The Sun. — 1853-11-24 (London, England)

THAMES.—Richard Thomas Clement Gray, a welldressed middle-aged man, lately trading as an ale and porter merchant, under the style of R. Gray and Co., 16, Crescent, Minories, was committed for bigamy. He had married, on the sth of August, 1840, a very respectably-connected woman, at the parish church of Alton, Hants. He had had two children by this marriage, one of whom was dead, and he had been separated from his wife six years. During that period he had become acquainted with a Mrs. Adams, the widow of a tradesman residing at 53, Great Prescott-street, Whitechapel ; and on the 20th of last August he married Mary Bagnall Adams, her daughter, aged 21, at the registrar's-office, Stepney. Mrs. Adams swore that when the prisoner proposed to her daughter, four months ago, she was not aware that his wife was alive. His son had been under (Mrs. Adams's) care for four months.  Miss Adams, who appeared to be deeply affected at the sight of the first wife, admitted that the prisoner had told her that the first wife was alive, but he said he was separated from her. Witness therefore thought her own marriage was valid. On cross-examination she admitted also that twelve months ago she visited the prisoner in the Queen's Bench prison, and cohabited with him there befsre he had proposed marriage to her. The witness's evidence was given in a very confused manner, and she manifested an evident desire to screen the prisoner.  Prisoner, when apprehended by Sergeant Foay, said he was an injured man, for both Mrs. and Miss Adams knew that his wife was living before he was married the seoond time.  Mr. Yardley consented to accept substantial bail, but the prisoner not being prepared with sureties to the amount specified was committed to Newgate. Patrick M‘Namara, an Irish coalwhipper, about 35 years of age, was brought before Mr. Yardley on remand, charged with committing a savage and murderous assault on his wife, Bridget, who has received most fearful injuries, which will probably affect her for the remainder of her life.  The prisoner had been in custody since the 6th inst., for the manner in which his wife gave her evidence at the first examination was so remakably confused and contradictory, that the magistrate thought she could not have sufficiently recovered from her injuries, and she was taken back to the London Hospial. The prisoner's landlady, Mrs. Wells, had deposed that she heard a noise and a fill in the prisoner's apartments ; and not afterwards hearing the wife stir she became alarmed, and on breaking into the room after the prisoner had gone out, she found the poor woman lying on the floor in a pool of blood insensible, and all but dead. Prisoner had previously said to her that the quarrel she had heard was all through the wife's tongue, and that he would not allow any one to come to the public-house after him. The poor woman was now recalled and her evidence was of the most extraordinary description. In her anxiety not to criminate her husband she made the most contradictory statements. She alleged that her husband had never struck her, but that Mrs. Wells had given her a glass of rum, and that had made her drunk. This Mrs. 'Wells emphatically denied, and the surgeon deposed that there were no traces of liquor about her when she was brought to the hospital, but that, on the contrary, it was clear she had been awfully beaten. Mr. Yardley committed the- prisoner for trial.