The Sun. — 1858-08-23 (London, England)

OLD COURT. (Before the Common Sergeant.)  Alexander Charles Borromeo, who was convicted on Monday of bigamy, was this morning again placed at the bar by the direction of the learned judge. It will be remembered that when the prisoner was brought request that his trial up to'be tried he made a very pressing might be postponed to give him an opportunity of producing certain witnesses from Paris, who, he said, could prove that he was iu that city when the marriage between him and Miss Sadler was aleged to have taken place in 1842. It was believed at the time, however, that it was merely an attempt to obtain delay and cause annoyance to the proKeators, and the application was consequently refused, and i; turns out that this view of the matter was correct. The Common Sergeant, addressing the prisoner, said that he had sent for Win to inform him of the result of an application he had made to the Prefecture of Police of Paris reste c-It•ain parries whose evidence lie desired to °lark. A eemmunicarion had just been received from Pat is, the effect of which was that no trace of such persons as the prisoner had mentioned could be vii-covered, and they did not seem to have ever been in existence. There did not, therefore, appear to he the slightest ground fur (lout); ing the propriety of the vereiet of the jury, and the sentence of f ;ur years' pered servitude, to commence from the month of June, 1859, would therel're be carried out. Whin the prison( r was tried he was fashionably dressed, and wore a long black beard and moustache, and during the trial be conducted himself in a most impudent manner. Since his cenvietiou' however, he has been attired in the convict gar b, and his beard and moustache have been shaved off, pursuant to the prison regulations:, antlyhe now preeented a tnost crest-f :lien and dejee'ed appearance. He made no reply to the statement of the learned Common Sergeant, and when he hail concluded he walked hastily from the bar, apparently glad to escape from the public gaze. John _Mare, 50, was charged upon the coroner's inquisition with the mauclaughter of his wife, Mary Hoare. Mr. Poland conducted the prosecution. The prisoner, it appeared, was a labourer in the docks, and he and his wife and a stepdaughter about 16 years of age, lived in Sarah-court, Brick-lane. :They had been married 15 years, and it was admitted on behalf of the prosecution that, the prisoner, when sober, behaved in a kind mid affectionate manner to the deceased. The prisoner r: turned home from his work about four o'clock in the after, noon of the 29th of May, a good deal the -worse for liquor, and at brie there the deceased and the stepdaughter were in the room, and the former wished to go out to do a job she had been engaged for, namely, to clean some offices., Ti.e prisoner, for some reason or other, said that she should net go cut, and she replied that she would, and this led to a quarrel, and the prisoner struck the deceased on the aria with his fist. A. scuffle then ensued between them, during which the table that was in the room was knocked down, and !he deceased seized one of the lees that had been broken olf, arid struck tire prisoner a violent blow on the head with it, which cut iris head open, and knocked him down, and the steplagghter also laid hold of the poker for the purpose, as she said, of protecting her mother. The prisoner natchel the poker from the daughter, but shortlglifterwir.!s threw it down, and his stepdaughter then ran out to fetch a policeman, but before she got to the street door she heard her molter call out " murder," and upon her returning to the room she found the prisoner with the poker in his hand. Hee mother had both her hands to 11;:r side, and she said that the prisoner had struck her there wish the poker, and he made no reply. A policeman arrived soon afterwards, hat no charge was given; and it appeared that at this time it was not. supposed that any sericus injury had been inflie•erl upon the deceased. A dry or two afterwards, however, she became very ill, 9114 was. reamed to the London Hospital, where