Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-07 00:00:00

:t with n

reading

I net him on

pier with.

At Stroud slie became wry excited at

two ladies coming on, boa:

of these ladies met Captain Lloyd on
him- with a bouquet. He aaawards
came up tome, and said, " What do• you, want, sir.?" I
said I had come at :the, request of 11L.5.. Lloyd. He accused
me of turning against him, and said that Mr. Carew had
told him that he was a fool to tell me the very thing most
inst himself. He said, " How I loved that girl"
fe. I said very little would bring them together,
is destitute. He said, "Whrd'oes s'
_as 1100 a year." Lsaid " Good God
officer in her Majesty's. service. Will Touall
on the w

in Lloyd

Thes© tiva ladies

ad broad

s the second time that I saw

the pier and present

Lis. wit

e not pay you ?

d you an

w hei.to live

es of her seduction ?- Hasaid,'stripping his coat
partly off, " This uniforra must go in Maidstone Gaol,
and that is how I -will-pay." I did: not tell him, then that
Mrs. Lloyd had had-. a, child: I was very. indignant.
A number of letters from Captain Lloyd. were read, and

Mr. O'Malley submitted

to his lordship that there was no evidence, to go to the jury

lachequ

son v. Sumner," that the onus lay on the plaintiff of proving
that the wife had authority,. expressed or implied, on the

part of the husband to pledge-. his: credit
Williams : The way the case was presenteC

ithin the ordinary r

d, brou,g

I was tl

Justice
tis, that
cry had

applies

it was

to the case of a woman living, apa.rt from 111

husband
.
thout due provision. Tie thought •it very improper that
case of this kind should be set down:for trial at the sittings
in term, when he was obliged to•riSe early to go to chambers-
Under these circumstances he would postpone the further
hearing of the cause until a future day; as he had' to sit in.
Middlesex to-morrow In the- meantime he would bear
any common cases of money demand, so-aa to finish the day.
Tie was clearly of opinion that there, was evidence in
this caseto gO the jtiry. Aft. O'Malley agreed that_ as the

case could `not possibly finish to-d
adjourn it befora the end of the 4da

O'Malley adopted thin course, ay

this was one of tho most

t ha

Nho had dishorsow

mld be better to
Justice Williams

an ordinary

sses, .forl
e jury be:

83 the jury to-day.
L- stated to the jury
s. cases that could be
ainst Captaiolloyd,

ie should not hay

woman

given by

was for t

express

else that thayos:

there • NI

ad been
led wit-

ority to dO. so,

one gentleman in

Leed the slightest• reliance on the evi-
Plaintiff-in support of this- case. It
ow that the defendant bad given
-,to incur' debts on his credit, or
hieh she stood in reference to him
All-the letters which had been.

-
read, as far as he cou

was date

his.native

in 1853, bu

produced was .the
way homa..-from I

r.epudi,

tha7lateSt
should ha.

from Captain Lloyd

T from

e idea of

itain Lloyd t

) write to Mr

w to inv

Iknowite at the time that he

fancied.
fore the

tter produced
c liked to see

.en on his

amounted to
onduct. It
,rised into an

ately at Guernse;

She left her
travelling aboi

ier in Lon--

married man.

and abandoned her home, and went
_... with. Mr. Winslow. That was the greet—
ing she prepand far her hnsand who was coming home
from India expectihp. to find herready to meet and to welcome
him. When. Captain Lloyd arrived home he could not
obtain any information of her ; and he therefore sent his
son to Miss. Davia's and soZcl his house. It was not until
same time afterwards that he heard of her through her
hrother. It-resod with,the wife to show that there had
been conclaAatiorl, not mare forgiveness, but that Captain.
Lloyd haeLagrcd to restore her to her position as his wife.
Was that at all likely; and indeed all his letters expressed
his 1131wwieriag determination not to restore her t, her lost
Could it be, imagined that this was otherwise,
&et was that they liad•never lived an hour.
' *he only time it was pretended that.
sed the night-with her was when she
se effects of poison, and she had never
the possession. of her child. They had
unfortunate woman had suffered in her
eould only hope in charity that her own.
) -
..6 , ratino's bad impressed themselves upon her mind as
frets, but, at all events, Captain Lloyd would deny on his
most solemn oath that he never had any intercourse with.
this woman from the time. he left England in 1847 down
to• the present moment* or that he had ever had a
lied;
_some anonymous information,
a thought of such a. thing. As to the third child,
Captain Lloyd had
.. ou.;nce.. .
upon the subject, biO: the first positive 'inn
had beard upon the patter wasthat made
She said that rent he
witness box yester4y. by hi, wife in the
offspring of the intreonrse hetween her
and that
Captain. childtw, aLloyd,sl hle
in 18.56, at Chatham •
course of 1856 Otipta'inbuut ',,e would prove tha&io.ivifet. whole
only. other ocerzion on which
it
never ewv ears
saidsaw I
l there had' been
Intercourse was on board the Edinbu‘ re), but her statement
was extremely improbable, and ho would show that she
went there. in an excited state, and was not on the vessel
more than half an hour, and indeed was there no longer
than tho time necessary to get her removed from the ship.
Mr. Roberts who had been sent homy for his day-boolrf
returned with it, and was recalled. He said : I find my
first visit to Mrs. Lloyd after her confinement was on the:
16*th of September, instead of the 27th of that month.
`the child was born prematurely ; it was a seven
ortoel'ille
nry
months' eliiid. Mr. O'Malley continued his addreseesc.
lie
ia,t some length, and, at the conclusion of his sp a t
.fuktter luntring of the opo.was. adjourned.

when tine

"together: since;
'Captain, Lloyd had p
-was sunring from a

pan allowc
' treat this

intstleet

and he