The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-03 00:00:00

inauspicious wedding, however, he came and pleaded sot
earnestly that he was permitted to see the girl tete-a-tete,
and she afterwards said that he had threatened to stab her
to the heart if she rejected him. The next day she disap-
peared from home, and returning after a long absence con-
fessed that she bad been married in the interval, and that
her husband had already deserted her. The girl herself
being now questioned said the statement of facts was cor-
rect. Her husband, having induced her to meet him, took
her to the City, where the marriage was solemnised at a
church, and afterwards consummated, but her husband then
confessed that he had married her in spite, because she had
preferred to him another young man, who, however, would
have nothing further to say to her after what had occurred.
The magistrate observed that it was the most strange case
that had ever come before him. The parties being both
under age, and the bride acting apparently under coercion,
the marriage would, he supposed, readily be set aside by the
proper court, but in the meantime the man ought to son-
tribute to the support of his girl-wife. -
The parties then left the court.
CHARGE OP STEALING A IIORSE Al D
E ddington, a jobber, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Hammill and charged with stealing a horse and cart and
harness belonging to Charles Jones, a coal merchant, in
Shaftesbury-street, Hoxton, who stated that on Friday
afternoon he left the prisoner with his lad in the care of his
horse and cart while he went to take tea, but upon his re-
turn in half an hour the whole had disappeared, and after a
vast deal of trouble he traced them to Gray's-inn-road,
where he found the prisoner in the very act of receiving six
sovereigns from a man, to whom he had agreed to sell the
horse for that amount. The value of the whole was about
£l7, but the cart was a hired one.
William Craig, aged 16, said that as soon as the prosecutor
left them the prisoner walked the horse up and down for a
short time, and then suddenly asking witness if he knew
Gray's-inn-lane, drove off to it, and desired witness to wait
for him at a public-house there. In about three hours he
brought two other men, one of whom offered to give him £5
103. for the horse, and a gratuity of ss. for himself. The pri-
soner refused to take that, but agreed to accept £6, and was
just receiving the money when the prosecutor came in with a
police-constable. The prisoner then asserted that the pro-
secutor had authorised laim to sell the horse for six guineas ;
but the prosecutor utterly denied it and gave him into
custody.
Mr. Bliss, landlord of the Havelock Arms, said that the
prisoner, whom he knew before, came with the horse and
cart, intimating that he had to sell them, and witness en-
tertained no suspicion, as the prosecutor had in fact offered
last week to sell him the horse for £6 ss. He therefire re-
commended the prisoner to a person named Duffy, as a
likely man to buy it, and they were about completing the
bargain when the prosecutor came in in a terrible fluster,
having, as he said, spent 15s. in cab-hire in search of them.
The witness said he did not believe the prisoner meant to
steal the horse. The prosecutor admitted that he had offered
last week to sell the horse for £lO, the prisoner being with
him at the time, but he never authorised the prisoner to
tell it, and merely left him with the lad in care of it.
Mr. Hammill remanded the case for a week for further
.uquiry.