The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-07-26 00:00:00

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Re-examined : I believed defendant was Acting
honourably towards my daughter.
Mi-uaerial Ann Spencer rieid : I am 24 years of age,
and first suet defendant in 1841 or 1862 at Weveham
when be was living at his aunt's. (She is a respectable
looking girl, and appeared in ma h disarm). Shortly
after this be took Bradle farm, and came to oar house
frequently, tesearrion•lly haymg ten and supper with us.
I visited at his house with my mother. He
was often with me. He paid ma attentions.
He ptofeased to be my lover. He sail
I should be his wife We rode, and once or twice
hunted together, and! wet with him to public places
He scoomeattied ma to church. somet.snes at chur,h
Keowle and sometime. to Steeple. Remembered one
night in the early part of 1135i8 his goitre home with
ns., an t after father rind mother had go a uiwteire he
seeluced me. Intim:ay centigramd till the November fol-
io .tog, and I w•s confined on tie 6th January,
1869. 1 was very well in health at the beginning of
1864, and helped father in his business and did pert of
tire household work. In May, 1868. I became unwell,
and told defendant. He said I trod better go away for
• change. I went to Chesilhorne, and stayed for a
week I was no better. I could not do entirely the
work I did before, but I did the best I could. Defend-
ant raid there was nothing the matter. Is October I
saw Dr. Humble, and he prtsoribed for me. After
that time the defendant adeised me again to go away,
but I told him I amid neither afford the time or the
money. He said I should have some money if I
wanted it, but he gave me any. I could not do
my wotk in the ordinary way. The first week in
No•ember I told mother what was the matter. After
tnat defendant came in •gseet rage. In N-vetuber and
December I could not do any work. When the child
was born I was upstairs • month or six weeks. I saw
defendant some time after, when he r ',mitred to be-
have honourably. I have not been well since, but Ido
some of the work of the house—l am obliged to do it.
Fattier hires a girl to ourse the baby. I met defend•nt
nee dee, -ben he kissed Ole baby, and a-Led ate hots
muck he should pay me? I skid I ...sited nothiog but
•het was right sod honourahl. ; Le could not expect
my father to keep his child. From first to last defend.
ant has never given fleet ferthing.
Cro aexamined : I have been at defenistut's house as
late as ten o'clock at night in the summer, and have
met his friends aod acomaintanoes there.
Re-extamierad : Before my seduction he never took
any liberties with me.
Dr. W. E. Humble, of Code Castle, said he first
attended Sperm- ron the 12th October, 1868. He
did not then know she was is the family way, but Bonn
Oleo's red it, and attended her till 3rd November. He
was at the seinen-anent on Stir January, 1869. It was
an ordinary coofinement, but the was weak for • long
time, and he att.n led her till the 3rd April. She was
in suet a feeble state et one time that he harlwome
apprehenatons about her Flits bill was £4 2t. He did
riot think she was so strong as she was before. She
atitlered from extreme mental depression and anxiety—
he never staar a worse case. Some days she could not
-peak to him for crying. It arom he believed eotirely
floe the s-duction.

Croas essinined : He did not know but that now she
oonld attend to all as she did before. As far as keepina
the books was concerned, her present health was satis-
factory.

11-. Collins summed op the case for plaintiff, re-
. marking on the anxiety shown by the learned counsel
for the defendant to confine the issue to the money loss
sustained by the father, but damages might also
be given for the loss plaintiff had suetained by being
deprived of the society and emnfort of his child, and
for the dishonour suffered. In this ease the hies of
services was a very material item. It soinethaes
happened with persons iu a higher rank of life that
the loss on this account was merely noininal, but bare
the unt•ppy girl had given important asaietenee to her
father in his boeinese. Besides that he should ask the..
in the language of Lord Ellenborough to take into con-
sideration the whole of the circiarnstenoes of the ease,
and see what the father had been damaged by the
lots of the virtue and comfort of his daughter. His
learned friend 010411•VI&Orned the witnesses to get out
that the girl bed been a few times to the defendant's
toiuse,and he supposed he would say that was indiscreet,
lint who was to know before the event? Here were
people in a respectable position of life—he a man farm.
mg 400 or 50) sores, and paring soinethiog like 1:350 a
ye •r rent,apparently • respectable man, a good match for
thii plaintiff's daughter, • man who professed his inten-
tion to marry Ler, who went to church with her, and
in all ways acted es an accepted lover: and was his
learned friend going to say, don't give the father heavy
damages, botanic the girl writhed about with her lover?
If this had been a clandestine attachment, carried on
without the knowledge of her father and mother, then
it might be said perhaps that she had thrown herself
into his arms; bur so far as we are able to judge, it
was a deliberate seducition—he says he knew he could
not marry while he was is the Isle of Pnrbeek, what
right had he theta to keep oompany with the girl?
Deliberately and quittly knowing what he was
about—he promised the unhappy girl time after time
be would make her his wife, and then taking advantage
of her &Mastitis., he madam L. r. He asked the jury to
give sabstaiti4 &masa in Skiel diNs besaush• thought