The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1867-07-12 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

NUT SEEKING A NEW HUSBAND. At the Birmingham Police-office, on Monday, an amasing case was heard before the atipendiary magi& trate. William Charington, 38, jeweller, 3, Brighton. place, New Summer-street, was charged with assaulting Mr. Abraham Rosenthal), hat and cap manufacturer, 35, Snow-hill, and also "with being found in his bedroom." The prosecutor has two shops, the one mentioned above, and another at 28, Dale-end, which he manages himself, leaving his wife to attend to the shop in Soon-bill. On Saturday night she as usual sent the "takings bf the day" to her husband by a servant. Mr. Rosenthal!, disappointed at the small amount, told the servant that he would walk down to Snow-hill and see his wife about it, as he did not believe that the money given to him was all that she bad received. On arriving there, he found the house locked up, bat by the aid of to neighbour he got in the back way. Having lighted the gas, he was going upstairs when he met his wife in her night-dress, who, addiussing him, said," How you did frighten me I" Mr. Rosenthal' answered that " He did not," and, announcing that he wanted to know what money she had received, proceeded into the bedroom to discuss the point. There, however, he was surprised by the discovery on the drawers of a neck-tie which did not belong to him, and on looking round the room his eyes rested upon a pair of man's boots which were not his property. He inimedtately turned to his wife and said, "You must have a man here!" His wife making no reply, Mr. Rosenthal' commenced searching the room, and under the bed, lying tranquilly on his back, was a man (who proved to be Charington), clothed only in a shirt. "Come out," said the prosecutor, and proceeded to pall the prisoner from underneath the bed. The accused, not liking this treatment, seized Mr. Rosenthal' by the hair of his head, and commenced assaulting him, striking him on the face, chest, and other parts of his body. Cries of " Murder" and "Police" were raised, and Police-constable No. 172, after some trouble found his way with another constable to the stairs, which he at once ascended. Arrived at the top, he saw "something" pass across the landing, and seizing bold of it, he found that it was Mrs. Rosenthal' in her nightdress. That lady appeared much alarmed, and told the policeman that "Murder was being done in her bedroom," whereupon the officer made his way to the "nuptial chamber" and found the two men struggling together. Which to take, or bow to interfere for a moment, he did not know, but he soon ascertained the facts, and then, not, however, without rl-eat difficulty, he took the prisoner to the police-station. 'I he accused, who throughout the heariag of the case conducted himself as though be had done nothing wrong, said in defence, that on Saturday night last he was passing down Soow-hill when he saw three persons, one of whom was Mrs. Rosenthal!, in the prosecutor's shop. They called him in, and asked him to take a drop of gin, which they were drinking. He did so, and sent for a drop more. By the time that had been consumed it was closing time, but he (prisoner) was asked to remain by Mrs. RosenthalL That lady, addressing him, and pointing to a man, one of those present then, said, "Here's a man in want of a wife." He (the prisoner) then said to Mrs. Rosenthal', "Are you not married?" and she replied, "No, I want a husband,' and asked him to stay all night. That was the fact of the matter, lie went into a back room "to wait for her," when that man, pointing to the servant (who was in Court), went for her husband. He (the prisoner) did not know that she was married, or he would not have been there. _ _  Mr. Gem (magistrate's clerk) to the servant : You never knew him to pay a visit of that kind before! No air.  Mr. Gent: You would not tolerate it, I am sure. Mr. Kynnersley said he was very sorry for the prisoner, because he appeared to be free from all blame; but he (the stipendiary) had only the assault case to deal with. The prisoner was liable to a is natty of Xt., or two months imprisonment, but he would be fined 40s. and costs, or in defaillt twenty-one days' imprisonment.