The Sun.
London, England, 1829-05-06 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS, MAY 5.

Thomas Foster, an old man, was indicted for
marrying with Mary Anne GAnder, his former '

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being alive.
Mr. Boyd, the palish-clerk of St. Clement Danes, l!.1;
(lured the register-book of marriages for 1794, from vrl'l%
it appealed, that on the 20th of July in that year Thorus-
Foster married to Elizabeth Stubbs, spinster.
Mary Ann Gander, a very pretty and interesting 37°1
woman, was then called, and said—l am now 21 Yegrl,:t
age. I know-the prisoner at the bar. At the time i""1,
I first knew the prisoner, I was living with my mother it
Bltekfriars-road. The prisoner was introduced to r,'.%
f airily as a man of property, and he represented hirnselt:a
a widower, and that he had estates in Lincolnshire, 11P,
funded property to the amount of 8,0001. He u'lle
clerical hat, and exhibited great sanctity of manners•
was first introduced to me by my mother, who told ,e.
he was a gentleman of large property. With the pertK,
sion of my another, he paid his addresses to me, a11u...,11
were married on the 26th of July, 1824, at Camber
e°-
old church. His manners were extremely kind and ge-
tlean oily on all occasions. Three days before our Plgtril
riage he said he wished to go into business for a times °lit;
he could wind up his affairs and retire upon his proper
in Lincolnshire. The prisoner took a public-bout:,
Walworth, and we lived there for some time. A pe.--;
I
called Mrs. Stubbs, was brought home by the prison
ci"
soon after we took the house, and she lived with u, /1e11:t
acted as housekeeper. The prisoner was arrested for d,
an I taken to the King's Bench prison, and my filen
then n ade inquiry about his supposed property,
.and fonn.
that he had none. They then removed me from him, tu°
all the intercourse between ns ceased from that moment.
Cross-examined by Mr. JEMMETT-1 was between 16
and 17 years of age when we were married. I thougl4
the prisoner was a retired clergyman. 'While we "'ellip l
d
ing together at Walworth, a women used to call eye
week to receive money ; and after the prisoner was raked
to the King's Bench, I asked her who she was; she 01
she was another wife of his.
Mr. THESIGER-That makes three, I believe? „
The CHAIRMAN summed up, and the Jury found t""

prisoner Guilty.
The prisoner stood again indicted for inters
arrYi4
with Martha Cox iu the lifetime of his 14wful wife'

Elizabeth.

Martha Cox—l was married to my former hl
Cox, thirty-four years ago. I lived with him for se eat
years. He left me and went to Madeira twenty-two .
Ye4,,i
ago. I first knew the prisoner in 1820; he represe°,'i,
himself to be a widower, and was always boasting of PI
property. I was married to him in the same Year'ur,
supported him for two years and a half entirely, and dO3,
ing the whole time I only received 11. 4s. from , A
When my property was wholly exhausted, be left ht
We had not been long married when the prisoner broogq,
home his first wife and child, and compelled me to s

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port them.
The Jury, without hesitation, found the prisoner GoiltY;
CHAIR MAN-Prisoner, your's is as bad a case of
,erliaps as was ever brought befre a Court of Justice'
? I he sentence of the Court is that you be transported Pt

fourteen

years.

ASSASSINATION AND SUICIDE.

(From the Mcssager des Charnbees, dated May 3.)rA
Pants, ALAI 2.—A dreadful assassination has
be
committed this morning in the face of day, and in Sti.
middle of the Place Louis XVI., on the person of
Calemard Lafayette, Deputy of the Upper Loire. A-
Plagniol lay in wait it seems for the Hon. DepulY'
byll
going up to him discharged a pistol at him, and thestte
passed through his breast. The assassin imtnedihl
afterwards blew out his own brains and expired on:tte
spot. M. C. de Lafayette had strength to rise and get 'll-4:
a carriage, after mentioning his residence, Rue Goclut,
Mauroy, No. 21. M. Dupuytron, who was sent for, lititft
M. Baud,loque, extracted a large ball from the Ifirt
shoulder, where it stopped after fracturing all the botiesu".,
its passage. The wound is most dangerous, and the eitrri;
lion of M. C. de Lafayette critical in the extrerne.----_,%:
assassin, who wore the cross of the Legion of Honour, rr,
a lend-owner in the department of the Indre and ILI
plop'
aged 52 years : he was personally known to the r.i°t,a
Member, and it is generally supposed that he corrovfith-i,
the act to gratify private revenge, but the ground uf
animosity is unknown. M. C. de Lafayette was a 'l°4 if
inoffensive man: his opinions as a Deputy were known the
by the place which he occupied, on the right c)( his
Claamber. It seems that Plagniol has premeditated ,
crime and the suicide which followed it with atr°ci°:,
resolution. Ira the morning he put six letters in thehe
and he was seen prowling about in the Garden 01 14_
Tuileries and in the Place Louis XVI. watching, iold°o
edly, for an opportunity to strike his victim. lf
The bill with which the assassin destroyed i""::ie
entered by the orbit of the right eye, carried off the I°w--
corm:al hone, and issued oat at the upper part of the
ciput, and passed through the hat.
The Gazette de France dated Monday, gives %,erl
nearly the same account., but says that words thepassed
twee* the Honourable Deputy and the assassin before be
latter fired ; that the report of the pistol broughtil t
guard to the spot; and that it seems it was not theo
murderer saw that he was observed, and was going r
pursued, that he destroyed himself.
The Gazette adds the following:— de
"MAY 3.-From three till ten in the morning
Lafayette was still in a most precarious state. The dr
ing had not been removed."

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