The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-09-25 00:00:00

THE AGAPEMO?;E.

TRE QUEEN T. THE REV. LEWIS PRIM

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Mr. Bishop, of the Gnu of Hi-hop and Son. and re•in.
trar of the Greenwich and W;.lwich County Court.
with Mr. Lovibond, solicitor, of Bridgwater, applied for
and obtained • writ id Aufams corpus on the part of Mrs.
Harriet Lancader Price. &reeled to her liuM.md, the
Ike. Lewin Price, to produce her before Mr. Baron
Witte at his chambers. and to sltuw cause by what an-
tnotity he 1110 forcibly removed and detained her in
close custody, and refused her permission to return to
the Abode of Love and join Brother Prince and other
inmates. The affitlavita in support of the application
showed that Mrs. Price had, of her own free will and
consent of her londsand, joined the community of the
Ammonite...met that him secession from that body, and
his wish°c for her to retire, acre opposed by tier; that
her removal lout been made by stratagem and force ;
and that it wan her strict determination mot desire to
return to her former residence, the Abode of LIM,, and
that elle was slow pineed under a state of impriso ttttt ent
and prevented from returning. Mrs. Price went ou to
say that she desired at once to return, that she did not
desire to retindo with her hushand, and that she had
given Mrs. Starkey, who wan with ber when she er;.• ale
ducted, every authority to instruct Mr. Lovibond to take
the sieve-nary legal proceeding to obtain her liberty and
freed of action to return to her former •Idple.

Mr. Baron WO.le. without espretwing any opinion on
the ease, thonAt there was millicient flair rri-
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dreier to juntify the writ of habeas rqrpus belog ma. ued
forthwith, and made an ord,r acoordiagly.
The writ was at once is.ued.

The hearing of the return to the writ of haloas
~pus obtained on the part of Mrs. Harriet 'scot:enter
Price against her husband, the Rev. Lewis Price, for
&Wailes far in custody. and preventing her returning
to the Aside of love, took place on Friday morning.
Mr. Tindal Atkinson appeared for the Rev. Mr. Price,
and Mr. Bishop, with Mr. Lovibutid, of Bridgwater, for
Mr. Prince. The lady bat been brought to London,
but dial not appecr. the leerne4 je Ige ruling that there
was iso necessity for her being present.
Mr. Tindal Atkinson then resit a special return to the
writ of habeas by Mr. Price in which he stated that be
was married to his wife in 11445,fthe then being about 40
years of age; that about 12 years ago they went to reside
at the Agapeinotie at Drajion, of which Henry John
Prince woe the principal : that after residing there *nue
yec:a he bib sine dissatisfied a itli the eimiluet and doings
of that establishment, and lancing determined upon leAll•
log the community, he endeavoured to Malaise Ids wife
to in the same, but slic refum I. au I he acconlitigly
adopt. cl various IliCaMari to remove her. without 5,110•
CCM, she siting under the undue influence of Mr. Prince.
Ile load, however, traced lier to Exeter anal thence to
Salisbury, where he wooly anal without force secured
her pem.o. and. took her tAI liskpligs at Gliodunbury,
they occapying the name rooms. awl DO agrersuent or
deed of separation licving Iwo estemited. The !wino d
coons •I cited the judgment of Mr. Justice Coleridge to
show that the busbarel had • right to the custody ul hits

Mr. 11.11.9 contended that the wife had been removed
by •hdriice.
Mr. Baron Wilde amid the proper home of the wife well
with her huaband until aim oht.dued a legal aelsration.
lie am sati•fied with the return to the habeas, and or-
dered the wife to he restored to her hush:tud. who Inul a
right to wax... Won of her, so long as there was no
violence.