ABSTRACT
William Waterfall, 25, a sergeant in the Royal Artillery, and Mary Jane Waterfall, otherwise Ginn, 19, pleaded “Guilty”―The woman to a charge of feloniously inserting in a register of marriage kept by the vicar of St. Philip’s, Sydenham, a false entry of her marriage with the male prisoner Waterfall; the latter confessed to have wilfully caused and permitted the false entry to be made. The Recorder, addressing the male prisoner, reminded him, that having been engaged to be married to one Ruth Hawkins, and having had the banns published, he made an offer of marriage in the meantime to the female prisoner, and induced her to pass under the name of Ruth Hawkins. The female prisoner had thus the benefit of the banns which had been published in the name of Hawkins. Taking into account that the male prisoner bore a good character as a soldier, he sentenced him to six months hard labour, and believing that the female prisoner had acted under his influence, he ordered her to be detained for seven days.
