The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-11 00:00:00

WESTERN CIRCUIT.-APRIL 7.

James Combes, a young man, about 30 years of age,
was placed at the bar upon a charge of bigamy.
It appeared from the evidence for the prosecution, that
the prisoner was married to Mary Dower, spinster, in Ja-
nuary, 1816, and was again married in 1824, to Ann
Kimpton, his former wife being then alive, and that she
was still living in March last.
The prisoner, when asked what he had to say to the
charge, entered into a long defence, and said he felt con-
fident he would be able to justify his conduct. He first
became acquainted with Mary Dower at Weymouth, in
1816, and met her at a tea-party ; and imagining she
would make a good wife, he proposed to marry her.
She objected, upon the ground that his friends were net
known to her ; but, upon his offering to defray her tra-
velling expences to Bath, and back again, if she did not
approve of his family, she consen'ed to visit that place.
and, after a short time, they were married. But his hap.
piness was not of long duration, for she soon assumed the
entire controul, and led him such a life that he did not
know what to do with himself. She treated bins with the
greatest cruelty, frequently beat him, and turned him out
of the house at night. He was obliged to leave her, and,
after remaining in London for two years, lie returned to
Bath, and became servant in the family of a lady there.
Whilst in that situation, his wife exhibited the Hanle disaf-
fection towards him, and sought every opportunity of per-
secuting him. She made an appointment with him one night
for the purpose of having hint taken up upon a charge of
drowning her. She told one of her friends that arida was hiS
intention, and desired him to. watch prisoner as they were
returning home by the river side. He met her on the
evening iu question ; and as they were walking along the
side of the river she threw some stories into the water,
and screamed out and ran away, Her friend, whom she
had directed to watch, gave the alarm, and he (the pri-
soner) was taken into custody upon a charge of drowning
her ; but he was liberated at the end of a few days, when
his wife was discovered at a house a short distance ft ow
Bath. About four years alter their marriage his wife's
mother died, and by her will he ascertained that Mary
Dower, his wife, who was married to him as a spinster,
had peen pi:eviously twice tnaivied, wl had a li4shapd
living at the time of their marriage, and that she married
him in a wrong name. After tide information,*cousirrei-
ing their marriage illegal, lie thought be had a right' to
marry again.
The Jury, without any hesitation, found the ;prisoner
Guilty."
Mr. Justice LITTLEDAILT: sentenced him to be itnpri-
spned for one monpi in iihe gaol.

MOSTYN HUNT.—On the 26th ult. as the
Rev. G. LLOYD, said to be a nephew to Sir THOMAS
MovryN, was hunting, lie had to leap a brook, the banks
of which were much undermined ; and though his horse
cleared it mildocrielc;i;tolikaeenal bankt?aDa3nlt'aid:,,77:tltaiientidt
itnheeaglaiiisv,eniittsive4:..tihihiceilikierpiseet
but they h'ld the.
shupon
eirsyre,elitniet,a:
presence r !ul'a4 to giye
op_ their biidles, and escaped unhurt. It is feared the ae-
Otleo ‘.)11! Wove Atal..7—s4s.yOuiy.chroAk,
jofilf Reim was convzoed, at the Cork As-
sizes, on Friday afternoon, for the murder of his wife,
near Dunmanway, on the Bth of February. He was .to
have been executed on Monday.