Northern Times. — 1857-12-17 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

POLYGAIW.,  At. Lambeth pollee-court, en Tuesday, John Wilkir_sOn Ann. Wilkinson. alias Alexander, and Ilicheed Thomas Alexarede,-, Were placed at the bar for final excealnatione each being charged with bigamy. From the testimony of, a number of.witeesses. iteappeared that in the year 1e33, the prisoner Wi had been married to renences Wilkinson, who is now, living at Flury, St. Edmund's, in &silent, and that some four or five: glare after he took up, with the female prisoner, his wife, se•it- was. alleged, having goce,•,to live with another snaz.., since. transported. The parties continued to live together, except at interuals,when his wife, shed to visit Wilkinson, and in lie !a were married at, St. Mary's Church,. Baddington, the second wife giviag her maiden 11=B of Ann Sullivan. Some menthe ago Wilkinson discarded his semi d wife, and took bcme his first, and, this led the second wife to givohim into custody onn.charge of bigamy. When before the magistrates the defence set op was that the second wife herself was guiity of bigamy in intermarrying with Wilkinson, well knowing that his wife and her own husband, Richard Thomas Alexander. were both alive; and at the second exarnin.ai ion Alexander himself attended, sad. admitted that he had been marred to Ana Wilkinson, as she called herself, abeeat eigateen:yesrs before, la StAndre_w's Church, lielbcen. 'lbis led to rise female being pl seetLie, the deck alongside her aszond husband, ant the publicity given to, the singular case of double bigamy, broeght oat the startling feet that the man. Alexander had been married, areFateosham, in Kent. on the Bth of May,. /850, to a young woman aamad Rebecca Sears, and h., in his tarn, was, taken into cnstodg. TOliee-conetahle Stephen Booth, PA, L, w:o, had apprehended Alt the parties, and had the management of the case, erodueed the eerti,Sc tes of marriage in each case, and the neceesa, y witnesses, so an. to complete the prosecution. istr.3em selt,idesthehaet the was well an a w aleoantestihdee e tyrtel%wa'itilihkhiehn 4,4 a wife Wive. This, however, of timel n hLm they defence,w e: equallyaxtheparrigrsnioeine dl the female denied, and said she thought Alexander w.as de id when she married Wilkinson, Alexander, in reply to th,e chug% sail that . ober:ly after his marriage, he traced his wife to a house of ill-fame, where she was in the habit of sneetine a gent man.' For this he discarded her, and soon after he, found her living with Wi klaseets whom she subsequently aceprnpanied to An rice. Knovrine her were cheap ipurotphe,,nsi Unitestyfr drink,states, ahned ekeneeezi,hanegd, aslhsea,wthaaltatep never return, and heari_ng nothing whatever of her. he concluded s Elliott he wasdead, and under this conviction got married, agaia. Mr. committed, all the ttxen to take their tgial at-the Centra.l, Cri snag Court.•  TUX Law tx4tu.N.—The atterapts to launch the Leviathan were again renewed on Taoadity, but the ship made no pros;ress whatever. Cliaatcut of MußDsg.—Philip Clare, 30, a butty collier was tried on Tuesday, for the murder (4 Eleabeth Hopley, at Bradley, near Bilaton, on the 291 of April. The body of the deceased was found in- the canal at an early boor one morning, and the prisoner was suspected and appre-:'tended in consequence of the improbable statements he made respecting the death of" the deceased. For the defence it was urged that there was no proof that the woman was murdered, and that prisoner's statement was so incoherent and extraordinary that it could not be de— pended upon.--d verdiot of Not guAlty". was returned?