The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-10-03 00:00:00

GOSSIP ON DRESS.

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A wilrrna in the Queen says: Some new autumn
dresses are made in striped bengaline, with border-
ings, which are deftly applied as trimmings. Most of
the skirts show straight falling folds cut up here and
there to display portions of richer material. A
costume of fine cloth had broad horizontal stripes of
braid round the skirt, the drapery being cut in a V-
shape at the side, like the sideless gowns of the 13th
century, showing the braiding there, the bodice had
double revers, with a braided vest and double cuffs,
like one sleeve over the other, at the wrist. A dinner
gown, with a black satin train, had a petticoat of
black and white striped satin, plaited and veiled with
black lace, the bodice edged with jet, and a row of
large beads at the neck. Astrachan will be an estab-
lisfied fashion during the winter; so will shawls con-
verted into dresses. A good example was a green
shawl with a brown border, which with its fringe had
been utilised for a front pointed tunic, and formed
revers on the full bodice, a plain velvet piece being
arranged train-wise at the back. Most of the bodices
came to the waist in a point, and were there bordered
with crossway bands of velvet more or less wide,
forming a short basque. Some of the interwoven
borderings were of Astrachan, not with close loops
together, but scattered a little. A skating dress was
made of fine smoke-cloth, bordered with fur, and out-
door dolman completing the costume.

AsomEn novelty was a cloth dress, the skirt of
which was composed of half-inch braid interplaited
like the canework of a chair, red velvet showing
through the circular holes here and there; a waist-
coat to match; it would wear well, and was new and
stylish. A handsomer class of dress was a rich
corded faille of grass-green, having three pente,s of
velvet striped in gold, green, and cardinal, each stripe
embossed in a different pattern of an arabesque
nature; the silk opened at the sides to show plaits of
velvet, and there was velvet of a darker shade at the
back. The skirts are decidedly fuller, and more
fulness is brought towards the front.

THE term "knickerbocker," which meant a knot on
the surface in weaving, has given place to "bouclé,"
and a feature in the new materials for autumn and
winter are the bouclé or curled introductions inter-
woven in the cloth. Some of these show an oriental
chintz colouring; others, again, have Astrachan stripes
and many tartan mixtures. The newest r.un's veilings
are all striped. Gros de Paris is a mixture of silk
and wool, with metallic colouring. A novelty in
furnishing lace is guipure worked in wool and tinsel.
Some handsome new black lace shows the old wire
ground, one of the handsomest features in the lace of
the past.

Tunri never has been a season when there were so
many pretty arrangements for the neck. In these,
plush, soft silk, muslin, and lace play an impor-
tant part. A straight collar, with a gathering of lace
in front, like the stocks gentlemen wore in old court
dress, are the newest. High velvet collars edged with
beads are most becoming to long throats, and for a
very moderate price you may buy ready prepared the
black velvet all-round collars and cuffs, admirably
cut and finished, anti just what are now in fashion.
The novelty in muffs for the season is that they are
smaller and almost entirely composed of black lace;
at a first glance they look more like a bonnet than a
muff, but are charmingly pretty.

MANY inquiries reach us from time to time as to the
specialities of sanitary dress. There is a large selec-
tion of such clothing both for children and adults. The
infants' nightgowns are made in woollen material, re-
sembling tine stockingnette. The small garment opens
in front, has a yoto, and is finished off with a tiny
edging. For day wear there is a shirt having a box-
plait at the back, and also opening in front; this is
made, as all the rest, in the woollen falai ic. Over it
there is a petticoat with a bodice, not only opening in
front, but, in order to make the operation of dressing
less wearisome to the child, the shoulder straps
button on. The dress is only about a yard long, and
consequently not too heavy; it is made in wool like
the rest, and has a high neck and lone sleeves. It is
trimmed with an edging crocheted into the material,
pink on white. When the child gets a little older, it
is better to use the unbleached wool, which never
shrinks, and can be washed with impunity. As soon
as possible the baby should exchange the shirt for
combinations which are made to fit children of very
tender years.

GROWN-lIP people are wearing nightgowns of
natural woollen stuff. These are made with a yoke
and Watteau plait, they do not cling to the figure,
and they are trimmed with lace. Three garments
only are recommended, namely, the combinations,
the divided skirt, and the dress, all made in wool.
For the divided skirt it is best to choose a material
that has a smooth surface. The divided skirts are
made with the clothing for each leg very full, bordered
with kilt plaiting, an over drapery falling at the back,
Quite now are the knitted woollen stays, made in
red, brown and grey; they are perfectly elastic, and
give to the figure, so that there cannot possibly be
any compression, moreover, they are a support Xtad
have a few bones. They are excellent for growing
girls.

A KNITTED belt for wearing next the skin is a com-
fort to those suffering from rheumatism or inflamma-
tion, or any internal pain. One of the great difficul-
ties to ordinary people wlaring woollen clothes is the
washing. The following courJe is recommended:
Steep in cold water, then wash in a soap lather made
with boiled soap; rinse in cold water.

THE following dresses, just imported from Paris
show what the character of the newest most expensive
gowns are likely to be. A rich ruby velvet, sweeping
the ground at the back, the front and sides interwoven
with horizontal silk stripes at wide intervals, endingat
the hem in a fringed plush, also interwoven the stuff
so treated is most expensive. There were velvetrevers
at the side, lined with silk. The bodice was heavily
trimmed with garnet beads. A green plush falling
over rich ribbed silk of the same tone, bordered with
canvas galon, worked in green and gold; two ends,
widening at the base like a stole, fell in front from the
waist to the hem. Similar embroidery was carried on
to the plush bodice. The green was a dark brilliant
mousse. In a corded silk and velvet of a prune shade,
a most fashionable tone this autumn—heliotrope we
called it some years since; the rich material was
plainly arranged with revers on the front of the skirt,
and the drapery on the bodice crossing the silk on one
side was embroidered half a yard deep in open gui-
pure, with silk of the same tone. The sleeves were as
they are now, close-fitting and short.

A BROWN and ;late silk was a novel mixture; the
front of the skirt was slate, and coverel with a net-
work of brown beads, having a silk drop at each inter-
section, and rustling with every movement of the
wearer; the back was velvet, plainly draped; a heavily
plaited sash fell at the side.

A SOFT silk material dress of Oriental weav-
ing in all colourings had broad perpendicular
stripes of grenat velvet all round the skirt,
and on the bodice in the form of braces; the skirt was
sewn to the edge of the all-round basque, but as a rule
the bodices were cut on the cross, and had a deep
basque at the L ack.

THERE has been considerable correspondence lately
upon the use of overcoats. The Lancet sums up the
matter as follows: This is the season most appro-
priate for a little serious reflection on the subject of
overcoats. Nothing seems more simple than to adapt
clothing to the weather by the addition of an over-
coat, light or heavy as the occasion requires. It must
not, however, be forgotten that just in proportion as
the garment superimposed upon the ordinary clothes
is effective in producing a sense of warmth, it acts by
arresting the evaporation of warm vapour from the
body. This warm vapour continues to rise through
the ordinary clothing, but it is prevented from
escaping, and the clothes are saturated with it. The
general effect is well enough while the overcoat is
kept on, but the moment it is removed evaporation
recommences, and the body is placed in a "cooler"
constructed on the principle, adopted when a damp
cloth is wrapped round a butter-dish, the vapour
passing off, abstracting the heat, and leaving the con-
tents of the cooler refrigerated. The point to make
clear is that 1, rasmonea ana
ventuatea as it may, does not prevent the under-
clothing from being saturated with moisture, but
actually tends to make the moisture accumulate
therein. This is proved by the sense of genial warmth
felt while the overcoat is worn, and the evidences of
perspiration easily perceived, under the arms and at
the sides of the chest particularly, immediately after
the overcoat has been removed. Moreover, we take
off the coat when we enter a warm house, and pre-
cisely at the moment when muscular activity is sus-,
pended. A very little consiCeration will suffice to
convince the common-sense thinker that nothing can
well be worse managed than this process, both as
regards its nature and the time and conditions of its
operation. It is opposed to all the canons of health
to allow the clothing to become saturated with per-
spiration and then to take off the external covering
and suffer rapid cooling by evaporation; while if it
were designed to do this at the worse possible time,
probably none worse could be found than when mus...
cular exercise had been discontinued. The suggestion
we have to offer is that it would be far better policy
to wear only one coat at a time, and to make whatever
change may be necessary by removing a thin coat and
replacing tt by a thicker one when going out of doors,
and the reverse when coming in. If, instead of wear-
ing overcoats, people would wear coats of different
thicknesses, according to the weather and conditions
generally, they would avoid the danger of cooling by
evaporation ; the garments saturated with moisture
would be removed, and dry off the body instead of on
it. We believe no inconsiderable proportions of the
"colds," attacks of lumbago, and even more formid-
able results of what are popularly called "chills,"
may be traced to the practice of wearing overcoats
which arrest the ordinary process of evaporation,
cause the clothing within to be saturated with accumu-
lated perspiration, and are then removed, when rapid
cooling takes place. The avoidance of this peril is to
be attained by such change of coats as the conditioni
req u.: re.

TICE ABDUCTION OF "LILY"
ARMSTRONG,
At the Bow-street Police-court on Saturday, the
sharp in conneotion with this ease against Messrs.
Stead, Booth, Jacques, Madame Meurez, Mrs.
Coombe, and Rebecca Jarrett, was resumed before
Mr. Vaughan. Mr. Poland preasecuted on behalf of
the Treasury; Mr. Charles Russell, Q.C., appeared
for Jarrett; Mr. Waddy, Q.C., appeared for Mr.
Booth and Mrs. Coombe; Mr. Vaughan Williams
appeared for Mr. Jacques; and Mr. Overend for
Madame Mourez. Mr. Stead, as before, conducted
his own case. Although a large force of police,
under Chietinspector Neylan, was posted in Bow-
street to preserve order, there seemed at the
opening of the court to be little need for their
presence, as the enormous crowd which had assem-
bled on previous occasions was conspicuous by
its absence, and, in fact, the public interest in the
case seemed rapidly to be dying out. Inside
the court, with the exception of the counsel. the
reporters, police officers, and a few members of the
Salvation Army, there were very few persons present.
Eliza Armstrong, recalled, said that on theday she
went to 27, Nottingham-place, Marylebone, with her
sister and Inspector Borner, she recognised the hall
of the house as being that of the place where she had
been taken to sleep after leaving Poland-street, and
where she remained until taken away to Paris. In-
spector Borner said the name of the occupier of the
house referred to by the last witness was Mr. Cheyne,
a surgeon. He had served on Mr. Booth the notice
to produce the medical certificate spoken of by him,
but it had not been produced. By Mr. Overend : He
did not see the words "certificated midwife" on the
name-plate of Madame Mourez.
Cross-examined by Mr. Stead: Mrs. Armstrong told
him on the 14th of July that she had seen something
in the Pall Mall Gazette which made her uneasy
about her child. Subsequently she had referred to
the "revelations" in that paper, but he believed not
until July 31st, when she had received a letter from
her daughter. That was the first time he had heard
from Mrs. Armstrong that she thought that the
'Lily' alluded to was her daughter. Mr. Stead
wished to say he would have been glad to give the
child up to the police if any application had been
made, and to give them every assistance in his
power. Mr. Poland said if no applications were
made to the Pall Mall office, applications had been
made to the magistrate at Marylebone, which were
well known at the Pall Mall office. Inspector
Borner, re-examined by Mr. Poland, said that he
had first become aware that Mr. Stead was editor
of the Pall Mall Gazette on August 24 last, and that
he was the "Chief Director" also on the same day.
Inspector Charles Von Tornow, of Scotland Yard,
deposed to having gone to Loriol with the father,
and to having received from M. Berard a letter
signed by Booth requesting thai: the girl might Fe
given up to the bearer of the letter. The witness
further identified other documents. William Moody,
office-keeper at the Pall Mall Gazette office, deposed
that the letter signed "Chief Director" was, to the
best of his belief, in Mr. Stead's handwriting. The
handwriting of the telegram produced he could not
recognise. Mr. Russell suggested he should show it
to Mr. Stead. Mr. Stead said the handwriting was
not his. Mr. Russell: Perhaps Mr. Jacques would
like to see it. Mr. Williams: Oh, I have no objec-
tion. Mr. Jacques: It is an invention of the
enemy. (Laughter.) Inspector Pope, of Scotland-
yard, produced copies of the Pall Mall Gazette and
the reprint. By Mr. Poland: Some of the most
filthy passages were omitted from the latter. Mr.
Poland said that was all the evidence he proposed to
give, and he asked that the defendants should be
committed for trial.
Mr. Russell only intended to make a few observa-
tions. As the evidence stood a technical breach of
the law might or might not have been committed,
bat it was obvious that no one concerned in the
matter had been actuated in what they did by any
unworthy motive—that was assuming the evidence
remained as it was before the coart, but at some

Bramwell Booth, urged that there was no evidence
of conspiracy against them. Neither of those de-
fendants, be contended, had done anything which even
technically was within the danger of the law. With
regard to Mr. Bramwell Booth, it was perfectly clear
that he had no concern in the abduction, if abduction
it was. Mr. Booth had acted in the matter, as be
believed, rightly. He agreed with the learned magi -
trate that motive was no excuse; but it was not a

question of motive, but a question of knowledge.
Supposing, on the facts represented to him,
Mr. Booth, believing the child to be in peril, had
said, "Give me the child, and I will take care of it."
. _

Was that an offence against the law? econtended
it was not. Mr. Poland said he adhered to all the
charges which he had made with the exception of
that concerning Madame Mourez, who would only be
obara.,l inrinnont. assault. --
Mr. Poland: If you desire it, sir, I will answe,
.learned friends upon the questions they have putbefore
you.
Mr. Vaughan: I think not, Mr. Poland. •
Mr. Vaughan, addressing the defendants, then
said: The substantial question which comes before
me is whether or not this child Eliza Armstrong was
taken frauduently from the custody of her parents,
because if she was taken wrongfully from the posses-
sion of her parents she was taken against the will of
her parents, because fraud annuls consent , and, there-
fore, if taken fraudulently, she was taken anlawfully,
and that is the first question which I have to consider.
Now that, of course, depends upon the evidence
which has been given, and, notwithstanding the
contradictions in the evidence of the defendants'

witnesses, I think one may take it to be sub-
stantially true that what all the witnesses
stated had occurred in the course of the day. The
woman Jarrett came to the house of Mrs. Brough-
ton, and on that day she said at once, after certain
greetings, that she wanted to get a child as a servant,
that she had had a slice of luck, that she had married
a commercial traveller, that she had a six-roomed
house, that it was carpeted, and that there was floor
cloth, and that she wanted this girl to relieve her
from scrubbing and cleaning, as she had been afflicted,
and was prevented from doing it herself. That is the
statement made substantially by Mrs. Jarrett to the
different witnesses in the case. It was made by he
to Mrs. Broughton, and made in the presence of
Jane Farrar. It was also made in the presepce of
Eliza Stephenson afterwards, and there can te very
little doubt at all from the evidence that it was ablo
made to Mrs. Armstrong; only she thought tha
Croydon was mentioned, and not Wimbledon, Vruii.
bledon being in point of fact the place spoken to
by other witnesses. It was on that representation
that Mrs. Armstrong, believing it to be frue,,
allowed her child to be taken away by Jarrett.
Now, with regard to that, I think myself there can
be no
_doubt. Now, there is a considerable amount

of evidence and Crose-examination with rerzard-tc;

other paints, which I look upon merely as the fringe
of the case. The material question is whether the
representation was or was not true. Well, the child
was taken away, and, as regards Jarrett, it is per-
fectly certain it was not true, because she was taken
that very same night to a house in Poland-street and
to a house in Nottingham-place, from which she
was afterwards removed the next morning to Paris,
Jarrett and Mrs. Coombe going with her, and
taking the child to France, where she was left.
Therefore, when this woman says she wanted to take
this child to a six-roomed house at Wimbledon as a
servant for the purpose of forwarding her business,
that is clearly untrue. Then the question arises, that
being so, how aro the • different defendants affected
by the evidence which applies to them. I take it from
Mr. Stead's statement there can be no doubt that he
has brought himself under the section of the Act
of Parliament under whicn he is charged. I shall
forbear from going very much into the statement
which he has made. That statement set forth his
motive, with some self-glorification for the part he
has taken in this matter. It is for him to justify, if
he can, to his own conscience what he has done. I
don't deal with that. But with regard to the other
defendants, a good deal has been said by Mr. Waddy
with respect to the part taken by Mr. Bramwell Booth
and Mrs. Combe. Now it is true that Mr. Bramwell
Booth was not brought upon the scene till much later,
but then we must look to what he himself said in the
conversation which he had both with Inspector
Berner and with Mrs. Armstrong. It cannot be
forgotten that when Mrs. Armstrong was taken to his
place in Victoria-street on the 31st July and asked
for her child he said "What do you want?" She re-
plied "1 want my child." He said, "You cannot
have your child." "Why not ?.' "Can you pay
£100? for that is what it cost me to send your
child away." Does that not mean that from the very
first Mr. Bramwell Booth's resources were employed
for the purpose of conveying that child out of the
country? If it does not mean that, what does it mean?
I take it, it means nothing but that. It is per-
fectly clear that Mr. Booth was cognisant of what
was being done long anterior to that period of time.
But, then, bear this in mind, that when this child was
taken away she was brought first to Albany-street,
and it was in Albany-street that she saw Mr.
Stead and that lady, who the next morning were
found in the very house in Nottingham-place at
which Mr. Stead and Mrs. Combe were at breakfast.
Can it be doubted that the lady, Mrs. Combo, and
Mr. Stead, were all concerned in abducting the child
and taking her away from her parents? If that is
so, ts there not evidence on that point, and also in
connection with the statement made by Mr. Booth
that they were parties in the transaction. At all
events, it is matter for the consideration of a jury,
and it is not a matter in which I shall express an
opinion. But so far as lam concerned, it appears to
me to be perfectly free from doubt. Well, what
hairened after that? The child is taken to Paris, a
post-card is written on the 10th July by Jarrett from
Winchester. That for a long time relieves the
anxiety of the mother with regard to her
child, but subsequently, anxiety again arises,
and then an application is made to my learned
colleague, Mr. Cooke, at the Marylebone Police-
court, and then, in consquence of his advice, some
steps are afterwards taken. This is done somewhere
about the 10th, and as a consequence of that appli-
cation this girl, who was in Paris, is removed from
Paris to Loriol. What is the meaning of that? Is
it not that the child is kept away from her-parents
altogether? There had been some inquiry made and
some anxiety shown, some investigation with regard
to the child, who immediately afterwards is sent away
400 miles from Paris. Is not that a deprivation of the
parents of the possession of their child? That affects,
in my opinion, both Mr. Bramwell Booth and Mrs.
Combe, who was present when the child left Paris,
and it was Mrs. Cornbe's son who took the child
away from Paris down to Loriol. Afterwards,
when one looks at the letters and the cor-
respondence on the subject, one finds that what-
ever is afterwards done is done by Mr. Booth and

future staee it might be found necessary on the part I Mrs. Combe. They are partie;. in the corres-
of the defendant whom he represented that a n.ech pondence in regard to the disposition of the child
more detailed statement should be made, and with when she was brought from France. When, therefore,
evidence at considerable length. But however high- Mr. Waddy puts to me, in regard to Mr. Booth anct
minded and worthy the motives, of course it was quite Alm Combo, that there is no evidence of conspiracy in
consistent that there might have been a technical regard to the abduction of the child, his argument
breach of the law. He did not desire to dwell on semis to me to rest on very shallow and unstable
that topic at present, but at a future time it would be ground. Then with regard to the other portion of
his duty to make some observations upon the conduct the case. Mr. Vaughan Williams has spoken about
of Mrs. Armstrong and her husband and Mrs. the evidence affecting Jacques, and says there is no
Broughton. He thought it would be painfully evidence to connect Air. Jacques with the abduction
obvious to all that while they denied they were parties of this child; but that is an opinion in which I can
to parting with the child, they had shown utter in- hardly agree. I cannot myself think of Mr. Jacques
difference as to what became of her. He would being in Milton-street, calling a cab off the stand for
reserve the defence of his client for the proper the purpose of taking the child from Milton-street,
tribunal, where she had been examined, to Poland-street, and
Mr. Stead then proposed to read a long speech to being seen there afterwards by the cabman who had
the Court, but Mr. Vaughan refused to receive it as driven her there—l cannot myself entertain any
not being material to the case. After a long discus- doubt that he was active in the abduction of the
sion Mr. Stead was allowed to read portions of his child. It is quite impossible to believe that
statement, which dealt largely with the "revelations." he could act with Mr. Stead, as he appears
In concluding he said: The case before your worship to have done, without being himself cognisant
is not whether any or all of the incidents in the Lily I of all the circumstances of the transaction. With
story are true or false, but whether I and those regard to Madame Mourez I hare already spoken. As
whom I induced to assist me in this particular trans- to her, there is no evidence that she did more in '
action are or are not guilty of certain specified point of fact than commit the assault upon the child.
offences. I submit that there is no case to go to a With regard to the circumstances of the indecent
jury, for according to the evidence of the witnesses for assault which is charged against Booth and Mrs.
the prosecution these offences were never committed. Coombe, I entertain great doubt in my mind as to
There can be no abduction where there is consent, whether I ought to commit them on the charge. I
and consent of the mother was admittedly given think the charge ought to be confined to Stead,
for the departure of the child. Even if she aid not, Jacques, Mrs. Jarrett, and Madame. Mourez. There
as she says, consent to her going with Jarrett for has been a good deal said about motive, and Mr.
an immoral purpose, that is beside the question,- for Stead has, in a very able paper, endeavoured to show
the child was not taken away for an immoral pur- that his motive was praiseworthy. It may have been
pose. Either the child was sold for Tice or she was a very lofty and a eery pure motive. He may have
engaged as a servant. If the former, the contract desired to remove the child from very impure asso-
was broken, for the girl was not injured, and it can ciations, but that alone is not a justification of the
hardly be contended that lam guilty of abduction, offence with which he is charged. But there may
because, instead of corrupting the child, I placed her have been a different motive existing in his mind—a
in a virtuous home. If, on the other hand, she was desire to get together the material for the concoc-
engaged as a servant, I fulfilled my contract. If it tion of the deplorable and nauseous article which ap-
be alleged that the examination to which she con- peered in the Pall Mall Gazette of the 6th July, an
rented, the half-hour in Poland-street, and the visits article which has certainly given great pain and
to France were unusual incidents of service, so, I sorrow to very many good people, and has greatly
will add, were the taking a girl without clothes or lowered the English people in the estimation of
written character, giving her a complete outfit, and foreign nations.
paying her double the wages such an untrained child Mr. Jacques ( interrupting ) : That shows sour
could expect to earn elsewhere. Even now, on the animus.
supposition that I have been befooled by my agent, Mr. 'Vaughan (continuing) : I say, moreover, that
the men who know best that those crimes the law of this country cannot be broken for the
are constantly occurring are endeavouring to lead the gratification of any motive, however good; and. I
public off on a false scent. If Jarrett, however, did cannot see, for my own part, how, supposing any
deceive me, she only took upon her own shoulders the religious enthusiast were to take a child out of a
crime of procuring a child for a house of ill-fame, family which held different religious opinions to the
The child was procured for me, to my order, for cash enthusiast, I cannot understand how, upon the same
down. If it be that in execution of my instructions• principle that this case is attempted to be justified,
my agents have transgressed unwittingly the law which that might not be justified. It would be most fatal
we were seeking to strengthen, I would pray that the and most perilous if such an infraction of the
sole punishment might fall on me. But if your law were to be admitted upon such a motive as
Worship considers that you must commit the case for this. I say that it appears to me that if such a
trial, I beg of you to remember that mine was the usurpation of authority over the morals and the
guiding brain, and this the directing band which alone religious life of individuals were not to be restrained
is responsible for what was done. by law there would be an end to the freedom, and to
Mr. V. Williams, on behalf of Mr. Jacques, urged the security, and to the independence of every family
that there was really no evidence at all to show that in this country. (Applause.) Upon the principle of
he had anything to do with the taking away of Eliza law and upon the facts it is my duty to conamit the
Armstrong, and that there was no case for committal defendants for trial for the various offences charged
against him on any of the charges mentioned in the against them, excepting only the charges of indecent
summonses. He wanted it, however, to be clearly assault against Coombe and Bramwell Booth.
understood, while pointing out that there was no legal (Applause.)
evidence againsthis client, that Mr. Jacques was in no The defendants were then formally committed for
way ashamed of what he had done, but that, in trial, bail being accepted as before.
common with the other members of the Pall Mall. The proceedings then terminated.
staff, be was very proud of it. Mr. Orerepd, on
behalf of Madame Mourez, argued there was no
evidence of an indecent assault having been committed
by her, and that whatever was done did not
amount to -more than a common assault. Mr.
Waddy, on behalf of Mrs. Coombe and Mr.