The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-17

| ject of her fife It had been suggested | to her that some information about h1n
 might be possibly be found in the re-
 cords of Newgate and on this she came | to London. The inn at which she stay | ed was at the bottom of Holborn, ana here she met with kind, matronly per- son newly arrived from OXfordshlfe. | The two women naturally confided to each other the business which had brought them to London Their errand it appeared was the same, each was Tn
 search of a runaway husband, and on comparing notes they became conVlnceu
 that both were in pursuit of the same
 man-the elder woman was Morrell Banbury wife.
 Bigamy was a capital offence in those days, and it may reasonably be expect
 ed that the ingenious Morrell was now
 near the end of his tether. But It so happened that before a plot against hlm could be put into execution by the two
 women, he was met face to face 1n the street by his rs al wife. She was SO much affected as to be on the point Of falht- ing, but MOrrell was equal to the oc- casion. He promptly helped her lnto the nearest tavern, gave her the Wherr- Withal to restore her spirits, and when she recovered listened to her reproaches with an air of penitence He then toid her that he had never willingly forsaKeil her; he had been driven by necessity but now, when he was longer III want, he desired only that the past might be forgiven. short, Mrs. MOT rell was completely talked over It was arranged that the reunited pair should settle in town, where he could find full scope for his abilities as a medical man. In her delight at the recovery of her husband, Mrs. Morrell, of course be- trayed the plans of her allies, and their arrangements for his capture came to nothing.
 Mrs. Morrell still had her furniture at Banbury, and this was brought to a house in Westminster; but her second honeymoon was of short duration. one evening, after spending the day with cousin she came home to find her house cleared and her husband missing. She returned to Banbury to be kept by the parish
 Morrelps triumphant escape on the above occasion did not dishearten the Ludlow wife; and he had yet to learn that an injured and determined woman is not an enemy to despised. She still pursued him, and at her instance he was arrested in the Midlands, and lodged in Worcester jail. His trial, however, took place in London, Whither he was removed under a writ of habeas corpus at the cost of a Southwark clergyman whose daughter had been one of his victims. He was indicted for marrying six wives, and the six ladies were all in court ready to give evidence against him. But they had not that satisfaction. He pleaded guilty, and admitted not the six marriages only but twelve others; so that he had by his own showing eighteen wives living at that time. And having done this he claimed the benefit 'of an old act by which the punishment of death might be commuted to branding in the hand and term of imprisonment. His plea was allowed by the court.
 As the branding was humanely done with a cool iron, and as the term of Imprisonment was short, Mir Morrells sentence was too severe; but the judge at the same time directed that one of the wives-the daughter of the South wark clergyman was the lady selected should enter an action against him for ( 900 damages, and remanded him to Newgate till this claim should be set tied. This was probably considered tantamount to imprisonment for life.
 Though his prospects could not well nay yp trln