EXTRAURDINAIIY BIGAMY CASE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7650, 29 May 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

EXTRAURDINAIIY BIGAMY CASE.

A BVROKET'J SOX MARRYING A BRICK LAY Jiil'.S DAUGHTER. CiiAJii.K.-; Kijwj:, , Hoi.mks, aged 48, described a;; a carpenter, living at S, lied Lion Square, fchoreditcb, was charged at Worship-street . Police Court, oa April ."!. with bigamy. The prisoner had a peculiar appearance. Ife was extremely abort in acaturc, had rings in his ears, and wore a t,hort-cut, bushy moustache. He also wore a lo: , overcoat with numerous bis; buttons. When he was placed in the dock the two wives canio up to the; box ; the iirst wife, si buxom woman of about 45, crying bitterly, while the second, a weaklooking young woman of plain appearance and simple attire, sighed audibly. The prisoner nad, it appeared, been apprehended on the charge in couaecjunnce of proceedings instituted by friends of the second wife, who Jived only a mile or so ;uv.\y from the home of the iiiiit wife, and with whom the prisoner had 01115 occasionally lived. It is stated that there had been 12 children cf the first marriage, Police-constable 217, lv division, who had arrested the prisoner, informed the court that the accessary witness to prove the iirfit marriage wr.a not present that day, as there had not been suflieient time to procure his attendance, the prisoner having been charged only o>.; the previous evening. The constable, however, hnnde<l in the two certificates of marriage. From these it appeared that tha prisoner \7»3 first married to Elizabeth Wary Uaf!f;cs, at the pariah church of Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, on Christmas Day, ISCJC, he giving the name of Charles Edward Holmes, and describing himself as a joiner, of lull age. The second marriage is alleged to have taken place at the church of St. Jame?-the-Lese, Bethnal Green, on October 9, ISS2. The certificate, signed by the Rev. G. Aldridge, cuiate, and witnesses, indicated that the parties were "Charles Graves Sawles, widower, aged 27, son of Sir t.harlcs Graves Sawle, Baronet," and "Ellen Stanlick, spinster, of 31, Angela Gardens, daughter of Samuel Stanlick, bricklayer." Elizabeth Stanlick, who had signed the charge-sheet as prosecutrix, described herself as a " servant," and gave the address 164, v-cwsrdstonc-roac], Victoria Park, E. Mr. Bushby remanded the prisoner upon the strength of the two certificates put in. Prisoner made no remark, and he was removed in custody.