The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-23 00:00:00

1111f6UL42 DIVORCE 0431

COURT OT P RODATII AND DI VORCL—IturraDAT.

01.011111 IP. 01114011.

This wee origi•s/y • petition for the reelitatlon of conjugal
rights bpaight by Kr. Charles Oibsua &ODA Mrs. Mary
Ilsweed Otbeo•; hat she haring pleaded • jeattinatlon
egid asked for • judicial asperstiou, it bad prattioally buses
• eat of divorce prossoted by the wW as the grett•i d
• 1•

Mr. 6erj•aot Sleet, Dr. Watobey, and Mr. H. T. Cole
appeared for the husband; Sir F. Slade, Q.C., Dr. Splits,
said Mr. Spike for the wife.
Thu talfriar of the parties took Ow* on the 15th of
November. 1853, first st tW Bavartan Chapel (the petitioner
being • Itniotio catholic), and afterwards at fit. i.e...'.,
Wsetuethater. The petitioner was at that time a clerk at the
Bristol sad Ezeter Raihray, and received a very mall
*Mary. The respondent wag the natural daughter of a rich
merchant, named Tease; sod altar the marriage, he went to
live .nth his wife at the home of Ms rather-in-law, Dard-
ham Ledge, Dardhaa•-dewna, saw Clifton. The cohabits-
tton lasted till July is the present you, when ha received so
intimation trout Mrs. Giteon's elicitor to the tifset that he
would so longer be received at her lathe's. ♦ ocemspen-
dews sowed, which ended in the methinks of the prams&
suit.

Mr. Daniel Gibson, the father of the petitiews, preyed
Blare taste.
Os moor-. zamisation, he said his son'. debts at the pry
out time amounted to 3,0001. •
Bir F. Blade than addreseed the cowl for the wife, and
ssbmitted that the only conjugal right to which the patio
limier ebbed to het restored was the right of open ling hie
wife* money. His own father had admitted that he was
steeped to the lips in debt; and the evidence which would
sow be submitted to the court would show him to have been
salty at an amount of miscooduct that would not only
• act sea bar to his suit, but would easily the wife to the it
inedy which she now sought--e judicial separation.
Tile following inteuess were thee celled:
Mr. Sydenbun Team, of Dardhani Down, near Bristol—
! am the Caber of Mrs. Gibson. The petitioner was ,clerk
in the Bristol sad Exeter Railway. On him marriage with
cuy daughter I took hint into my house, and I occasionally
famished bon with mosey. Boom time 'Stems:de hi
mated aomeemployment, baring kit the railway; and I let
hint tame dot k and a whirl at Wapping, Bristol, test free. I
gut him also placed on the commigion of the peas, fur the
toasty of Gloucester. I afterwsnis pat him In partnorehlp
with Howell and Lock, timber merchants. I gave him 2,000 t.
be aster upon that buelnaosaad edvaseed hien another 1,0001.
This was in 1868. In the puma year Howell sad Leek
tarried him out of the concern. la order to qualify him for
the commission of the pesos I gays hilt up ground rests to
the =taunt of IN& • year. In 1856 I got Ism eppoitted a
lieutenant is the Gloucestershire militia. Before then he had
ben its debt, and I bad paid It for him. After theerat yeerof his
martmg. ',awned a very marked change in hitgoodnettowards
toy daughter. In the course of the present rue, the Ilea re-
fused to bare any further communication with him. naives
after his rogitiogt L. 4 been out training. My daughter was
prematurely rude. don the 21st of November, 1868. Her
husbeed had beet, absent from her some weeks. The thud
died, and the voltammeter** to the funeral. Boon after that
he returned to my house ; hat slier he went sway teat sum-
mer my daughter t.Fd net NW him again. Mr. Helmond
brought ague copies of letters to my bows
Criss-examined—l ham lithely bees on bad terms with
Mr. Gilson. We ham hod so violas quarrel, but I disap-
proved of Ikle continct—his keeping late>surs, and so on. is,.
Jamb 9tritkiand wrote be the petitioner with my content,
telling him not to ecru star the house again. I left my
&urban. tore se de "Mat sits ideated about It. After the Aug
rear she to en .1 her bualtand net .hewing her
proper with Saes late hoar., sod above all with
=Lest* ether stenms. la November, 1869, there was •
at Bash homes Mr. and Mts. Gabon, Mr. Gibson,
sm., end myself, sort its object woo to ooneo, if possible, to
maw arremommt, either th,t the parties should make up
Min rildboseete or should ogres to a seperalloo, or do soma.
dig. The dispute had been all ocoaelooed by souse ignite.
Thera we. eon, tett: about • photograph—l have ems It
eases. It seemed to be agreed that a mparatiou would Is
the beet thing • but young Girton said he would take per
hi wit* the child that site altowly had , and would take the
one of which she wee merino., when It wit two maths aid.
Then she began to cry; and I remonstrated with old Gibes.
Mho Ina terribly agitated. 1 got very angry, and I hardly
Mae what eke passed. Old Dobson expressed Me disavows"
et Mee. Dame's coaluct. I did not propose that the per-
tip" should lire together agaln' neither did old Ogees,
wither did voting 0. tin., e, that I beard of. The lettere pro-
duced are WI my daughter's handwriting.
Ro•el•Mitbd-00,8 in my pe.eenre she charged him with
kicking her, and wan threaterang to shoot her. 1; believe the
two letters produced are in the petilioaee'e handwriting,
Mrs. Gibson wee It.. placed in the box; but she wee oh-
lured to by
Dr. Wambey, who contended, that though in form she
WY the ieepandeat, she was in rtality the petitioner,
awl that the con was lo truth use of jadadal separation on
Me meant of adultery.
Bit C. Creswell seed the post presented considerable M-
eetly; sad after eons withdra
wn.
and iss as rawn.
Mr. Berroeth— am • entr the piwsttneil:Wogw at 01m:caster ;
and maim thestegessl at thoOlasemstarsilm MSS. Mywife
over labs Claes Ames, the derightior of • probers of music
Is Otesetster. Us le hermit • drager of considerable resit-
Mdst ad miss ism is eh* pinions. Is 1856 Mr. Gib-
I ens j *NI Ms regimest. He breught by WAD sad child wish
him, end eser lamilise basemen Intimate. Mrs. Others and
Dire. Herrarth were may meek together. After the thaws
VW& salsify were over. the parry went le Malvern. Very
shorty efterwmde Mrs. liersorth OMB es her tour lo IL
ompoul and other photo. 1 eel glee the portico's., to- '
ranee my wile case down from Lemke a few days ago,
ofee'ke4 °Ma my tubules, and took set my journal. She
alit ht have been almost abut two montbs. I did sot thee
amps' her; bat I accidentally twaud the two lettere produced
in a dreoung.casis. They wire addresseil to my wife at an
' hotel is Newport, /Immo-alb.
Them letters rem pat in sod rest, se isilows :
**Behest, Om. 27, 1868.
"My own darling G'are,—l woo go Meappointed at sot
ongimag eve& • short note hem you this morales, though,
of route, from the aga of year loot I had so right te begs
I is. I wee real y v.ry vi and unhappy yestriday—ill, Smoot
1 I hod two of the. dreatival weeks is my head, sod trashed
eta moctiat of your NM.. And in rah* mstsime weer,
Madams we it lab her burl is bs nip dloressik. It