The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-13 00:00:00

ANOTHER TA.LB9T,

EXTRAORDINARY CA ALLEGED

suit of it
to the

,ne of the

RACY

AGAINST A WIFE.

suit ill tit°
plaintiff. I JENKYN V. JENKYN.--.DIVORCE.—This was
h the Plaly(
A,OOO. The Consistory Court, on Tuesday last, instituted el
; tor, n"
Under-Sheriff
h appeared for tiff, Mr. 0. A. Jenkyn, a solicitor and cab Pr.ol).!"...eife, for
he defendant Sherborne lane. city, against Martha Jenkyn, his
rneted
a divorce, by reason of alleged adultery. The case Pt re
_,..it.;
features of an extraordinary character, not the leas role
able of which was that, in this instance, the wife,. is tho
ey, way ,
t was said, course of proceedings ado tea as ar
In opportunity of setting forth her own statement
e. ore
-nine that of her husband. The else had already 11:40,0:!_
~ the , court, and the facts, as alleged, were as 'f,',, is On
;e, the The husband, who is about thirty ;pears or_ asi_.,;. ads
of the u ater'°- •re;
, son of the Rev. John Jenkyn, of Westlands, S se f
the datign,. nen
d for her protection, hlsu_;ol
gent. apex Lel
/anin734 the wife, who is five yearn younger, is
s, spectable parents residing at Sittingboerne,
.n 046, ws.,
' tiff first became acquinted with his wife lau of life
--',9 residing with the lady of a gentleni the Ortbe
After a courtship of four Yeers.,,eddieg, jot`
3, and within ten days of the "00040
kr
',grid was suffering at the time of his marinen on,
-^- that her terrible sufferings 11e. istia!:B3
11 with a loathsome disOeSe. nli
he marriage eta," ; nnalt,
At length ernattel
hat was !lk, tooth °
w a ,to
and Dr' sea hsuns
caned in. Mrs. Jen" aselld
- 1 blooms,
eess. ieeve or absenoe was undergo-a severe surgical operation, and form ahilltten ente
not more than one month in the year. she was there in the her life was despaired of. At length aho gi n'sotailge„
months of October, November, and December, 1853, and it
was then that the intercourse took place between her and after repeated expressions of repentance saairso'synen,;;
reform, on the part of her husband, Mrs. '71017
Major Harvey, which was the subject of this action ; the back husband. She had a°' for°7
his ale
defendant icing. at that time military secretary to the seated to goto her
at home wken the husband returned to 001
commander in chief of the presidency. An adulterous
intercourse took place at Mahableshwnr, on the Hills, at a
place between the Hills and Poonah, and at Poonah ; andb exposed to similar sufferings. Again she vl•
vseerno.
dissipated courses ; and the tmfortunate ladY i, ille
the withdrawal of the plea of not guilty, which, on the part i
Y and was attended by Dr. Watson for several an.,:de
I but, from fear of exposing her husbanier fits dl
of the defendant had been put upon the record in the first from a desire to avoid the reproaches of All Olt V
instance,. the fact of such intercourse having taken place who had advised her not to marry him, she dig
was admitted. On leaving Poonah she proceeded to Bom- her home, but continued to reside with the r)3 irk ell
bay, where she was joiued by. her husband, and on the 28th last it appeared that Mr. Jenkyn, not satisfiednotd 0 Ott
of January, 1854, after visiting at the residence of Mr. his wife in the way already mentioned, proceed° seaer,;
Young, the Secretary to the Government, she embarked ,
for England in the steamer Victoria, and the plaintiff, her by taking home to his own house one Youisereios7
a woman of loose character, with whom he had retell;
on parting from her on deck, was much affected. cohabited, Not long after the arrival of the,e Onto
Shortly afterwards reports got into circulation as to Mrs. Jenkyn surprised the parties together on we Ostia
an intimacy which had existed between her and room sofa under such convincing circurastanneeheeasbano
Major Harvey, which were communicated to the plaintiff,
who was astounded, and regarded them as incredible,but on forthwithordered her
woman,riesal toacinuditttrhieedhtoanpse;r:eamdotobriio,:eo
took the art of th
investigation, and examining his servants,he soon discovered to let her remain theebut Mrs. Jenk ns was Pereficanntl
that they were well founded. While at the Hills, Major would listen to n;o terms but immediate'Y I)ra-51,110r-4
Parkinson, an intimate friend of the plaintiff's, accompanied was accordingly turned out, and Mr. Jenkyn
tee
pair rid
Mrs. Keaya, and was a witness of the familarity which for her in Spencer street, Goswell road, tee -11,!re,:;1
existed between her and the defendant, particularly in a together to order the furniture from a trs'ootalne 'lf
bungalow, at Poonah, when their sleeping apartments,whieh Old street. From that time the plaint."l.on, sot eniir
were taken by Major Harvey, were in close propinquity, ill treating his wife worse than before. "-`,"„rosd
there being only a diaingeroom between them, and they
were continually together. On leaving Poonah, Mrs. Keays out of doors in her night dress, at Iwo o'clock In id of rol!
knocked her about, but on one ,occasion thettl°',i
earnestly begged of Major Parkinson not to mention to her attempt taertortirel Or
husband what he might have noticed in her conduct to ins. He then commenced an
Major Harvey, when he told her that would depend upon wife by charging her with adultery. For this ne Clap
alleged, he got one of his companions. one Frat,n his ~.
circumstances. Ha told the plaintiff about a month after* and thre air
to take up his residence in his house, ~,,,e plan, ditty
wards ; the reason of not doing so before being, that he
desired to consult some mutual friends. The plaintiff sent constantly in Clayton's way, at the same L,,"",hy. .o.,tigil
instructions to England. to take proceedings, and a d
mus was sent to India for the examination of witnesses viva of the wife's remonstrances, Clayton was Pt"' i lei wesS
ea al,
yore, The examinations were now produced, and those of her in her sitting oom and' directed to take for 0 „el
Mr. James Grant Ramsden, Major Parkinson, Captain Pone there, Mr JenkynB staying away from hate esithol!7til
sonby, and Mr Young,• , chief secretary, were read. Major together at a time. He bribed the servans' d sseqs` to
Parkinson stated that Mrs. Keays was of a passionate and ordered his wife to take for a drive hi"'
and presents to speak against their mistress, sa illiof
Clayton out„eed, holes
uncertain temper, and that the plaintiff was very chaise ;
kind and affectionate e to her on all occasions. Mr. Young grin but, though all sorts of devices were,"),ming:oo
gs to the bedroom doors at night, anun,7;esalit;esos
dansdcri.bed him as a considerate and indulgent husband, to watch in the day time, nothing like er;;;Jetec:(of
in his examination that witness said Mrs. Keays observed to take ace. At last, as one of t's,"stobieniots
suffered from fever. He was present when the plaintiff
took leave of her on the steamer, and saw that he was admitted in evidence, they all got tired of „"e-eat e'' to
nothing, and as six
affected.her Mrs. Keays was not. He heard the reportstee 008 ii
muchabout there seemedg to be a determination to bring
two days before, but he did not tell the plaintiff, a
close by any means that offered. 3,yrs so
as he had no opportunity of making inquiry as to whatmonths had elapsed w""" effaid
up stairs, and as he did. not ,answer when
west wiat,!, Os
took place at Poonah between her and Major Harvey, but
he did tell him afterwards. He did not credit it, but on .called him' down to tea in the usual way. !,, insttee..ooyo
knocked at his door to know what was ta;snisin fen/
enouiry he found circumstances proving the correctness of called out, "Come in," upon which Mrs.."' eeine atols
'"4 id. Ds' 'ought with a view to open the door, and saw Clayton standing at the
~ti to foe
e plaintiff's solicitor, The moment she entered, one of the parties engag" ma A,
ail October last year. came from behind the bedecurtains, here he
.ens
fore. He had been w .0 0
enquiring for him for months
~and tie found that he had hidden, and declared he had seen clul d, s en.
and walked out of the house. He retierne bed eno
a ,week of . his knowing waiting
returned to towaEsursoeprev,edbuwtitlians living on the Continent. minutes afterwards with Jenkyn and a cousin, wiltl)ewitl:p
was.a wiSseerjeadniatahPariggeott
osfaid
hiist'
where the defendant close by for the denouement. The Plai7s, g° $4,
wouta not have been
1- ,le,fc•ndant'S counsel, , ttor,,ha.g.ve called showing - friar
Clayton accordingly took his carpet bag, and hoe- As,
wentes 0
Mr. Jenkyn and his cousin previously she' kig,:s. fee'nel
eays. It him in the most cordial manner. The foliew'ed o°oo
'-e plaintiff brought his wife to town, but re
re roil
any money, telling her that the party 1.1 orani fit)
`o take her, who was a stableekeeper %ages OS
road, owed him some money, and he had °she eg bpi
him to board and lodge her, and deduct "these, 00
from his debt. She accordingly went Tile ass
ion for a divorce coma ue LLI 4 '3U. 1L w tza AL L., ' soon found it was a house of very had character...4'olos
of the party in question herself was elarivint sel
acknowledged to having had known prostitutes_,. 1010
her fur a t welvemonth at a time. Meantime !in'e ole,no
'w having been brought against Clayton 13_,„Lu. jnos1;01
former, is spite of the remonstrances of lur;0. It, en
's, agreed to a verdict by consent for ..;connelSiiog
ed, as a proof of collusion, that thisJ,Lied° getinst
. enforced, and Clayton remained unniel_es:aotiffooo
obtained the verdict by those means, th°n ret till go,
instituted the present suit fora divorce, san,to stastitos
time, immediately resumed intimate
visitedrelat'e Soo opt
Schaffer. Amongst other places they tl, 114;0
together, where they put up at the ship
teeokll° Pt::
together as man an 1 wife, after which they aw- blo-
at the house of a Mrs. Willis, in the neighh? , wiles sets
hotel. Mrs. Jenkyn having ascertained therd. Poter
went to Southend to demand her hush bdt.elopti
at first refused admittance to the 13°1f into Fitt lisr,
a time was allowed to enter. She was shovi,:ht of a;;010:
room, where, by a mischance, she caught e're f the tit ."
band's hat and stick, and on looking out 0.40, 01 fore
saw him making his escape over the garden' "off tbsoott
oilskin cape thrown over his head to IteePoldeo tell);
which was pouring down initorrents. 00 and the.n 00°
of " Here he is! " was raised by the crona ohnos.tleie
this time collected round the house, and shore's laid
menced. The fugitive made direct for the sead. of tspoo
by the boys, boatmen, fishermen's wives, al et te, ,it
people round. After a tolerable run he wasbrotlispeateise,
taken back in grand procession to his irdarestieed lin toS_At
arriving at the house the false, wife conlln'en frowedi,
attack upon the real one, tore her dress °.„P•odialf:loo,lj,
bottom, and otherwise ill used her. 111,oln' orit,
impracticable there, Mrs. Jenkyn returned LlirotrsehooP
husband and Miss Schaffer making good thes in 0...100
the early dawn. The wife, who still reside'a berynnter"
where her husband had placed her, now fount elli7 rojoe'
jetted to continued annoyance from , 100ork 6°oo a
evidently brought there, as she alleged, to
an ~f three 00
At length one night, when the wife of the tang pieOstieg 0
was absent, he produced a quantity of indeeee stternr, Ole&
handed them to Mrs. Jenks n, atithe same tiald w yeeihn;iiob,"
take liberties with her. She called out, awo,ot 'distil( 0
named Robert Bishop, who was in the hell of the 00010
came into the room. On hearing the hin" eitieres7dfllidn,
ante he gave the fellow a sound thrasngtholee,"„i side's
-latter called in the police and caused hira,rs 0001.030,
night, but never appeared against him ill ""2"wao inedniVe'd
Jenkyn then left the house, and an attempt kill a° Des" gab
up a charge of criminality between Airs. Je„Vtit ail ods',.°,r
but it entirely failed. Mrs. Jenkyn being w", see e'-0,, at bear
ashamed to go to her own parents, owilightoad,eYsjetvd
reports that her husband had spread e„aoreeehe b°ol
went to live with a respectable person - d for . 01),Ibi
who some time afterwards sued the has bannied 11.Ai° o$ 144
rn
tad
before
eaorifonrs
eta adultery, e
Prendergast,rcyb,argt hee
and lodging of the wife, and he having"enes- vie-4001'o
oown n Sheriffthede
defence, against
of proceeding enabled the wife to be heard, tel. vett,
ocafstsefilloot:sfebre-ifehe ie:Helit's
lasted nearly all day long, when these fact Becer.,, tb,
forward, and the wife was subjected to for too' 000,
examination by Mr. Jenkyn's coulee' to the d°lloo
two hours. The husband's defence hrolteeeselho
and allegation of adultery completelYsio witlins trea,
and not only was it a failure, but tionselv",:dieoo;
grossly contradicted and perjured sto be tens" r,
the judge ordered them into eustodl 00 histied Tit,
and gave the husband a severe lecture °Plot Pe. be ytta
throughout the proceedings. At a subse.cl that re° t
stating one tees yeP
Prendergast set them at liberty, s- , cone tie,
lieved the husband had bribed there I have lel for :111
perjure themselves, oth • they weni" nter deep;
otherwise then e .le
in custody. A verdict, of course, was was ,P eit. (If
full amount of the claim. That- verdict in this esobstnltis
the wife in an additional responsive article
, hs, the sot 01
application was then made to this oar' l'ea idles' efts
about a fortnight since, to strike out this P
on teethe liol
verdict, which, application was granted lace (44001
of its being obtained partly upon the ev'she ec+the Oeet
which evidence was inadmissible it]. tied for, 000 of
Courts. Yesterday was the day appoin ,_ o,es on 0
tat t°' art the
hearing of this remarkable cause, but
up the was 0,54'
the plaintiff was not prepared to V
133- ejection prOc of
alimony ordered by the court. ' A 0 ° further sid 05s
taken on the part of the wife to all. seers , P for
e
ings in the suit until the arrears and
cogouS(, P aita
>....4
A monition was then prayed for the arn e.
present the hearing stands over.

fnrA

man holding

tiompany—
Bombay

twent3

, but it o

were in

ken very I

;e for her

3he was info
judicial t

d' his wif

;tilts of entering t'

to allow her medic

which, however

lady, a

of the w

uspectuig

repeatedly urged t

her i insisted upon her seeing

a physician

health, hu

ury-squa:

Hills, away from h

usband,

what was

etioa was
7. Palmer,

stated that the wri
He was unable to 1

with the view of

going t,

aamag

and such

was the anomalous state of the law at present,
action must be brought, and a verdict given, before an
anpl- - a divorce could be made. It was not

hat an

brought until r

laintiff was aware

circumsi

he jury to pay

heir utmost attention to the ti

he plairitiff

clear that, after a

riber of

it had

was only 3:x hours journey
desire to go to Poonah, the Ch
India, the -resort of nearly all
absence, and there she met Major Harvey, the result being
that which led to this action. But there were none of the
circumstances of aggravation in his conduct, usually exhibit-
ed in such cases. He had not violated a friend's hospitality
for the purpose of depriving him of his wife ; he had
availed himself of no deep laid plan to accomplish his
design ; be did not seduce Mrs. Keays, rather it was she
who seduced him. It was admitted that intercourse did
take place at Pounah, but it did not follow that the defen-
dant was the seducer. It was clear that the plaintiff
had not sustained anything serious in the loss of such a
wife, and as the action was brought as a preliminary
step to a divorce, and not so much for damages, he
hoped the jury would only give a nominal sun, parti-
cularly as there was no evidence as to the defendant's
means. A juryman wished to know what was the distance
from where the plaintiff had to perform his official duties to
his wife's residence on the hills. It was answered about
one hundred miles. The learned Uader bieriff, in summing
up, told the jury that it must not be considered as any
mitigation of the defendant's conduct that the plaintiff
allowed his wife to live on the Hills. The jury had to
estimate the amount of damages the plaintiff was entitled
to for the injury he had received, and they must estimate
that without any reference to defendant's means of paying
them. The jury, after a short consultation, assessed the
damages at £4OO.

d she—had a
Ltdershott of
on leave of

A telegraphic despa4ch has been received, from Havre,
announcing that the captain and fifteen men, belonging to
the wrecked steamer Le Lyonnaise, have arrived, and been
landed at Bordeaux.

JOHN SADLIER ALIVE.—We find the following curious,
and in some respects startling paragraPh in the Sydney
Freeman's Journal. Our colonial coternporary says: "We
have received a letter from a man on whose word we can
place reliance, that the swindler scoundrel, John Sadlier,
is alive;—lives on the banks of the Murrumbilgee,
or somewhere else in Australia. We ehall give our corres-
pondent's letter, and offer a few comments on the matter in
our next issue.",

A. POSTOFFICE OFFENDER ON THE CONTINENT.—An
account was given in August last of upwar Is of 600 letters
having been found in a dark closet in the Postoffice at
Nantes, and of its having turned out on investigation that
they had been deposited there en attendant an opportunity
of destroying them by an employe named Guedon. The
man was at once arrested, and it then appeared that there
was reason to believe that he had stolen other letters con-
taining money and securities to the amount of 51,000 fr.,
which had disappeared in the course of a few years; but he
would only confess to the robbery of one letter, containing
5,000,r. in notes. On Monday he was brought to trial for
the robberies, before the Court of- Assizes at Nantee, and
being convicted, was sentenced tb five years' hard
I,ooofr. fine ; also to restore the 5,00011

I.bour and

A MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE. —One night lately a worthy
couple were invited to a baptism in the house of a friend;
after which they partook of a glass of toddy, and then
returned home quite comfortably ; but about the dead hour
of night our friend's better half started up in terror and
aroused her partner, assuring him at the same time that a
wild beat was attempting to get into the bed ; but he
cried out, " Hut, tut, there's nothing o' the kind." But
she, nothing daunted, sprung out, struck a light, and made
a scrutinising search for the beast, when she soon dis-
covered that Ft he was right. Seeing the beast was under a
chair, she roared out a second time, " Rise and see this
fearsome brute upon the floor," when be at last got up, and
seizing hold of a heavy cudgel, dealt a ponderous blow on
his victim, laying it flat on the floor. The husband,
screwing up his courage, seized hold of his victim, and
roared out, "0, you silly body, it's Jamie's Glengarry
bonnet." "Dear me," replied his spouse, "I thocht it
was a pole-cat--the lang ribbons at the bonnet boing the
tail of the ugly brute."—Rrechin .ticivertiser.