The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-28 00:00:00

torbanee that Miss Pottle threatened to send for the police.
During the mufile her inistreses thumb was sprained by
the defendant. When the landlady threatened to call in
the police, the defendant went away, and he canoe to
the house again.
A number of letters were then pot in, which had been
written by the defendant to Elisabeth Aefurd during the
period of the intercourse. They were all without date, and
were merely signed 11. The contents were unimportant as
regarded the issue in dispute, but soma portions of them
created a good deal of amusement. In all the letters he ad-
dressed the lady as thy d Luny.
In one of the letters the defendant requested the lady not
to write again to Devonshire-place, and entreated her to
keep her own counsel, and he said that if she did, every-
thing yet would " turn up trumps."
In another letter he promised to send her 21, and so she
appeared to have intimated to him previously that the
butcher she was dealing with had not yet objected to con-
tinue giving credit, he ad•ised her to order another large
joint upon the strength of it. ss they did not know when he
might change his mind. lie likewise said that she could
not be aware of Vat- price of feeding bottles for children, of
she would not have asked him to get ode, and he added
that summon soda-water bottle was the very best thing hif
the purpose, with a piece of leather put over the neck far
the chill to sock through.
In a third letter the defendant told the lady he lied just'
received her second "dear" letter, and wished her to come''
to him at Gravesend, with directions how she could do so
in a meaner to escape observation. He then went on to
say that he had hired a cot for the baby, for which
he was to pay half-a-crown a week. Ile then informed her
that the son of his landlady had been very ill the day be-
fore, in consequence of his having eaten two raw carrots,
and he had administered calomel to him, and also • tre-
mendous dose of castor oil, which had made him all right.
He likewise in this letter entreated her not to forget the
pots and kettles.
In • fourth letter the defendant, after eapressiog his sor-
row at being absent from his d love, concluded
thus: lam in very low spirits, and am truly wretched. I
have no cigars.
The next two letters were those which were most relied
on in support of the pheintirs case. At the time they were
written the lady, it appeared, was residing at Cirencester,
at an inn, and was evidently in want of mosey. The de-
fendant, who was in London, wrote to her, stating that he
had been about all the morning to try to get two pounds to
send her, but bad been unsuccessful. His family would do
nothing for him, and he himself was penniless. Under these
circumstances he advised her to call upon a respectable soli-
citor, whom he named, and advised has to miplain to him how
they were situated, and ask him to write to his mother; and
he said if this were done the fear of exposure would induce
them to give him some money. He advised her to act as
though it was of her own accord, and not sy a word about
his having advised her, and he said if she did eo everything
would turnout right. Ile afterwards wrote • seeoad letter,
in which he advised the lady to apply to the gentleman he
had mentioned before in his capacity of clerk to the magi,-
trans, and ask for a summons against him for deserting her,
and he told her to appear hostile to him and say that she
was eseapilled to take this step on account of her being in
• destitute condition. This he sold would compel his
family to do them justice.
In another letter the defendant told the lady he bad been
to St. Albans, and that a person there was going to intro-
duce his t a fool wdo would give him one hundred pounds
for his acceptance for a thousand, and he was going to give
half the money to the person who was the means of his
getting the money, and when he obtained the balance, he
said he would "rig out his deary" in the style she deserved.
He went on to say that he was disgusted with this country,
and had serious thoughts of going abroad and taking her
with him.
In another letter the defendant, having heard that the
lady was ill, wrote to Inform her that a doctor lived opposite
the inn where she wee staying, to wham he advised her to
apply immediately, as he said he was a Ter, good man, and
what was better " would stand steroid credit."
Mrs. IMAM Charge deposed that in 1945 she was
in midge a ilims for the lady, who was called Mrs7lcorel!
maths, Ibis she resided in the Wandsworth-road. She
saw the iliallembat Owe, sad they lived together as man
Si Mtn Most the that the first child wsa bora the
asibmilamt malme that it should be • boy,
Si Si bea CZ he lsls sd if it was not, as a great
doll amok* ems Is s ie amid make theta all hand-
MOM mosiolls. WM was pram* ups. me °maim wheel
Mr. sod tees. Tollomasbe wen Whim in a book containing
the abloom, of moot beauties. Si the defendant recap
abed aims of them, sod, addreasheg Mee. Tollienaehe, said
"Too wield have • title too if you bid your rights."
Pfleit deposed that she resided at Coburg-place,
Konaloglewlese. In 1847 the defendant engaged apart-
ment' la Iwo been. He said that his name was Langford,
sad he Mersemped the lady Is question as his wife. They
only sesid labor house a few weeks ow this occasion, but
same • sensed time in September, 1848, and remained until
the sod of that year. This time the lady came first ; and
eras Sunday the defendant came, and there wasa great die.
turbines ; and when she went up stairs, she found the
panel of the bedroom door broken in. Witness inquired
what was the matter, and Mrs. Langford said that her Mo-
hamed wanted to take away letters and paws relating to
then 'marriage. The defeadant then said he wished to
to witness, and she took him into the parlour, and
lady followed them. The defendant then said that the
lady was not his wife. She immediately replied that she
111111. The defendant than said that if she had a thousand
pooh she might claim her rights, but where was the
Millesey to same from ?
The asedissam of the registration of the births of the
oblidemt were then put is They were all described as
litintMe_shildrea of William Felix Samuel Tollemache
sod Wikaboth Tollemache, formerly Aeworth, and one of
thn isdrestimi for the registry was signed by the defen-
dms4
This dosed the plainer@ ease.
iledesat Shoe submitted that there was sot sufficient
mile roes to go to the jury.
Mason Abloom said he could sot decide that there was
Wig= go? at all eves*, he should ass
dog the case.
ossordlogiy abused ate jury. He said
he appeared holm Mom as the mood fir Lord Hunting-
tower, the Ina eit the lad of Hymn% a asMoman undoubt-
edly of large pmessioes, but they orma haw collected from
the evidence Woes Masa that lielailbeamediSj the rank
sad position of his spy, the deloodsok Owbg the whole
of these transactions masks robin dostreme Mame and
misery, with little or so memo hp support Wove resit, or to
support • wife or any pauses be Meanly petition in which
he recognised the namaite VOW ea whose behalf
the complaint was sow mode. Ho Amid set attempt to
say a word in favour of dm dadmisat ea Me seers of mo-
nifty. There was as limb( that he bad dosed, and that
the woman in quietism bed elm Miami ; that they were
both equally culpable, aril thsa theanoesquemes of sun had
followed their mossisedam, Those mold also bs no doubt
that this mew had a dabs upon the geseraity and the
justice of the deilimient, sad elm upon lie family to that
sates!, for some reasomblo amdateumes ; sad he believed
that dela had °miasma what was due to her real position,
Si had made • mime 'meatier:, it would have been at
100 Si aama ressmable allowance would have been
Mk hoe, sad the disilmileat, in that respect, would have
maie bar all the reparation in his power. Whom, however,
mem, no doubt, under the advice of others, abs came for-
med to set up a claim of this diesseptions the defeadant
felt that, not only in jostles to himself, bat
silo to the lady whom be had slam married, and
by whom he had i 5..., he MI w altemotive but to
resist emit a claim, and state beams the wield what ware
the red eiromastaasee of the imasostiou Mamma him sod
this per,.., sad to show them was net the enabled Moir
tics for the claim she set up to be his wife. Hs mold put
Lord Hantingtower tato the vetoer box, sad he wield
tall thom that be was now a married man, sad the=
meld now judge of the extreme gravity of theism
they bad to decide. Lord Haatingtower maid pledge his
oath that nothing like a ceremony of marriage hod ever
took place between him and the female I. emsedoo, and
certainly if be was net speaking the truth, his sonhat had
bean each as would disgrace him for ever is the eyes of the
world. Since his intercourse with Elizabeth Acford had
ceased he had married the daughter of en hemourable
baronet of family and rank asuly to his own,by whom be
had igen*, sod the jury would consider whether it ow
likely he would have dared to take such a step
if there had been any foundation for the amnion
of a previous marriage. The learned serjeant thea referred
to the nature of the claim, and said that although he did not
desire to cast any imputation upon the plaintiff, he could
not help calling to the attention of the jury the fact that
in 1849, when the application for relief was find mad* to
him and inquiries instituted upon the subject, he was dis-
tinctly told that Lord Hnstingtower denied is the most din
tient terms that the lady in question had say claim upon
him as hie wife, and yet alter this be shoes to take her and
her children into his house ; sad he had nobody to thank
for the expense he had incurred but himself. The only
effect of this proceeding was to endeavour to extort money
unfairly and improperly from the pocket of Lord Hunting-
tower ; and he considered, therefore, that the plaintiff was
disontitled to that consideration which otherwise, on the
score of humanity, he would have deserved at their bands.
The only question in the cause, however, was whether it
had been made out to the satisfaction of the jury that any
marriage ceremony had been performed in Scotland ; and
he submitted to them that than was not a
single tittle of evidence to make oat that fact.
He was not prepared to justify the conduct of
Lord Huntingtower up to the time when he came
forward and avowed his shame, and declared to :be world
that the lady whom he bad permitted to use his same for
so long was not his wife but his concubine. If he had se-
duced her, he was bound by every tie of religion and duty
to provide for her, but he was hot booed to make her his
wife, end there was nothing whatever is the ease to show
that he ever hod such an isolation. Lord Hantingtower
was • man evidently not poeseesed of very much sense-he
had so doubt said and written many foolish things, bat he
challenged the jury to pick est any portion of the *videos*
which would show anything like an admiosioa am his part
that he had been married to this Weella. Was there any
evidence to jsstify the jury is iambi to • costelosioa the
effect of which would be to boolaollso the isms he had by
the lady cts whims he mu now mom. sod whidi were
sow acknowledged as logitimato Emma to the
litters that had bora pat iy it lammed la him they were
utterly unimportant, owl Mot they rather teoded ti
negative the fact of a meedenuttito support it, he
simile
in so letter did the ever address the
lady as his wife, and they ware all desk as wadi be
written by a man to • mimeo nabs, dm e 1111011ffidl to
a wife. The real nature of the mmsexierhMgaalm
parties he should show to be this. Ia 1848 Ila
who was at that time living at DWI with Me deilli4
a quairei witb bee and kit Mr lore, sod a allies
la
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Lla a wry Imabla amain Wink IMMO to dm itab
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