MARRIAGE IN THE MIDLANDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9184, 13 October 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

MARRIAGE IN THE MIDLANDS.

» The Coventry magistrates have just investigated a case of bigamy which disclosed some remarkable facts as to the manners and customs of the lower classes in some parts of the Midlands. The prisoner, Joseph Dangerfif Id, married Eliza Phillips at YVolverhampton in 1868, and, after four months' cohabitation, they separated. The woman went into Yorkshire, and, representing herself as a widow, she, in 1874, intermarried with a miner named John Marsh. Meanwhile Dangerfield went to Coventry, where, in 1881, he wenb through the marriage ceremony with J Phoebe Brown, widow. During his cohabitation with Brown he became acquainted with Mitilda, Richardson, domestic servant, and at Christmas, 1884, he intermarried V /ith her. He took her to Willenhall, Staffordshire, and after two days deserted his latest victim, taking her watch and money, and leaving her penniless. Subsequently he returned to Brown, and Richardson became the wife of Thomas Stanley, a Coventry machinist, two years later. Th e only Mrs. Dangerlield was the woman who had married Marsh in Yorkshire, a m a month or two ago, when Dangerfj e [ c left widow Brown to seek work at Y oolwich Arsenal, information came to the knowledge of the police which enabled lnspe ctor <; o j(jby to effect his apprehension. : 16 magistrates committed prisoner fob I f ia l on two charges of am.v,