The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-20 00:00:00

you ever beer soy Mae name P" I old, " No, sem."
She then Did you ever bear 611 SAM of Mastin ?"
sod I said " ad." &am times she teid Me
that she wee fee some time to a Mr. Mese" Me
they bed immatedly, W • she MI a limey
weft Ye bar hers, sad she wee Ogg le is monied fa
the rum d sr ens dipaysZe the rem or
Mothisre to the heelly, berm the was to be muted
to hie beim they some to She also told I
me net she ea Maslen west to be married,
ami whim she snivel: st the Merck it was
ye the hem ; ha met IabAIM parka sato-
d
midis bed perfectly dace it is eses set to be seertieL His
Mime wee 111 per that Si Imre OM the saver would
have Wm, god world marry Si feet ams wits Mimed to
hr. Ithe mid she ems beak its., to Mosethew-phre.
eke mid ihe wee thee a Flossemist, ad that time was a
BemsalA picot le Si hewn omdy to Om; that the
priest wee rdOireoles-spre, sad was iw dud. She
MI me so ilbe kid so she had seur misread Meress.
She mid is but mei Mk by Mr.ppard to h
Sheppard all Warns' s
harm possals. She Md She mid hr, " Mir
Well, yes mil pa as
have Mr. Mutes, sad meld
have the lest mos the* sthoth you; will you leave al"
She mid wed with hr le church es"proomems."
She rid the him. She did not he zee
how Sheppard Mew Merseascaltabe mid Shopped wee
2 rittir biabor abalaimo,
Yee, they
mil. when I berme /am 111%
inepthily soustiesel MINI= le ms eitairods.
I masa har mbe the led NM as. acre the Mike. be
Is INS am Mil he wee es bessebesk be the
ta6rese if sad spies le her, sod mid we
see robe to
me bp is mormileg. Oho rid semberly we with her to
I when she said be wee in ell eked. Ide net toselleet
whether mho MIA him by his Chrislis many Wed WM* it
err Eery. From Kuper:Fs esseemMise Itheired
OP MMus me is a os Meths is IS was she
MI opped used hrr the Wei, merled
Ism theMse' I should Mu meld very Mint ma s, I
should her weed s geseems see set a bleekgsmd. I
11:111, mei sew is the death et ON Moshre, and
wad I asked Melllbsppell. is the poser of
if wee Ss ems, sed she Mt It ma
I I Mew st
Sheppard iselmely le the bege of her death.
I should set have MIMI bar if she had me Ism a Meet
Ws ri as... Si wee meat prim* menet. I sent
W gems to beim the was mewled to in, one but
leappri. I decidedly thseglit hr a Inehthilleg armor.
I world Mee Mos kr weed 1111 am OS arq sac eise's oath.
Oresemeulesd—l did set beams serethdod with Mrs.
ehappeol till leth. Ime sot ewer bow imp she had Me
easeehd. I only Mew Mt ithe bed be. tits. Will,
and hell Weser Wm ilimpreed. I memisd is Nil. My
Maw,. eiwgees, bed bees steed is le cot a person's are
M Mu. Ilhogrors beim I wes merged. The acquaintasce
reasemeed by my miss my swifts cords. My
Lulu Meted there It= the dm be wee
Wls. I wee seeplisil essisg the IMMO of " Wall"
ea the pm musle,as I aright it ems " Waugh." need
sews* revisals boom Mr by soy ether same bat
" Wager er" Wsaki." I sem Wird of say emit Urals*
si Maims males to the house, in re we ei that et isms.
I oirred a very lovely girl at the ham mil Med ha
amee, .sat wee told it wee " Weigh," es I amiss lees That
wa. Mr.. Sheppard. I bed Mews el bar Vying st
plaos shout mem yam betas I AIM hsr. The
easoreartios shout Marin wee about a sass* ears naiad.
We MI baser Mauls. The ormeethe wee not smell-
arid, sr she told me of it athermede dimpares
armee. I ratramber Sleoppord's removieg- is Grew
street. Our totheasy condoned. november the deft el
the ehild very well. I meldered Mr. and Mm. Sheppard
we Hying unhappily. Ho wee asidelly a great
I thought so Mils ths child moseys, sod atter werds.bladCori th
by the void lelethigused that he seed improper lai •
sad oaths. I else *Mae me a very greet liar.rtele
ems • put mime betwess him sad his wit, he this re-
I re w YlYrfo Isms with Mr. Modiboy sad his
I en meet emtSas tragesse Celniaasicatioct
Its.
I have rarraly le them of these pro-
medley. I hays spokes el ease In Kr. llellor's pre-
ems. I her ems Mr. MrllbWaayy One limes elm Christ-
mas. I rarrater Mr. C pees Mirk eaMg cm me
to Mew what evidence I could give. I dere say I rsifl.d to
give him learsamies. I Wooed to give him bakresties
eed give 14 to Mr. Deem Mum I thought this • very so-
** die ea the part et Mr. Sheppard'. relatives,
who I thesghe had no claim on Mrs. Sheppard.
I der my I say my ommatiou with Mrs. Shopped
wee essiisiaMl le order to get rid of Mr. Chamberlayee's
SM. I ewer mid I had promised Mrs. Sheppard not to
divulge the meemeloatioes she had made to me. Mr.
rostra le an is the presea of Sheppard whet
aM
previseely told ms shout the interview whim
Ithiters got oat Me hams. litho told me that Masters's,
math* had sided was pleased that they were not monied,
in they were both snob AMU tempers that there meld
have been murder between them. From her munstioes

faioiiih.;;;;ppo;;(lbi;;;.. warn a gentleara lines
with his mother, not that he was in any bushman. A titan
who would ride on horseback in the Park I should think
would not be a tradesman.

By the Lead Chancellor—Mrs. Sheppard never told meths
had bees married tome than once. I have since beard she
was mended at Bt. Pancras eleven days before the marriage
at Marylabose. I heard this last year, long after her death.
I never saw blasters or his mother. The time I saw the death
et Masters in the paper was within the lest tea years. I
can't Ss the dins. I can't may whether Mrs. Sheppard was
then living in Mornlngton-place or George-attest.
By Lord Justice Turner—l do not remember the grand-
mother, of Miss Wall. fibs told me her grandmother had
brought her up. She told me that Sheppard had gone with
her to St. Pancras church as " groomonan." Sheppard wee
&stoutish, short mace.
The will of John lieothby, the father of the with=
Levert», dated Bth March, 1824, wee produced.
Mary Ana Halllmoll-1 live at Norwood as a nurse. I
ease lived week Men. Sheppard, in the year 1836, as nurse
Me kr dels dim twelve months old. I lived with her for
Sea pia. It yr to George-street, New-road. The our-
emy was the top of the house, adjoining the workshop.
Thedinispressi wee at the beck of the drawing-room. The
pricer ins used as a showroom. Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard
saw each ether daring the day. They lived on friendly
tenni es ma sad wife. I heard of the death of the child
after I Id I left because I was .tired of the
service. I remived a letter from Mrs. Sheppard in
July 111421sebileg me to go back. I did go back as general
servant. kept a boy. She told me she was very no,
enashetehle her last servant as she thought there was
Ire peope frwillarity between her and Mr. Sheppard. I went
bash la *es of that servant, and continued about a twelve-
month. et.big that time they lived very unhappily. She
eft» espearthed him. They used to quarrel a good deal.
They slept together part of the time, and part of it not—it
was on acormat of their quarrelling. Mrs. Sheppard corn.
&laid of Mr. Muipperd's coaduct—that he was out late at
eight. They separated while I was there. It was about a
year after I west back, in 1842. She went to Kentish-town.
He remained In °forge-street. I went with her, and remained
about another year with her. I have beard Mrs. Sheppard
ass Tieing league. is Sheppard—toll him • blackguard.
I have beard the named Masten. I don't know that ahe over
reproached Sheppard &beat Masters. I have heard her say she
could have bad a pallemes, aad that Sheppard was nothing
but a wretch end a blackguard. She did not mention the
name of the genttemay, or that Ms name was Masters. I
never heard either of them say anything of any former
marriage of Mrs. Sheppard. Sheppard never reproached her
with impropriety of conduct. Nothing led me to believe she
had been married before. Mrs. Sheppard's conduct was
respectable for the seven years I lived with her.
Crose-examined—l never played at cards with Mrs. Shep-
pard. fluid no confidential COLIMUDi,iI. ion with her with
respect to her affairs. I have a legacy of 6001. under Mrs.
will.
abida7;dAan Adkins—l was a servant of Mrs. Sheppard for
the last eleven months of her life. After her death I was is
the serves of Mr. Mortiboy for two or three months. Mrs
Sheppard talked to me about her elfin* A young Miss
Ileekett used to visit at the house ; her mother was Mr.
Sheppard's sister. She had scone to anything that was
lying about. I never heard from Mrs 8
about her marriage, or about • marriage etrailtr.s=teli.
I saw Mrs. Haviland at Dr. Adems'a, 77, Morabegtos-rod.
That wan at the end of 1837. She told la* of a 'apposed
maniege with Madera before that with Sheppard. Mrs.
Ravaged mated am to come and swear that I knew Moe.
Sheppard wee slanted before she married Sheppard. As far
eel em swore, there were no papers in the beadle I gave to
Mr. Sheppard's its by Mr. Mortiboy's direetke.
CrceemsamMed—l live sees papers of my mistress is the
how*, now maw Mir Hackett meddle with any papers.
By the Lead Chessence—Miss Hackett was not at her
east's when abe Med. SU ante with Kra. Pegs to see her
lying dee&
The registry st Diadem' Commons, ooatafniag the affidavit
fore names, Mimed fa the same of James Masters, was pat in.
Then the registry of marriages at St. Penises, containing
the signatures of Janes Masters and Mary .101014 IMO
put in. Then the registry containing the affidavit foe a
license signed " John Sheppard."
Aldo the Upstarts of John Sheppard and Mary Well
In the registry of Marylebone church, which were carefully
examined by the court.
The signets». of John Sheppard and Mary Wall to the
marriage settlement were also put in and examined.
Mr. Holt called the &amnion of the court to the similarity
of the foraistiim of certain lettere w the different signatures
of too named of Mashers and Sheppard.
Mr Netherclift—l am a lithographic artist and fasehnilist
le the British Museum, esperially in reference to written. I
have pursued this calling for nearly 40 years. I have
made the peculiarity of handwriting my especial study. I
have bad experience In the oomparison of headwritisp, sad
have gives evidence constantly on such pima. (The wit-
nem was shown the affidavit for the St. Pesetas WNW
of 26th February, 1824.) I have seen the sipature, end
made • finalioile of it. (He was oho.» the St. Patens
registry.) I have seen the signature. ale,. The two are the
writing of the same pence. The 'weed letter In the name
" Masters " in the affidavit was trot an "o," and then was
touched into an "a." Blotting paper had been applied to
the pert thee was touched after the other part had dried.
(The affidavit of the Merylebone license of 28th February
was than shown him.) The two " J's " in the same of
"Jane Mowery," and the " J " In the *ignitor* " John
Sheppard," are of the same formation, whieh you would ex-
pect the same man to make at different times. It is by the
same hand emsatemed to perform the same operation:in the
was way. The " "fa "Jane," se for as ft goes, heirs the
aims neemblusee to the "• " In "James." The .•" in
„Sheppard," sad the "a" in the first "Masters," are very
similar. The lettere "r" in all the signatures are oonspi-
coop sad ascommea, sod see of the Mahe ibeiesdem. The