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'buteallh ' 'GILL v. AVIIIIST. • •
The itraillf ilia of the sohjoisted trial has excited lively
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ed for a peiraie ilisaor:ii testify " the satiefeei los felt it
foiliies of the woof attempt to vilify the thirstier
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• shenrlatalsCe Se* Defeadmat, idealisms' of SlsrUp
shim. A eitsibe setious, hslasdhl by tie awn Pleistilr, vbe
resided at here„, lessegoassershive, woo tried at she lois
Asslare, wises the Jerrie:pressed themselves 'stied',', snit
beeriest she Plaistif ewe, shmt these was so remold foe ilk
/vide% sad she Ph hones Caused chose so be mosses ited 'whir
Asa hove the oriciiss of she Jury resesumeed ageism In
Clieat. Is serata, hisirever, that the etiff was mot oisti*
-.ilk this dmeasims, and deteessitsed M take the *rearms ut
--dsisrJory. Gems tilriesity had bees excised,

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• r.SCA111.1111? addressed the Junes the part ef the Plaits.
tif He was serried t. Miss Lowed,' is the year 1809,
by this marriage he had three ehildree. Tlte 'parties
resatiessed to live together epee she mast amicable menu'
fee* member a para. Mr. Aubrey lived its the muse
n.iiklmerbood, weer Oswestry; he had married • lady of
gnat femme, hot some year* older than himself. The two
families were hi habits of latimasey, sod visited with each
'Aber time' the most frieddly terms. Some ciresseastances
• however, *centred which be rouhl set mention, beesliree he
not prove them, bat which reined strong suaPiriona is
the mind of the Plaintiff thittbe Wife he so much loved had
• ts• nnfailiefsil to his bed. Re Mooed it his duty, liter&
e, to hare her conduct closely watched, and the reed'
the coallrisetion of all hie suspicions. If Way dean
f aegraseate the injury be had received, U' as the dr-
. which the Defeudast mad Mrs. Gill were, in eokiene-
, to i t .p, which was se, other then skie--sher the
doliff wee insaer, sad that the injury of whiCh he rem-
/aged bad no foundation bat in a disordered understanding.
This report bad been industriously circulated by the lady
and Mr. Aubrey and their friends, and steps bad bees takes
issue oat a onnsis.ion of lunacy against him, bat happily
without success. There was not the liast foundation fur such
an injurious report, sod he wished that the issue its this
• NINO! sight demist open lbe sanity of the Plaintiff, but this he
• ...amid not be permitted to give may evidence awn. The adoh
tongs iutercourse was stated by Mr. licarlett is have com-
es:mond at the boss* of the Defendant, at Hereford, iii the
Miter end of the year 1817; but we shall give the detail'
from the exasitsat tun Ville witneries.
John Honor, Esq. stated, that he was the friend of Mr.
rtiahrey ; he had been acquainted with Mr. Gill and his lady
stir several yens, and was is habits of intimacy with them ;
they lived together most amicrbly. Witness was upon •
vont sit the Plaintiff's house, in Aluntgioneryshire, when he
had some conversation with the Plaintiff respecting Abs.
GO, who raid he bad strong grounds for suspecting her
luy; and whets the witness expressed his surprise that he
. should continue to live with bee after he was convinced of
Iret guilt, lie replied that be lived with her as he wont,' with
commoe using a very coarse expre. . Mrs. Gill
was in the horn when this cuoveiration took place, and had
• sat at the head of the sable as is usual Nellie mistress of a
family to do. At the time of this visit, Mr. Gill was consider-
ably indisposed, and the behaviour of Mrs. Gill towards
him was masked with the utmost anxiety and tenderness.
Mn. Honor accompanied the ',hansom this visit, which he
nuked nut have permitted or he had ever suspected the
'lightest impropriety in Ilse conduct of Mrs. Gill. This
conversation passed in October, 1819. Witness never ob-
. Reeved spy nanny toward" levity in the conduct of Mrs.
Gill, nor did he ever perceive in the conduct of Mr. Antoci
way thierliir-Jesproper familiarity—quite the sv—his
conduct was decorous in the extreme, as far as be bad an
nppi enmity of observing. Mr. Gill told the witness that lie
kid offered 401. to his butler if be could discover said prove
Alia. Gill es be guilty. .

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Witeeca, inn his le examination by Mr.Seenharr,
he had communicated this conversatioo to 'Mr. Aubrey since
they were at Lancaster the last time. Witness has visited
Mrs. Gill sitter the dale of the couversation to which be
hem been speaking, but lie had nut visited Mr. Gill. Being
ked why be said this euumrsatiou bed made as homes-
Sion upon his mind that —...—[tVilitees beet paused, and
heft the senteisce nolleished•
George Read, son of Mr. Aubrey's gamekeeper, said he
"scat into Mr. Gill's service iss Montgomeryshire, cud lean
with them in Herefurdahire. Mr. Aubrey weed to mit Mrs.
Gill at Ocle.ctiort ; he used to go about ten o'clock in the
soureieg akd relent at thine its the afternoon. On Sundays
Mr. sort Mrs. Aubrey used to visit them together. Wituesa
slues mut know ItQW long he remained eecrpt upon two urea-
-1:101111,. II ben he riutaitied five hours each time. Upon une
of these ocessiuns lie came before Mr. Gill went out, but
he left them, mol then there was no person to the room
but Mrs. Gill sari Mr. Aubrey. The remaining pail of his
eci.leuce only amounted to this—that Mr. A•brey eame
akar at licrefistd in Octuber' 1819; that Ise remained at
the hutel a few days unt:l the horse which be had taken was
fit fur the receplion of his family. The house be had taken
vas in Wide Marsh street, Hereford, and the bark door
opened into Boa sey-lanc, which was staled to be very dirty.
Mr. and Mrs. Gill were at this time living at the cottage at
Hai:sioue.hill, a bids is a mile from Hereford. The road
by Rowarylatie to Mr. Aubrey's house was a quarter of a
re.lilonger than the road by Wide Marsthatieet. Willies.' left
the sersice uf Mr. Gill in Argos., 1618, and has since lived
w.sti Colonel Mat.hros.—Witness on cross-examination,
earl !twit upon one of the five hues visits of Mr. Aubrey,
Mr. Gill had requestrd 11141 to stay and keep Mrs. Gilj
chtapeny.
Jzzzies Boeotian', tailor, lives in &moray-lane; the window
of Isis house commands • vicar of the back door of Mr.
A 411r,l'Albouse. Witness remembers Mr. Siterme occupying
that house; and • few ilsys after lie bail left it, and before
the family of Mr. Aubrey had e.114C, he saw Mr. Aubrey
eiandieg at the back dour; be left it a little a jar; he sweet
iii, and semi sifter witness saw • lady, dressed in a crimes
pehisse, w.:11 a deep veil and recibir.' in bee has; come dowet
the hoe. When she gut to Mr. Auhrey'a house she went in,
-.4 after rem•iumg a short lime she came nut again, and
11-14441,1 site same way she cam.. Witness slid out then.
. know wile the lady was, hat he has since seen Mrs. Gill, and
though Ise could not swear that the perms be saw go hit*
ter. Aubrey'. tunas was Mrs. Gill, yet to the best of lii;
judgment be &dared is so be her. tier veil prevented
biwi f owi seeing bar features, and lie etia'd therefore,
vuly j.olge (rum her figtate. Witness saw the same lady
the day but Vile fullowieg, dossed is the same manner, ram.
Mosta the Igoe end go inns Mr. Autosey`• home. Wilma
desired his etre to take usotice, and he said lo her that it was
tie WIMP lady that be bad area a day or two before. Wit•
. nem bawl that Bosomy-lane was out • road that kitties were
arcusiemed to walk in. Witiams said, the draw worse by
the tidy sass et that time au uscomosou these al Hereford.
reoes-kjesaisied—Wituess sew • atomise diem at Oele
(Ho resui ..ee of Mr Gill), • &bust lime before the last Spring
Aseivc. 11 itos es, after freeing with the questiou mine time,
attliried that lie rent to Ocle as the desire of Mr. Gill,
fur the et.paces puipme of lookiog at this pelisse. Witness
was seeempansesi by his epitomic', Corochus Law; they
were at the uutstde of the house, and Mr. Gill held the pe-
lisse in hie Is wad 41 the v i allot ; it was the same colour es that
Worn by the lady *lsom be had seen in Bowsey-lane. Wit-
ness is no. the tailor of Mr. Gill. Witness said that be bad
Lot Sato mane trouble about some cloth which he bad
bought, add *bids Seined out to be sinless; end after notch
terviamg.'be reluciastly adussited that be bait at Met given a
fame akesactut of the Jammer in which be became possessed
Rica Baptisms, the wife tit the last witness, staled that she
saw the lady in the crimson pelisse room lwu sr three times
so Ile. Aubrey's boom; but will not swear that the lad) sbe
saw in ilmermison pelisse was Mrs. Gill.
Matilda Meese lives is Bowsey.lease. She stated that the
distauce of the house of the last witness from Mr. Aubrey's
was yards. 41'atsiess ear Mr. Aubrey in November,
1817, come ullt of the door sad Mark up the lane, and ado..
after As saw a peke' lady, ills COMM/4 velvet pelisse,
black bat or lismatet, and a deep geol. Wits's.. did out
kw,. who the lady sea $ reel/ diStiejltillb her
features thruegb the veil at the distance at which