Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-28 00:00:00

A PAINFUL Domturro STORY.

At the Warship street Police-court, on Monday, after
the night charges hid been cl:spaseal of, a young person,
of lady-lke ad ress aad deportm Int, entered the witness box and
timi ily realerted the ad le s aal assistance of t e msgistrate
under the fall ow n, a in eras nst :nuts : The appli-
cant, in a law, tin) t. Wens voles, pr teeded to state that she ha I
oecup ed a happy and comf ,rtahle posit an for a conald arable period
as thaw fe of o-.e of the ele k 3 in the Melba iris Po it-Office. A hont
thre 3 year. aro, her bulb nd suddenly died, but she was let with
a sufficient provision to.eaabl s her to coatinu3 in the rasps:table
sphere to which she hai always begs acnit3 sae 1, natd she was
minced in an evil hoar to acceot as o'er of maniage f.7om a pers
who repres anted himself as a mto of "fort me," in which chant t
hs had obtainel admission into th 3 fir t eire'es at Melbourne I as-
mediately after t ieir mare a ya, ha vever, she dile ov 3r 3 I that sha
bad uni ed herself to a pan Tess adventurer of such lavish and
extravagant habits, and in lass th in a twalvecanth hi swam lered
away nearly the whole of her property. bat still kept up his
lofty pretensions, and In order to ilduc3 her to draw oat from
the Austra'ian Bank the small residue of her mon y, amounting to
£BO he deposit d his will in her ke-ping, which he assured her
would put her in po-seasion of his patilmonial esta's, in the event ref
his death. Alter placing the who eo' her remaining fu cis at his
disposal, they embark d for t is ronntry, wh,ere he told her the his
presence wa. 'imperatively teq sired to lo sit a ter his prapery, wh ch
hid been greatly neglected in his abse- c 3, and as soon as they
arrived, h- eagaged obszaro ap rtments in the ne ghboarhood f Stile
End, where he commenced a e ntinubas career of d nal:refine s and
dissipati n, for the Latin genes of which he eepri ,ed her by degrees
of all her permaal araaments, Mein -ling her gold watch and chain,
statch he afterwards laughing y told her she hid secs the last of, as
he had pledge 1 them a'l, rid lost the dup irate'. About three
weeks sines. he wa. brought h me by a paticaman. at two o'cl sek In
the morning, in a helpless at de of drunkenness, and on
n,braiding him with " his heartless coadnet, when h
recover d h's c inseionsn-ss, he coo'y took up )Is hat and
left the 'boas° wit'soat a nartlig word, s'nce which limo she
had s-en no recv eof hi is. Af a dt• p osng of the few trifling articles
of wearinz apparel which h.d not bee sa r:fleed to the deb suchery
of the worth' as husband, s' e was redue d to such extremly that she
was Cani3olled to take refugo with h.a• child in the Bethaal Green
w rkhort,e, the matron of wh ch had advised her to submit ter
unhappy case to the Magistrate. In corroboration of hlr sad narra-
tive, the ap,sl cant produce I moms of her wedding saris, her mania te
certitleale, and the valuable will, which had been ntsuore
Intended as a mere instrument t f t.ecep ion, from Vie obvious
myth cal char cter of some of the b 'quests. one of which empowers
the le .atee to receive alh the rents a d profits accruing from two of
the t stator's houses situate is Bing-street, n the county o W Its.
if or examine •g the docu nent of the unf rt nate lsiy, Mr.
Hammitt express d a hone that the case dbe noticed by the press
for the consider tion of the benevolent, as a mar- lam wilt) e instance
of unmerited distress and wretchedness had never before been brought
tt,cle- his notice. In t e m •antime he should p eaent aso er ign to
'he appli ant for her e to exigencies. and regretted htT he
urunnadbslea;oh.is
ff odrit'llhlsafur'teh re
as nsissot heean lathhea exhaustedr
11: tale
+y
rtehtiatt
nhee was
her
imattfelt thank; to the m gistrate, and left the Court in tears.