The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-28 00:00:00

A CURIOUS BIGAMY CASE.

( From the Boston Traveller.)
In the police court, on Thursday, Mr. John
Henry Bate, an English gentleman, was arraigned,
and waiving an examination, was held to 600 doll.
to trial on a charge of bigamy. The complaint
was made at the installs) of Mrs. Georgiaana M.
Bate, whose is somewhat singular. The case was
abut two years since before the lower tribunals
of New York City for examination, and at that
time formed the subject of a large number of news-
paper paragraphs. It finally died out, however,
and wai not heard of again until its revival, within
a few days, in this city.
The lady, Mrs. Georgianna M. Bate, alleges:that
Mr. Bate, the party defendant, was lawfully married
to her in England, some 22 years • since ; that
he subsequently married another woman in Eng-
land, and was convicted of bigamy there, and
that in consequence of her efforts his punish-
ment was only one month's imprisonment. These
efforts in his behalf were made, as Mrs. Bate
says, upon his promise to live with her, and to
give up his second wife. The promise was not
kept, however, and the next that was heard of
the case was about nine years since, as Mrs.
Bate represents, she caught her truant husband
in Canada, and obliged him, in the language of
the papers of the day, "to pay handsomelyfor
allowing him to go at large.,
The story is now, that after leaving England,
Mr. Bate was reported to be• dead, and the
family went into mourning for him. Mrs. Bate,
who supposed herself a widow, married again,
and wag, after a while, astonished by the return
of her spouse, And was reminded of the nature
of her' conjugal vows by a judicially inflicted
punishment for bigamy. The twain were now
about even, but the lady soon recovered herself,
and following Mr. Bate to this country, again
procured bis arrest in New York as above stated.
Mrs. Bate says that the case against ber husband
has failed each time in consequence of
and now,
the absence
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third time, she
in this particular at least,
alleges that the case is,
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Georgiannaof the second wife, to whomght, and
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to have been married in Suffield, England, in 1838,
was Elizateth Chapman.
Such is the extraordinary and almost incredible
story of Mrs. Georgianna M. Bate, and her state-
ments are backed up by papers purporting to be
copies of records. Mr. Bate, for his part, denies
any acquaintance with the lady who thus claims to
be his original wife, and says he only knows of her
by rea,on of the persecutions to which she has sub-
jected him for the past ten years. Mr. Bate, we
believe keeps a sort of public-house in this city ; he
is living with the second wife, who is the mother of
14 of his children. The case will be likely to excite
some interest should it ever reach a trial before a
;ury.

THE FATAL ACCIDENT TO MR. COL—Yesterday
afternoon Mr. Wakley, the coroner, resumed, at the
Railway Hotel, Southgate, the adjourned inquest on the
body of Mr. George Cux, the publisher, who was tin
f rtunately killed at the Colney Hatch station, on the
previous Thursday evening, while alighting from the
train. A verdict of "Accidental Death," was returned,
accompanied by an expression of dissatisfaction at the
insufficiency of the arrangements of the Great Northern
Railway Company for patsengers at the Colney Hatch
!station.