The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-21 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—Mrs. Eliza Freeman, otherwise Mrs,
Eliza Hatekins, a lady who-c personal conformation is
precisely that of which Lord Byron has recorded his hatred
—v:t. the decidedly dumpy—underwent several exami-
nations at this office, last week, on a charge of having
taken unto herself a second husband before her first had de-
parted this life

The charge was preferred by the gentleman on whom
e last bestowed her hand and person—one Mr. Ethelred
Hawkins, an officer in the army, at least twice the height
of•the lady, and perhaps some ten years younger. He was
moreover very much imhittered against her—at least, it
we may judge from the tone and terms of his evidence :—" I
married this ?roman," said he, " on the 29th of May,
in the year 1819, in the church of St. Andrew's, Holborn,
and I have since discovered that the creuture had a hus-
band then living."

The lady, on her part, began her response with
" When I married this fellow he bad not a " and
no doubt a very edifying recriminatory altercation would
have ensued, had not the Magistrate nipp'd it in the bud,
as it were, by peremptorily enjoining them to be quiet.

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Mr. ilawkins was then asked—" At the time you mar•
ried her did she represent herself as a spinster ?"
" Neither one nur the other ;" replied Mr. Hawkins.
" What do you mean by neither one nor the oilier
asked the 111.tutsTRATs.

" Neither as spinster nor widow ; but she was married
as a spinster," replied Mr. Hawkins.
A marriage certificate was then put in, by which it ap-
peared that, in the year 1815, four years before she married
Mr. Hawkins, she was married at St. Olave's, Southwark,
to one Henry Freeman ; and several witnesses were called I
to prove that he was alive at the time of her marriagewith
Mr. Hawkins. But they could only prove that in the year
1815 she was living with a person named Henry Freeman,
who at that time kept the Bed Lion public-house in Union-
strect, in the Borough ; that she always passed as his wife,
by the name, style, and title of " Mrs. Freeman, landlady
of the Red Lion," and that he, Mr. Freeman, was alive in
October, 1t321, when, alter a long series' of misfortunes and
ill-health, he died in St. Thomas's hospital.
As for the lady herself, when asked by the Magistrate
whether she wished to say any thing in explanation—the
replied that she left it all to her solicitor; and her solicitor
boldly contended that there was no case. " You have not
proved"' said he, " that the Henry Freeman she was liv-
ing with was the Henry Freeman named in the certificate
of marriage ; and, unless you prove that, you prove 1/-
thing-for it does not follow that, because she was living
with Henry Freeman as his wife, she must be his wife."
Unfortunately for her, however, at subsequent exami-
nations, it was sworn that the signature " henry Free
man," in the certificate, was the sign-manual of the Henry
Freeman with whom she lived ; and upon that evidence
she was on Saturday last fully committed to Newgate for
trial, to the great comfort of Lieut. Hawkins, her own great
chagrin, and the considerable profit of her solicitor, who
gave her great hopes of being able to " pull her through it
at the Old Bailey."

QUEEN-SQUARE.—ELEGA/1 ACcOMMSHMENTs..
—Two officers of the Mendicity Society brought up a
young urchin, about twelve years of age, for begging.
Mr. WHIT-What is your name, and how do you get
your living ? Boy—My name is Robert Mitchell. I
comes from Chatham, and 1 lives by killing cats, to amuse
gemmen and ladies.
Mr. WHITE—By killing cats ! What does he mean ?
Officer—lie picks up money by giving an imitation with
his voice of a dog killing a cat.
Mr. WHITE wished to bare a proof of the boy'. talents ;
whereupon he raised such a yell that it threw both the
magistrates and the persons in the office into a roar of
laughter. The officers in waiting rushed into the office.
thinking that in reality a dog and cat had got into the
room. so well was the noise imitated. _

Mr. WHITE—Who taught you this accomplishment''
Boy.l teached myself. I can bray like a donkey, or
make a noise like a peacock, or grunt like a bog, or make a
noise like any other wild beast, if yon will hear me.
Mr WHITE said he had quite a sufficient specimen of his
abilities, and ordered the officers to take him to the Society,
who would probably send him to Isis parish.