage was solemnised at Islington
church, and then hcinarried, in the name of George
Gordon, a Miss Celia Mary Wye, of Kensington, a
young lady of considerable property; and in this-
instance, it is said, he prevailed upon her to settle,
in the event of survivorship, all that property upon
himself, with the exception of a legacy to a relative
of the lady as testatrix. This marriage was in
November of last. year.
The third marriagb is shown to be on the 3d of
January of the present year, at Old Trinity Church,
Sloane-street, Chelsea, in the name of George
Thomas. The deceived one in this case was Miss
Lydia Murch.
The fourth marriage was to Miss Sarah Drewitt,
on the 3d of May last, at St. George's, Hanover-
square.
The fifth marriage was on the 13th of July, t
Miss Martha Gover, at All Souls' Church, Lang-
hamplace ; and the sixth (it is hoped the last, and
the only_other case, though the officers say there is
great reason to believe that those mentioned are
not all) took place on the 17th of August (the en-
suing month it will be observed), in the name of
Edward Gordon, to Miss Fanny Farrell, or Tarrell.
The prisoner was in the habit of representing to
those he so infamously duped and imposed upon
that he was the mate of a ship which traded to
Malta, Oporto, and other foreign seaports, and that
this sometimes obliged him necessarily to be away
a long time. He let one of his wives on a late oc-
casion, and said .he should be away a few days,
having brought over from a foreign country a rare
animal, in a wild state, which no other person could
touch or handlebut himself, and that he was going
with it to the Queen, intending to make her Ma-
jesty a present of the same—the only specimen in
this country. Miss Wye always thought him to be a
collector for a large mercantile house, and was in no
way surprised at his frequent absence. He appears,
however, to have been more constant in his visits to
this lady than to the others—it has been stated
above that this was the moneyed lady. The
morning of the marriage with Miss Tarrell or
Farrell, he sent her into Devonshire to hire a house,
and furnish it, telling her he would directly join
her there. She never saw him afterwards. From
October last, when Mr. Coleman, clerk to the
Registrar of Merchant Seamen, waited upon the
late Lord Mayor, in consequence of numerous ap-
plications after this supposed mate of a ship, and
made known the case so far as suspicion rested, the
officers have been indefatigable in their search after
this fellow, frequently being close upon him in
country and in town, but never close enough until
their fortunate capture of him on Sunday, at Eg-
ham.
Mr. Beadon inquired where the second marriage
took place ?
Inspector Leonard said in Islington, but two of
the subsequent marriages having taken place
within the jurisdiction of this Court, he had brought
the case before his worship, and because it would
be more convenient to go into those cases first, the
witnesses being present to prove them.
Mr. Beadon said the law was that the hearing
should be either in the district where the second
marriage occurred, or in that of the place where
the apprehension took place, and therefore he must
refer it to either Clerkenwell or Southwark.

The further examination was accordingly referred
to Clerkenwcll Police-court, and the officers con-
veyed the prisoner thither, accompanied by the
witnesses. Two of the wives were yeung ladies of
considerable personal attractions.

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