The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-16 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Three journeymen butchers, George Sansom, Joseph
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Ward, and John Shelstan, were finally examined on
suspicion of having teen concerned in several depredations
in Newgate-market, which have been committed in the
following manner:--
One man having observed a sale of meat effected, com-
municates to an accomplice the name of the buyer, and as
soon as the latter has walked away, the accomplice applies
to the salesman and receives the meat, under the false re-
present:Aim that he has been sent by the buyer. As
speedily as possible the accomplice shifts the meat to a
third man, as it would be dangerous to he overtaken with
it in his possession, and in nineteen instances out of twenty

the trick succeeds.
The prisoners were committed for stealing a sheep from
the premises of Mr. Lee, a salesman, under such circum-
strnces, and a detainer was lodged against Sansom for steal-
ing nine legs of pork on another occasion.
Pntr.roT v. Srp.Ncza.—Mrs. Maly Spencer appeared
before Sir PETER LAURIE, yesterday, upon summons to
answer the complaint of Mr. John Philpot.
" Please your Worship," said Mr. John Philpot, " what
I wants to know is this—l wants to know the just cause
of Mrs. Spencer detaining my wife away from me ?" And
then, in answer to questions put to him from the Bench,
be said, " I married her at St. Luke's church at half-pest
ten o'clock in the morning, last Monday week, after having
courted her eight months, and after we had been asked in
church three times. I'm a Bridgnorth chap, a shoemaker
by trade, and txenty-four years old come Midsummer.—
My wife, she was nineteen last Saturday ; but none of her
friends were present at the m trriai;e, nor mine neither,
only a man of the name of James Barns gave her away to
me, newly and truly, all proper; and I wants to know the
just cause why Mrs. Spencer denies her away from me."
Mts. Spencer entered into a long explanation, showing
that, in the first place, she did not much approve of John
Philpot's character; secondly, that he had courted her
daughter clandestinely, and had been aided and assisted
by " some Irish bad people ;" thirdly, that he had married
her only out of spite to her (the mother), because, when
he was a lodger of their's, she had told him of sonic of his
tricks; fourthly, that he had no place to take her to,
except a ready-furnished apartment; fifthly, that he had

married her by a wrong natre—Spencer, instead of Cane
—she being the daughter of a former marriage; sixthly
awl lastly, that the girl herself repented of what
she had dune, and was unwilling to go back to him.
Mrs. Spencer added, she had been informed by the Minis-
ter of the parish that the marriage was not valid, in con-
sequence of the wrong name given to the girl in the pub-
lication of the bonus. Otherwise, if John was willing to
go through the ceremony again in the right name, and the
girl was still willing to hive him, she (the mother) would
not stand in the way of their happiness.
" What !" exclaimed John—" marry her again !—no,
that I never will. If she likes me, let her take me;_.
here I am ; and I'd live w.th her as long as there's a hit
f life left in me; but I'll never marry her again. Once
marrying of one woman is eneugh of all conscience, I
think !"

" Then you shall never have her by my consent," s tid
the mother." And, thereupon, the case was dismissed ;
and John Philpot departed without having ascertained
whether he was a married man or a bachelor.