The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-05 00:00:00

COURT OF DIVORCE.-YESTERD.IY.

'Before the Judge Ordinary, Mr. Baron Martin, and
Mr. Justice Willes.)
SIMS V. SIMS.,--THREE WEEKS AFTER MARRIAGE.

This was a suit instituted by Ann Sims, the wife of
Stephen Sims, for a dissolution of the marriage, on the
ground of gross cruelty, desertion, and adul!ery.

Dr. Phillimore appeared with Mr. Pritchard for the
petitioner; the defendant did not appear.
James Adams Trudgeon deposed that he was a small
farmer, near St. Stephen's, Cornwall. The wife of the
respondent was his daughter; they were married in
November, 1856, in the parish church of St. Stephen's,
Cornwall. After the marriage they came to reside at his
house. Before a month elapsed, the respondent was
constantly in the habit of getting drunk and beating his
wife in the most cruel manner. Witness frequently
interfered, and was also assaulted. The respondent
deserted his wife in the latter part of 1857.
Mrs. Sims, the petitioner, an extremely good-looking
and respectable young woman, deposed. that she bad
known the respondent twelve months before her mar-
riage, which took place on the 3rd of November, 1856.
Before that he was an extremely steady- and well-con-
ducted young man. He worked at a mine, in the neigh-
bourhood of St. Stephen's. They went to live at her
father's. Before a month had elapsed her husband came
home drunk, and beat her in a dreadful manner. On
another occasion he came home drunk, and on her sister
going out to get him in he struck her in the face; and
on witness going out to pacify and get him to go to
bed, he knocked her down. She got up and ran to her
bedroom, followed by her husband, who again struck
and kicked her on her legs while she was clinging to
the bed-post. In 1857 he again beat her about the
breast. She was pregnant at the time, and on her
sister and her mother interfering, he struck them
both. In April, 1857, he struck her, and gave her
sister two black eyes. In the same month, on her re-
monstrating with him on his conduct in the village chapel,
he kicked her out of bed, although he knew she was
pregnant. After this, her husband left her, and was
away three months. She was confined of a boy on the
16th of July, 1857. After this her husband returned,
and sometimes behaved pretty kind, but soon after broke
out again. On one occasion she tried to get him away
froni a beer-house, and he threatened to kill her, but
was prevented by the landlord from doing her any
injury. He afterwards came home and demanded hib
clothe:, and said he should leave her altogether, and on
that.occasion he knocked her down and gave her two
black eyes. He also struck her all over ; she had the
child in her lap ; and on her father interfering he nearly
choked him. She only saw her husband once after,
when he jeered her about her black eyes.
Catherine Ann Crole, a young woman, not of very
interesting appearance, deposed that she knew Sims and,
his wife. She Welled in the same mine at St. Stephen's.
He made acquaintance with her in June, 1850, and told
her that. Mr. 'Cole, a magistrate, had told him that if he
had not spoken to his wife for twelve months he might
marry again, and he would make witness his wife.
Believing his story, she met him in a corn field near St.
Austin's Mine, where a criminal connection took place
between them, which resulted in witness giving birth to
a- child in 1859. Stephen Sims was the father of that
child.

Sir Cresswell Cresswell said—Dr. Phillimore, you
have proved quite enough to entitle you to a decree of
dissolution of marriage. The costs follow as of course.

WAVE OINTMENT Aar:, I'mps.---The,e wonderful pro-
ductions have now become so appreciated in every part of the
world, that they form a complete household treasure; the
worst cases of ulcers, wounds, and every variety of skirl
diseases for which so many remedies have been tried without
effect, readily succumb to their power; they act so mimeo.
lously upon the system as to be considered a complete pheno-
menon in the healing art. For this reason they are advocated
by many modern practitioners after everything else has proved
unsuccessful. Those complaints especially which afflict the
sedentary and studious, give way, as mist before the rising
sun, to the influence of the Pills ; Whilet external WoniztlS are as
readily healed under the °intrust.