Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1892-12-24 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

ANOTHER CHARGE OF BIGAMY.  At West London Police-court, on Friday, Arthur Johnston Rush, a painter, who had been living in Mornington-road, North Kensington, was finally examined on the charge of committing a bigamous marriage with Charlotte Lock, who gave him into custody.—The first wife was married in 1588 at Christchurch, New Catton, Norwich, but died after the second marriage.—The second wife said she was married to the prisoner on the 6th of January, 1891, at St. Stephen's Church, Kensington. At that time he represented that he was a bachelor. She first knew that he had been married about March last. She had two children by him, the last being born in November.—Det:ictive-sergeant Atkinson produced the certificates of the two marriages, and said he had compared them with the registers, and found them correct. The prisoner admitted dropping the name of Rush at the second marriage.—ln answer to the charge, the prisoner said he did not know his wife was alive until after the second marriage. Since the death of his wife he had offered to marry Charlotte Lock again. He could not do any more. —Mr. Curtis Bennett said the presumption was against the prisoner that the believed his wife was dead, as the first marriage was only in 1888—seven years had not elapsed.—The prisoner, who said his wife went away with another man, was committed for trial.  The committee of the Austrian Reichsrath on criminal law has decided that the penalty for participating as a principal in a duel should be reduced to six months' detention in a State prison. The simple attempt to arrange a duel is to be exempted from this provision, nor is any punishment to be inflicted on seconds, doctors, or others .vilo may attend the meeting. The same committee has decided in favour of two years' imprisonment and a fine not exceeding 4,000 florins in the case of persons found guilty of inducing others to emigrate on false pretences.  A young lady committed suicide in St. Petersburg recently under unusually strange circumstances. She was a teacher at one of the schools here, and out of the proceeds of her industry she maintained both herself and a younger brother. It was part of her duties to conftr with the headmaster of the educational establishment at which she was employed concerning her pupils. On the last three occasions on which she had visited this official she had found him in such an aivanced state of intoxication as to render it impossible for her to make her reports. On the next occasion of her having to attend upon him she, therefore, before proceeding up to his apartment, inquired of porter of the house whether the headmaster was a sober condition or not. Her remark was ov heard by an assistant-master, who reported the matter to the school authorities, thus occasioning a scandal, which eventually resulted in the young lady's dismissal from the establishment. Deprived of her only means of livelihood, she confided her troubles to a friend, from whom she exacted a promise to provide for hor little brother, and then put an end to her existence by taking poison. The great volcano Maunaloa, situated on the principal island of the Sandwich group, has broken out into eruption, and the stream of lava issuing from the crater threatens to destroy the villages of Hilo and Waiakea, which lie in the immediate vicinity of the mountain. Previous to the present outbreak Maunaloa had been quiet for a period of 12 years. There are now only 13 veterans in possession of the St. Helena medal, which was struck in 1857 and present ,c 1 to all soldiers who had served in the French army for at least two years between 1792 and 1815. To shew how rapidly the number of these veterans diminishes, it is statel that in 1869 there were 43,592; in 1877, 10,540; in 1880, 4,024; in 1885, 625 ; in 1888, 130; in 1890, 48; in 1891, 36; and in 1892, 13. An inquest was nein at Beverley, on ;..atureay, on the body of George Wiley Bowen, farmer, who murdered his two children and committed suicide by drowning on Wednesday night in the River Hull. A note, left behind by Sowen, stated the children would be found in the water with him at a place indicated. A verdict of suicide whilst in an unsound state of mind was returned. The bodies of the children have not yet been recovered.  At the Maidstone Assizes, on Saturday, William Maher, 18, barman, was indicted for the manslaughter of John Stevens, a well-known London heavy-weight boxer, at Horsemonden, in September. The prosecution alleged that during a standup fight the accused fatally stabbed Stevens, but the evidence pointed to the conclusion that the affair was accidental. The judge directed the return of a verdict of not guilty and the prisoner was discharged.  A lAngc Assortment of READJ NO AN D CLASS BOOKS Offered at