The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-06-24 00:00:00

.d b agony
AaL hr Is at filittL
liteio tell
'1 a scandal. ldr.ai]
.rered, as I thong,
would have been
,n, as she I know.
since
..her marl i
tags S.
entire 7
cat As:

Is
.. cause such a
violent. Ilsd he recov, ght he would if it was
only, chloroform, he • ,so angry. Be had no
nelson to take poiso) .„. had not any communi-
cation with -, Liam and their acquaint-
Mace before merri, though very imprudent, I con-
scientiously believed, Ay of an innocent chstracter. On
Good Friday, the firs, ly she had come down after her
illness, he was aunoye, ith her for lyint,-down after lun-
cheon and nit wishing him tosremain in tit* nom. He was
so restless she could not rest. He got very angry and went
out of the room, and I put a match to his library fire and
he went and sat there In the evening he said he despised
himielffor niWryiog her; said She was a-• selfish pig, that he
had 4uite made up his Mind not to live *tit her, and that he
was going away and that he wilhed he' was dead. He was
in a temper. I remained with him for some time, and I
said, What do you think will become of Florence if you
o away He said, !Let her go to-,' or 'Go back
to --,' I can't remember exactly which he said. I
told him it was very wrong of him, there was no reason.
'You know her every thought is for you. You know she
does everything she possibly can to make you happy.' He
saa quite determined,- 'however, he would go; and when
said he wished he was dead I said it was wrong for him
s say such wicked things, as God had given him life to do
,ome good in.- 'Pray g 6 to Florence and make it up with
her.' Ife said, Good night ' ; but would not promise he
would not go away. He seemed so determined I followed
him upstairs. He went up and locked his bedroom door.
I was so unhappy at thinking of his leaving the house I
knocked and told him I wanted to speak to him. He would
not open it for some little time. I knocked again two or
three times. He then opened it, and I begged him not to
leave the house. He said that he had quite made up his
mind to go; that he would not live with her any longer.
_I again reasoned with him for a long time; but he
seemed quite determined, and shook hands, saying, You
are a good little woman. I will always do what I can for you,
good night,' and he turned and kissed me on the cheek, and
said, Good night' again. He thanked me again, saying,
You love Florence, and you do the best you can for me.
I thank you for it.' I then went and told his wife she had
better go to him, as ho was going to leave the house. She
went, and I understood he was still very angry; he was
determined to go. I could not rest all night; I thought he
would go. The next morning he came up to my room,
and asked me if Florence had acknowledged she was sorry.'
I said, she said she had done nothing wrong, only wanting
to rest in the afternoon, and I begged him to go down
40 her.- sAbout ten minutes afterwards he told me he had
seen her and made it all right. Three or four weeks.
tbefore that there was a quarrel between them, I be-
lieve through a letter from his home, and he was very
violent and said he would go. This was about ten or eleven
at night, they usually going to bed early, and he went, un-
barred the front door, and went down the drive to leave
the house. I followed him, and entreated him to come
back; he would not for some time, and I said, 'Just fancy
hat a scandal it would be, and what will your mother say?
He said, Oh, my mother will only be too glad to have me
.ack 'at any price.' He seemed determined to go. I
said, `Do you think you are doing your duty as
Florence's husband to leave her?' and he repeated 'My
duty!' and he then consented and returned to that,
house. He went upstairs to his wife, and I rebolted the,,
door myself, for fear the servants ehould know anything
about it. He had often said how he hated -, howl
he wished he was dead I always tried to make peace
between them. These sudden passions seemed to overtake
him, because .at other times he was quite pleasant. The
coroner interrupted me when I was about to say, 'Why
did you tell them?' He said, Does Florence know I have
poisoned myself? Don't tell her,' imploringly. I said, 'I
_bad not. What have you taken, Charlie?' He turned 'his
cad round away from me, and said, 'I do now know.' I
never said .he took it medicinally. He was jealous of
-, though he knew everything before marriage, He
did not want to go to Worthing, and asked at dinner,
'Have you taken the house there ? He had a letter that
morning from his mother objecting to Florence going, and
he a.ked me whether he should show it to Florence. I told
Mr Royes Bell that he told me be had taken poison, and I
repeated it to Dr. Johnson. That is all."
Now. all-this, -said the Attorney•Geileral, was kept backt,
the jury, and there is a great deal more. .
-The Lord Chief Justice: You have said enough to induce
us to grant a rule calling qn the coroner to show cause why*
the inquisition should not be quashed.
Mr. Justice Mellor: Whatever may be the effect of this
statement it. is most material to be submitted to the jury.'
The rney-General Surely, my Lords, and there is, as
great deal more. -
_d Chief Justice: It is for you to consider the form
of the proceeding and the course to be taken. There is an
old authority that if there is a new commission of inquiry
the evidence cannot be. taken orally, but by affidavit, and it
that were so it would be a good reason for not acceding to
the application at all.
The Attorney-General: Quite so. But I think that autho-
rity (which is not vary clear) is not applicable, where, sta in
the present ease, there has been no complete inggisition' at
all; and the inquiry was incomplete.
The Lord Chief Justice: There is no complete inquisition
and verdict. The verdict was not conclusive, and the inquiry
ffas incomPreti.
The Attorney-Generat: Just- so, that is the ground of the
application.
In answer to other questions from the Court, the Attorney-
General said he had no fault to find with the jury; on the
contrary, ft appeared, and that was one of the grounds on
which ha moved, that they thought the inquiry incomplete
sliddedr.ed to prosechte ;if, More ,thoronghlf. On the other
hind, though he coMplained that the coroner had not tho-
roughly performed his duty, there was authority for saying
that where the coroner had only erred in judgment there was
no reason why the inquiry sh,ould not be continue I by him; so
-he pfbposed that the coroner should simply renew ,and con-
, Urine the inquiry. He assented to an 'observation by the Court
that it would not be necessary, the jury being the same, to
-lave the body exhumed, for though an inquest must be super
um'corpolis; this jury had already seen the body, cud
. there had been a satisfactory post m,ortem examination.
On the whole, in conclusion, the Lord Chief Justice said
the Attorney-General would settle the form of the proceed-
ing, And the Court would be ready to mould it, if necessary,
when it was discussed."
Thege will, therefore be a role on the coroner to
show cause why the irmlisition should not be quashed
and the inquiry continued before .bim.—lt was under-
' stool that the" application to make it absolute would
be-made on Monday text:

was
he

RINKITA.
. _
. THE 611 very moon is winking,
„._ And so are the-stars up there:
Of what is the old man thinking
" As he ‘sits in his old arm chair?
bas • • lie's thinking that he 'd be Rinking,
II Pinking he only date;
But, as he can not dare Rinking,
; ye sits pi his old_arm-ehair.—Punch.