Selleck S. Schofield, who was an Inspector in the City Works Department under Hubert O. Thompson, and later a pool seller on the various race tracks in the vicinity of the city, spent yesterday in the Adams-street police station, in Brooklyn, on a charge of bigamy preferred by Frances McCabe, of No. 94 Reid-avenue. She said she was married to the prisoner, who was then known as Charles Mandeville, on April 28, 1885, by the Rev. Dr. George E. Reed, of the Hanson-Place Methodist Church. A few months later he told her that his name was Schofield and that he had a wife and family living. She did not believe his story, but about six months ago he disappeared with $400 of her money.

While searching for him Mrs. Schofield came across his first wife at No. 331 East Sixteenth-street, in this city. This lady married Schofield on July 17, 1881, and has had two children by him. Upon the affidavit of these ladies Judge Walsh issued a warrant for Schofield’s arrest, and a detective found him living at N. 129 East Seventy-sixth-street with a young woman who represented to be his wife. She had a little baby in her arms, and it, too, was Schofield’s, she said.

The prisoner refused to talk about the charge made against him except to deny it. He had still another wife, who is now dead. He is a fine-looking man, about 40 years of age, with a blonde mustache and bright blue eyes. He dressed stylishly and wears several flashy diamonds. This morning he will be given a hearing before Judge Walsh.

When the trial of Sellick S. Schofield on the charge of bigamy was called in the Sessions Court, Brooklyn, yesterday, the Rev. Dr. George E. Reed, one of the witnesses, was not present, and District Attorney Ridgway immediately moved for an attachment against his person and a warrant for his arrest for contempt of court. Mr. Ridgway spoke in an exceedingly bitter way about “that man” delaying the court, which sounded very curious to the spectators and visibly astonished Judge Moore, who suggested that Dr. Reed would be along in a few minutes, but Mr. Ridgway insisted upon an attachment, and the papers were being drawn up when Dr. Reed entered the room. He is one of the clergymen who petitioned the Legislature to send a committee to investigate the present City Government. Schofield, the prisoner, was tried on the charge of wife No. 4, whom he married on April 25, 1885, while he had another wife, whom he married in 1881, still living. Both these women testified to these facts yesterday, and Dr. Reed identified the prisoner as the man he married to the plaintiff on April 25, 1885, under the name of Mandeville. The jury convicted him without leaving their seats. Schofield has two other wives living besides those appearing in court yesterday.

Two bigamists, Sellick S. Schofield and John L. Lockwood, were sentenced by Judge Moore, at Brooklyn, yesterday, Schofield to five years in the penitentiary and Lockwood to one.