The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-22 00:00:00

wEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 22, 180.

K-at. He repeebd the enrgesti-n at 11l a,
and as tarried to do to. We arrived at Reading oatie Ist
November. Cron my arrival toy wife end Mr. Benue
erre in contersaton for about au hour, sad they settled ell
stout the expect, of the journey before our going es
diluter. We all dined together. After (linter Mr. Saantitt
pushed the trine towards toe rather presaingly. 1 tusk •
glue of it, sad I afterward' took soother half-glue. I
be, amt enspirous of it, and 'hooch! it vat drugged.
thought it better to leave for Kent at once. 1 the afore got
up and left the toms. Mr. Barnett followed me, and in the
avenue he overtook me, end re zing me by the eollr skid
me why I wa• having the house is that scanner. tMire
%mon a scuffle 611/1.14 between no, and we hill to the ground.
Whilst on the ground two policemen rime up, and I ex-
plained to them that I believed Mr. Barnett Led attempted
to drug toy wine, and that be did not Wend to allow me to
Iran his honer. We then went to the plicwoMee, but
after awhile I see induced to go b .ek to the house, and
whoa there I drank a couple of gluier more wise, but found
It all right. When I got up to leave the house Mrs. Burnett
offend; toaccompany me, but I raid I rretened goiag alone.
Mrs. Ruck sad I occupied the • .me room durisg the whole
time we were at Reeding. Dr. Concoly oame to fleabag set
Wedaesday. I had never seen him prevtouely. Mr. Biwa
nett introduced me to him. Connolly In the first instead*
cosveriled with me on ordinary topics. He &Jumada iambi
ingoiries about my property. Our interview lasted if
minutes, Mr. Barnett bong retest. I taw nothing of Dr.
Coesolly auto-vastly whilst at Roofing. There wee no
plate or name on Mr. liarnott's door to show be
was a medical man. There was no surgery attached
to the bogie. I did not we any patients whit thane
After Dr. Connolly had been at Reeding, 111 r. Barnett Int
spoke of my visitlag Dr. attlarell. I had no ration at lb*
time that gentlemen was the keeper of a hurtle
asylum. I Cannot positively say I rear heard his name
nit aimed by Dr. ConnAly. 1 lent Reedit( Ia rompesy with
one of the oerunts from Dr. Stilwell's. Mr. Banat ex-
plained who the servant wee. Nethiag bad occuned op to
that to induce me to believe I wee belag taken to a lanatlo
uytam. On arriving at Menem Rehouse, Dr. Stilwell tad
Mr. Weller, the sivalant introdaced themselves to me. I
shortly discovered my peedieanient, the aster door being
locked sod my key. demanded. I asked Dr. Stilwell if he
intesded to detain me, and he said he was empowered to do
so by certificates& Iwu not ex unused by any other nadirs!
man tut Dr. Stilwell. Dr. Stilwell wan extremely cations
about the reports which be bed heard of me. He asked me
u I required any physic ? and I said, No.' That was all
that pseud between me I woe not under medlosi treat-
ment for a tingle moment whilst to the house. An
attendant gamed Randall slept in the same room with to
for the first six months. I was nicer allowed to go about
the grounds rules accompanied by a keeper. At that time
there were shout forty patients la the asylum. About the
'mad or third day Dr. Stilwell asked as to go for a drive,
sad I took the reins occasiotally, sitting alongside Dr. Stil-
well o• the box. I ahoost aiways rt ok my meals at the
=table. I was prevented on occasion from posftg
but author aVeadant, not Randall, wee then with
me. Teat was shortly previous to my release. The Lunacy
Conimlankasre came to the saylnco after 1 bad been in the
saylum stake or ties days. Dr. Stilwell stated the eau to
Ike comniteriosue. The questions put by the
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were es the points reportid by Barnett and ray Ws. Dr.
&dwell was in the room all the time, and every thee they
cans he was rem; save sad except on the het seasekm.
I um visited by my brother. in.law and my Wier Wilt la
themylum, bet I only saw them two or three thew eat them
met does. I weft le my soliAtor rutrwitioutiy; Ws latter
we conveyed Omagh sae of the a•teudents. Mr. Allffirdl
mos my solicher et Init. I had been eta meths at Moareruft
M the thee I saw Ms. I wee sot allowed to see hint alone.
/dr. Weller, the meleinet, was present the whole time. I i
ma* towered queedons whiAt Mr. Acworth put to ma.
I sever saw him aftenverdt I desired to commenicate
Mk my Mother-in-law, Mr. Fisher, a berriater. I was at
Mnorrroft six mouth." before I saw him. I told Fisher to
take meaeutee for my mime. I alw him twice or Owe
times. Mr. Wainright was afterwards engaged to obtain
my discharge. I requested him to go to Wales to make
certain inquiries. the result dirpel!el my suspicions
respect* my wife. I gave am as order for money
to contlems the investigation, but Dr. Stilwell would
tot sheer me to Mn the order. No medical man
Wended me pedwiteally whilst a the asylum. I was
we tre two omelets when an mole of
C.2B.ltenses premlbell for the pa-lento. I believe his name
le !awn. Doing that time Dr. 8,11.'11 we ill. I
sew Dr. Connolly at to. anlant. lie vi.ited then onto a
week, am • fortnight, or oftener. I was prima at the
lequisition with respect to my sanity. I was amilastl by
the master. My examinatiAt lasted two howl, sad the re-
sult wee, I was found not to be is Sines Ms I have
pertly resided with Mr. Fisher. I sow reside by myself.
My twome was about 1,500/ a year at the dm I went to
Moorceoft. I have some quarrisa on my estate. Oa one of
them I spent 5005. or 800 i. I had received a fevoneshie
report wimp reepect to that quarry. Whilst at Worm.* I
had El. or it, which I swat very slowly.

Cron-mmained by Mr. Chat:arm—What Mr. Wain-
right reported to me removed my notion and lulled my
suspicions. That was about sea weeks before the inquisition
mt. My suntrioas were with regard to my wife's fidelity.
Mr. Wainight's Investigation quite removed my sus-
picions. My wife had but very little moony—not more
than 40/. or 5,01.—t0 support her 'ad her children since
August Int. I considered my wife, haring sold my stock,
bad ample mass to support her. Thee WY ah agreement
between us ; she was to have 101. • week, sad she was to
sign • deed of separation, which she hes since refused to de.
My wife &clued, in the pretence of Mr. Wainwright, in
August last, that en had had nothing tonpport bor. I
cannot my with whom I suspected my wife to be urifeittdul.
It wee at Carao my suspieioas were brat around. A gentle-
man there got Into the coach, and be cosinend • greet deal
with my wife. My wife was intimate with him. I Inferred
that from her manner. When we got to Welcbpool I
refused to travel any further. I might have suspected my
wife with regard to persons in the hotel at Welchpool. I
tboogbt I beard running about hoe room. I thought
sin was phis the house in a loose kind of way, and
Mat I tiara beg elm outside my door talking to the
two men who ware fl charge of me. I was thea in an
egitated stele. Whilst 1 wee Ming in the coach I did
sot fancy I saw permute remain Into each other's arms along
the read side. Baton 1 and my wife lived unhappily.
We did so within 12 reowthe of our marriage. rantlludeo was
sot In • sufficiently good state to lire In. In '66 1 never
ordered the carriage at midnight to drive about the country
with my wife. This children lived at Aberdovey. I left my
wife la charge of kb. Chord, in Bent, whilst I went le attend
the railway meeting. I never tinned people poisoned me.
I might have pound Dome port wine into the chamber-pot
at sn inn kept ley a Mr. Lloyd. 1 did so became it mu
su-h execrable stuff. (Laughter.) I wee at Lloyd's,thcez
mt
ous day sad night to my leaving for Heat. I .
finding • coat in • traveller's room which wee so like my
own that I put my hand into it. I might lave taken some
dank at the hotel the night before leaving. I started from
there at nine o'clock in the morning. My wife we. in a
very excited state when she met me at Carno. I wee really
going to Kent at the time. My wife wee unwilling to
accompany me, but slier a time she did so. lam quite cure
I did not point out to be as we travelled along persona
main into each other's antes. From Welchpool I pro-
possd to take my wife bark to her mother at Moroi's,
to remain there whilst I west to Kent. I did not amide?
her in • fit state to bevel. I del not Mt ia the ay at
Weichpool for four or firs hours without there being
sny hones attached to it. I might have eat in It
for • quarter of an horn to rest myself. I have no
recollection of Dr. Harrison coming to me whibt la the fly,
sod perseadieg me to go into the home. I told Dr. Heerl-
en I did sot go several times to the pistol can whilst she
was saying her prayers. I might have raid, "Make baste
and let as get away from line, for they know what you are."
That refereed to my snepiciore with respect to my wife. I
did not tell him twire that she had had intercourse with per-
sons in the inn. I might have bed an impramies that Mary
Jones lay down by my side during the night. I might have
told that to my wife. My head at the time wee full of 1:106.61,
and I thought I beard Mary Joan whisrering to me. Mr.
Wsiortght removed that Impression fmni me. Mary Jones
was some 12 miles off at the time. I did not say that Mary
Josue woe continually dodging me &Wet. I had my gon-
e...sad my pistol. with me at the vole. Mr. Harriett mine
dews on the Saturday aftersmon, and we ported that day.
Whilst travailing from Newtown to Welchpool I took my
wiles purse away. It had 201. In it. fihr bad torrowed
Id. from me, although she had the mousy in her pocket. I
do not recollect my wife saying her prayers that night at
Birmingham. I did not my to her, " may well ray
your prayers." The pistol rase was not in my portmenlean.
That expreseion had reference to my suspicions of my wife.
I can only accouot for my liingusge by the Doing in my
head. Ueda, certain cireumencm one becomes very

imaginative . The dietetics between Newtown end Binalag.
Inge le not very great, cad rumours of no wife might saltily
have reached there. I do not recollect saying that my " wite's
tendect bed been telegraphed north, south, east. and west,"
eihregh it would be possible. Traveling to Reading the
maims might have ban still in my bead. Maoism tome
Welsh drovers on the way, I thought I heard them my this,
that, and the other. la marquee,' of my sife's conduct I
bad determined to cease to reside in the county of Merio-
meth. I might have said that whilst the coach wee stop•
ping at an ion called the Elephant, at Newtown, that ohs had
acted impreperly. I eurtioaed my wire when she pined
me at Canto. My wife bad bren leading a life of &rept-
lion before tben—that u, she had been travelling a great deal,
sad having a greet deal of amuotreente. My wife had
also wales to me In a wrong Christian name. That
awed ma stm mast be in on excited state. I
have pet get that letter. When Mary loam joined me in
that Bem stab, I might have accused her of murder-
ing herr eillirea. I locked her op for the night.
I sent Ike a policeman ; but I did not B.y to him
she might have murdered bar two children, I had
a 110•11.11111 for my ebildno. I wrote to bee front
Weleamok ghats my address, " Porte ResteaM, London."
My wires/ma me&adieted me or appeared to feel it.jared,
when I said Mary Jones had been sleeping by toy aide. I
Meer saw bit mktg. It might have been at Stilted I
saw the Weigh drovers. The DONIS In ono's head Of ei•
=DCcome sag go. There seenoises now. By
mem angina is the ears • but that may be magv
W into anyrhisa. Bateen is the e w le n it un-i,muen, but
=urea tao general mate of the health whether that
would be megalled into an Wm that Welsh drovers
were talk ng M saes with. I duet remember having hat
say elegem dada( the het weeks. I dined with Mr.
gad Mos Boman en Br awoke at Beading. I might
bare had a eats 91 okay ditelas Blom I did sot acme!
Berson etdrimadmg Winialaill I got to We poem towel.
A• ems ea I malklp stralail lbs wine wag
I IsA the Ma WM lir 4
palms war up, 117.1 C

sett and I wen sealltleg. I bad Kr. Berme dims. I did
not use the word poises Ups Met °maitre. We ell west tr
the statics to deal with Km sees of drupring. I might
lam believed Mr. &me dregged my wine is order
to prevent nay leaving sq wife. I hod some anopioloas
that Mr. Barra was no of my wife's paramours.
I told Dr. Stilwell ea. I hollered I was kept in Dr. Stilwell' a
asylum Mame my wife was nafaithfal. The whole of my
delusions with respect to my wife were dispelled by Mr.
Wainright's inquiries. As far a• I know my Me has been
• pure sod Naafis.' wife to me. I have expressed earraw
for my suspicions. I did so at Reading, when she .Mgt
with me for three nights. Since I was in rb• asylum I
have not expreseed my sorrow for what I had sold aid
dme with respect to my wife. I have no doubt that to
the limier in Lam/ I =premed my regret. In the
months of May end June last I did not sey Mr. Barnett
and my wife had been guilty of adultery. By the term
" paramour," I meant that she was improperly Ultimate
with Mr. Basal. So late es July last I might ham
said that ell the somata on the railway took marked nu-
tioe dm Mile." I might have said so to me of the doctors.
I did not say they pointed to my wife as the women who
bad bilked leer husband. However, the deludes vanished
Miss Mr. Walsright came back. I might have said as Is'e
as July that the stable-boys at the inn were talking about
my wife. I told Mr. Wainwright before starting on his
inquiray that I bad my fears on the subject. I aw not aware
that I said to Dr. Seymour. u late as April let, that ray
wife had so conducted herself. I believe Mr. Waineight
bed made all his inquiries before I sow the led* justices. I
knew the petition had bow presented when I gave Wain-
wright Ineruotione. Mr. Fisher, the banister, saw me In
the whim In the meth of November. My slater was with
him ; but Dr. Stilwell stood behind the door. I saw
nothing of Kr. Wainright until the spring. My slater and
brother-icelaw were not with me more than 6ve minutes
They would sot stay any longer because they thought
It was of noise, as they could hove no private conversa-
tion with me. I have no doubt I told Fisher, in Novem-
ber, to get me oat of the piece ea mon as poseilde.
He did not see me again for six months. I likewise saw
Mr. Ackwell, my the attorney, in the month of March.
My wife and Mr. Barlett also moo to as. me, but I refused
to see her. That was la February. The cototniseioni re
spoke to me from time to time, but invariably, with one en-
ception, in the preemie* of Dr. Stilwell. I did not cab to
see my children. I saw Mr. Wainright at the asylum
more than once.
The cm...remit:tidos of the Mime wa then suspended

alarmed to And herself helpless and destitute, awl limo-tag far
consequences, she vsatured, in accordance with advice she
had received, to a•k his lordship for some little assistance to
enable her to struggle on tail eh* could look further ler a
situation or pet ammtanoe from her friends. [Here the pvs
another and keener glance at the Lord Mayor's loos.] As
for returning to Carlisle, that she hardly wished, se bar re-
lative might still insist upon her ramifying the gentleman
maw whom she had fled. Bbe would, of course, rather—
mach rather—not have mentioned this at all, but [with such
an air of candour] se she was making his lordship acquainted
with her history, she felt that it was better to tell him every-
.
. . . .

Having thus finished the recital of her history, and
put her claims to sympathy upon • proper foundation, elm
bowed down her heed, relapsing into leer original meekness,
while she as tilted • response to her appeal.
The Lord Mayor, who had listened very patiently, told
her she deserved some little sympathy if bar tale were true,
but upon that point he could, of course, say nothing until
some inquiry had been made. Nevertheless, as her positron
in Loudest, according to her own showing, was • dangerous
one for • friendless young woman, sad se he wee
envious to mese her from destruction, he would do some-
thing for her at all events. When could abs her from
Carlisle P (She could get an answer by Tuesday if she wrote
that day, she said.) Well, then, she most wettest cam, and
bring the answer to the court on Tuesday. Iffeeawhile an
officer would go with her to her former lodging, redeem her
Modem, sad the. take bee to • respectable hewas, where her
exppesosaeeses for a week should be paid from the poor-box.
Wheeher soy more were done for her must depend upon the
result of the inqabies about to be made.
With an ostentation °astray, end • most inelodracostie
" Thanks, my lord," she retired with an officer' leaving
behind her the impreevion that she had well studied her pert.
In reply to the officer Munday, die gave the name of bar
aunt, Mazy 8.11, living I. Fort-rod, Carlisle.and goo that of
Madame fa Comments de Mirk:court, or, at she wrote it in •
serawliag hand ant very questionable orthography, " Counts
de filaricoart, Swinburn-place, No. 7, Neweestel."
Having fixed her comfortably In lodgings, Monday took
his own steps to ascertain her real character and history.
In the first place, be made private inquiry of the landlady us
Barr-street. with whom Anna Bell had told the Lord Mayor
she bad lodged sins she had been in London, with the ex-
ception of the Friday night; and then, with the strong In-
stinct of his calling. he • plied to the police of Carlisle and
Newcastle, se the fuunWwheds of information on such a
subject; the result belie, that he was soon placed in • poal-
MOS to lay before his lordship the following report .
" Mansion-house, June 20, 1869.
" My Lord,—By direction of your lordship, I have made
Inquiries respecting the young woman named Anna Bell,
who applied to your lordebip for assistance on Saturday last.
I hews seen Mrs. Stephen., who resides at 57, Burr-street,
Beet Smithfield, and who states that the girl has been lodging
at her house about ten days, but did not sleep there for the
last two or three nights ; that she wee at the theatre on one
of the nights she slept out ; and that she (bire. Stephens) had a
very bed opinion of her from her meaner of conducting her
I have also communicated with the polio. at Carlisle
sad Newcastle, the result of which will be explained in the
moompanying letters,-1 am, &c.,
" G. MONDAY, Mansion-house Offiosr."
" City Police-office, Carlisle, June 19.
" Dear Sir,—ln answer to your latter of the 18th instant, I
beg to inform you that Anna Bell left Carlisle about six
weeks ago, and was said to have gone to Sunderland as •
dressmaker. While la Carlisle she cohabited with an officer
of the 3rd West York Mditia, then stationed at Carlisle
Castle. She formerly lived at Bleckhills, near Berry Edge,
Durham. Se is a native of Carlisle. Her mother, a very
old woman, nearly blind, lives in Fort-road ; but she hie no
aunt living there. Bb is a tall slender girl, and is well
educated, but Mee bears a very indifferent character in
Carlisle.—l am, &c. " Ono. B. BENT, Chief Constable."
" ' Detective Department, June 19, 1859.
" ' Sir,—l beg to isform you that in reference to the com-
maolcation from London respecting Anna Bell, I bare area
the Countess de Mericourt, who staled that the girl was an in-
mate of the infirmary, in this town. The Countess was a
visitor there, and she then stated to her that she belonged to
Carlisle, and on her coming out of the infirmary mho called
on the Countess and wished her to recommend her to a situ-
ation. That is all she knows respeetle_g her.
E" ' JOHN Lmorr, Inspector.
" ' To the Chief Constable, Ifewcastle-se-Tyas.'
With this isfermation before him the Lod Mayor woe
well prepared to receive his expected visitor, who yesterday
once more sneered before him, looking as pretty and es
demure, and apparently se unsuspicious as ever. She
ascended the witness-box with • csuteey, and swelled his
lordship's leisure.
The Lord Mayor did not keep her long in saspeese. He
told her that the result of the inquiries made *Mee Saturday
had, he was sorry to try, not confirmed the truth of the
tale which she bad then told him a. to her having left Car-
Hsi* to escape a marriage with a man whom she bated. As to
hr having always led a virtuous life, and her being anxious
for assisteass to pesserve her in an upright course, he would
read to her the result of the inquiries, in the bop* that it
would be taken node. of, and so preveat her from Imposing
as °then.

She endeavoured to Interrupt his lordship, but he requested
her to remain enact until be bad Belated, sad he thou red
to bar the letters received from the police at Carlisle aad New-
castle,
Then she rid, with !One excitement—As to that militia
allow at Carlisle, se God is toy judge, and se you gentlemen
her, are Christians, it is all false. And as to Kra Stephens,
where I lodged, I never wee out after tea o'clock at night,
except *ace, end then happening to walk toward* the Wait-
and, I asked where I wee, and was told that it wee the Wel-
lington Barracks, and If that's indiscretion, I don't know
what le.

Lord Mayor—And then you were walking with a
addles.?

Ail; Bell—No, I wu not. Will you lot slow me to
dear my character
The Lord Me I am quite satisfied with the result of
the isquiries, and world rather lea the matter conclude here.
After this, it le quite impossible for me to give you say
assistance.

Tana /lei' Icm prove myself innocent, what lo to be
the tweak ?

._ ...._.....
The Lord Mayor—Why, If you are Innocent, I would
advise you not to stay in London—or you may not re-
main so.

With theatrical gesturer sbe exclaimed," With all de-
I ference to you, my lord, will stop in London till I clear
my character—end I will clear it, if I stop tilt I starve."
. _ . .

After this heroics declaration, she gave a alight curtsey,
turned on her heel, sad left the court.