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New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 187, 18 June 1864, Page 5

Tin. , following ludicrous scene is repotted by the (;,■■ in,,ii .idn-rtiser a.- having occurred in the Insolvent O.iirt :—" I,:uiy of somewhat piepossessing appearance iiiiiilc an application to his Honor, on bcliull of hoi- husband, inr iin allowance out of the e.-t;;ic. The o!liri;il assignee offered HO objection, inasmuch a.- the e.-laU- wimlil, ho observed, yield -JOs. in the iiouinl. His llwior observed that as the insolvent was in the (.'unit, the application should be made by him per.-oually. In vain the ludy pleaded i)i;ii tin" DiTiniuiiiv "1 tin- diiy had .-lightly overcome lirr better u'l linlf; tin , husband was called, and with ililiii-ully made his way to thl- front of thu Bench, wncii tli.- following dialogue, with its e.rtairdy un-l'Hikc-d lor denouement, tool* place: —His Honor: Your wiii' asks lor an allowance from thu estate. Wiiat trade are you r Insolvent (endeavouring to w..i-U- up his lm-mury) : A saddler. His Honor : C'oiil.i Mm iiinoliti.i'Avorkiit Uallarat after yuurinsol-vi.-iii-y r Insolvent an abstracted lnanner) : iNo. His Honor : linn- lnaity ehildren have you'r Insolvent i, iiieiitally following; up tlie previous question) : Mi ■Iα in rhaps ii 1 tried, liut 1 should be sure to mjuie luvMjif. It Ls almost needless to add that rJ.us loUuuxd lliis uxtraordinary announcement, the l.idv alone e.xlnbiliug an ainazenient that can iirti'i- l-i; imagined tiiau described." K.sTKAiinniNAHv (.'ask or IjKiAMY—At the last Ni.iiiii!?liiiin ;is ? izi-.-. William tioddard, aged titty-one, \v:ta iiidii-tc-1 tor biiiiny, iniuaiiyiiii; Sus»imuh"Tong, at li-.idlord, on the lJth February, IS3S, his former wilr, Kli/.aU'th 'long, being then alive. Mr. Briatowu j,r s i'Uted, and Mr. Cave defended the prisoner, who i-a r jiaiuntiv a respectable man, and described usa iace maker.' ilr. J'.ristuwu opened the case —It ajipcnivd that in ltW.), the piis->ner then being mju nti-eii years of age, married his first wife at \\\\ kvsbury. Soon alter the marriage a child was borr. The marriage proved all unha]>py one, and tin: ] rinoncr left her. Jn ISKU-:i7 lie became acquainted with Elizabeth T-mg, then a widow, and in 1838 marrii'd her. for fourteen or iifteen years they lived together as man and wife, and then Uoddard, for some cause not specified, deserted her, and as she alleged, took up with a woman who either lived in or was a mistrt.-ss of a brothel. Mrs. Tong, finding out this state of facts, bivught Goddard before the Bench to obtain a maintenance. How the ease terminated did not appear on this trial: hut it was stated that a loin; eoui-.-e of magi.-tei-ial i:nd parochial interference eiiMieJ, and ultimately the prisoner denied his liability, allirmiug that .Mrs. Tor.g was not his wife, tor lie had another living at (,'roydon. Matters were compromised for the time, but xs another outbreak took pl.ico, Jlis. Tong set in motion once, more the paiochial officers, (ioddard again denied his liability and >aid that- as the woman iiad persecuted him so long In; should " now go tlie whole hog." He was arrested on the evidence of his second wife on this eharye of bigamy. Turning back again, we find from the .-on of the prisoner, that in a few years after his fattier had left them his mother had married another man, and with tliat man she continued to live up to t;iu time of her death, which took place in ISSo. The question lor the jury, us put by me judge, was, did t.ie prisoner, in the year IBoS, know that his first wile was then alive : Jn IS2J, he was a mere boy when he married his first wile. He left her, and after ,-oiae years she married again, so that she was the t-> commit the act of ; hut when, where, or with whom, there was no "evicUnce. It was entirely with the jury to say whether this man was Uinlt v of tlie charge. " As had been remarked by the iearii.u e-uiiiM-l for th ■: prisoner, the law said that if a married poison did nut tor .seven years hear of his wife, or ot her iiu.-b:.nd. l.e or she' was entitled to pie.ume that the partner wa> dead. The juiy, after mi amir's i:on.-u!Uii'.i , iei]uilled the prisoner, and he was ordi red to bo di.-cnaig. ii. Tut; J-;m,i.i.-ii iNsKNMio.i: i<> thkik own Antiqii■riEi.- It is well that Ann ilea exist*, if it were only that her vagrant children may be impressed and aliecled by tne historical monuments of Kngland in ii degru' of which the native inluibitants are evidently UKAJlilple.