The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-14 00:00:00

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no avidecce had been si•-.4 ihow th" t. 0
I • as 1.1.1 ever slept is her :Ad, said, if 1 du not contradict
all the evidence which Cu been sauced, you will make
ellowacce for me, for it Is difficult to grapple with • case
like thi., l•Ver may year, and comrlicated
its altars. It 1 .how that in all essential particular, this
esse'rests on hollow and unworthy testimony, then ',ay will
some to your conclusion as is the other portions •.,f the evil
Bence. I trust as to the main portions you will
'sine to the conclusies they are fribri,„ted sail ea.
tru On muth there is doubt aid. mistrust, •id
youe.
wi ro,t forget that some of cno witness,. are
utterly unworthy of credit, and pre sent tam/helm before
you nader circumstances of suspicion—present them•
selves befcre you in the very s rvice of the plaintiff,
and with the knowledge of the infamous part which they
bare played, I trust that you will come to the conclusion
that this action, brongtt forward as a counter to the accu•
eations of the wife against the husband, is based Op grounds
mat improbable soul insufficient, end that you will find
✓erdict for the defendant.
Lions. Bred's* examined by Serjeant Wilkins-1 am the
proprietor of the Hotel Truest', at Havre. In 1646 the
Blirguise Agusdo aril her two was, their physician and
suite, were staving at my hotel. The Marquise occupied
rooms 33 and 3.5, her two sons and the doctor eccupied 37.
39, and 49. A register of the persons via tin the hotel is
kept. Tbat is the book. I only know these facts from the
books. Toe clerk keeps the bwks. This book always
remened in the clerk's office, and be gives me an aeooent
every evening of the departures which are to take place.
Prince Paul of Wurtemborgh occupied 122. Tho Aguado's
occupied the aims rooms a+ they had previously after
Pr nee Paul left. 1 am sure none of the Aguado family
occupied 122. There is a large sails de bah at
the thee's". Every evening the peisons staying at the
hotel nest in that room to dance. It Is closed at
midni.eht. The witness Demsussu was concierge in 1816.
It was a [part of bar duty to collect the shoes fur classing,
but not to put out the lights. It is tho duty of the concierge
man or woman, to enter the rooms to collect the baggage.
The clothes which are to be brushed are generally put out-
side the door. Hy room is only • few paces from the

bridge.
Serjeast Wilkins—The bridge where the woman said the
fel: aallep, my lord.
Eseneurath u continued—l never observed any improper
time iarity between Mrs. hope and the Count Aguado. I
dor.% remember a femme de ehambre named Clarissa Stu-
trenil—there might have been one of that name. The
Agusdo family came to the hotel again in July or August,
Ib3o. The Marquis* then again' occupied 33 sad '35. The
Count Agusdo occupied, according:to my recollection, 102
and 104. These rooms oommuoicate, and were occupied
by the two brothers. :The Coast set up an %p-
-restos for dagnerreotyping in the ante-chamber of 102.
Madame Hope arrived in July or August. She wrote to
engage her apartments some dais before. The bathing or
tablithment is under my directi u. The regulations ote-
served are very strict. In 1852 the Marquise occupied the
game apartments. In that year the Count took apartments,
117, 119, and 121 oa the second floe. I think the two
brothers slept in the isms room. Madame Hops occupied
lu) on the second fine. When first she came she wee
placed in 5,7, and 9on the ground floor. Having heard •
person had cied in that apartment a fortnight before, the
asked for another apartment.
Croes•examined by Sir F. ibesiger—l derive my personal
knowledge of the occupation of these apartments from my
memory and my books. I don't know except from the re-
gister and the verbal account given me by the person who
menages the hotel, who oceuried the rams. The Aguado
family arrived the day or the day before that on which
Prince Peel of Wurtembnrgh wint away. They remained
abort a month. The C ,rent Agusdo has bees at my hense
sines)Cheistmes--te canto to take those plans (photographic
views if the Hotel 'Frascati), and stayed about three hours.
I then looked over the registry! I swear positively that
the family Oberao occupiiel 122, after Prince Peal went
away. I state this of my own knowledge. The prints oc-
cupied 122, 124,126, and 128, and the salon 130. Demtheau
is still living at Havre.
Re-examined by Serjeant Wilkins—l last saw Damtheau
last season. Mr. Hart has done me the honour to pay me a
visit. (Laughter.) He came to my hotel at Havre yester-
day week.
Viseonste Aguado examined by the Attorney-Oenersl—l
am the brother of the Count Aguado. I remember in 1846
going with my mother and brother to Trascati's Hotel,
Beare. Ido not recollect the numbers of the rooms we oc-
cupied, but I recollect their situation. My brattier occupied
no room in the same part of the bore' and near that of Mdme.
Hope. In 18501 was again at Havre with my mother andlbro-
thee. I occupied 104 and my brother 102. Mdme. Hope occu-
pied the same apartment. as in 1846. She never came into
the room (194) at night. My room (104) opened into my
brother's room (102) The door between the two rooms
was always left open. Madame Hope never at any time at
night passed through my room into my brother's. I
knew her to be in my brother's room. In 18.52 we occu-
pied rooms on the second floor. I think Madame Hope et-
c:pied rooms on the woad fiber. My brother and I occu-
pied one room with two beds. From 1846 to 1852 I was in
constant intercourse with my brother. I never knew of my
brother occupying apartments in the Rue Monceau.
It was not my brother, but I, who a:espied
apartments in the Roe Labordere, Bois de Boti-
tne. I was in the habit of meeting a lady there.
My heather never went there, for I n told him I had
those apartments. My mother lives in the Place Vendome,
at Peril. My brother the Count and I lived there with
her My elder brother, the marquis, is married, and has a
!doily. Ile did not live in the Place Vendome. His chil-
dren very often came to see my mother. All the children
of Mn. Hope used to come there, and Mr. Hope himself.
Cross examined by Sir F. Thesiger—ln 1846, at Havre,
we went very often to Madame Hope's, and she was very
often with us. In 1846 my brother occupied a room between
mine and Dr. Dauvaio. I don't remember Madame Andrier
being at Trascati's in 1850. I swear she did not come with
me. I will not answer any more questions of that kind.
My brother used to go to the salon of Madame Hope without
me, and I without him. I took the house in the Rue De-
bordere in 1810.
Sir F. Thesiger—Used you go there accompanied by any
one?
Witness—Sometimes.
Sir F. Thesiger—Was that person a female ?
Witness—That is my affair. (Laughter.)
The Attorney-General—l think you may assume it was,
from the answer.
Sir F. Thes4er—Well, when you went them with what
you call " your affair " (laughter), how did you go ?
Witner—ln my own carriage.
Sir F. Thesiger—Do you remember Tallandie, who drove
your brother's brougham ?
Witness—He was a groom, like all other,.
Sir F. Thesiger —Do you remember Tallandie driving
your brother to the Rue Debordere ?
Witness—No, my brother never was .
Sir F. Thesiger—Has M. Bredart been to the your
brother in Paris ?
Witness—Yes, be .came to see him last week, at his
house in the Place Vendome.
Sir F. Thesiger—What was your number in the Rue
Deborders ?
Witness—Twenty.
The Attorney-General—Who had the key of that house ?
Witness—l bad one, the concierge had the other.
Desiree Quoiante Borst examined by Mr. Wise—l live at
Havre. I was engaged at the both!) as baignetue in 18.50.
I knew Madame Hope. I have seen her bothe. She used
to go into the water with the boigneur ; there are four
attached to the establishment. She could not •wint. I was
there all the season of 1850. I know the Count Agusdo
I never saw him bathing with Madame Hope ; that could
not be. I never heard they had been seen bathing to-
gether.
Cross examined by Sir F. Thesiger—M. Aguado and
two other gentlemen mime and took my declaration last
week. lam employed by M Bredart, but it is the persons
on whom I wait who pay me. Madame Hope was very
timid in the water. She never bathed alone.
By the Attorney-General—There were other ladies
bathed alone. _

Cassimer Havant, examined by Serjeabt Wilkins—l ma
a physician. I reside in Puis. I have been family phy-
sician to the Aguado family slum 1838. I was with the
family at Havre in 1846. I think it was in August.
The Count Aguado's room in the hotel adjoined
mine, the Vicomte's room was adjoining his brother'.
(The witness pointed out on the plan rooms 37,
39, and 41 as those oeenpied by them.) I
saw any improper familiarity between the Count and
Madame Hope. In 1848 I went to Italy with the Mar-
quise, the Count, and the Marquis, his elder brother. TM.
Is my passport for that voyage. We started from Paris on
the 31st of July or let of August, 1848. We remained
eight or nine days at Berri, and then went to Marseilles,
where we rent-tined three days. We went then to Florence.
My pissport from Florence i. via 19th Ootober. We
then went to Paris, where the family 'outlined till early in
November. While the Count was in Italy I did not leave
him a vie& day. The Count suffered from neuralgia in
hie face; it is • family complaint. The Count's elder brother
is too ill to be here to•day. This is the passport of the
Mutinies the Count's mother.
Cross-examined by Sir F. Thesiger—l got my passport
Is Paris. I same first to England. The passport is tnie at
Boulogne 6th of May, 1818, and in July I was into doted
10 Mulatto Hope by the Aimed° family. Madame Hope's
little boy was ill, and she asked me to attend. I afterwards
al1:040113 the family physician, and Mr. Hope gave me a
aged salary. I know I went from England to Boulogne
twice in 1848 before the month of August. I was the per-
tain who was brought in here to he shown to the witneu
Ann Eons as Dr. Devalue. In 1848 I left the Aguado
family in Paris.
at•-eramined—When I came to England in 1848 I ac-
companied the Count when he came t, take apartments for
his mother at Folkestone.
Loliot examined by Mr. Wise—l am a courier. I
made the journey with the Aguado family from Paris to
Florence in 1818 and back again. The Count Agnado was
there. He had his carriage with him. It was embarked at
Marseilles. This document is the permit bit the embarka-
tion ef the carriage at Marseilles. (The document was
dated We 71.13 of Anglin!, 1848.] We went from Marseilles
by ma to be:thorn. We returned to Paris on the first dey
of November.
Hyppolyte have been in the service of the
Count Aguado 22 wears. I was with him at Havre in 1848.
The Marquise, hi ;weber, and his brother were there. I
remember MIL Ho being there. Mrs. !lope'. and the
Count's rooms wor.4on the opposite side of the hotel. I went'
with the Coital to Italy is 1848. That was at the end of
July. Mu went ant to twit estate at Berri that to

Marseilles ; from titian vie Flame, ; pad 'eternal to,
Paris b/ the Genoa rote. We •ed in Paris about the
end ei oetq'ler. I's was after the election of the Pre-
sideut. We romeieed at Paris. I was with the family
again at PAWS iu 1950 and 1832. I never witnessed any
in.iprapite familiarities between my mister and Madame
' Re. In the year oreatl ace- ie&
the Count to London.f the
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each So did his .nan, Charles mean
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lie. We stayed at the Brunswick Hotel. A friend of his
stayed there with him, but went away before us. We went
away in June. I went away with the Count, Charles Collin,
aid the Count de: Morey, whom we met at the railway.
We went to the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone. We remain``
there three or four days on account of the sea beteg very
rough. The Count, while there, had neuralgia in his Lead.
I slept in the room of the Costa Aguado each night while
we remained at Folkestone. Every time the Count has
neuralgia, lam obliged to remain with him ; he suffers
much. I lay down upon the bed and sometimes in a chair.
I have no knowledge that on any occasion Madame
Hope went into the Count's room, or that
the Count went into her room. I have never seen
the count in her bedroom, or her in his bedroom. I re-
member the morning they left Folkestone. Ire member the
porter calling the count. I was at that time in the count's
bedroom. I packed the boxes, and informed the count the
sea wit smooth, and we went awe/. Charles Collin occu-
pied a room iu an upper story. I had also a roam opposite
that. I did not sleep there. I only used it for our boxes and
luggage. I never saw the door between the two rooms
open. I suppose Mrs. Hope's lady's maid packed her boxes.
I assisted with Collin en removing them. I went into her
room by the door on the corridor.
Cross examined by Sit F. Thes'ger—l have not seen the
passport since 1919, when I took a new one. I was at
Folkestone with my master in 1849. I remember being
there in 1848, when my master passed a good deal of his
time at Mrs. Kitchener's. I never took his clothes
there for him to dress for dinner. He always dressed
at the Pavilion. I do not know Mrs. Kitchener,
se her house. I don't recollect Young coming to Boulogne.
I don't remember being at the Marine Hotel, Boulogne,
when Young came over. I
will Young. I never saw Young at the Marine Hotel. I
never `revelled with my master trout Boulogne to Dover.
I did not see the chambermaid talking to my master when 1
mneemet to the Pavilion. I chose the chamber 58, and bad it
dims to the count. It was light, se that I could see the
'heather. It was daylight. My master was suffering very '
much from neuralgivat the time. He was ill on leaving
London. I dined at the Pavilion, and went to bed after
dinner. I can't say the hour. I suppose the count dined.
He went into the dining-room. Daring the nights I slept
in my master's room I did not undress myself. His
neuralgia lasted all the time we were there. The
bed, an which I laid down occasionally, barredathe
doors. Its position wit not altered from the
time we went in up to the moment of departure. When I
went into Madame Hope's room, to remove the luggage, I
did not try to move the bed. I went by the corridor. On
the 9th of June, when the porter called my master, I was
in his room. The count did not go to look at the weather
before he dressed ;he dressed himself immediately. The
position of the bed was never moved while wo were there.
The doors between the count's room and the adjoining nes
were never opened. I knew the adjoining rood was
Modems Hope's. I have made a declaration in this i
matter.
Sir F. Thrsiger—Did you not swear this—" Nor wit'
the door which communicated between the chambers of the
Count A.guado and Madame Hope ever open, to my know-
ledge, during the time we were at the said hotel; except
that on the morning of our departure from the said hotel it
was opened for rite to go in to assist the servant of Madame
Hope :o finish the baggage, which I then did" ?
Witness—l may have made that mistake.
R t-examined by the Attorney. General—l have passed
over between England and France with my master. I hare
often been at the Pavilion Hotel. Sometimes the count,
sometimes myself, but more frequently I, look out for the
rooms. I have been at Dover several times in coming from
France, but on those occasions I never Cline from
Boulogne.
The court then adjourned.