The Sun.
London, England, 1832-09-17 00:00:00

ROW STREET.

A young lady of considerable personal beauty,
and very fashionably dressed, came before the Ma-
gistrate on Saturday, accompanied by a gentle-
man, a native of Germany, to apply for a war-
rant against a retired Major in the army, for having
been guilty of bigamy. The fair applicant's state-
ment, given apparently under excited feel-
' ings, was this :—A few months ago she met ac-
cidentally with Major —, who, in addition to a
fine commanding person, had a most persuasive
tongue, and she allowed him to visit her at the house
of her parents, with whom she resided. In as short
a time as propriety would possibly allow, she yield-
ed to his pressing importunities to become his wife;
and she not being of age, the banns were regularly
published in the New Church of St. Pancras, and
in due time they were married. Apartments were
hired, and for a few weeks they lived in as happy a
manner as most honey-moons are spent; but at
length the Major began to absent himself from home,
occasionally staying away a day and a night toge-
ther. She could not help upbraiding him for deserting
her thus early after marriage, and upon her doing
so, he became churlish, and more and more cool,
until, at length, he left her altogether, without giv-
ing her any notice of his intention to do so. Find-
ing that she was thus basely deserted, she applied
to her friends, and, by dint of great exertion, they
succeeded in tracing him to a house in the neigh-
bourhood of Covent-garden, where they discovered
that he had another wife living, an elderly lady of
property, to whom he had been married for several
years. She (the applicant) appealed to him for re-
paration, but he treated her with derision, and de-
fied her and any proceedings she could take against
him. She had therefore applied, by the advice of
her friends, for a warrant, having ascertained that
he had been married at old Pancras Church to his
former wife.
A warrant was granted, and placed in the hands
of J. J. Smith, one of the principal officers, who
went at once to the house in which the defendant
resided, but found the bird had sown, with his el-
derly spouse, having packed themselves and their
goods off in a great hurry to some part of the coun-
try—whither exactly was not known. The officer
as yet has not been able to obtain the slightest trace
of the retreat of this " gentlemanly" deceiver.
Mr. Wassell, a pawnbroker and jeweller, residing
in Pickett-street, Strand, appeared to answer the
charge of a young woman named Barnes, for de-
frauding her, by representing that certain articles
which she had purchased at his shop were guinea
gold, when in reality they were base metal, covered
with gilt, or leaf gold.
The young woman went, in company with a gen-
tleman, to the defendant's shop on Thursday last,
and asked to see some rings ; she told Mr. Wassell
that she wished to have a good article of pure gold ;
she selected two rings, and Mr. Wassell guaranteed
them to be of good guinea gold, as pure as the one
she had on her finger, bearing the assay mark ; she
paid a guinea for one, and 6s. 6d. for the other, and
on the following day, finding they were not worth a
sixth part of what she had given for them, she got a
friend to go to Mr. Wassell's shop to offer them to
pawn, and he offered Is. 6d. on one ring, and 3s. on
the other.

The rings were produced, and as they were so
very unlike what the defendant had represented
them to be, Mr. 1111.7csnuu, ordered him to return
the money to the young woman, or take the conse-
quences of an indictment. He returned the money,
and was discharged.