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Grey River Argus, Volume VI, Issue 425, 3 October 1868, Page 3

At the Derby Police Court, Cecil Anthony Fernando, aged thirty-three, a medical student, who. has for some time past been residing at Glasgow, was charged with having intermarried with Mary Snaith, aged twenty-four, of Boston, Lincolnshire, his first wife, Eliza Fernando, being still alive. Mr Leech, for the prosecution, stated that about eight years ago prisoner became acquainted with, hia first wife, Eliza Shaw, of Aberdeen, who at that time was sixteen years of age, and got her living as an actress and Jballet dancer, as a member of Mr Wyndham's theatrical company at Edinburgh, and also a member of Mr Harris's company, performing at the Theatre Royal, Dublin. Six years ago he married her ; she was now twenty-four years of age. Last year prisoner got acquainted with Miss Snaith, and after an acquaintance of about nine weeks he deserted his wife, and went off with the Lincolnshire lady. The wife made every inquiry as to her husband's whereabouts, and, from information she received, reached Derby on Friday from Scotland, and then discovered that, on the 14th February last (St. Valentine's Day), her husband was married to Miss Snaith, at the Derby Register Office. On Saturday, Mrs Fernando appeared before the Derby Magistrates, who issued a warrant for the apprehension of Fernando. Mr Leech said he would first charge Mary Ann Snaith, who was the daughter of an English physician, with aiding and abetting. Eliza Fernando, a fashionably dressed young lady, of what may be termed f'jpi engaging appearance," vrsp then exa^

mined, and, at the conclusion of her evidence, the female prisoner said she should decline to ask any question, as her guardian and her solicitor had telegraphed that they were on their way to Derby. Afler some formal evidence she was requested to sit down, and the male prisoner was then charged with bigamy. The prisoner addressed the Court at considerable length, and denied that he had been legally married to Miss Shaw. Mn Fernando told the Court that previously to her marriage in Dublin she had been married in Scotland according to the laws of that country, After a long hearing the case was adjourned. Mr Harwood, solicitor, Boston, who is guardian to the female prisoner, arrived at Derby, and obtained her liberation on bail. A similar application on behalf of the prisoner Fernando was, however, refused.