The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-22 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE, Oct. 21.

CLERKENWELL. THE MATRIMONIAL
CAUSES ACT.— GROSS CRUELTY.— Mr. Lord,
solicitor, applied to Mr. Tyrwhitt on behalf of Mrs.
Emma Jenkins, 3, Southampton-terrace, Caledonian-
road, for a protecting order, under the Matrimonial
Causes Act, on the ground of cruelty and desertion.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said that he could not grant an or-
der for cruelty, that was for the Court at Westmin-
ter. All that he could do was to grant an order
for the desertion.

Mrs. Jenkins stated that she was married to her
husband, William Robert Jenkins, on 0ct.14, 1843.
Her husband was a pianoforte maker, and she lived
with him for' about five years. He only kept her
for one week, and after that very much ill-used her,
and on one occasion she had to take him befora a
magistrate. When her husband deserted her, he
enlisted for a soldier, and had never since offered
to return or provide for her. Since her desertion
she has become possessed of some property for *hich
she wanted protection. When her husband was
with her he was in the constant habit of beating
her.
Mr. Tyrwhitt made the order.

CONVICTION FOR UNLAWFUILY DISPOSING OF
WATCHES.—SamueI Henry Leah was brought up
on remand, charged with having defrauded Mr.
John Johnson Houghton of five watches, three of
which were entrusted to the prisoner to repair, and
two to sell.

Mr. Beard, who attended for the prosecution,
asked the Court to deal with the prisoner under an
old act of Parliament, the 9th Geo. 11., passed for
the protection of watch-makers, which enacted,
that where any person, being entrusted with a
watch to repair, shall sell, pawn, or otherwise dis-
pose of the same, they shall, on proof thereof, for
the first offence be liable to a penalty of £2O or 14
days' imprisonment, and for a second offence the
offender was liable to three months' imprisonment.
The evidence of Mr. Houghton and Sergeant
Evans, 22 G, proved the case against the prisoner.
The facts have already been published.
Mr. Tyrwhitt having perused the statute referred
to, said he felt but little hesitation in convicting
the prisoner. He was not really aware there wag
such a statute. lie then ordered the prisoner to
pay a fine of £2O, or to be imprisoned and kept to
hard labour for 14 days.

Mr. Beard said he was prepared with other cases.
Mr. Tyrwhitt suggested that the prisoner could
be taken again at the expiration of his present im-
prisonment, and then the other cases should be
gone into. _ _ _

- The prisoner was locked up and ultimately con
veyed. to the House of Correction.

MARYLE BONE.--FRAUDIILENTLy OBTAINING
GOODS FROM TRADESMEN.—AIice Elston, aged 16,
was placed at the bar, charged with obtaining by
false and fraudulent means some property from
Mr. George Newman, linendraper, 67, Park-street
Camden-Town.

The evidence went to show that on Friday even•
ing last the prisoner, upon a representation that she
had been sent by Mrs. Fisher, a neighbour, and
with whom prosecutor was acquainted, obtained
from him 13 yards of plaid for a dress, together
with some lining, &c. He subsequently ascertained
that she was not known to Mrs. Fisher, and. he
therefore gave information of the fraud which had
been practised upon him to the police. The case
was placed in the hands of an active officer, Ser-
geant Holmes, 29 S, who on the previous night
took the prisoner into custody at 157, High. street,
Camden-Town.

Mr. Broughton asked if the property had been
found, and the sergeant replied in the negative; he
added that numerous other tradesmen had been vic-
timised by the prisoner in a similarly artful manner,
and that upon another day many more charges
would be brought forward against her.
The prisoner, who said she was sorry for what
she had done, was remanded till to-morrow (this
day) week.
ROBBERIES BY FEMALES.--Three women, named
Blackburn, Dalton, and Dovey, all of whom had
Hill, 39 S, were placed
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charged with having stolen
two pieces of print, one of them belonging to Mr.
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Nicholin, Park-terrace, Camden-Town, and the
second piece to another draper in the same neigh-
bourhood.

The p-roperty was produced by Hill, and identi-
fied by the respective owners.
A constable of the G division stated that the pri-
soners -.veil) well known associates of thiever, and
that one of them had previously been convicted.
Blackburn was sent fur two month, and the
others for one month each to the House of Correc-
tion.

LAMBETH.—AN IMPUDENT BIGAMIST—Henry
Wilcox, a well-dressed and respectable-looking
man, was brought up in custody by George Hull, a
detective officer belonging to the P division of
police, and placed at the bar before Mr. Selfe, on
the following charge of heartless bigamy.
Hull deposed that in consequence of information
lodged at the station-house in the Walworth-road,
he on the night before proceeded to the Downham
Arms public-house, Downham-road, Ralston, and
there found the prisoner in the parlour, with other
customers, enjoying himself. He addressed him as
Mr. Nicholls, the name he then went by, and told
him he wished to speak a word with him outside,
and on coming out he asked him if his real name
was not Wilcox. The prisoner replied that it was,
and he then told him he was an officer of police,
and must take him into custody on a charge of
bigamy, and that he had in his possession the cer-
tificates of both his marriages, the first of which
took place at the paris church of Wakefield, in
1851, and :he second at Emanuel Church, Camber-
well, in 1854. The prisoner admitted the fact, but
said the first marriage was not legal.
Mr. Selfe—Did he state why it was not legal?
Witness—No, your worship, but said he had legal
advice about it, and that it would be proved by liw.
When I told him I had both certificates, he asked
me how I got the second' certificate, by which r
presumed he meant the certificate of the first mar-
riage, and I told him I understood that his second
wife had been to Wakefield, and found out the first
wife, and also obtained the certificate. Hull here
produced the certificate of marriage, and said the
second wife was in attendance, and ready to give
her evidence.

Mr. Selfe—Have you any further evidence beyond
the prisoner's own admission of the first marriage ?
Hull—No, sir; but I shall be prepared with evi-
dence of the fact on a future day.
The second wife, a respectable-looking female,
here said she could prove the fact, as she had
drank tea with the first wife on Saturday last, and
she was willing to appear and produce her brides-
maid to prove her marriage with the prisoner.
Mr. Neale, who appeared for the prisoner, con-
tended that there was no legal proof of the first
marriage; or of the first wife being alive at the
time of the alleged second marriage.
Mr. Salle observed that there was the legal
proof of the prisoner's admission to the officer, and
the statement of the second wife, though not on
oath, was that she had drank tea with the first wife
at Wakefield on Saturday last.
Mr. Neale.still objected that there was no identity
of his client with the first marriage ; but,
The magistrate observed that the prisoner's own
admission was prima facie evidence of the fact.
Hull, the constable, here remarked that from in-
quiries he had made at Dalston, he found that the
banns of matrimony betweei the prisoner and a
lady then in court, had been published, or rather
put up, at Islington church, and Sunday next
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