The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-04-29 00:00:00

THE EXTRAORDINARY APPLICATION
AGAINST MR. DRAX, M.P.
A VILE ATTEMPT AT EX CORTIONI

%RUM/OWN OF Tfle CAM.
The adjourned hearing of the extraordinary IIDIOIOIII
which haa been issued against Mr. J. B. W. firte Dem.
N. P. for Wareham, of Glantigh House, near inkier&
Kent, of Ho'nest, near Sberborne, Dorset, by • proetfiete,
named Louisa Gray, of 17, Georgestreet„ Marylsamu
chuffing him with being the father of her illegitiasee
child, came on for bearing on Wednesday last before ae
stikendiary, Mr De Rutmen.
Wtehagmee again appeared on behalf of the plaig
and Mr. Bftuy, barrister, defended.
It will be remembered that at the previous bar*
the complainant stated she was the daurhter of • game-
keeper, formerly in the employ of Mr. lib•x, and tlut 0
long egos. '47 he seduced her, when die was between he
years of 16 and 17. For some time after be made Ste
allowance of LIP,) a-year. The connection was ulnaerj
broken off, and am lived upon the town, is
however, of late been resumed, and the result was dal.
' she had been delivered of a child, of which Mr. Dux. a_Se'
79 rears of age. is the father. The defences that Ou
is simply a gross attempt at extortion, and the emu" la
long past the age of child-bearing.
The complainant was again put into the witnesebom
Mr. Woodiate handed her • card, and she said it wee
the label attached to a brace of pheasant, sent bet OF
D LS
rth of November, 114-8, to Red Lion Ream Ir,
address was in Mr. r•is handwriting She had rasa..
letters from him previous to that one of them infol.l
her the hamper was about to me. The r.
intimacy between them was being on st thee
time.
In reply to Mr. Bailey's creesexamainatisa, •••
when she brat went into Mr. Dram'. service FM en' be
tween 16 and 17 years of ace She ws. sot, pi tbe time ;
but she would not swear It was not on May rib.. ISG
She was • still-room maid. Her birthday, her sister_imee
her, was in December. She did not leave is Jail. eala;
nor was she paid by a cheque on Drummoad's on Ws ah•
of that month' As 4 7s. 61 for board wages aad eralsall
wages for one year and nine months up to the: WM'
Foolta, the housekeeper, discharged her. In Dula"
her, 1.347, she would be 17 years of age.
You have averred that you had been •Bowed £lO •
Year b/ Mr. Drax. At whose hands was that Phal—
lic Dreg himself.
In what sunlit—MO, £lO, 1:7, and additional Penh al
pin money.
Attend to this, woman ! Do you mean that you bad
different sums, or that you had a fixed ssun t—Gh. be
fixed the sum kimaelf, and gave It to me.
He paid you himself ! In what years I—lt was r yon
ago, at least in 1551. when I came up to Loodon7
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wins
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Did it then cease till July. 151117.N0, I was to meet
b! the epz,ih etgi w.
nee.t, at Great Collwoodiale. se a
k
After you were discharthgedictity, 1618. where did you
go to I-1 went to Bowen •at lwerne Lodge, Blendford.
And you were there three weeks left on ml hoe
account. I we. not discharged.
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labourdemPeeiwid
Thai you moor 1-Afou

Mr , Daley ties took the miters seriatim through •
pa of SO merit-Moss at Marlborough-street police court
I. very cam sits admitted the soft impeachment They
were se follows :--oc.tobsr 17, 1967, drunk and disorderly,
or terra da‘s. January 9, ISM. ditto; January I.
amo; January 31, disorderly proetituta, one month.
(e.enplainent ! It,. no lung ago I cant remember. —Mr.
The officer is here Complainant: Well that
et intimidate me, but, I wont dispute itt —March
;°aMdisorderly prostiMte, sOlVen days. —(Complainant,
Was there no One attached to that. Mr.
wrier: Oh no, you "did your seven deya. March
se, drunk and disorderly, 1t.,. ore month. May 20, 20e,
or II darn June 4-1. witultiort • noble lord—l won'
bOOS t
mallet:Jaen'o namee brought into this ease aa they
barellwoman—to find • surety in SIO to keep the
,•‘ mouth, (Complainant Oh. Lord Mame.
Yri !We coul.ln't agree about 7s. Al) August 11.
...midi, September 15. saw& in the streets, complainant
4..10.1 cosear. —(Witnest: Yes, I was diecharmxl).
s,piemlor 10, drunk and disorderly, 10e , or a month.
I ICtober V. Jruak and diemderly, seven days. Morem-
Irrs, ditto, four day. (Witmer.: 1 don't think I seer
b.A no little as four days). December 5, another con.

;Moo.
Your husband died in ISO, and now I have called OTOZ
etions recorded against you at Marlborough•street
41ca court alone in the year Pei Do you deny that
Isar- not been so convicted I
mr, De Rumen You have the fact Oat this woman
Ives convicted over and over again, and that she gets
• tieing on the streets. How can you carry it any
F“iitser than that!
mr, Hester Beranve this woman's story is • tissue of
It is nothing but • conspiracy to extract
• ta, from an old
is.niana and It I. high time that these
fl should lie ex Mr. Drax would never have
.ppeared otherwise.
yhe exansination of the witness aa to her convictions
thee further proceeded with—ln January. Inna.
p., . no., or , days, for drunkenness. January 111th,
• k discharge,. January ?Ala. drunk; discharged.
1.71! rib. Irtnber 1 I th. ,or 14 days September
,t.,-harired December 24a. 40a, or a month.
KO, March 11th. 40a, ors month. 2Pth. ditts August
▪ti drunk and disorderly. October 4th, assault, one
,ith P. 71, March 11th. drunk and disorderly. 40a or
.
m‘y 4th, disorderly proatitute, bound over in
of EDI November 9th. drunk and
tio, or 3 mouths. In 1/41., the conviction.
17th. February 214 a, April 19th, and
r,th, when she went into Miss Stride's home.
rn11,41 mon 10th. June 2nd 3 ths. September
,r,h, .Isra ortober Ord,. 3 months. February.
1.71, stnde'i hone, and in June. 1075, April 19th.
...a., p!,11MI constable, 3 months. Anima
pi...tante, a month. October 4th, di,to,
3 ',o.4iths In c. January 24th. ringing bells at •
fuir ined 10a. (Witness Ott, yet, that was
‘.tice Butcher's bent March rith, assaulting •
7 days April 29th, disorderly prostitute, •
mon•
th
rh,,, rya Came out at the end of May. You don't
you aiivr Mr thax from the end of the year PEI,
pc.l.—No sir.
so.. August 213th, 40a., or a month. October
kb. ditto—Yes
Pk, or a month I—Oh no, sir, certainly
Ind, 3lrs Hobert+ paid It for me.
And December 711, ono month. Now that makes U
tise two years you were a married
e„,,es, up to December, 11178, from one police-court only,
• rn.heen,,,nyicted at others f —Once at Bow street
or, betel no other-
That was for smashing the windows of the man
c„ia,lie Do you mean to swear woman you have not
sluing AA the trusties, of that man Colville !—No.
1.101504 t, put to you what I am lottructed. Is it
o ilk. truth woman that Mr. Drat never saw you until
lOU tat) written to him for assistance, to put you in
at dressmaker, in the year 11041—I wrote and
eked am 11 he would fultil what he had promised me
yang.
W'. before these 54 convictions, Is it not • fact
that is loot) Pc4thet you applied to him for money to put
yie is banner a. a dreksmaker.—No answer.
Wanes, in reply to further questions, said she was still
loz at 11. 4:ooze-street She could not swear it was
a a brothel. Young women lived there, and they
out and return with men, and stay • short time.
!•.s.• en•ald not say, as she did not interfere with other
ride I 'oldness
tire Robyn,, formerly a prostitute. and now • needle.
at the mine house, deposed she had seen
the plaintiff siseklinz a chili, and alas was called up to
attend th, birth. iou the was nit present at the time. -•
wit4lbui refuved to Ur the house WWI
a ivothid—Aon Lawrence and Ann Williams declared
abay were at the confinement, the latter saying she saw
IN all. come into the world
Mr Wissigate sad I now call for the defendant.

raid he .houl.l prove by medical evidence
Iliat he wag until traveL Here win a F.ntletuau 79
.an 1 age. In such cases courts had always shown
r. auderatien.
Mr. De Hazen .4'1.1 he could only allow tile same con.
iii,ration in thi. C4SO as he did in °theca If the
defendant had been summoned he most order him to
weed.
lir Edward Turner. of Shoehorns, Dorset. said he had
no Mr. Dr.a ao late a. M.oplay, he was not in a fit state
anderzone an )peration, and was
oegeriu. In the present cold weather he ought not to
troet
W...biate expressed his willingness to wait until
tb.,..eu weather, if Mr. Turner thought he would then
avail
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Turner: He would be most Illappr to, I aro sure.
The ex. wag Hum adjourned until the 31.1 th not.
I, reply to the maxiatrates, Louie& Gray said ahe should
I- sod hippy lo Ile examined by the implies' men in
43:alma. She had no doubt they would do what was
fur.

She nay thee taken into a private room, and the hear.
nit ao.e.i.

Me general opinion of the charge brought egainat Mr.
ha been that it rat trumped up but the public
r. (mm, with some surprise, of its audden and e•.tire
amee. It wan thought probable that the worthlem
wawa alter all her experiences. might at length, have
lee. is • condition to make a gbArste of paternity against
sew oue, awl that the hist turned to it former employer
to a tetra srlsw a:e and generosity pointed him out as
(is mow 'ltd aid m. (bat it build hardly he conceived
that heiresst melt atrocious wickedner in this rase as
the r-meartiast 44 t story (or whi h there was not the
litighted fouslati w whatever. Yet, such is the case.
The woman hiss 'en etsulinest by three doctor., one of
thew, Dr ft,n.l. leas. we believe, at the head of
r...tetrtr practice. sal all the surgeons are satisfied that
the woman am" had ! This is an alarming
,n,tauce of the audacity of crime. That one Individual
cou!1 toasty up an entirely groundlem ease, is, unfor•
mutely. se sucommon even, ; but even in cases where
trial dent cbasse sem laid to great estates such as those
of Novi, and the "Claimant," there were not found
re/tserrei ii abet the fraud by broad ',wearing to events
whirl had !lever happcoml. In this case two other
ir..ep have sworn that they were present at Si delivery
eh 'di three .tvrtors will he prepared to prove never
e nil herr tden plat. We SIM glad to bear that .1 the
part...n will be at once proceeded wins% for per; Iry and
eemptracy,