The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-14 00:00:00

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.

MAT 13.
(Before the Judge Ordinery.)
SADOUELLI V. 11A1101:211LLE (1w FORMA PATTILTS) AND
TAYLOR. .

Dr. Swabey appeared for the petitioner ; but when the
ease was called on,
Mr. Prentice stated that he had held a brief for the co-
reapoodent ; but he was not now instructed, for his client
was in prison, and had no means with which to continue his
Dr. Spinks said be appeared for the respondent, but he
likewise bad not lately heard from the attorney. The re-
spondent herself bad been to him, however. and caked him
to apply for an adjournment of the case. She said she had
several witness, but she wee not able to procure their at-
tendance today.
Dr. Swabs, mid everyone had been rained by the suit, but
u the respondent had two or three weeks ago obtained par-
misaion to defend herself in forma pauperis, it would be very
hard upon his client if the expense he had been at in ap-
pearing on this occasion were all thrown away.
Sir C. Cromwell expressed • suspicion that this was one
of those CAM in which the real defendant was the co-
respondent, who put himself forward in the name of the
wife in order to throw the code upon the husband. If he
could only obtain satisfactory proof of ouch • practice he
would certainly take care that the attorney who was guilty
of it should not do the same thing again. The case most
meted.
John George Samouelle. the publisher of a local news- ,
paper at Newington, in Surrey, manned Elizabeth Barwick.
At that time he was • minor, but his wife use somewhat
older. They cohabited till May. 1861, and they had as many
as seven children. The co-respondent. C. E. L. Taylor,
a maker of perambulators, occupied a home of the peti-
tioner, and close to his residence. An adulterous intimacy
had thus sprung up between the respondents, and various
criminal acts were charged in the February, March, and
April previous to the separation. The pleas in defence
comprised allegations of cruelty, misconduct, wilful neglect,
and adultery committed by the petitioner.
On behalf of Mr. Samouelle evidence was given showing
that ha bad always behaved kindly to his wife, and proving
numerous admissions of her guilt. A letter of bars was
also put in, full of penitence and despair, imploring the peti-
tioner to Ist her return to his house in the character of a
slave, promising to live like a nun, and hinting at suicide if
be declined her offer.'
The jury, after a brief coosultatior, found • verdict for
the petitioner, with 2501. damages.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.
(Before Yr. Justice Williams.)
(Concluded from yesterday's Express.)

r, wss indicted for

William Clayard, 44, cab proprietor,
the manslaughter of William Cooper.
The leaned Judge having summed up, the jury retired
to deliberate upon the cue. and were absent three-quarters
of an hour. Upon their return into court they found the
prisoner Guilty, bat at the same time cape an opinion
that the deceased received the fatal injury by being pushed
down by the prisoner, and that be did not make ale of
either a hammer or a paint brush. They also strongly re-
commended the prisoner to mercy on account of the great
provocation be had received.
The learned Judge, in pluming sentence upon the prisoner,
said that the jury had convicted him of amain/ the death
of a fallow creature by his unlawful act, but there wu no
doubt that he bad received great provocation, and taking
this fact into coosideratioo, and aloe that for some time he
had had to undergo the pain and anxiety of being subjected
to a charge of wilful murder, arising oat of the traoseetion,
be should only inflict a light punishment upon him, which
wu that he be imprisoned in the common gaol for one
month.
William Walter Steward. 44, mariner, was charged with
the manslaughter of hie wife, Anne Steward.
Yr. Whims prosecuted, and lir. Taylor was counsel for
the defence.

This case was postponed from the last session. It ap-
peared that the • ner was a seafaring man, and that he
and the d reeided at No. 10, Duff-street, Poplar ;
and there was no doubt that they were both addicted to
habits of intoxiattiori, the prisoner, however, probably
being the wore of the two in this respect. The evidence
in support of the charge was of a very obscure character,
and the principal witness was a young girl who acted as
servant to the parties. From her evidence it appeared that
about four o'clock on the afternoon of the 17th of
March, the prisoner and his wife were both in bed drunk,
and in consequence of something that occurred the witless
went into the room, and the deceased said that the prisoner
had struck her in the side, and she appeared to he very ill.
The witness made some remark in reference to the prisoner
striking his wife, and he told her she had no business to
say what she had, and he at the same time slapped her
face, He then went into another room and dressed him-
self, sod shortly afterwards he returned to his bed-room,
and addressing his wife, said, " Bo,help me God, Anne, I
would rather be hung for you than see you in this state,"
After this, the prisoner appeared to be very sorry for what
had happened, and be behaved very kindly to the deceased
until her death, which took place on the 24th
of March. From the evidence of the surgeon, it
appeared that the death was occasioned by two of the
ribs of the deceased being fractured, but the only evidence
to show that this injury was the result of violence inflicted
by the prisoner was the statement made by the deceased in
his presence, and the additional fact deposed to by the ser-
vant girl thetass new the primer "nudge" his wife on the'
right side.
Mr. Taylor, in addressing the jury on behalf of the ac-
cused, said he bad been a Boaster mariner, and had been
away on a foreign station for upwards of fifteen years, and
had only returned about five or six weeks before this occur-
rence took place. His statement to him was that previous
to his going away be bad courted the deceased, at which time
she was a respectable woman, sad on his return, thinking
she was the same as he had left her, sought her out, and
married her immediately. He afterwards, however, found
she kept a house of indifferent character. Since the time
be had been married, they had given way to excessive drink-
ing, and at the time in question he was quite intoxicated,
and bad a recollection of trying to strike the servant, wise
bed been men rosy to him than be thought was proper,
upon which his wife interfered, and a sort of scuffle took
place, in which she received the iejuries, but be bad net
the slightest ides hem. He lisped that the jury wield like