The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-14 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.-Yr,qTIMAT.

!MINOS AT SIM PAWS w bums.—Nero.. CHM, JCATICA
JRATI. AMP • CTIMITON JesT.
lIr.theWEL.L T. TAYLon.—SrnucTtos.
The plaintiff in this action is a earls titer and builder at
Rochester, and the di fenannt is a lieute aunt in the Itoyal
Marines, formeriy stationed at Chatham, and the action
was brought to reenter damages in consequence of the
seduction of the plaintiff's daughter.
Mr. flerjeant Wilkins opened the plaintiff's ease, and
stated that the plaiutiff's daughter, a young Indy 22 years
of age, was up to September, 1819, in the service of a Mrs.
lkiv, but at that period she left, and went to live with her
father, and took the place of a servant whom he had dis-
charged. On Oct. 21 she met the defendant in Rochester,
cathedral when he foliose tat her home and importuned her
to meet him. At subsequent times he repeated this con-
duct, and the result was that ultimately the plaintiff's
daughter went to the defendant's quarters and there be oh•
taine d possession of her person under eirmunstane..s which
he (the leases il Seticant) submitted naleht have made hint
amenable to the laws of his country. Bad as the conduct
of the di fendant, however Lid ben so fir, the injury he
had inflicted hued been much aggravated by the placing
upon the record a plea that be had debauched the daughter
of the plaintiff with his leave and license. Such nn art he
apprehended had made the matter much wpm, and he sub-
mitted that under all the circumstances the plaintiff was
entitled to sulebudial damages; such as would in some de-
gree meet the. s.vious injury which had be:it indicted. The
learned setjcant then remd the following letter. from the
defendant to the plaintiff's daughter, and concluded by
fulling his witnesses :
Tweeter Morning.
ley dear Bully.—Come to meet me this evert,' at a o'clud.s. Be
mire to came, as I mint to sec you prtteularly.
Your, ever, J. T. E. T.
boyal Marine Barracks, Plymoi, h.
My il-roe Polly,-1 youth have written to you .oner, but I wonted
te Incur what rev &oleo:tiet wan to be, u high 1. tha:l au to remain
Inyeenuth. Now 1 wial ek, a.l 1 ear, for you. whit his this : 1 :lave
wrh!ene :o Tai!, who w 1 I .h, .1:t 1 r.,u1.1 have done for you. You must
ire him, wad talk •ho malt, r over wills hirn. 1 know It will not he
pie:sant to you, la you must put the best Wee on the rubj et you rug,
Ice wtl Ire toe., tk u on the matt r, sad of e.nerve I *all pay all the
rap:ea., Wbt a sou hove nwiten to hire let me hear from yew; tot
I sum you emikain loon. into his or any o her fellow's quarters.
You h.cl bitten write to him to meet yam at the 1 :new.
You, ever, J. D. E. T.
Sterwhoide Barretke, Sept 15, tirde
Ify deer Potty. —I crude to you two days ago, bet Ly none n.i. take
ier lctear we. mad , .l. las ligi4t,"l to be,, that ye. tie, got
OT.e your me m a 'to r, us 11. 1 wilt rend yon rune mosey in a
eke, o• twa. Ton most carve this short letter, as 1 are in lews'e to
win the prat. Icon ever J. li. E. T.
Sept. It,
liv dear Pnily,--T teelowe yen a Pnat.office order for 41, which
wou:e. Lave Nat Lot 1 was dial -pointed lu receiving tome
ruseus myoc r Wag knlef.3l/14 tell me how you mellowed
swr 11; but have redone to ray to Jack. (P' amine I whl ply
hen ter what he hoe ah.ne for yon. Ifew.tre of him, for he h. a is.
mitred nee. I atould Lae to War rand th.Mg of the chill. I alt:
write you a Wes Onto' when I hear from you.
Beam me, any doer Volly, an ever your.,
J. T.

Mary Ann Madmen was then put into the witness box,
and she said that she was the datuthter of the plaintiff. In
the early part of 1549 she kit the strvice of Mra. Day, and
went to live with fur father as servant. At the ond of

September, 1849. she went to llorhester Cathedral, and saw
Lieut. Taylor, wham she did nut thin know. lie follow:el
her, and wanted to mt into conv.rsation. Wanes* said,
"t Don't follow me, fur if my father should In ar of it I shall
net into disgruc..." lie, however, persisted, and followed
her a* far a. her father's house. Ou other otaa.ion* after-
wand, he spoke to her. and wanted lice to promise to meet
him. She had frequently gone home and into shops to avoid
him. She rernembmad Ming at Chatham church about
the mid of October, with a friend, named Miss Colville.
When they kit the iliunh, Lieut Taylor and another °Near
mine up to them. Ile said he hail something of importance
to ted her, and invited her to his rooms. They all went to
the lorrueks together, and remained them about half-an-
hour, when they .11 left together. Whilst they were walk-
ing Lieut. Taylor widaid her to meet him on the following
day. This, how( TOT, •11 it now declined to commit M, saying
her father might hear of it, but the defendant said that

would ho immaterial,m he would ..ee her hither and prepear
to marry her. Ile adted her and Mi,s Colville and Mr. Hunt
to dine with him at his snarlers ou the Mlle., loftWeanee-

day, and this they agreeilto. After dinner Mr.Huut pro-
posed to thew Moo Colville some pictures ht his rooms, and
they coons: tentiv left. Witness was going with them, hut
Lieut. Taylor said they would follow in a little time. Upon
this she clung to Mr. Hunt, but Lieut. Taylor pulled her
from him and locked the door. De became very rude, and
wanted to unfasten her drew, but did not do so. Witness
threatened to scream, but the defendant said it was no use
fur nobody would come to help her, and if her father were
at the door he would not let him in. lie then pulled her
into an adjoining room, which was his bed-room, and there
he possessed himself of her person. She staid with him
half-an-hour after this. and he begged of her not to
mention what had occurred as he intended to marry
her. He saw her very f:ciptently after this, and
when she told him the was in. the family way, he said
he was delighted to hear it. She then demanded that he
should marry her according to his promise, and he said,
o Good God, you don't think I meant that. You are as
much Mrs. Taylor as ever 1 tut, oiled you should be." Soon
afterwards he said he had made arraagements with Dr.
Jack to attend her. This took place at the time when he
was going to Plymouth. Winn,* waited upon Dr. Jack
land Mr. Tait, and they said that no arrangement of the
kind had been made. When she was taken ill she went to
Dr. Jack, and he went with her to the house of Mrs. Butler
in Chatham. On the tame day she was confined. The
ehihl was -ince dead. liar parents did not know where she
was for your days ; and about a fortnight afterwards she
went home. She was in ill-health for some time
after her confinement. At the present time she was '22
years of age, and she was the eldest of three daughters. The
only remittance she had received from the defendant was a
twist-office order for it, but that order she hail never
culled, in accordance with the advice of her father's soli-
citor. . _ .

Croes-examined by Mr. Iltunfrey—She was coulincsl
the 7th September, ISSO. When she met Lieut. Taylor,
she and Miss Colville bad been to church to attend the ser-
vice. She was an old schoolfellow of witness, and was an
intimate friend of het's. It was true that Ann Colville was
with her when she met Lieut. Taylor in the cathedral, but
did not then go to his quarters. Miss Colville was in
attendance in the neighbourhood of the court. Witness did
go to Lieut. Taylor's rooms ou the day he first spoke to her
in company with Ann Colville. She met him at
the cathedral and at Chatham Church on the same
day. At the cathedral in the morning, and at
the church door in the evening. fin this ceeniust they
accompanied Lieutenant Taylor to his quarters. She did
wit ask him to bring a friend with him, a, she should bring
Miss C,4viUe. The four of them were all together, and
they nee er separated. On the Wednesday folios sing she
went again to the defendant's quarters, and on that occasion
also the four of them were present. She clung to Mr. Hunt
when he was going out because she did not like to be lett
alone with a gentleman in hi. room. She was confined on
the very day that she left home, and before then none of
her family knew the state she was in. She would moot posi-
tively swear that Lieut. Taylor was the first and that he was
the 'only gentleman with whom she had had connexion.
She did not know a gentleman named Coklough. She had
not had criminal connexion with him. She had not met
him in the Dockyard, for she had never keen there in
her life.
Ile-examined—The defendant had presented her with a
broach and a locket, and also a lock of his hair; but he had
not given her wearing apparel nor money. He has given
her a ring, which he requested her to wear upon her wed-
ding tin 2er.
Ann Elizabeth Blackwell was next called. end she stated
that she was the sister of the 6.4 witness. She recollected
being in Rochester Cathedral with her sister about the
latter end of the year Miff. Witness was thin 15 years old.
On this occasion, an officer whom she did not then know,
but whom she now knew to be Lieut. Taylor, spoke to
them, and entreated her sister to visit him. The reply her
sister made was that she would acquaint her father with
what had taken place, and that she would not be so in-
sulted. Oa several occasions he had followed her sister when
she had been with her, and they had gone into shops to
avoid hi. importunities. The way she learned the name of
the defendant was this : She heard a brother officer my to
" Don't, Taylor, you'll get yourself in a row." This
was in Baker's Walk, Rochester, and the defendant was
then down on his knees to her sister, saying, " For Go.l's
sake don't leave me, Polly, but come and see me."
31. Butler, a watchmaker at Chatham, was called to
prove that the enflame= took place at his hone, and