The Sun.
London, England, 1832-09-10 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY, SEPT. 8.

FORGERY ON TIIE BANK OF MESSRS. CHILD AND
CO., TEMPLE-BAR.
Henry Lucas was indicted for uttering, on the 3d
of July last, a forged older for 991. 10s., well
knowing the same to be forged, with intent to de-
fraud John Wormald and others, trading under the
firm of. Messrs. Child and Co., bankers, Temple-bar.
The Jury acquitted the prisoner of the crime of
forgery, but found him Guilty of uttering the bill
knowing it to be forged. The Recorder then passed
sentence on the prisoner, which was—transportation
beyond the seas during his life.
There was a murmur of disapprobation among the
spectators, upon which Mr. Adolphus said that upon
the day that the forgery was committed, there had
been nine others under the signature of Sir William
Pole. In the course of the trial-
- Mr. ADOLPHUS contended he had a right to read
a certain letter first, and accused Mr. C. Phillips of
impoliteness.
Mr. C. P lIILLIPS—IshaII not adopt you as a model
Mr. ADOLPHUS—No, nor any body else ; since
you have not begun sooner, it is rather too late to
expect it now.
inveterate
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called on a fresh case, which prsovfoerrbymolu., your ancient and
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vented further altercation.
NEW COURT.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF BIGAMY.
Elizabeth Stone was indicted, for that she, on
the 28th of September last, intermarried with one
Edward Shaw, her husband, William Stone, being
then alive. Tile prisoner was rather a tall woman,
and was dressed very neatly.
The mother of William Stone proved the mar-
riageof the prisoner with her son, at the parish
church of Lambeth, on the 19th of April, 1821;
both parties were then tinder age; witness's son was
a brass-worker, and his wife had been a servant

living at the next door; they lived together ninc
months; the son set up in his own business, but in
short time became embarrassed, and his wife and he
then separated.

The certificate of the first marriage was put in
It described both the parties as minors.
Edward Shaw--Became acquainted with the pd•
soner, and after a short courtship married her
The marriage toott .plaee. on
.the 28th September
1831, at St. Anne's, Westniinstbr. At the tiny
of his marriage he had not the slightest knowledgt
of the fact that she had been previously married
He lived with her about nine months after the)
were married; she spent nearly 2001. of his money;
xvhich his father had given him to set up in bushiest
with, and then she left him.

The prisoner, in her defence—Had been ill-used
by both her husbands. S'ie had not seen her first
husband for some years, and as they were both un.
der age when the marriage took place, and as het
parents were not there to consent to the wedding,
she understood that the marriage was invalid, and
she thought herself at liberty to marry again. She
denied that she had spent more than 1001. of het
second husband's money, and said that she had bee►►
very ►ll-used by her second husband; that she had
been obliged to swear her life against him, and that
he had been imprisotied in Tothill-fields Bridewell,
where, after remaining a week, he wrote to hers
begging her to intercede for him and get him out.
Shaw denied this statement, and said that he
had been threatened by a man whom the prisoner
kept.

The prisoner indignantly replied, that that state-
ment was an absolute falsehood. She appealed to
S-one's mother as to her character, and said that her
first husband was willing to receive her again.
Stone's mother had nothing to say against the
prisoner.

-William S,one, who was in Court, was then
called on, and came into the box. lie appeared
much affected, and said he was willing to take his
wife back. That they had parted because things
did not go right with him. He was now, how-
ever, getting on better, and he hoped they should
be happy together. He promised to receive her
and treat her kindly, and not to upbraid her with
the past.

Mr. Serjeant ARABIN asked the prisoner if she
was willing to accept her husband's offer with affec-
tion and gratitude, to go back to him, and to love
him and obey him, and behave as a good and affee'
tionate wife?

The prisoner had no objection.
Mr. Serjeant ARABIN would consider of this be-
fore the end of the Session. The prisoner was then
removed from the bar.

The Jtiry who ►ried Kennedy and Brown, on Friday;
for the murder on the river, have signed and forwarded
on their behalf a memorial to the Secretary of State, pray-
ing that the sentence should not be carried into effect, and
that the Royal clemency might be extended to the cow
victs. The Jury founded the recommendation to mercy
on the ground that the convicts never contemplated mur-
der, and that, had not the law precluded anyother verdict
the convicts would not have been found guilty of the ca-
pital felony—the murder. In consequence of the memo•
rial, the following respite has been transmitted to Nesv-
gate, with a view, it is presumed, of commuting their
sentence to transportation for life ;

'• Newgate, Saturday, Sept. 8, 1832.
" A respite until Wednesday, the 12th inst.. arrived
this evening, for Wm. Kennedy and Win. Brown, wb°
bad been ordered for execution on Monday next, for the
murder of Mr. Wilkinson, on the river Thames."

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