The Express.
London, England, 1862-06-30 00:00:00

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.

Joss 28. 1
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
HINMAN N. HININAN AND SESILIFIXT.
(Continued from Saturday's Express.)
Walter Heo/111M1, the younger son of the petitioner, once
saw hie mother sitting with a gentleman in Kensington-gardens
She held her parasol so that witness might not see him.
Spoke to her, but she made no reply ; and when he got
home she said she did not wish him to see her. On another.
occasion, while he was walking with his father in the Horti.
cultural Gardens, they saw her sitting with Captain Berke-
ley. When she saw witness's father she made a face to Cap-
tain Berkeley.
The learned counsel having addressed the court, and his
lordship having summed up,
The jury found a verdict for the husband.
Decree nisi with costs.
Joint 27.
DOUGLAS O. DOUGLAS AND WINSTAXLKT.

Dr. Spicks for the petitioner: Mr. Marlin for the re-
spondent.
Mr. Ebenezer Douglas, a loather-seller, in Liverpool,
married the respondent in Februery, 1847. She afterwards
cootracted habits of drunkenuess,aud her conduct ultimately
became no violent that in the year 1859 her husband com-
menced a suit for a judicial separation from her on the
ground of cruelty. He was induced, however, to abandon
his petition, on her promise to go into a reformatory at
Edinburgh. She stayed there for some time, and then she
returned to Liverpool ; but her conduct was no better, and
her husband found it Impassible to live with her. They
separated. and in consequence of reports he beard of her
conduct, he set some one to watch her. The result was
that she was traced to a brothel with the 00-respondent,
who was described to be a shoemaker, of advanced years.
She bad passed herself off to him as a widow.
Verdict for the petitioner. Decree did, but without
costa.

ram LUDGATXIIILL TRAWIDY.

Mrs. Vyse, who has in some measure recovered
from the injury she indicted upon herself after the murder
of her two infant children, on Ludgate-hill, was placed at
the bar, at the Guildhall Polies Court, on Saturday.
Mr. Pearson, who appeared for the proseestion. stated
that the prisoner was charged with the wilful murder of
box two children by poison, but from the information he
bad received from the medical gentlemen who bad at-
tended the prisoner, he believed that she wee suffering
at the printout moment so much from for of blood
consequent upon injuries which she bad indicted upon
pro
hermit, that it would be unwise to long the inquiry ;
he should therefore merely confine himself to calling the
withered wbo would narrate the facts. There were sug-
gestions which might turn out to be true, that the prisoner
was labouring wider insanity at the time ; but that would
be a question to be inquired into elsewhere. He would at
ones call the witnesses, and ask for a remand, so as ant to
protract the inquiry longer than possible.
Mr. Savory, Surgeon Assistant at St. Bartholomew's Hos-
pita], deposed that he made a poor mortrei examination of
the bodies. The contents of the stomachs of the children
he sealed up in jars, end delivered them to Mr. Attila, of
St. Bartholomew's Hospital. He had himself analysed parts
of the contents of the stomachs. He tried them on aat ;
she was sensibly affected and convulsed, but did not die.
Mr. Atfield was then examined, and detailed the revolt of
his analysis of the stomachs of both children, and found
strychnine in each.
John L. Taylor, assistant to Mr. Keating, St. Paul's.
churchyard, deposed to the fact of the prisoner, on the
22nd of May, coming to the shop and purchasing the Battles
powder. She complained that they were very mesh in-
fested with rats and mice, and that they had made boles in
the premises, and caused so mach mischief that it bed cost
them 51. to repair the place. When he sold the powders
he cautioned the prisoner as to their poisonous nature.
The prisoner, who was supported by two female warders.
was throughout the medical evidence and that of the lass
witness most painfully affected.
The evidence of Mr. Marshall, the sssistaat of Mr. 111181.
lug, and also that of the servant maid of Mrs. Vyse, as given
at the inquest, was repeated.
Mies Saunders, the sister of the unfortunate prisoner,
who was deeply affected, added to her former evidence that
a letter had been given to her by her sister, which the
could not then produce, as she had destroyed it. She iden-
tified the pieces of paper which she took from her sister's
pocket, which was also proved to be Battle's powders, pur-
chased at Mr. Keating's.
Mr. C. Pearson mid be was informed by the medical gen-
tlemen that the unfortunate lady at the bar was in too low
a condition to endure a prolongation of the inquiry; he would
therefore ask for a remand for another day. He had no
desire to overload the came, but public justice compelled
him to complete it.
The inquiry was then adjourned to Tuesday.
Mrs. Vyse was then conveyed to Newgate In a cab.