SINGULAR TERMINATION TO A CHARGE OF BIGAMY.

Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 10, 11 July 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)

SINGULAR TERMINATION TO A CHARGE OF BIGAMY.

At Lambeth Police Court, Charles E. Evans, twenty-seven, a signalman, was charged on remand with ( having committed bigamy by marrying a young woman named West, bis wife at the time being alive. Upon tho first hearing the two marriages were proved, wben in defence it was stated by the prisoner that he saw an;announcement in a newspaper that his wife was dead, and therefore thought he was free to marry again — which he did. Some short time afterwards, when on. a visit, to some friends, he was astonished to see his wife, whom he thought dead, sitting in the room. A remand was ordered until _ now to complete the case for trial, when the police-constable who. had. charge of the matter informed the worthy magistrate the first wife had died Bince the hearing of , the caße last weqk, and he had seen her dead body. Mr. ,Biron. remarked that this was one of the most extraordinary cases he remembered. The prisoner,- upon the first discovery of the offence he! had committed, acted in a very straightforward way, showing clearly that he had acted with a full belief his wife was dead when he married the second woman, and now since proceedings weje ,taken his first wife had died. He certainly should not send such a case for trial, but would adopt another course* He bound the prisoner ovpr, in his own bail to come up for judgment if called upon, and he advised the prisoner, as an honourable man, to again go through the marriage ceremony with the young woman West, and thus put an end to all trouble. Thcdefendant said that was his full intention. Mr. Biron trusted so, and the defendant was liberated. BEITISH BATTLES IN ELEVEN TEAES. (From the Pall Mall-Gazette.) The, following is a list of British battles, with the losses thereat, fought' in the hast eleven years, from Amoaful to tho fight at Baker's zereba on Sunday. At Amoaful, where Sir Garnet Wolseley routed the Ashantees, our loss was seven killed and 200 wounded. At Peiwar Kotal (Afghan war, General Eoberts) our loss was two officers and ten men killed, and two officers and 71 men wounded. Atlslandlana (Zulu, Col. Durnford), all our men were killed —23 officers, 500 men, and 1000 natives. At Eorke's Drift we lost 17 killed, and ten wounded. At Slobane Mountain, South Africa, we lost 11 officers, and 80 men killed and wounded. At Ekowe, our loss was trifling, there being scarcely more than 41 killed and wounded. At TJlundi we lost 104 killed and wounded. At Charasiab, in the second Afghan war, General Eoberts, marching .to Cabul, lost in action, 24 killed and 57 wounded. At Cabul, where the fighting lasted three or four days, and Eoberts retreated to the Sherpur cantonments, we lost 62 killed and 164 wounded. General Gough, struggling to relieve Sherpiuy lost five killed and 33 wounded. At Ahmed Khelwelost 17 killed add 124 wounded. At Maiwand, when General Burrows was defeated by Ayoob Khan, we lost 21 officers, 300 English, and 700 1 natives killed, 15 officers and 90 men missing. At Mazra, when General

Roberts defeated Ayoob Khan and brought the war to an end, we lost 29 killed and 161 wounded. At Laing's Nek our losses were 81 killed and missing and 109 wounded. At Ingogo we lost 150 killed and wounded, and at Majuba 85 killed, 131 wounded, and 60 prisoners taken. At Tel-el-Kebir we lost 9 officers and 45 men killed, 17 wounded, 25 noncommissioned officers and privates killed and 123 wounded. At Tamasi our loss was 5 officers and 86 men killed, 8 officers and 105 men wounded. At Abu-Klea we lost 9 officers and 65 men killed, 9 officers and 85 men wounded. At the battle of Gubat wo lost 19 killed and 66 wounded. At Hasheen on Friday our loss was 21 killed and 42 wounded. In the battle of Sunday we lost 7 officers and 63 men killed, 6 officers and 89 men wounded, besides a large number of men belonging to the Indian contingent.