At the Bow Street Office, on Thursday, Ann Hughes, described
as an actress at the Olympic Theatre, was remanded on a charge of bigamy, having two husbands alive, Mr. Stephen and Mr. Hughes, with the latter of whom she lived.
At the Marlborough Street Office, on Tuesday, Mr. Lister and his son, who is an officer in the Seventy-eighth Regiment of Highlanders, attended to make a complaint against a person employed by the Bir- mingham and London R ail te:ty Compnny, at Birmingham. These were the particulars, as devirml from thc statement of Mr. Lister junior-
1k us stationed with his regiment at Glasgow, and had, been sent for in haste ti tmwn. lie travelled ti Birmingham, Amu; he intended to proceed by railroad. Ile went to the railway station at Birminftitant on Sunday morn- ing, mei booked his place by the eleven Welock maii-ttuin. The fare being 326., he handed to the clerk a sovereign, a half-sovereign, and two shillings; but, to his great surprise, he was informed that the halt-sovemign was a had one. Ile told the clerk he was quite F Ure tint could not be, and requested to look at it, lint Was refused. After some conversation, mid the train being ahnet to start, he f:ave another balf-sovereign, and requested to have the allegeti. bad one returned, !nit thet w.,s also refused.
In reply to the 31agistrate. the comploinant mentioned that he got the leda-sovereign at the Roy at Bank, Glasgow ; as he told the clerk. The clerk said—" Ilaw do I know that you got it at the Glasgow Bank If I give it back, yon may try to pass it on some one else." If then threw the ladfisoccreign into the till with the other montw. The man's name is Smiths.
Mr. Conant, the Magistrate, observed, that the circumstance having occurred at Birmingham, was out of their jurisdiction ; but still, it was a very had case ; and it' such practices continued, the parties would in the course of time amass a consideralde sun from persons passing through the town. He did not see, however, (hat lie could interfere in the matter. [It is to be hoped that the hallway Directors will make the necessary insuiry into the case.]
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