The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-17 00:00:00

CLEI?KEAW ELL.

George Henry Wheeler lyies charged with embez-
zling 91., the money of Messrs. Cooke and Shoolbred,
the great linendrapers in Tottenham-court-road.
The prisoner had been in their employment as col-
lecting clerk. Last Monday another of the clerks ap-
plied to Mr. Last, trunkmaker, Oxford-street, for the
payment of 91., the amount of his debt to the prosecu•
tors, but he had previously paid the prisoner, whose
receipt he produced, and who had embezzled the
money.
Police-constable Dalglish E 3, deposed that he took
the prisoner into custody and put to him several ques-
tions regarding the subject of his arrest ; such as
what he had done with the money—why he took it—
and how he meant to replace it.
Mr. GREENwoon--According to my idea of these
matters, policemen have no right whatever to put
such questions to priionera, nor indeed any questions
at all. They should first caution them, and on no ac-
count go further than to say that they were willing to
hear anything which the prisoner wished to communi-
cate. Even a Magistrate did not presume to interro-
gate a prisoner, and always told him that whatever he
said would be written down. Any other course was il-
legal, improper, and unfair.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
iVORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday Mary Sivield, alias Goldsmith, alias
Walters, a rather respectable looking woman, nearer
70 than 60 years of age, was finally examined before
Mr. Broughton, upon a charge of bigamy.
Mr. Horry, the barrister, attended for the prosecu-
tion, and Mr. W. Heritage for the prisoner.
The parish-clerk of South Hackney church pro-
duced the registers of two marriages, in both of which
the prisoner had given her maiden name as Mary
Walters, on the 23d of August, 1835, to Robert Gold-
smith, and on the 6th of November, 1837, to Daniel
Sinfield.
The prosecutor, Daniel Sinfield, a greengrocer, up-
wards of 60 7ears of age, living in Spitalfields, said
that he was in the habit of supplying potatoes to the
prisoner's sister, who, as he was a widower, offered to
introduce him to her sister, then living with her. The
introduction accordingly took place, and in a few
nights they were married at South Hackney church.
In about three years afterwards, however, the sister,
in the course of a quarrel, informed him that his wife
had another husband living, and he had since ascer-
tained that such was the fact.

Susannah Abel, the prisoner's sister, appeared as
the attesting witness to both marriages.
Mr. BROUGHTON asked her how it was that she had
afterwards introduced a second husband to her sister?

The witness said, in excuse, that she had considered
the first as no marriage, as the elderly bridegroom
had contracted it in a wrong name, for after their re-
turn to church he said to his wife, he said, " Oh,
Mary, I have done wrong, for my name is not Gold-
smith, but Coesmith."• She had also been told by her
sister that the marriage was never consummated.
A daughter of the man Goldsmith, or Coesmith
proved that, after the alleged marriage, her father and
the prisoner lived as man and wife ; but at last the
prisoner turned him out of doors, and he died in St.
Luke's workhouse.

It was alleged, in defence, that the prosecutor,
when he married the prisoner, knew of the first mar-
riage, but there had since been frequent quarrels be-
tween him and the sister, and, in fact, a warrant
obtained against him by the latter was still out.
Sinfield, being recalled and cautioned, swore that he
was ignorant of the first marriage until nearly three
years after he married the prisoner. The sister was
in the habit of getting drunk, and on one of these
occasions he was obliged to turn her out of the house,
and she then called him an old fool, for thinking that
he had a wife, while his wife had another husband.
He did not believe it at first, but had since ascertained
the fact.—The prisoner was committed for trial.