ABSTRACT
Mrs. Spurling’s Case.—At the Thames Police-court yesterday, Police-sergeant Egerton, No. 24 H, who had been directed to make inquiries after Samuel Spurling, a recruiting sergeant, who married a respectable woman, the widow of Patrick Readdy, an Irish soldier, on the 9th inst., and abandoned her on the following day, came before Mr. Selfe and stated that Spurling came to the Leman-street Station and gave himself up, but as there was no charge of which he could take cognizance or keep him in custody, he advised him to attend the court and make an explanation. Spurling had been deprived of his situation as a recruiting sergeant, and his uniform had been taken from him. The police-sergeant added that the staff-officer of the pensioners intended to attach Spurling’s pension until the £10 he had received with his newly married wife, and which had been paid to her by the Indian Mutiny Relief Fund Committee, had been repaid. Mr. Selfe
Then Spurling will not be employed as a recruiting sergeant any longer?—Egerton: No, sir.
