The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-01-15 00:00:00

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Tug eilsamu. SitionauN liampsAird Trkgraph
pay.:-11 hear tort the Chau..ol Stitalr n a all a oemi ole tt
possfand an aeon an he shine sre ready to lease the iris
on the return of all the men front lease, and it it not bar
itto,,thle Viet the SAabins. Ist orlercd ti bah the nmc
of lord John Hay ti-tip thas briecing up the
tmugth of this Squslron it (oar ship, Of course, it is
sii that this ren•logront at Pontos& prolta!de on the
111th, the before the ink.,.t:ng a Newman' ton-sal
tne course of the disCiro.on a the „."40n kniguitid
in Eastern stein will d'o,'lr on the nature of the ordern
for the future movements ot the Channel Squadron, and
that that, is not much chant,. of the ships heito allowed
to g, on a cruise mill cet o•it of the way before things are
more settled. Bat in this the wish is father to the
thooshr, and, a. a fact, there is si trcely a p etihihity of
the Channel shine '' seeing service." Ercrythint: at the
alines of the "lighting merit-es' ,InfrlPl as quiet as the
must ardent disciple of pews could daub%
WARE:HAIL
EXTRAORDINARY AFFILIATION CASK

At the Poole Borough Petty ;Weston.. on Thumdae.:—
Before Mr. CS. Stone, Alderman 11. Resin-Welch. 11r.
W. D. Dugdole, and Mr. G. 11, Gutch.—Mr. Wears/a
Daniels, a sumo.. of Wesel...net and an ex-Mayor of that
borough, was summoned by Louisa Jane Goodwin. a
married woman. of Pod.% who has not lived with her
husband for sorno years, ti show cause, ke. The rase
excited considerable intere.t, on account of the position
of the defeedent, who is a married man, and the Court
was crowded with Warehamite. and Paulette'.
Mr. IL T. Troranton. of Poole, appearml for the ,
applicant' and Mr. 11. N. Howard, of Weemouth, for
the defendant
Mr. Trevanion baying op the rue, called
Jane Goodwin, the applicant, who said .he La.l lived in ,
Poole for nearly four years. e:e„ het h.a.!n
12 years to Joon Cull Napier Go sdwin, who was at the
time of the marriage to fanner and hay and straw dealer,
and lived at High Woo near Wool He efssoneeed:, I
felled in hostiles.. Si.. first ..w the itetende it whet be I
attended ber husband during an Slue., after his failure.
Nothing improper took place then. She then saw detains
dant thlaiti shoot three years am In his consulting-twin
it Warehotn. She had frequently seen ileiendatit since
theu and he had bad conneeti in with ter a great many
LlMed during the lost three ye on. Defendant had
connection .ith bet WWII than once before hat flinristmas !
12 month. Ile had cconeetion with her at wareeeie ,
many tinies—tlie last time in his comulting.room three ,
41sy• before Christmas It month. The thsir of the room
was closed. a* 1 Dr. Blrel.lo (defendant's p tetner) came
its very abruptly and fount them t igether. Sho met
defendant in the Market Place, Pole, the day of the
poultry show last Year, and he took her to the Bine '
Ancoor for Black When she fined she "MI re
stink she told iletend tat of it, and he gave her some
ehieh he said would make things all right
again. She threw It out of the carriage window coming
home from WarekLlMl she thought it might injere her.
She WII4 to ill too work for a,out 'even months before the
birth of the child. She wrote the lett-r produced to the
defendant, in which she alleged that she had been
frightened by a dog at Bournemouth, and had been pre-
maturely confined of a inale chit I. This was not true,
and she wrote the letter to try an I get •olne money out of
the defendaut. LA she woo 111 *ant at the time. Alt -r
that she received money regularly Irmo ilefet..laut
through her title boy, who brought her the notes
produced, as well as many more she had not preserved.
She had .1:2 at "no time au I Ws. at another from the
defendant, but he generally sent 10.. at • time. Her boy
always brought medicine front defendant, and the money
was placed in • pill-lox. She instructed the boy to he at
the euriterY either at half-past one, or half-past five, on
week-days, when the defendant Won aline. She should
think she sent her boy to defendant half.a-dogen times on
Sundays. In consequence of a note (produced) that /die
, received from defendant, she went to Bournemouth en
, one occasion, am impanied by her little boy, sad met
defendant at the Arc Ade, lie took her to a pahliehouse.
She met him at It earnemouth many times. Ile never did
diantate that he was the father of the child. She sent her
mother to Wareham to see defendant, and she brought
back a sovereign. No one hut her hushand and the
defendant bad ever had c.stine.ction with her. D-dendant
told her to keep it quiet, or it would ruin him; If she
chines to go away she oolld, hut he would sea her rill right
if she stayed. She did not cm, bemuse of leer little boys
She wrote to defendant at Wareham, and received hail.
msovereign from defendant from Ipswich. Mer mother
had lived .it, her about three years Her !nether went
Away, to Wareham eight weeks, and ciente back again six
weeks before the child was born. She was confined ot a
female child at Hickman's Hew, Fricker's Alley, Poole, on
Sopteruher 17th, and defendant was the father of that
child. When she rog'stere I the child she told Mr.
Italls, in answer to his questions, that she wos a married
woman, and also gave her own and her !mobile-I's names.
She was not &Awl who was the father of the child. She
gave her nushauds occupation an that of a builder's
clerk—which situation he went away to fill.
I:roils-examined by Mr. !lowan' : The certificate pro-
treed showed that she MU married on the 9th of October,
Mkt at Wareham. She had had four children altogether
—three boys and a 0.1. The eldest was 11 years oil the
next would have been nine years 4.11 if living, and the
third woe nearly eight years out. After her marriage she
lived at High Wood for nearly two years, then at Ware-
ham for several ye irk and she came from thence to Poole,
where she lived in Bay-hogdane for a month, in Old
Orchard for about the same length of time, and MIMI then
she hal lived in her present house. When at Wareham
she did not it, any work She aml her two little boys
were in the Wareham Union for about 15 montha Mr.
Brown woo ths master of the endue at the time. She did
write letters to Brighton asking for money for another
intuate named Elias Smith, but did not write for 6..
Instead of la The women Smith told her to write fur tk,
and she did so. She did not oak another inmate to fetch
Eliot Smith's letter front the Post-Alec and take out the
money. She was amused by the master before the inmates
of having written for ti.„ when toll to write for Is., but
this eras a false accu.ation. She was not punished in the
union. She hail seen Or. Itorehain two or three times,
and she believed the first time was in D seeniber. On one
ne-asion *he was at Dr. Borehans's boos., for several hours.
She met Mr. Clark there, and betook down her statement.
She did not know he was Mr. Lacey's clerk. She returned
by the mill train. and Mr. Clark aiminuotnied her to the
station. Ni, ono hut Mr. Clark had aceompanied her to
the station. Dr. 11 irebarn and Mr. Clark hail sa-n her at
her house on one or two occasions. She did not sae any.
one elm in their company. When at Wareham Dr. Bore'
barn gave her half-a-crown to take Inc home, as else was
going to walk,having no motley. She had received no other
us iney front anyone Pitt the defendant She html not
lid anyone defendant was not the father id the child.
She did not 4.! N of Wareham, prelims tuber
confineinent, but she did tout her at her house • fortnight
or three weeks ago. She .11,1 not tell Mrs. Sansone, of
Pool.', that defendant was not the father of her chill. She
did not ask "Captain" Gibbs to sty he saw her co into
the nine Anehor with the defendant and tell hits be
would be well paid if he did so. She did not tell him there
WWI plenty of money', as the defendant's partner wm on
her side- Lydia Ashtnan hail lode, 1 with her for nearly
two years, but she had not left. She was present when
Dr. Itorehani and Mr. Clark came to her house. She did
not ask her to swear that she had seen her with defen.
Haut. She did not receive some money from Bourne.
moods and offer to ray Ashman for ber trouble at her
confinement She had not out her boy to Bournemouth
for money. Ashman did not are her in an improper
nition on the 6th of February. —Hr. Howart handed in
a number of letters written to defendant by the applicant,
and she admith.l that the statements contained in many
of them were false._

R,examine4 by Mr. Trcvanion : She was in a state of
destitution at the time she wrote the !sloe letters to
defendant. She had hat hr work. and was quite •
cripple, before her confinement. She wrote the false
I otters to defendant to work on hie feelings, and was
saceessful as she always had money afterward, when she
sent for it. She shielded the defendant as much as
possible, a+ she lid not tick to ruin him. She was only
following mit defendant's instruetions in doing this. A
itemiser of Wareham people had called at her house for the
defendant since her coolinetneets and Mr. .1. Bloomfield,
of Poole, had also called.
. . .

—.loTin."Alb---/rt7—George Gendwin. an intelligent boy. 11
years old, • son of the apple-ante raid he had not seen his
father for thee eons. He heel been to defendant's
u at Wareham many times, and sometimes he
swerl= and at other time. he went by train. Hs sassy.
went either at half-past one or halepast five, because Mr.
Florence (the dkpoxer) was nut then. He always took •
note from his mother and gave it to Mr. Denials. Some
times he hal • bottle and centimes a pill.box to bring
beck. His mother generally took half-a-sovereign out of
the pilldmx. lie hat brought home notes like those
produced to his mother. He should think he went to
Wareham about ten tintes en Sundays. tie went by the
half-pa,t three train from Unworthy Junction, and
renerally new the servant Jane, and asked for Mr.
Daniels. Mr. Florence gavel has some medicine nee,
when Mr. Denials told him to. Oa net occasion Mr.
Daniels overtook him near the station and gave him
something in • sour, piece of ever for his mother. He
found it was money when he get home. Mr. Daniels tild
him to come to bias on Sundays. He saw Mr. Daniels
twice in Poole—once at the Angel and once at the Blue
Anchor. lie healed him a note, and he min him money
in exchange. Mr. Daniels had Inn to their house once,
when his mother we. not at home. lie had seen Dr.
Horsham at hi/ mother's house once since the child was
born. tie was at Bournemmith with his mother for three
months he should think, when she worked at the steam
laundry. Thee left home on Monday morning, and came
Ink on Saturday night
Crone:mined by Mr. tinwael : Dr. Borettem and Mr.
Clark were at his mother's hone for nearly three hours,
and they questioned Ashman a/ to whether she had seen
Dr. Daeleis with hit mother. Mr. Clark afterwards came
alone He went to Dr itorehatu'e twice, once a ith • boy
nernol Ell James, and the other time with his mother.
About three weeks age, when he went with Eli JUDO,, ha
took inmate from his mother to Dr. Beecham, and he sent
back word that she an to go to Mr. Trevanien. Dr.
Benham atm told him that if they wanted any food his
mother we. ti come herself every Thursday to Mrs. Bore'
ham Dr. &novo gave him • shilling for himself and
Eli James, and about • week ago he also goes hits dd.
When he went to Dr. Boreham's hone with hi. mother
Dr. Bonham said ennetiting like finding the money. His
mother mid she didn't like toll) on, as Dr. Daniels had
been so kind to her. Dr. Horsham said she must go on,
and he would pay the expenses.
Elisabeth Baker, a widow, 77 years of an, said she
was the mother of the applicant She remembered
when her daughter was married to John Goodwin.
He felled in busing« and came int/ Wan/hens, hot did
• •ty little there. She bat not seen or heard of him for
en years. The hail lived with her demean for more
ton three years. No man had over indeed at the house
or visited her daughter there. Dr. Daniels called once
end Uked who lived there. In oonsequence of what she
noticed and what her daughter told her she told her she
would not stay with her and went to Stet/Growth and
stayed for eight weeks. She was then taken ill, and re-
turned to her daughter six weeks before the child was
horn. She jousted upon knowing who sem the father of
the child, and when her daughter told her ohs went to see
Dr. Daniels. It, gave her A not erehrn. He said he was
nine away for • fortnight or three weeks, and she was to
Clone again, but not seed the bey. She did go again, and
11:11, Mr. Hutchings, who said he was Dr. Daniels' friend,
and asked her some questions.
Me, Woodruffe Daniels, the defendant, was exerniusi
by Mr. Trevanion, and said ho knew the applicant's
buten, harm t -Gam 1.1 ku neefewrion dlr. He had
not men bias since Ica He did not see the applicant
from the time she left tdm workhouse till the beginning
of Frt. Ha did net think he saw her slam at his surgery
in December. 1576. He did not think he was at Poole on
lb. day of the palltry Show last year, but he would not
swear be weanot. He had been to the Black Bear (or
Blue Anchor) to have a glen at beer. He mar have been
there twice. He did not think he had been there with
the applicant Toe boy did deliver • note to him outside
the Angel land he gave him ..011 money. He did not
remember that Dr. Winn= entered the surgery &mostly
• few days before Christen. ltmontb. and pushed the
door ininst the applicant. He did net have CollllPram
wit% her at that time. Pesvious to Cheistmee 1476. he
had heti connection with applicant. but subeequently he
had no., nor had be attempted to. It we/ about ten years
ago he had connectiou with her. He emelt, sissy be did
not have connection with her during lff/7. What she had
stated was utterly fan. He knew her whets • young
man, before he was married, and since that time
she had tethered his lif« out about money. Re did
not know of the applicants' state till her mother came to
him. The old woman said they were all starving, and
told him she thought he knew something about Ik. child.
H/ nee her a anent:en but denied be was the Sather of
the child. lie had paid the applient mane entlemally
and she had been the great sorrow of me in 4., ;
woman had said he waa the father of the chills but she
afterwards admitted that it wile another
nether cases woman bad bothered bin forliooo.ulla
mime way. ffe was not the father of that child, and if he

had hese he should not have been habit u the woman
imis married, hot under the advice of Dr. Itirehaiu he
paid the g3O, and Dr. B sebaut at Once made it public.
This was about IS months ago. The reason he Paid
applicant money eras that be knew she would swear any-
thing. He would poser he was at the father of the
applicant's child. +aid that he had never told anyone ha
woe. He paid her iOn. week], tr sone tints to purchase
hr silence for ii hat occurred to tears ago. She did nut
bother him for money from lard to ItC7.
crass-ex:op n..l by Mr. Howard : Ile hal been marri...l
about eight years and lie hail had nothing to do with
applicant since hie luarriagc. Ile did wit know she was a
married minim when he was in insets with her. Whilst
living in Wareham she botbetml him for money, and he
was foolish en iamb to let her bee. It. It. saw by his
luck that he mew:rib.' for applicant for spitting •if blood
between the I .t out Ott, of January Lot sear, and he t,..1
no doubt she was easweits then. He paid the g3O to the
other woman entirely at the suggestion of Dr. B odium,
and he watt the very persin who told the public of it. Its
bad received • letter from Dr. Bonham sinee these
proceedings were cowmen sal asking him to diudve the
partnership and it was written by the solicitor ear meting
for Mrs. Goodwin. His would swear before God and man
that be was not the father el applicant's child, and that
was the reason he came there to defend the cue—it was
not a question of money.
This was the case for the applicant, and as it was now
after flee o'clock the Court adjourned tUI Friday.
The cue was resumed on Friday morning before the
same magistrates. and the Court wee again densely
crowded during the day.
Mr. Howard addressed the Bench for the defence at
treat length and in so doing spoke of the importance of
the case ti his client, and mail he did not hesitate to say
their were stircumstences in it which were disgraceful to
parties Indirectly concerned. Mr. Howard stigmatised
the applicant as a cunning and artful woman, and in
reference to the false letters said the defendant was not
once charged in them with being the father of her child.
The letters were • concoction of him to appeal to the
merciful feelings of a man, and money was given her
ilpin these pretences. These lettere end the applicant's
conduct in the Wareham Union, where 8:1111 obtsiued
money under Wm pretenceç proved that she wa. a
dtesptive, had woman from beginning to end. Hr.
Howard expreoed his utulost c far the defen-
dant'. partner, who was so leech mill up with the case.
It was something alumin dile that lie should take
advantage of the womsn's calling at his bogie without
dist seareiiing Into the cam suit making inquiriee of the
ilefendent. Dr. Botulism induced the applicant to bike
th, me prociedings for greedy gate, be made a tool of her
and lieU iilel her to came and speak what was hot true,
the whole secret of the matter luing that Dr. Birehrin
might put an end to the parternership. Mr. Howard
moiled ou to peak of the qiiesti At of non..access by the
hesband and contended that thin hail not been proved.
He sii 1111 l itupi that it wet the duty of the applicant to
prove the non-sccess of her buehinti by evidence Indepen-
dent of her °an before she was ma itled to any order. and
he contended that this had not beim done in this rue, and
said it was • ipiestion for the muestrates to decide, as it
was • matter of (set In support of this Mr. Howard
cited the eases of Reer/14 y. Sosrf.e, Ugg v. mooed.,
rates v. Chippendale. and Mowers v. Bowe, and asked the
Bin la to decide the point at once, hut the ze,itt,tr.ax.
toil Vtey would make a note of tim obj.ction, and go on
with tha case.

The first witness called for the defenee was Edmund
Rive, Hodge, the driver of :he Wareham omnibus, who
.aid he met applicant at the Wareham railway 'Usti= in
li,vemlier lash He waked her if she was going to walk
rode. and she said she .11. going to rile in Sir Ivor
Gueit'e carriage, no she knew the con-boson. lie wiked
lier if her huthand was living, and she mid" Yes," and
that they were living comfortably together. She said she
was married again
Mr. William Turner. surgeon, of Poole, gave some
ecientille evi fence as to the periods of gestation.
Elise Brown, a married woman, of Pooth, said she was
an inmate of the Wareham 1.711i011 at the same time as
the applicant. Before she went there ohs had left a boa
of cl Abet and some gold rings elsewhere. The applicant
wrote letters for her, as she could not write herself. In
conseouonce of what Mr. Brown, the muter of the union,
told her, oho got applicant to write a letter for her, and
then took it to Mr. Brown. lie afterwards called the
Mutates together and read the letter to the The
master charged applicant with taking her (witness's)
money—over XI. The applicant wrote in her name for
money, and then went to the Past-0111Ni and fetched the
letters. She bought • pair of i,tots with the money, and
wore them home, and they were produced at the time of
the arcusation. The other inmates were very angry with
the applicant, and pulled her out of bed.
Mrs. Martha Tollerflel I was called, but it was found
she rmuld not give any evidence.
Elizabeth Curtis, a married woman, an inmate of the
Wareham Union, corrohorated Mrs. Brown's evidence.
She also said the applicant called at the union to see her
cone months ago, and told her if the came to Poole she
would find • house for her and support tier anti her four
children. Applicant mid she had paid Mrs. Smith her
money by instalments. Sae was a very untruthful
woman indeed.

_
Mr. Charles Ifonry Rolls, Itegistrisr of Births for the
Domnab of Poole, proved registering the birth of the
Applicant's child, and producod the register. Ile made
the entries correctly from the information the •pplicant
give him, and tend it over t her. She described her
husband as a hoilder's clerk.

--er;;:c--cat-niia-,:d-t-likir—frevanion: Re did not attic the
w.iinan whether the ehild was legitimate, as ha had nn
right to. her was itupposed to believe the child was
legitimate if the mother, was a married woman.
Sarah Seasons, a married refusal. of Poole, said she had
knnwn the woman Goodwin " for ever." She was in the
habit of calling on her niother, and when she wita at the
house Gindwin told her Dr. Daniel• was not the father
of the child—the father ill lot live ,hat way.
Cruasexamined by Mr. Trevauinn : The woman told
her. man from Stole month had looked at the child, and
said it Mee not like Dr. Daniels.

Lydia Ashman a young woman, said she lodged with
Goodwin's mother for two year. and four months. She
always slept with Mrs. Baker. She bad *-eu men come
to the bowie antl uk for Mr* Guodwin. They went into
the front room 1101111 with Mrs. Goodwin A gentleman
into to the hone@ once red stayed with Mrs. Goodwin for
mere than 81minutes. She did not know how long the
other men stayed. On a Sunday evening in February
I,ut ,he renumbered going out for some beer. and when
she returned she sow Mr*. Goodwin in the lane with a
111411. They were in • very improper position. and she
had no doubt something improper Mel occurred. Once
bet are that she saw Mrs. Goodwin in the sane lane with
a men under similar circumstances. This 1•11,1 at the end
of December 12-month. In December last Mr. B weharn
and Mr. Illark came to the house. 8 ie "ruin the kitchen.
and G todwin called her in before them. Mr. B weham
questioned her as to whether any man ever slept in the
house. and she told hint No "R al., asked her if el,
kne Dr. Dsnhl. red oh. toll hun"N After they
thpladr.irkwlefcnt.;lll7l....gidiinnlaid
oh.
woo neonyt.shweelhiadmi orhietr with
"...ksedtdb:yr„ •1n..1 site, he had left G tod win
lemght • great many tbinga She left the lodgings of her
own accord three weeks alga because Mrs. Baker went
awey. . ..• _

Crum-examined by Mr. Trevanion : She was still in
lodgings. She did not lire with her mother because they
could not agree.
C.ptaie Gibbs, a well•knoen character, said he had
known the woman Goodwin ever since ahe lived at Poole.
Os the 314 of December she ous him swiss money, and
be called on her. They had a conversation about the
child. She said she had had a misfortune, and had •
and the caw was coming on next Thurolay, and
Dr. Daniels. at WArehlrll, Wa, the father. Ile sail he
didn't know him. She said he could easily know him,
and be might Just as well earn .C. 5 or Li as anyone
He uked How r and she told him by urine she sow
Dr. Daniel, and her go into the Blue Anchor on the lut
day of the Poole Poultry and Pigeon Show last January.
Re sail he could not say that, is he did no' know him.
She said he was a very fine, darkiwhiskered young man,
and if he would do what she asked she would give him
gg or £lO. She told him to think it over, and If he
would, she would wild for umehudy to take down his
evidence at once. She said he need not he afraid, as
there was plenty of money, Dr. Boreham and several
oi her gentlemen. being on her ule. She asked him to
come luck at nine o'clock, and he went, aa he thought
,he migbyget some of the money she owed him. lie had
paid her for • bedstead, which she sold again, and be had
neither the money row the belstead. Re also went to
her for some money she borrowed tif Mr. Hodges servant,
fie had seen her with several gentlemen in the lane after
It o'clock at night. She had a thick veil on at the time.
M. thought she was keeping company with one num he
often saw her with.
Mr. George Marsh, of Wareham. said Godwin lived in
one of his houses some years since She paid no rent, and
he turned her out. She did • lot of wilful damage to his
property. He believed she was the greatest liar he ever
knew.
Mr. William kisrahmsn, relieving officer, of Wareham,
said he knew G.urivrin when she lived at Wareham. He
ee,eld say nothing on her behalf, and he thought he could
conscientiously say she was not a woman of truth.
Mr. Trevanion made • spirited reply for the appllcaat,
and asked the Bench to make an order on the defendant
—to be just, and fear not.
no magistrate* retired st 10 minutes to five, to consider
their derision, and returned Into Court after an absence of
shout 25 minutes.
The Chairman said the magistrates had given most
rueful and serious consideration to the case and tea the
',Mote urged, and had oams to the deci•ion that they
could not see their way clear to make an order.