The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-11-12 00:00:00

her altogether 6-1. for that purpose. He made 'leveret
inquines to enable him to get her out of Briatol, for
from the commencement lie recommended her to go to
her father, lie told her if die would go lie would pay
lier expenses, and for that purpore he applied to Mr.
George Th se for asidAsnee. Mr. Tho-nas sent him
El, through Mr. (; e.s, and he received a letter from Mr.
Thomas. (The letter way read. Mr. Thomas therein
stated that he scut the money to remove the woman awl
her family from a scene of sin and wickedness.] He
(lerclident) promised her if she would go and piece her.
elf under her father lie would not forget her if she
conducted herself properly. lit not promise to
visit her occasionally at Andover, nor offer to pay her
5, or 6m. • week ; but lie said if lie should NMI through
Andover he would call awl see her boy. He made ar-
ouigements to place money in the hands of a gentleman
, to pay her fare from Biistol, bettause from what ha had
heard he believed she would not leave if the money was
, placed in her hands. There was 10s. left after paying
expenses, and he gave it to poor persons in the district
,of St. Jude. lie never received any application for
wages, hut he had board that the plaintiff bad told a
person whom she owed money that she could not pay
her, because Mr. Valentine hed not paid her. Cross-
' examined : He came to Bristol on the 1211 of May, and
engaged to have the sole charge of St. Jude's for four
months. Mrs. Gilbert never came into his employ. Ile
could not recollect the money lie had given the plaiutiff,
for she mine nearly every day begging or asking to
borrow. Ile believed be had never sent her fur spirits;
perhaps oho might have been sent when wine or spirits
were wanted in a hurry. She never did anything in his
house, except opal a calf's heed (laughter.) His
Honour How came she to cook the calf's head? The
defendant made a long statement, which he con-
cluded by observing that he asked her to cook the
calf's head, and he gave her Is and the spoiled part
of the Lead. She often pressed herself into his house,
but be did not deal harshly with her because
he theught there was hope of her being reclaimed.
His Honour, in giving judgment, said that, in taking
the whole of the evidence into consideration, he was of
opinion that this was a most gross and acandeloni
I attempt on the part of the plaintiff to drag the defend-
ant, a clergyman of the Church of England, into that
Court. There were imputations against that gentleman
—who was of the age of 75—that he bad made im-
proper overtures to her to leave the man she was living
with and take furnished ap irtiuenta in which he might
visit her. That was, he considered, • gross and un-
justifiable attack upon a elargyinan who appeared, from
her own evidence, to have acted in a kind and friendly
manner towards her. Far be it from him
to say that she had been instigated to do so;
but when he found • case before the Court
resting upon such @lender testimony, and when she
swore these improper overtures were made, the ease
was one of the most disreputable he had ever had before
him in that Court. In giving judguient for the defend-
ant his impression was that the attack upon the defend-
ant had signally failed, and that he left the Court
without the slightest stigma upon his character.
Judgment for the defendant, with costa.