The Sun.
London, England, 1835-06-17 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL CO URT.

Ellis Jacobs, a young man of fashionable exterior, was
indicted for stealing a gig of the value of 201., the property
of Thomas Lloyd, a coachmaker, residing in Worship-street.
Prisoner's father was an independent man, residing in
the vicinity of the Commercial•road, and had frequently
sent his carriage to the prosecutor's for repair ; and on some
of those occasions the son had been seen, and became ac-
quainted with the prosecutor's firm. On the 13th of August
last he went to the house in Worship-street, and desired to
be accommodated with a good gig. He was directed to
pick out any one he liked, which he accordingly did. In a
few minutes afterwards he sent a boy for the vehicle, with
a note requesting that it might be sent by the bearer, which
was done. The gig was not returned for upwards of three
weeks, when the prisoner said he had met with an acci-
dent, and that it was all in pieces. In fact, "it had been
broken by a bullock." It was subsequently discovered that
the gig had been sold on the 15th (two days after it had
obt.lii.al) to Mr. William Cochrane, for 61.—Acquitted.
BlGAMY.—Frederick James Poole, a man apparently
about thirty years of age, was indicted for intermarrying
with Emma Louisa Hawksworth, his former wife Mary
Blaize being still living.
John Newman proved the first marriage of the prisoner
with Mary Blaize, at the parish church of St. Dunstan,
Stepney, on the 21st of April, 1828. They afterwards
lived together as man and wife, and she had one child.
Emma Louisa Hawksworth, a very showy-looking girl,
apparently not more than one and twenty, proved being
married to the prisoner on the 25th of June, 1832, at
Leighton church, Essex. She never asked him whether
he was single or married, but presumed him to be single.
Mr. Sergeant ARABIN—How long were you acquainted
with the prisoner before you were married to him ?—Five
weeks.
The young woman continued.—l have had one child.
He is one of the best of husbands, and one of the tenderest
of fathers. This she repeated two or three times with
considerable emotion.
The prisoner put in a written defence, in which he com-
plained of the incontinence and drunkenness of his first
wife. He had sent her into the country two years after
their marriage for the benefit of her health, and had sent
her half his income to support her. She returned, and,
after having been with him three days, he had, unfortu-
nately, undoubted evidence of her incontinence. He pro-
ceeded to detail acts of violence and drunkenness from that
time to the present. He found that he had not a moment's
peace, and surrendered himself to an officer.
A witness gave the prisoner a character for propriety
and general conduct.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The first wife, a plain woman of thirty, got up in the box
and declared that the prisoner's was not a correct defence as
affected her character.
Mr. Sergeant ARABIN should direct some intelligent
person to make the most particular inquiries into the case.
If the defence was untrue the utmost severity of the law
would follow ; if, on the contrary, it were correct, then the
punishment would be ameliorated to the circumstances of
the case.
The prisoner bowed to the Court, and declared it would
be found true.

There is an increase of deaths in the last weekly
bills of mortality, as compared with those of the week antece-
dent. One death from cholera appears in the last.