The Sun. — 1832-09-10 (London, England)

NEW COURT. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF BIGAMY. Elizabeth Stone was indicted, for that she, on the 28th of September last, intermarried with one Edward Shaw, her husband, William Stone, being then alive. Tile prisoner was rather a tall woman, and was dressed very neatly. The mother of William Stone proved the marriageof the prisoner with her son, at the parish church of Lambeth, on the 19th of April, 1821; both parties were then tinder age; witness's son was a brass-worker, and his wife had been a servant  living at the next door; they lived together ninc months; the son set up in his own business, but in short time became embarrassed, and his wife and he then separated.  The certificate of the first marriage was put in It described both the parties as minors. Edward Shaw--Became acquainted with the pd• soner, and after a short courtship married her The marriage toott .plaee. on .the 28th September 1831, at St. Anne's, Westniinstbr. At the tiny of his marriage he had not the slightest knowledgt of the fact that she had been previously married He lived with her about nine months after the) were married; she spent nearly 2001. of his money; xvhich his father had given him to set up in bushiest with, and then she left him.  The prisoner, in her defence—Had been ill-used by both her husbands. S'ie had not seen her first husband for some years, and as they were both un. der age when the marriage took place, and as het parents were not there to consent to the wedding, she understood that the marriage was invalid, and she thought herself at liberty to marry again. She denied that she had spent more than 1001. of het second husband's money, and said that she had bee►► very ►ll-used by her second husband; that she had been obliged to swear her life against him, and that he had been imprisotied in Tothill-fields Bridewell, where, after remaining a week, he wrote to hers begging her to intercede for him and get him out. Shaw denied this statement, and said that he had been threatened by a man whom the prisoner kept.  The prisoner indignantly replied, that that statement was an absolute falsehood. She appealed to S-one's mother as to her character, and said that her first husband was willing to receive her again. Stone's mother had nothing to say against the prisoner.  -William S,one, who was in Court, was then called on, and came into the box. lie appeared much affected, and said he was willing to take his wife back. That they had parted because things did not go right with him. He was now, however, getting on better, and he hoped they should be happy together. He promised to receive her and treat her kindly, and not to upbraid her with the past.  Mr. Serjeant ARABIN asked the prisoner if she was willing to accept her husband's offer with affection and gratitude, to go back to him, and to love him and obey him, and behave as a good and affee' tionate wife?  The prisoner had no objection. Mr. Serjeant ARABIN would consider of this before the end of the Session. The prisoner was then removed from the bar.  The Jtiry who ►ried Kennedy and Brown, on Friday; for the murder on the river, have signed and forwarded on their behalf a memorial to the Secretary of State, praying that the sentence should not be carried into effect, and that the Royal clemency might be extended to the cow victs. The Jury founded the recommendation to mercy on the ground that the convicts never contemplated murder, and that, had not the law precluded anyother verdict the convicts would not have been found guilty of the capital felony—the murder. In consequence of the memo• rial, the following respite has been transmitted to Nesvgate, with a view, it is presumed, of commuting their sentence to transportation for life ;  '• Newgate, Saturday, Sept. 8, 1832. " A respite until Wednesday, the 12th inst.. arrived this evening, for Wm. Kennedy and Win. Brown, wb° bad been ordered for execution on Monday next, for the murder of Mr. Wilkinson, on the river Thames."  COUNTRY CORN MARKETS