The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-04-20 00:00:00

MR. IITsONSACKS.VXAMINNIX

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0N.,,,,.,....4 Li si. Clirrlre • VOll lard *mike to
Mn.. Bartlett on thii h Jaetlaty I 4,..•--tan that
day you spike to her .ut the chlorofortn. and elm
west indignant? Yes.--And rhe asked you why Y. 1.1
did not her with having given chl..rofortsi to
her hits• or words to that effect! Yes --Had
rat rr.ade ch.at euggretion befere! No, it wan from
her lip. I first heard it -You have net maid that you
have kieeed her in her hueliairce, e.0.m... t I have.--
Wax there ever any reevet um erritanding between
3." apart from her husband! ~ ft. *Mile herniation •
witnr. said "None," and unuediately iulded,
" trndi.retand nie with referefteu tat the ericret under-
...tiding. I took you to mein with regard to
marriage ; and therefore I said there was nine.
But the ultderritanding with regard to marriage wax
not a itecrct undenitanding! No.-Was there any
impropriety of Colltillet IletWeell you and Mr...
Bartlett? There WA. not. I have kissed her, indeed,
and that Wan impropriety. -But you have maid that
war in the Irreseure id her husband ? ye,, I do not
defend my conduot..--The iliehro : only - in her
husband's pre.ritcr ! Arid ..ot of it.- Mr. Clarke:
Whatever your relations were with her, were
they known to her husband ! Oh, yee.-Weri•
you eincerely soliciteus for his welfare? I was. -
intrita the tinie you were examined before the
Onrimer yint wtec hnili,r the improsion that yiet
would not he allowed Si marry until October, 1.7!
Yea, _ you hail never inquired particularly I What
do you inean by inquiry ! I wee told the fact by
moue one who knew. I bail never inquired behee I
was examined lit•hire the Cori/1111 an to Whether I
Collie' i.e elllllll Illlt 111 l married before 1,4.47. --I you
ever mention to Mr. Bartlett the question of the time
when you might apt married! Never.- ( hr ii. Mrs.
Bartlett ! 1 nifty use done. The subject of marriage
had leen mentioned and talked about between you
and Mr. Bartlett! Yew.- And you became aware
that he had isiouiliar idiass on the wthject! Yea - .
Tour earlier visit, I 1,1 ink, wee raid to her in your
peatoral character! \l've. -11(4 he early in your
acqueintance murk you w tether you thought the teach.
init of theible Wall di o ntinetly in favour id a man
hevi B
ng two winner Ile did. --Did he sumrest to you
that his tiwn Idea Wee that thare might be a wife Mr
, 006minnionshin and a wife fur service? Ile lid,- And
you tolil hint that the whole tenitur of the Bible WU
egainet that Yes-The Judge : Will you explain
what ii meant liy is wife fig service! Is it household
drudgery ! -Willie. ex pleined that generally as
minium( the management of Sho liolmeliolil, --The
lilellte : Ale! ii hat del the word companionship mean!
it ness : Ili, es it'eined t hat lie said that lie thought
the t'.0111.11001 sliceild he educated and intelligent,
and .1 14 le. his Confident in all matters.- -The
• Judge ; Then there is olle other matter I want to
understand, Wait it meting that both of them were
1 to lw his bedfellows! - Witnessi Ile never mentioned
that. The .P ..dg.. ; Did he mg anything about either
id tioni liiiitig hi. companion in that gen.! •-
' Witte.: No, he did not refer to that question al all.
• • Cro. etaminetion euntinited : Did you not clearly
undreetand that the 111liffentiOn WWI that the en* only
wile to be the wife to him 1 or do You moan to").
that he suggested term, that a man should have Iwo
wives in that fell and complete sense? Yen, so I
miderstood liiiii.-That would have struck you ea a
mist oiling/rims suggestion ! It 'struck in. a• • MIMI Iv
able suinreetion.• In what urns.? As an oddity.-
It, your Illelill IO say that the man addreesed you In
the. terms addreeed you a. a Christian mullein-
and that he suggested that he should be allowed to
hold reletionehip with two women ! Oh, dear, no,
lie never otiggeettel it for hinnie I 11. understand it to
he a general wiropetion, -The Judos, : Ind it not
set he you aa imwhoheonte talk fur a fluidly circle /
Wititema: Not mining hien I • , my lord. lill Wan a
man who bail otrange eleite.-Creemoismination eon•
tinned i Ito you Ille/UI to say that you believe there
was anything between pin and him which wee kept
eeeret from his wife ! I cannot nay aye ivr nay to
11111 i. Ti,' Judge ; Was this Wli011• talk, or wee it a
Hier.. j4lolllll` . a sery at i. .11. %Tithe. : It ~,,,, hid(
telltntliely 01l the first ....ion, but 1 have II dintillet
recollectioti of his el...eking more serieuely of it on a
lair r 'evasion -- Uri..a esaihination continued : Did
pet kIIoW that Millie Ile Was at I hoe!' Ile IVIIS working
evtraortlinarily hard! I knew that he teed to get up
at three o'clock in the miming and come up by the
tidal train, and not get back tll hie wife until P011le•
tilllell tell at night. -Some of his strange i leas were
with regard to the terms upon which people would
live !-Yrs.--Do you know the booke lie used to read
with regard to that? A lut.-Ihd he ever talk to you
about this blue•cevered book (eliowing it)! I.have no
recollection of seeing it.-Now, what were his other
strange Weill With regard to marriage. had he any
"then! 1 never heard of any. Did he ever make
reference to marriage between you and Alre. Bartlett
after lie should be dead! Witte.. (alter hesitating
and nlllil rug) : Yea. -how early in your acquaintance
did he make that reference ! I think it would be
about the latter end of October. Ile lia• made .tat,
ment., which left no doubt to my mind that he con•
templet.] Mrs. Bartlett and myeelf being ultimately
utarried iseteuttion).-And to the best of your recollec•
tion, Mr. Dyeoth was the statement fire& made in
October ! About that time.-The Judge : 1 ask you
1., be • little Illllee definite, and tell ua what he did
say. It was • remarkable conrersation, curl, a one
that has never happened to anyone in this Court
before. What def he say? Witness falter • good
deal of hesitation): I can remember this, my lord.
He had been finding some fault with Mr.,,
Bartlett, not angrily, regarding erniething. and I
said to him "If ever she (meaning Mrs. Bartlett)
ellIlle• under my care, I shall have to teach
her differently." He smiled, and said something to
Si,,, elfrct that he had no doubt I should take good
care of her.- -The Judge : 14 it possible that this wart
all? It,. a most extriordinary thing to tell a living
man that if you and his wife cone together, you will
teach her differently !-Witneas : That was all.-Was
it the first time this wail epoken !--Ail far as I can
recolleet.--Mr. Clarke : What previous conversation
could yint wineot ao having established that know•
ledge and uncferetandmg of which you have spoken !
' -The convereation mon Mr. Bartlett'', letter which
hart been read. Now I have reminded you this letter
is dated the 23rd of September, and was written by
you while they were at Dover ! -Yea. What ass
the eons er.tion ins in whieh the letter wan founded !
• -A conversation which took place at l'utney, when
Mr. Bartlett eam.• to owe toe, the occasi,m when he
told me he had made hie will and maned me executor.
What Wan the converaation !-Ilt is a delicate matter.
-The Judge : Ni matter. We have long.nutstenped
the boleti. .4 of delicacy.- Mr. Clarke: What did hi.
raal roii shout hie wife ?-I told him I was griming
very attached to Mra. Bartlett, and that I wiehed to
let him know it. that it wite diaturbing Inc in iny
work, and I arked hint if it would not le better f.,
me to diseont. • my friendship. He said " Why
should you discontinue it !" and told me that 1 hi
been • benefit to her, that she liked my preaching,
and that it had helped her. He showed me one .4 her
letters written to him from the convent. It w. a
TNT devotional letter, and he told me that he would
like net to lead her beak more closely to that frame
01 oohed. He said be had ormadimeas in me, and that

he would be pleased if I would continue
U friendly as I bad been with than. That
was the substance of what he said. -
Wit you were telling the husband that you had
become attached to his wife in • way which made you
feel bound, except at the husband's desire, not to
onstinue the intimacy? He rimed that it should
continue. WM it not then that he mid that if any.
thing happened Is. him you and Mrs Bartlett might
live together? No. that was later, at Claverton-
etc et. Three weed, have gone ..n the detemitione,
but I never mid that Mr. Bartlett ever said the
enact worsts that Mrs. Bartlett and I might come
together. -Cannot you remember the words. It is
Pot a usual thing ! No, I main.n.--As • gentleman
you had, I need scarcely AA, said nothing to Mrs.
Bartlett impeding your feobnge. You did not speak
to her on the eulnect? Yea. I did.-Did you tell
Mr. Bartlett that you had? I did.-1 think you hare
used the ear melon that if you had known her as Its
had done or 12 year*, and had been nursed as
tiff -ctionately l.y her, y... 1 would not have doubted
her? Yes-lrid he ever speak to you about Mrs.
Bartlett's one confinement? I think he did at ,
Merton the told me she had hada child, which died....
I thought you said you had no secret fo.m Mr. Bartlett!
Nothing with regard ti Mrs. Bartlett and myself.-
Do von nimin to say that you had • secret referring
I, Dr. Nicholls between you and Mrs. Bartlett
Yea. -11 r. Bartlett told pm that he had previously
',dieted from elyoodery Yes.-liid he frinn that
day on to the lad time you saw him complain of
slertilemnese and of pain ? Yes, throughout the
sickness. I saw him crying once. I think it was
just before Christmas. He asked in.. on the Sunday
whether anyone could lee lower than lie was wilbout
pawing away albigether.-Wluit was your income,
Mr. Dyson 1 Wane. (heeitatingl: About ElOO a
year.--Lid you mention that t.) Mr. Bartlett or 60
Mrs. Bartlett at any time? They both knew It.-
And there is no repro/belt - I don't Mean it offensively
-Let they knew met you weie not competent to bees
emirs expense. of twilling, and so Al,, Bartlett
offered you the nell.lll ticket for Dover which you
declined, and then lie gave pet the season ticket by
which you constantly tratelled from Putney to
Waterloo! Precisely so.- Did you, during his life,
ever Kay anything v. Mr. 11.srtlett ti ',Mtge* to him
that you should marry Mrs. Bartlett imineeliately
mem hie death? Neetty.• -Three yea lto mere then
tPt tebderttinclipg leowien y.ot yet Mu, Ilaith.tt
:No ;Dom.-You have end that Mrs. Berthett told
piii that she used thlorohirtii by sprinkling it
limullisrphief it* the pigpen., uf &teething hr
baud I Yes,- Did you understand that her husband
was at all i iolent at times? Yet she told ine that
, in preview Instances he was violent, and she was
apprehensite Of the tante thing occurring. She
described it as • paroxysm, and it was to get him to
sleep in such a case that I understood it was to be
inmel --rti. the time poi got the chloroform, wad there
the fain Idea In your mind that it might be used
, fir any dangerous or improper purpose? Not the
faintest. No idea of danger in its use crossed my min I.
-Did you know anything about chloroform? Very
little about it in the sense you ask. I knew it was
used for soothing and anesthetic porpnans. As far as
mpknowledge went chloroform might he safely used
cpeilikled on • handkerchief in the way the had
flescribed.- She never told you pot to mention buy.
tag the chloroform in the presence of Mr. a artlett ?
No.-She did not ask you to keep *met your buying
the chloroform ? Oh, no.-Was there at the time 10
jour Mina the smallest distrust of Mrs. Bartlett)
There wee nor.-Aoti oho way very angry adieu you
suggested ehe should get a nurse I es..y angry
that pm called the next day to apologise to her. Yes.
-We leer that he WM*/ Pf Mrs. liartlett's letters to
you ahe addrimed you as George. Was Mr. Bartlett
in the habit of calling you George? Yea-The
Judge : And what did pm call her ?-Witness
Adelaide.-Crueso.raminittion continued : You threw
the chlordonn bottles away as you went to church
on the Sunday miming? Yes. -Did you tell
p•F 4aa jua loot t.o..nr, then. toyay ? I
did net. -Why so? Probsbly hecatise it never
occurred to me to do so.-IVere you in great anxiety
about your ! I was-What did you mean
when you said you were • ruined man !-Because I
had in my mind what might have happened. I
thought probably the chloroform I had bought might
have teen the cause of death.-And you thought
y... Wail* 1* a ikt.alall 14411 II tl.ll IMlttat Can* Ont.
That you would lie a nailed man if you were found
roteciated with this matter ! I saw that danger, but
it wan not that which suggested the throwing away
of the Imttlee.-rh. 9th was the hut day on which you
aka her. the day on which she was indignant with
00 mot ...el rat 11%04 vela ...pug..hu.r t. ith ha. big
kiven•her husband the chloroform'? I think it WM.-
The witnem was tinder reexamination by Mr. Poland
when the :met vljournerl.
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" vw IMPORT, OLDIAI9, CO. Ks, June 01, MS.
"H. H. Waaaaa k Co.
_

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" remained so to this day. During that canvass g
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"nearly every day, and my physical strengt
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