The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-04-02 00:00:00

Legal.

DIVORCE COURT.—FaxpAr,
GOLLOP S. COLLO?.

Dr. Deane, Q.C., and Dr. Swabs, were couasel for
the petitioner.
Jere Caroline (lollop prayed for • decree of dissolu-
tion on the ground of the cruelty and adultery of her
husband, George Gollop.

Dr. Deane stated that the marriage took place In
1852. The petitioner, who was the daughter of the
incumbent of Sutton Bingham, in Somersetshire, was
then about 16 years old. The respondent, who was the
eldest son of. gentleman el` property living at Strode-
house, Netherbury, in Dorsetthire, was 28 or 27 years
old. He had a commission in the Doreetshire Militia.
Almost from the hoar of the marriage until the Repara-
tion, which happened in May, 1857, the husband pur-
sued an unbroken course of neglect, unkindness, and
brutality towards his wife. Ile used oaths, curses,
violent blow; kicks, and insults of every kind. The
only reason for her remaining with him se lose wasthat
the yielded to the repeated persuasions of her own
family, who were anxious to save appearances. The
separation took place after a violent quarrel at Bath, in
May, 1857. The respondent bad shoo been guilty of the
grossest pro64asy. He had turned his house into a
common brotW. While he was staying at Dor-
*baster in 1854 he had committed adultery with • ser-
vant in the hoese, named Best ; at Anglesey Ns hal
been 604 S committing adultery in the garden with the
servant at • house next door, and on another oecasioa
' with • washerwoman; at Weymouth he had formed an
adulterous coneezion with a chambermaid named Vir-
tue Squib at the Royal Hotel, and he had afterwards
stayed with her in lodgings, where she was passing as
Mrs. Russell. When he was served with the petition is
was read over to him clause by clause by the petitioner's
attorney. He admitted all the allegations of adultery,
except one, but, of course, like all the husbands in these
eases, he denied the cruelty. At the same time he said
" that be very much repented of his past sins, and that
the feeling of their weight, sionilained with the shock to
his mind caused by the recent disturbances at St.
Ll•orge's-in-the East, had induced him to go over
to the Cline& of Rome." (Laughter.)
The Judge-Ordinary—He probably waited &book-
lotion. (Laughter.)
Dr. Dame added that when he changed his religion
he thought it expedient to change his name also; and
as it was as well to assume • good name, and an aris-
tocratic parentage while he was about it, he had called
himself Mr. Russell, and passed himself off as the son
of Lord John Russell. (Laughter.)

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The Rev. Wyndham Heiyar, the petitioner's brother,
proved her marriage with the respondent at the British
Embassy in Paris in February, 1862.
Mary Ann White stated that in 1855 Captain and
Mrs. Dollop occupied lodgings in her mothers' house
at Dorchester. A woman named Best waited on them.
Mrs. Gallop was occasionally &bleat. Best was fre-
quently in Captain Dollop's rooms, both his sitting.
room and his bedroom. After Beet had been there six
Or seven weeks she was sent away. (Niigata Dollop
said she should not go. A constable was sent for, and
she went. Captain Dollop left soon afterwards.

Mn. White also proved familiarities between Captain
(lollop and Best
The witness wlla severely eross-examined by his Lord.
ship, and minutely described the situation of the
summerhouse and of the pantry where he lad men the
acts of adultery.

Charles .A.Court, a poatboy at the Royal Hotel, Wsr
mouth, said that in September, 1867, • chamber-
maid named Virtas Squib belonged to the hotel. Captain
Gallop was at Weymouth. One Sunday he drove
Captain (lollop to cherub at Preston. Captain (lollop
said he !Mould like to see Squib. He took •
to her from Captain Gallop while he was at the =
Virtue Squib met Captain (lollop one evsningat 6 o'clock,
and he drove them to an inn. They passed the night
there. The nett morning he Picked her lIP.• Tbe witnon
mentioned other meetinp between Captain (lollop and
Squib, and said she had since been living at a house in
Crescent-street as Mrs. linsselL

It wig oleo proved that Oapiala Gollop, in the autumn
of 1857, had stayed for a week with Squib In Omelet-
Owe!

The deposition of a friend of the petitioner, a lady
named Illenlicrhassett, was read. She Lad stayed with
Captain and Mrs. GoSop, and gave several instancce
.4 I!,l1.1,1111 Gollop's unkindness to his wife. Ile used
to lock up the piano that she might not play while he
was ont, and t,, lock up the wine, although silt 1,1,1‘ too
1.001.11 to eat anything, and therefore required it. D.•
used to any he hated her, and wished she was dead, awl
threatened Lu shot her. She was ill with a low levi.r
brought on by unhappiness and anxiety.
• Edwin lidward., who was in Captain (dollop'. service
at Dorchester, mid that about half-past 6 one evening
in May, be witnemed All art of adultery hstreen hue
toaster and Itcst in the ball. From DorelicAer they
went to a lodging-house in St. klark'splace, Anglemy. :
Ilia gardens of that and of the next house ware aepa.
'rated by • wall four feet high. One evening in the
summer time he saw Captain Gollop commit adultery
with the servant girl next door in a summer house,
at the bottom of the next garden. About nine o'clock
one morning in the winter time he saw Caldnin Goilop
commit adultery in the•pantry with a wanhcrwoknan,
lie had heard his muter abuse Mrs. Gollop, and had
seen him push heiland kick either. Ho was with Captain
(dollop for about fire years. They were at Anglesey
for several months, but Mrs. Gullup wu nut at home
all tho time.

Mrs. Gullop.--Afler our marriage we played for it
few weeks in Paris. We then went to my husband's
father's house, and then to my father's. In the winter
of 1852 we went to Germany. My busbatol'a conduct
was always cruel and violent. Ile said lie hated me,
swore violently at me, atid used the :mist stager
langauge. This began almost immediately after OM
marriage. We went to Brussels. and to Berlin. We
returned to England rut alay, 1853. At Berlin I had
a gutric fever. When it was coining on he used on
many occasions to drag me ahout in the snow, making
me walk very fast. He used to say that if I walked at
his pace I should be'too knocked up to wislego out again.
Ile would go out and leave me alone for the whole day,
and, when lie did return, lie was almost always intoxi-
cated. Ile would say he only wished I was dead, fur
lie always hated me. When I came to England I went
to my father's house and remained until June. At
the end of IBesl we went to Dorchester. Ilia conduct
was always violent and cruel, and lie repeatedly struck
me. The first time that I remember his striking me
was in Anglesey, in 1856. lie came in one night in-
toxicated when I was in bed. He brought some
lemonade to my bedside and insisted on my drinking
it. I said I believed it must be poison, mid I refusal.
lie wise very •lolent, swore and called me dreadful
names' and struck me on the shoulder with his fist
so lard that I felt the pain For dais. He also
kicked my circles so that they were black and
bruised. We went to Plymouth from Anglesea. 1 was
there visited bye young lady. I poke to my husband
about his acquaintance with her. I said I should return
home because he, behaved in a most improper spanner
before me. He said I could go home or go to h—,
which I pleased, but he was certain I could not leave
bins because I had not a farthing. The same night he
struck me with his fist and kicked rae. That was
while I was in bed. I should have gone home but I
had no money, and I knew no one there. After this
I told my family all he bad done. In consequence of
their persuasions I continued to live with him. When
we were in bed at night, if I even touched him by
accident he struck or kicked me violently. In February
1857, we were at Bath. His conduct was more violent
than before. Ile knocked nit about. li• wu once
boasting about his criminality with women, and he
showed me letters that he had received from Bunn.
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I said I should return to my father's house. Ho swose
most dreadfully, :struck me • violent blow sod knocked
me down. When I got up he forced me out of the room.
He threatened to shoot me through the head, and I
believe if he bad had pistols he would have done so.
Th• Jirnoc 011.1)11CA T. —Nu, I don't think be would.
You need not pursue the examination any further-
The evidence of this lady, corroborated as it is by other
witnesses, and combined with the evidence of adultery,
as sufficient to justify we in granting • decree. There
were one or two circumstances of such an estraordinary
character that unless they had been fully established
and corroborated I should not have been justified
in acting on thinu.—llecree niai, with maw.

TIIE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE
LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.

The following letters appeared in the Tines of Wed-
nesday
Sir,—l have the pleasure to inform you that the
amount of subscriptions raised by myself and others for
the benefit of the guard, driver, and stoker of the
train that met with the accident at Wimbledon Junction
is £lsB 18e. Gd., and that it will be awarded to the men
as per enclosed notice.
The directors (who have already rewarded the men)
have consented to allow the distribution to take place
at the Waterloo station at 5 o'clock in the afternoon to-
morrow, the 27th inst.

I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
F. W. JAIVILIN.
11a, Austinfriars, EX. March 26.

London, March 27, 1861,
We, the undersigned, beg to inform the subs:Mows I. the
filed, Mad for that benefit of the angine.driver, tumid, and
stoker, for gnat presence of mind displayed by them on the
occasion of the occident on the 28th of January but, amounting
in all to £lllB 18s. 88., that it sill be distributed sa follows :
A silver watah (by Barrnad) with • suitable inscription, and
of the value of Aid, to each of the men, and the Dahlias., in
money as follows :—A4B to ELM Cook, magioe.drircr ; £46
to Matthew Matthews, the guard; £26 to John Robinson, the
stoker.
_ . . . . .

-7rTie following le the Inscription on the watches This
watch. together with eorereigns was presented to
by the passengers travelling on the London and South-
Wateni ault.r.Y, fur hit Pretence of mind at the time of the
accident on the Mb January. 1861.'

" FRZDUICK WILLIAM JA/VILIX.
Joax B. Hatiuso.
"JOHN BVIIACP,
" Row? Yaw."

CHEAP FRENCH WINES.
TO THE EDITOR 07 THE TIMZIS.

Sir,—Will you kindly favor in. with sufficient space
in your columns to ask the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer for the name and address of the wine merchant
he alluded to on Friday night who "sells good sound
wine at 14s. per dozen?"
He is the very man I have been looking for during
the last 20 years.
Your obedient Servant,
Kennaquhair, March 16.. SITIENS.