The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-05-14 00:00:00

ESCAPE OF SIX 'YOUNG 'ADM FROM A
CONVENT. _ _

Between ten sad el;v7; Cgc;oli on Wsdasegut
111 young ladies presented themselves at the
Police Station; sad after MINN' the akar in sharp
that they had that day run aria, from • esavent St
Glossop, they said It iv been sabjected to very
Lamb treatment at the that they left, sod mould
tolerate it no loader, so had alma toast:ape to their
homes and make their toomplaints known to their
parents. Three of them said they were &tighten of
the chief constable at WakeSeld ; the eld•A was about
21 rears of age, whilst the ogee of the remaining lee
would vary from lit. IS or 17 ream The oilcan set
&boat providing them with tea sad other refreehmesits,
and is the meanwhile a message was Net of their
arrival to tbe emoting of Notre Dams, Elltealsid, trots
whams a notice had just been kerma aolifYinti the 1
eiiox of an inmate of that establishment Soon after-
.r '
one of the superiors mut a west that the
els runaways should be seat Op to the goavent,
and accordingly, a little before Inida4ht, they were
marched thither soder she guardianship d a
One of them wrote to her father, and the letter was
dispatched by the polioa.—lfeentener Cowie&

SINGULAR CASE OF DISPUTED MAEJLIACiIt.
At the Bristol Police Court on Thuredu, before the
sitting magistrates, Messrs. J. Poole end W. H. Willis,
• young man of respectable appearance, named :Nish
Henry Rent., who wss steted to be engaged upon •
newspaper at Merthyr, vu brought up in custody
charged with neglecting to maintain his wife Elisabeth,
whereby she had become chargeable to the aromatic
fund of the Clifton Union. lb. B• 111100 appeared for
the parish aratheritiee, sod Kr. Pigeon tor the defend.
ant. Mr. Benson said that the parties in the cam
were married at the British Embassy in Paris, on the
of April, 18113, and he bald in his hands • cartlfieate
to that effect, dined by the chaplain of the British
ambmeador. "A. S. Seale." After UM were monied
they returned to the hum of the wife's parents in Corn-
wall, where they lived together for about a month,
when the defendant deserted. There had been
occasional cohabitation, and the defendant bad from
time to time to time deserted his wife and she bed
been unable to get from him any seistanes. —Mr. Tedder,
relieving officer, hewing preyed that the wife had be-
come chargeable on Monday last, Mil Ellen Treglowan.
Meter of the *ifs, was ealleri and examined. She stated
that previous to April, 18611, her mister lived with her
toesg) and her urente at C.amborne, in Cornwall.
The defendant visited at their hones, and wee
to her 'later for some time. In Aped, 186676 CI
left to go to Paris, and shortly afterwards wittiest
received the certificate of marriage prodneed, addreseed
to her in defendant's handwriting. They returned to
Cornwall, and vitae.' bad frequent opportunities of
seeing them together. Defendant spoke of his marriage.
and of witness's sister mi his wife. In May, 1866,
defendant's wife was living with witness at Redruth;
and on the 13th of that month the defendant emne there
to ere her, and in • little while Liter he came again.
In the latter part of last year they mune to mid* at
Montpelier, in this city. The defendant came end took
Indeings • little below, and was in the habit of meeting
his wife and walking out with her, but be did not
rooms to the house. He kissed the &Oa, and appeared
to be very fond of it —Mr. Pigeon : Ton have spoken I
of • child ; how many ehildren has she had to your
knowleirre l—Witness : Only ova —Mr. Pigeon: She
had no ehild before she went to Paris ?—Witness: No,
sir. —Croft-examined : We were living with my father
before my sister went to Paris. The defendant at that
time said he wee of age.—Kr. Pigeon : Yoe spoke of
the 13th of May, 1866. Do you know Mutat that tin •
defendant was employed on a paper in the Isle of
Wight' —Witness I know not where he came from.—
Mr. Pigeon: Can you give the 'curt any name why
you remember that it was on the 13th of May I—Witamn
replied she mold not —Mr. Pigeon: Was not the child
born nine months after that date'—Mr. Brice said the
simple irate was not whether the (Mild was Porn at any
particular deter. The question they had to decide was
whether the defendant had neglected to maintain his
erife.—llise Mary Treglowen was called, and gave con•
firmatory seldom@ to that of her sister, end spoke to
the handwriting of • letter addremed to her Aster, as
being that of the defendent—fiergeant Chapman
deposed to having apprehended the defendant at
Merthyr, where be found that he was engaged upon a
newspaper —Mr. Benson pot in the certificate and
letter.—The letter was heeded. "Household property,"
and addremed to "Dear Ellen" (the sister of the eom•
plainant). The writer stated, "Lizzie has been epoliog
rood paper and pens, and inking benelf all over This I
Is the way I suppose young—l beg pardon, married I
—ladies write their ant letters to their friend,"—
(laughter). Further on he said, "They wear such I
(looks of bonnets here, not moth larger than birds',
n.t."—(langhter); and towards the end be said,
" Lizzie is saying' Are you ready,' and being under
boon and petticoat government I must °amply"
(laughter).—Mr. Benson argued that the reference in
the letter, coupled with the eartificate seat under the
defendant's awn handwriting, was sufficient evidence
of the marriage.—Mr. Pigeon submitted that there was
no evidence of the marriage, contending that the
certificate was not a document which the magistrates
could receive, and that the si'ly obserutioe in the
letter which had been referred to was of too vague and
general a ctharacter for the magietretee to rely upon.—
Mr. Brine mid he era. of opinion that there was
abundant evidence establishing the marriage.—After
some dismission as to certain legal points, the magis-
trates gave it an their decision that the marriage wes
satisfactorily proved, bat afforded the defendant an
opportunity of retiring with the perish authorities for
the purpose of effecting an arrangement. —Oa resum-
ing into court it wee Mated that the defendant bad
satisfied the authorities, end the warrant wee then
adjourned for • month in order to me whether he (the
defendant) tarried out the arrangement be had 11112‘ired
Into. The defendant intimated that he wished the cue
to begone into again then, but the magistrates said
they could not allow the nue to be re•beard.