The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-12 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FATUIWAY EVENING, JULY 12, 1962.

suppose he is now with his regiment, hut I don't know. I
have now no communication with Lim. I k
very little about Mr. Wedgewood. He represented
himself to have been au intimate fraud of a bosom friend
of my own, but that friend afterwards told me that he bad
only attended him and 64 father out of charity. I wrote
to him after I had turned him out, because I believed that 1
had injured him. I did not kiss him. Had I known his
position I should rather have kicked him. I
to him about money inatten. She told me he was in debt
to us when he left, Whenever I did see him he looked agi-
tated and trembling, and I used to twit him about his Ism
boars. My wife was always pleasure seeking. As amedial
man 1 often had tickets for the opera, or for theatres and
the like sent me, and as I could not go myself, abe used
take • female friend with her. I used to accompany her
sometimes. Once I wished her to go with me to Hew, but
she said on the way, " I hate your trumpery dowers." She
then got out of the cab, and went home by the 'bus. For
the 21101. I hod advanced to the agent of Mr. Palmer I wee
to have hail an interest in the speculation ; but he went
away, and I baud no more of him. (Laughter.)
Mr. Macula —Did you ever hear of your wife being an-
rid up to bed by the coachman?

Hr. Turner—l bine sines beard that he carried her up to
bed when she was too drunk to walk. (A laugh.) That was
the only IDS.SOCO I heard of ; but he might have carried bar
up when her leg had gone to be repaired. I will swear I
never locked it up to prevent her from going out. Will
swear that I never desired her not to show her linger teeny
other medical man. Will swear that she never said the
deformity was owing to my having trodden on it. If my
assistant had interfered between me and my wife I should
probably have knocked him dose. I dismissed him for
taking the menage to my patient that I said she was mad.
W ill swear I never refused to let my wife see a letter from
a patient. I never chastised lon so that he kept hie bed for
a week. It is utterly false. Nothing of the kind ever hap-
pen:d. There we. a negotiation about a separation, and I
told her attorney that I would agree to anything that
would make her life more comfortable. That did not
arise out of any quarrel respecting_ my inordi-
nate chastisement of the boy. I had set. my heart
011 making him a medical man. He IVY very obedient sad
a very nine child, but his mother would not hear of it, sod
tore up his books. She did not diapesee medicines for me
in the surgery, or render any great misname there. She
rendered great hindrance. (Laughter.) She did keep the
books for several years, but she only did it from curiosity
and • desire to know where I had been during the day.
She once took charge of two children whose mother, a pa-
tient of mine, bad died. For that their father paid me 1604
a year. Sevensl persona also lived in our house who paid
for their board.

Sarah Beany, servant to the respondent, after corrobo-
rating her master's account of the affair on the 3rd of Octo-
ber, said she had seen her mistress lying outside her master's
bed in her dressing gown, and Mr. Wedgewood was inside.
Merely took Mr. Wedgewood a jug of beer and left the room
instantly.
Croswexarnined—The doctor was at Reigate when this
happened. He was always on very good terms with his
wife, but of course no man could always live with a woman
without having sometimes a little unpleasantness with her.
(Laughter.) Had been married eleven years. When master
opened the plate chest he was angry, but silent. He said,
" What, all my plate ! all my personal present gone !"
(laughter.) He mid it just so, in that mild way.
(Laughter.)
Sarah Hart, aged 10, was niece to Mrs. Benny. The
petitioner had told her tout on the stairs, and tell her when
the doctor came out of the ounsulticig-room. Mr. Wedge-
wood was with her, and she was curling his hair. (A laugh.)
Had seen her sit on Mr. Wedgewood's bed while he was
in it, and kiss him. She said she would have Mr. Wedge-
wood for her husband.
Patience Sopp, another servant, said that in 1851 her mis-
tress scratched the respondent's face. He was reading the
paper just before she did it. He merely said in a mild voice.
" Now, mother, dear, don't do that an." (Laught=
Then he went down into his surgery. HW face bled,
was so bad that he could not go out the next day. On an-
other csocasiou she threw a knife at hint at table. He said
that time, " Augusta, dear, don't do thategain." (Laughter.)
James Beam, the respondent's coachman, and husband
of the previous witness, said that on the doctor's birthday,
the Bth of March, he drove his mistress to Covent-garden,
and took up Mr. Wedgewood. Then, he drove them home
through Hyde-park. It was dusk. Heard an extensive
laugh. The springs of the carriage being weak it gave •
sway. Looked round and saw Mrs. Turner sitting in Mr.
Wedgewood's lap, and completely concealing him by her ex-
tensive crinoline. (Laughter.) Had driven them to Rich-
mond and to Acton. At the former place they went to
the Star and Carter, and were there some time. At Acton
they stayed for au hour and a half, at the King's Head,
where they had • private room. Received from them half-
a-crown on the one occasion and eighteenpence on the other.
Had heard Mrs. Turner call Wedgewood " Baby,'
" Bobby," " Robert," and " Egerton." One Sunday during
divine service she walked a couple of hundred yards from
her house and then she sent witness for a cab for
her. Ordered the cabman to drive her to Mr.
Wedgewood's lost ago
Thomas Tugs • police-oonstable, spoke to peeing Mrs.
Turner and Mr. Wdgewood at 2 o'clock one morning in •
gutter near her busheod's house. She was on her
knees, and Weidgewood was trying to get her up, but he
was so much in liquor that he could not. Succeeded, with
great difficulty, in raising her and taking her to her door.
She was intoxicated.
Some other witnesses of less importance having been ex-
amined, and the learned counsel having addiemed the court
for their respective clients,
Sir C. Cromwell summed up.
The jury, after an hour's consideration, found a verdict
negativing both issues, in other words, acquitting Mr.
Turner of cruelty and Mrs. Turner of adultery.