The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-27 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.—CROYDON, Aug. 26.
(Before Baron Bramwell and a Special Jury.)

WOOLLEY V. POLE.

THE CAMPDEN HOUSE FIRE,-SECOND DAY,
The proceedings in this extraordinary cause were again
resumed yesterday morning, at ten o'clock.

Mr. Bovill, Q.C., Serjeait Ballantine, Mr. Mereweather,
Mr. Henry James (specially retained), and Mr. Kosher,
appeared for the plaintiff.

Mr. Lush, Q.C., Mr. Denman, Q.C., and Mr. Garth,
were for the defendant.

The following additional evidence was adduced on behalf
of the plaintiff :
Mr. William Frederick Woolley said—l am the plaintiff
in this action. In the year 1817 I married a lady named
Cope. She had a very considerable fortune. I took Campden
House immediately after the marriage. The rent was at first
£2OO, but was afterwards raised to £290. This continued
until the year 1854.
(Upon the application of the learned counsel, Crozier, a
witness who was to be examined for the plaintiff, and
Temple, who was to be called for the defendant, were or-
dered to be out of Court while the plaintiff was being ex-
amined.)

Examination continued—ln 1851 I purchased the lease of
Campden House, which at this time had 90 years to run, for
£6,000. The house was in a very dilapidated state when I
took it. It was altogether out of repair, and many persons
said I was mad to take it. I laid out considerable sums
upon the building, both internally and externally. I fitted
it up gradually, according to my own taste. I took out the
whole of the grates and fitted in others according with the
age at which the house was supposed to have been built.
When I bought the lease the place was very much improved,
but I continued the alterations afterwards, and the improve-
ments were going on down to the fire. Whenever I saw
anything I thought would suit me I purchased it. I bought
articles abroad and in country places, and, in fact, wherever
I went. I once purchased an estate in Essex, because there
was some remarkable carving in the farm-house attached to
it. I think I gave £1,500 or £2,000 for the property. The
carving was of the time of Henry VII., and it was very re-
markable. It was afterwards put up in the breakfast room at
Campden House. I bought a great many pictures, both
abroad and in England. I purchased some of the old Italian
masters' pictures, which were not so much appreciated at
the time, but which afterwards became very valuable. Some
time ago I had an illness, and I was blind for two years,
and my sight now is very bad, and for some time I have had
a servant to go about with me. I can state that there were
28 panelled pictures in Campden House, and every one of
those pictures were of great value. Some were by Spagno-
letti, and others by Yelasquez. I used to amuse myself
sometimes by taking pictures out of frames and putting them
in other positions. There were a great many framed pic-
tures all over the house. I had not a large number of look-
ing-glasses, because such things did not suit the style of
the house. There was one large Florentine glass in the
ball-room, which was very beautiful and valuable, and the
frame was most elaborately carved. My brother-in-law, on
one occasion, said he should notmind giving raeX4oo for this
glass if a room in a house he was building in the Isle of
Wight was large enough to hold it. I bought the furniture
in the same way, from time to time, and when I saw any
article that I thought would suit my house I purchased it.
I gave 150 guineas for a dining-room table, and all the
other furniture was in accordance with it. The house was
full of furnitul e when the fire happened, and my friends
used to say it was like a broker's shop. A good deal of
garnish was used to bring up the old panelling, after some
coats
by of white paint had been removed from it b
my orders.
I myself used varnish for this purpose. The places.
I have
where it was used were the drawing-room, the hall, and
staircase.theme .
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A man named. Temple was in my ser-
vice, and his wife and a son lived with him. Temple was
originally employed as a journeyman carpenter, and I paid
him thirty-five shillings per week, but afterwards another
arrangement was made. I should think I have laid out at
least £7,000 or £B,OOO upon th. e hAousgoeo,dand
deal
dell doefcomraotendeyit
wasand
made it as perfect as I could
paid to a gilder named Timbrell, who has died since the fire.
I believe he was in my service for fourteenthe tyieae of our rs. My wife's
sister, Miss Cope, lived with her from mar-
riage till my wife died. My wife and her brotherm and
took as much interest in decorating the house
as Isis
didt r
myself. My wife's fortune was about £22,000 or X 25,000.
This was in Russian Stock, and produced about X 1 OCO per
annum. My wife had a large fortune besides this from' her
father, consisting of railway stock and debentures. I
borrowed £13,000 on mortgage from my sister-in-law upon
Campden House and the furniture in it. I used to allow
the theatre on the premises to be used for amateur per-
formances for charitable purposes. Gas was laid on in the
house. I very seldom gave evening parties after my wife
died. I kept no horses or carriages, and ray establishment
was very small. For several years I only kept a butler. I
had no stock or wine in the cellar, and 1 only purchased
small quantities. Besides the £13,000 I borrowed from my
sister-in-law, I borrowed £3,000 from Mr. Borradailo, which
was also lent upon the security of Campden House. In 1855,
I let it to Colonel Waugh, and was about to go abroad, but
I and my wife took a fancy to an old castle at Tunbridge
Wells, and we hired it. No furniture was taken there from
Campden House. Col. Waugh paid me twenty guineas per
week for Campden House. He took away eome of myproperty
without my consent, but 1 was paid for a portion of it.
While I resided at Tunbridge I had the misfortune to lose my
wife and child, and my health was very much affected in
consequence of those losses. It was my only child. I remained
for some time at Tunbridge after my wife's death, and
when Col. Waugh left Campden House I went back there,
and after some time I determined to go to Brighton. This
was in 1859. 1 took an unfurnished house, a very small one,
and the furniture I put into it was brought from Tunbridge
Castle. The rest of the Tunbridge furniture was sold by
Tlct_ u
ieoc se h.. It was at this time that I insured the furniture in
. Fe h at Brighton and in Campden House with the Sun
Before I went to Brighton the first time I en-
tertained oAfilietting Campden House. At this time
existence, and in IS6I,
the mortgag®s
insured. At this time es Cope and Mr. Borradaile were in
atth their suggestion, the furniture was
Paretfourniture was not insured at all,
and the furniture was
There had
Cope's security for the
money she had advanced,
neighbourhood, and Miss Coplen
18d 59
and
enhad been some fires in the
her brother pressed for
insured for
ranee upon the build-
an insurance being effected.
me to increase the amount of the insn'lleY had also pressed
£4_ ,000. I asked
ing, evhieh was at that time only ins)
Temple if he could rebuild the house for
000000, and he
laughed and said it could not be rebuilt for £2o'
municated with Mr. Freeth, the surveyor to the Suinc."l-
ho sent some one to look over the property, and the
agreed to take an insurance for LlO,OOO. In the year 18be9
the amounts insured for were £12,0U0 upon the house, and
£7,000 upon the fictiDgs. Tue Br;ghton furniture was in-

sured for £3,500. There were a great many pictures among
the property at Brighton. They were insured for £2,000.
Before I went to Brighton, in 1861, some articles were sent
there from Campden House. There were a good many
packages, because there were all the things belonging to
Captain Cope and his sister and the servants. Some silver
articles were also taken, but I cannot say exactly what was
actually taken, because I had nothing to do with packing
them up, Crozier, the butler, had to see to all this. In
the year 1861 I was in negotiation with Mr. Mark Phillips
for letting Campden House, but the negotiation went off
because there was not sufficient stabling. He wanted
stabling for twenty horses, and there was only room for
three. I went backwards and forwards from Brighton to
London several times at this period, and I think I had
been at Campden. House about three weeks at the time the
fire happened. I did some varnishing myself during this
time. My butler, Crozier, occupied a bedroom that was only
divided by a passage from my own bedroom. The house
was dirty and dusty, and is order to protect the carving and
the pictures I and Crozier covered them with paper and
cloth. I believe that is the usual way to protect such
things. The bedroom I have mentioned was not my usual
bedroom but I preferred it because itwas more airy. Temple
and his wife and child slept in an opposite part of the house,
and I was well aware that they were there. I went to town
on the ,day before the fire, in the evening about seven
o'clock. During the day I had been engaged in covering
up; some of the furniture, and Mrs. Temple saw me en-
gaged in this way. Crozier went with me to town, and we
walked about together. Ido not think it was more than 11
o'clock at night when:
I returned to Campden House. There
was no fire in my bedroom, and Crozier told me shortly
afterwards that he had lighted it, but it was not yet burned
up. When I went into the bedroom I found Crozier sitting
by the fire. I am very helpless from my illness, and Crozier
always assisted to undress me. On this evening he told me
he was going down to put the gas out and shut up the
house, and I accompanied him, and met Temple and his
wife going up to bed, and he said as he passed me that he
thought I was in the library, and if he had known I had
been upstairs he should have turned the gas off. It was
my custom frequently to see the house shut up, and when I
had done so on this night I went up to bed, and I was in
bed when Crozier left the room. I believe I went to sleep,
and was awoke by some noise.
Baron Bramwell—What time do you suppose it was when
you went to bed ?

Mr. Woolley—l cannot say. I did not take notice. It
must have been before 12 o'clock.
Examination continued—l at first fancied the noise was
in my servant's room, and I listened, and heard a very heavy
noise, as though something heavy had fallen. I opened the
door, and found the house was on fire, and the smoke almost
suffocated me, My first thought was the Temples, and I
tried to get to them, but was unable to do so, and I screamed
or called out, and went down a back staircase. Crozier, I be-
lieve, followed me, and we had several doors to open, and at
length got into the garden, when I screamed and called for
Temple, and then went round to Temple's side of the house.
At this time the flames were coming out of the large window
over the theatre. I found Mrs. Temple standing at the
window of her room, and I begged her to remain, as I did
not see any sign of immediate danger; but while Crozier was
gone for a ladder she jumped out, and was a good deal in-
jured. The son was afterwards got out by means of the fire
escape. I did not see Temple himself all this time. I had
nothing on but my day shirt. I never had a night shirt,
but used to wear the same shirt all day and night, and put
on a fresh one in the morning. Mr. Freer was the first per-
son I remember seeing. I believe the police were at the
front of the house, but I saw a policeman in the garden
shortly afterwards, and I begged him for God's sake to get
some assistance and procure the fire escape, and he replied
that he was a stranger in the neighbourhood, and did not
know where to go. I was removed to Mrs. Stevens', in
Gloucester-place, and saw Temple there for the first time,
and was glad to do so, as I thought he had been burned to
death. I was very ill in consequence of my being exposed
to the weather on the night of the fire. The whole of the
furniture was in the house at the time of the fire, and I am
not aware of anything having been recovered.
Sergeant Ballantine—Now, I will ask you the question
raised in this record. Did you set fire to that house ?

Mr. Woolley—Certainly not.
Sergeant Ballantine—Or employ any one else to do so ?
Mr. Woolley—Certainly not.
Sergeant Ballantine—Have you the slightest notion how
the fire happened ?
Mr. Woolley—l have not, except that I heard there was a
fire in the green-room of the theatre on the evening before.
Examination continued—At the request of the Sun Fire
Office I made out the inventory of the furniture now pro-
duced. I was very ill at tile time, and my sister in-law
assisted me to make it out. This inventory was sent in the
first instance to my solicitor, Mr. Teesdale, and I afterwards
corrected it for the use of the fire office. Temple did not
assist me to make out this inventory. Crozier, the butler,
did assist me, and I believe it to be a true and genuine claim,
and that a great many things have, in point of fact, never
been claimed for at ell.

The inventory was then put in and read. At the end of it
there was a long statement bz the plaintiff to the effact that
he had estimated the value of a great many articles, not so
much in reference to the original cost, but to their present
value, from the alterations that had been made in them. It
also stated that Mr. Temple, the principal carpenter at
Campden House, had gone through the list and made his
remarks upon it. The value of this portion of the property
was estimated at £B,OOO, the insurance upon it being only
Z 5,000.

In further examination Mr.Wooley said that the moment
he heard that any suspicion was entertained in relation to
the fire he voluntarily offered to be examined by the solici-
tors to the Sun Fire Office.

Cress-examined—I did not hear rumours very soon after
the fire that I had set the house on fire. I had given an ac-
count of the fire previously to a Mr. Thompson to be in-
serted in the newspapers. There were no such rumours as
I have alluded to at this time. I had various occupations
before my marriage. I was once in a counting-house in
Regent •street. I had no occupation immediately before my
marriage. I was promised a situation with M. Ouvrard, the
French financier, and I was afterwards employed by him
and received £5O a year. I was once a member of a com-
pany of provincial actors, but I had no ealary. I did not re-
ceive a salary at Salisbury, and had no regular engagement.
I had a great many friends in London, and they used to
send me remittances. I know Raggett's Hotel. I know the
family. I was not a waiter. I was not paid; at least I had
no salary while I remained there. I don't recollect if I had.
Mr. Raggett may have given me some money. This was 25
or 26 years ago. I am now 46 years old. I had no means, as
you may say, when I married. I will most postively and
solemnly swear I was not out of the house wittiCrozier after
12 o'clock on tht night of the fire. I swear I was not out at 3
o'clock in the morning. I did not fasten the back door or go to
the back part of the house at all in the night. I sat on the
staircase while Crozier was fastening up his own offices. We
met the Temples on the staircase, but I do not remember that
Crozier said to Temple that he and I were going to sit up
very late that night. I swear I did not hear him say so. I
do not know at what hour the fire broke out. I did not
look, and all I thought about was the people in the house.
I believe I thumped at Crozier's door as I went by. lam
sure that the door leading into the kitchen was shut,and we
had some difficulty in opening it. I then went round to
the theatre. It seemed to me an age before I heard the police-
man's rattle, and I have said it was three-quarters of an
hour after the fire was discovered, but I suppose I must
hare been mistaken as to the time. I have no recollection
of seeing any one before I saw Mr. Freare, but other per-
sons may have been there, but I am very blind and can
hardly distinguish any one. I remember a policeman in-
quiring of me if there was anybody in the house. I was
not very self-possessed.

Mr. Lush—Why, you say in your report for the news-
papers that you were.

Mr. Woolley—No one could be very self-possessed under
such circumstances. I certainly knew sufficiently well what
I was about,to request Mrs. Temple to remain quiet,and not
to jump out of the window. When I was taken away the
flames were not bursting out on every side of the house, I
cannot say how long it took before the place was entirely
burnt to the ground. The windows of the room I slept in on
this night overlooked the leads of the house of a gentleman
named Egg. My usual bedroom was at the other side of
the house. The green room I have spoken about was under
my usual bedroom. I did not see any smoke until after I had
opened my bedroom-door. Several windows on the garden
side of the house had neither blind nor curtain. (The wit-
uegspointed out on the model the windows that were in this
condition.) There were shutters to the library window, analvliwouilsto swearl that those shutters were closed on the night pre-
the fire. A piece of tapestry was hung beforo both
the windows of the gallery. The object of the tapestry
being hung before the window was that it might be repaired
and to show were the holes were, I believe that is the
usual way to repair tapestry.l swear that there was no
tapestry put to the upper terrace rraee window. There was some
tapestry hung up at the north gallery window. Some dow-
las or carpet covering was nailed up np in the hall which partly
covered the window ; the object
waalt,ocover the whole of
This the carving that had been cleaned.
drugget did not
hide the view from without of what was going osnoifnshide the
hall,' Campden House was surrounded byrow
ous
Mrs. Temple had provided me with a needle and threads.
and I had intend ad to mend the tapestry myself with the
assistance of Mrs. Temple. The varnishing had been going
on three or four days before the fire. I believe that 40 pieces
of paper were purchased for the purpose of covering the
pictures and the carving. I am not aware that some of the
paper was nailed to the ceiling and hung loosely to the
ground, but it is possible that some of it may have been so.
I had hung up paper in the same manner on a previous oc-
casion when I left the house. I cannot say when this oc-
curred. it may have been seven or eight years ago. Besides
the paper I purchased a considerable quantity of calico, or
what I call sheeting, which was hung up over the pictures
and the carving, in the same way as the paper. I never co-
vered the walls in this way before, only the carved work.
There was a reason for doing so cn thisoccasion. We found
the house had become so wretchedly dirty during our stay
at Brighton that we determined to protect the furniture in
future. I had purchased a quantity of candles before the
fire. I cannot say if it was a cwt,, and will not swear whe-
ther it was that quantity or not. I think it was only so
n_l4,lY dozen pounds. I do not remember the name of the
pre at whose shoo I bought these candles, but I could

find the shop again. I do not know what became of the bill
for them. These candles were placed in a cupboard in the
dining-roorn. The week before the fire I had taken down a
great many books and spread them about open. My reason
for doing so was. that they were mildewed and damp, and
I wished to dry them. I had four suits of armour in the house
shortly before the fire. They were worth £3O or £4O a piece.
I had sent three suits of armour away a few months before.
I swear I did not send these suits of armour away a few
days before the fire. I will swear that no pictures were sent
away from Campden house except a few that were removed
to the Brighton house. I had several portraits of Queen
Elizabeth, and one of Sir Anthony Brown, her Master of
the Horse. Crozier accompanied me to twn on the morn-
ing before the fire. He has dined with me on several
occasions, and we may have had chops together in ii. y bed-
room. lam in such a condition of health that I require some
one to be constantly with me, as I occasionally fall down in
a fit. By an arrangement with Colonel Waugh £2,000 was
placed to my credit at the London and Eastern Bank. He
was the head of that; bank at the time. He took the things
away without my consent and in spite of me, and he said
that his object was to repay himself the money he had lent
me. lam not aware that he took away so many as 6J
packages. I think that he left in 1856, but I cannot say
positively, as I have a very bad memory for dates. I have
not been in Italy since the year 1848. I gave more than 10s.
or 15s. a-piece for some of them. I gave as much as £5O
or £lOO for some of the pictures. I did buy some of them
cheap. I may have bought some of them at a very low
price, but I cannot say so low as 10.. or 15s. I may have
only given 30s. for some of them. One of the pictures I
gave £lOO for I think I purchased at Paris. It was a
picture said to be by Velasquez. I think I may have given
£l5O for a large altar piece, and it cost a good deal to clean
it up, I may have given more for some of the other pic-
tures, but I do not recollect which of them I refer to.

The Court was here adjourned for a short period, in order
that the jury might obtain some refreshment, and upon
their return the cross-examination was resumed.

Mr. Woolley, in answer to further questions put to him
in cross-examination, said—l did once ask Messrs. Rhodes
and Nixon whether they thought they could sell the large
glass for me. I think this was several months before the
fire. They declined to remove the glass because they had no
room large enough to receive it. The house at Brighton was
not entirely furnished from Campden House. The furniture
in the house at Tonbridge was sold by public auction. I
cannot recollect whether I purchased any paintings in 1861
or in 1860, but 1 think I must have bought some in 1859. I
do not consider I was in difficulties in 1859, '6O, or '6l. I
always had property I could realise money on if I chose. I
have no recollection of being sued, but I remember my
butcher sued me for £26 in 1860, but I am not aware that
the debt had been owing for 12 years. lam not aware that
Mr. Lee, the florist, refused to supply me with any more
goods without payment. I know that he did supply good%
and they are not paid for now, and therefore I infer that he
never did refuse to leave any goods without the money. I
dont know that I was pressed for rates and taxes, but I
never pay any rates or taxes till the lastmoment. In 1861
Temple discounted a bill for £5O for me. I also asked him
to discount two other bills for me. I dont remember asking
a gentleman named Bonner to lend me £l,OOO in December,
1861, shortly before the fire. I do not remember ever having
said that Campden Rouse was a great encumbrance to me,
and that I had sunk between £55,000 and £60,000 there.
I was very fond of the place, and therefore it was not likely
that I should say that the house was an encumbrance to
me. I was in the habit of giving bills, and sometimes I
have had my bills renewed. Mr. Temple is a builder. He
lived in the house when I was away, and he has done a
great deal of work for me. I owed him £llO at the time of
the fire. I swear that the £l5O I represented that I gave
for the dining-room table was not the amount of a bill that
I had had renewed over and over again. I never said to
Mrs. Temple that the expenses of Campden House were too
much for me. I never consulted her as to how I was to
reduce my expenditure. I did not tell her on any occasion
that the garden cost me £5OO a year. It never did cost me
so much as that, except perhaps for one year. I swear that
two of the tables for which I have claimed £4O were not
taken away by Colonel Waugh, and are not now in the
possession of Sir Edward Lytton. I swear they were in
the house at the time of the fire, at least I saw them there
the day before it happened. Mr. Temple never told me
that there were a good many things in the inventory that
were not in the house at all. I swear that to the best of
my belief every
article I have claimed for was destroyed in
the fire, and lam quite positive with respect to the two
tables that have been referred to. I have claimed £lOO for
a bedstead which cost me a great deal less.
Mr. Bovill said that the plaintiff stated that this was so
in the claim he sent to the office.
Cross-examination continued—l gave the particulars to
Mr. Thompson to furnish a report to the newspapers. His
report referred to absurd and unfounded reports as to the
origin of the fire. I bad not heard any reports relative to
the origin of the fire at this time, but there had been reports
that I was burned severely, and that Mrs. Temple had been
burned to death.

The report in the newspapers, a local journal called the
West London Observer, was read. It stated that the origin of
the fire was a mystery, but that it might have arisen from
abehahmildeainteghianngdfiprreeipnerotny was eoftfae flues, and that although
the insured, its value was three
times more than the amount for which it was insured.
Re-examined—Witness had always moved in good society
and at one time was a good singer and was invited out a
good deal on that account. He was quite sure that he did
not go into the grounds with Crozier after twelve o'clock on
the night of the fire. It was his ordinary custom to have a
fire in his bedroom. The only reason for covering the pic-
tures and the carving with the paper and the calico was to
protect them from the dust and dirt, and the paper was
iiussocrdoepre,thanatd tahegrheoaltesmmanigyhotfbtehemmenwdeerde.
the candles at the shop in Oxford-street,
purchased in the neighbourhood. The reason for hanging
the tapestry up to the window was to see where the stitches
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aldirmithildreemg,aerdd,
and
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was damp,
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all old houses,
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never made any charge or suggestion against him. Colonel
Waugh had something to do with the London and Eastern
Bank, and was reputed to be a man of great wealth He did
not pay witness any rent, but placed a certain sum of money
to his credit on account, and he had no authority whatever
to remove any of the property from Campden House ; and
witness only heard by accident that he was doing so, and he
immediately stopped him from taking any more away. There
were two sofas at Sir Edward Lytton's house at Knebworth
that were taken from Campden House by Col. Waugh, but
they were not the same sofas he had put down in the inven-
tory. Witness was on good terms with his brother and sister-
in-law, and could obtain any money he required from them.
They had advanced him large sums of money at different
times.

A letter was here put into the witness's hand, and he at
first said he could not recognise the handwriting, but at
length he said that it was his. The letter was read, and it
appeared to refer to his having taken a benefit at Salisbury
in 1846. The plaintiff, however, declared that he was not
regularly engaged as an actor at this time.
At the request of the learned judge, the plaintiff repeated
his evidence with relation to the fire, and he said that he
could not account for having attempted in the first instance
they
to go to the assistance of the Temples, instead of awakening
his owne Jury va
who was sleeping close by.
T
understood that the plaintiff did
thump against Crozier's door.
hserry said servant, Crozier,
that

Baron Bramwell said he had done so, and they must not
understand that ho suggested that there was any contradic-
tion. Ho was only anxious to got at the real facts.
Mr. C. Freer said—l am ono of the senior clerks in the
War-office. I was at Campden House on two occasions
when entertainments were given for some charitable object,
and that is the only way in which I was connected with the
plaintiff. I was returning home about half-past three
o'clock on the morning of the fire, and I and a policeman
ran up to the house and he knocked at the front door, but
could not get any answer, and I threw stones at the windows
and broke some of them. I and the policeman afterwards
got to the back of the house, and I there saw Mr. Woolley
standing on the lawn in his shirt and calling for assistance.
I also saw the man-servant, and a woman was lying on the
lawn, and I was told that she had jumped out of the win-
dow. I heard Mr. Woolley exclaim, •‘ Oh, my poor Temple I
oh, my poor Temple I oh, my poor house I" lam quite
sure the policeman and myself were the first strangers who
came to the back of the house. Mr. Woolley was very ex-
cited, and after ho had been taken to the house in Gloucester-
place, he fell down in a fit. (The witness pointed out in the
model the place where the fire appeared to be burning when
he arrived). I made some inquiries of Mr. Woolley as to
what woke him, and he said that he heard a great noise
.ed
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Frederick Slade,
the ruins, and I was told that Mr. Woolley had gone to Dr.
Hamilton's. I have seen Mr. Woolley since, but Ido not
who
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think he recognised me. The witness added that after he
got home he sent a suit of clothes for the use of Mr. Woolley,
and he had never seen those clothes since.

By the learned Judge—When I came up I could not see
any fire from the windows of what is called the gallery. I
do not think the fire had got sufficient hold at this time to
have shown throughltbe windows.
Dr. Hamilton said—l am a physician, and carry on my
profession in Grafton-street. I have known Mr. Woolley
seven years. He first complained of general nervous de-
rangement, and his sight was affected. I have been at Camp-
den House several times, and I noticed that it was magni-
ficently and abundantly furnished. Mr. Woolley was gene-
rally at work about the house when he was well. Upon
some occasions 1 have seen books lying about open, appa-
rently for the purpose of drying them. I saw Mr. Woolley
on the morning of the fire. He appeared in a very wild and
excited state, and I was afraid of serious consequences, and
took him to my house. He seemed to be very much excited
about his loss, and also on account of the Temples, and he
wished me to go and make some inquiries about them. He
was quite unfit to make out a statement of the property that
was destroyed, and I ordered him not to do so.
Thomas Crozier said--I have been in the service of the
plaintiff for four years and a half. I was in the service of
Col. Paget previously. I remember going with the family to
Brighton in the autumn of 1861. Nothing was taken from
Campden House in the eh9pe of film iture for the Brighton

house. All that was taken was the plate, linen, and the
usual necessaries for a family, and a harp for Miss Cope.
I remember some questions being put to me about some
sofas and a table• lam quite sure that they were all in the
house at the time of the fire. Some inquiries were also
made of me about some suits of armour, and I am quite sure
they were in the house when the fire happened. I remember
the tapestry being hung up at some of the windows shortly
before the fire, and I know that the object of this being done
was to see where the tapestry required repairing. There was
a talk of Campden House being let to Mr. Mark Phillips at
the end of 1861, and that gentleman came to look over it, but
he found the stables were not large enough. At this time it
was found that some of the pannellings and other places that
had been varnished were very dirty, and it was necessary to
varnish them over again, and then, in order to keep it clean,
the work was covered up. I purchased several pieces of wall
paper for this purpose, and the paper was placed over the
paintings and the carved work, and fixed up with pins. I
remember a quantity of candles being brought to Campden
House. They had been purchased by Mr. Woolley, and I
afterwards sent a portion of them to Brighton. On the day
previous to the fire I accompanied Mr. Woolley to town and
we dined together at a restaurant, and I took him home by
Brompton. I cannot state exactly what time it was when
wearrived at Campden House, but I should think it was
about 11 o'clock at night. Mr. Woolley said that be would
go to bed directly if his room was ready, and I went to it
and found that the firs had not been lighted. I lighted the
fire, and advised him to stay in the room where he was,
which was warm from the gas having been alight in it, until
his own fire burned up. He did so, and I went into the
green-room and found Mr. and Mrs. Temple there engaged
in frying sausages. (A laugh.) I then went upstairs again
to Mr. Woolley, and told him that I was going downstairs
to fasten up the house and turn the gas off, and he said he
would go with me, and we went down together, and Mr,
Woolley sat on the stairs while I locked up the kitchen
offices. We met Temple and his wife as we were going down,
and they said they were going to bed; but I am quite sure
that I did not say that I and Mr. Woolley were going to sit
up late that night. I will swear positively that neither Mr.
Woolley nor myself was out of the house after 11 o'clock
that night. I was asleep when the alarm was given, and the
first thing I heard was Mr. Woolley calling out, "Temple,"
" Crozier," and then there was a thump at my door. I
knew that Mr. Woolley was subject to fits, and I thought
he had been attacked with one. I got up immediately and
opened the door, and I then saw that the house was on fire.
The front staircase was completely enveloped in flame. 1
heard Mr. Woolley call out, " Crozier, Temple, the back
staircase ;" and I followed him downstairs. There were
two doors to open before we could get into the garden; but
after a short delay these doors were unlocked, and we went
into the garden together. (The witness then detailed the
circumstances that took place relative to the Temples being
rescued, in the same terms as Mr. Woolley had done. He
also said that while Mr. Woolley was making the inventory
he reminded him of various articles that were in the house,
and he said he was sure every article contained in the
claim was on the premises at the time of the fire, and that
two or three hundred articles that were also there had been
omitted,)

Mr. Mereweather then asked the witness the formal ques-
tions, whether he had himself set fire to the house, or whe-
ther he had employed any ono else to do so.
He replied that he had not, and he should be very sorry
to do such a thing.
Cross-examined—He believed the candles had been sent
in several months before the fire. He was sure they were
not sent in so lately before the fire as a fortnight—at least
he thought he could swear they were not. He paid for
them himself. They came to £2 or £3, but he did not know
what had become of the bill. He would swear positively
that neither he nor Mr. Woolley was outside the house after
11 o'clock, and it was therefore impossible for any one to say
that they were together out of the house after the time he
had mentioned. The first person he saw at the fire was Mr.
Freer, and he had no recollection of having seen a police-
man before he saw him. He was certain that he lighted the
fire in Mr. Woolley's room on that night, and he did not
remember telling Temple that the fire had gone low, and
that he wanted some wood to make it burn up. He would
swear that he did not say that he and Mr. Woolley were
going to sit up very late that night, and that Mrs. Temple
did not inquire what they were going to sit up for. He re-
membered some books being opened and placed about in the
room for the purpose of airing and drying them ; but he de-
clared that when Mrs. Temple asked him what this was
done for, he did not tell her that he thought Mr. Woolley
was going read. When he was questioned by a gentle-
man connected with the fire office he admitted that he told
him that as he was going to bed he caw a light in the
greenroom. He stated the same thing now. He believed
there was a light in that room, and it looked like the light
of a candle. He knew that at this time Temple and his
wife had gone to bed ; but still he did not think it strange
there should be a light in the green-room, as he thought
that perhaps some of Temple's relatives might have been
sleeping there. He said he believed that forty pieces of
paper were purchased for the purpose he had mentioned of
covering over the pictures and the carving ; but he did not
think they were all used for that purpose at the time of the
fire.

11 Miss Julia Cope deposed that she was sister•in-law to
the plaintiff, and she had been an inmate of his house ever
since he married her sister. She had advanced £13,000 to
Mr. Woolley upon the security of the building and its con.
tents, and besides this she had lent him money to the ex•
tent of some thousands of pounds. She said she was aware
that Mr. Woolley expended large sums of money in deco-
rating and beautifying the house, and that he took very
great interest in that pursuit, and she herself did the same.
The witness then went on to say that it was with the con-
currence of herself and her brother, and indeed at their
solicitation that the insurance upon the property had been
raised to £12,000 upon the building, and £5,000 for the
furniture. She believed that Mr. Woolley had expended
at least £30,000 upon the house and its contents, and that
it was most inadequately insured down to the period she
referred to. She then proceeded to state most positively that
the whole of the furniture was in the house at the time the
fire happened, and that the claim that was made was not in
any way exaggerated. She ooncluded by stating that she,
her brother, and all her family always had and still enter-
tained the utmost confidence in Mr. Woolley, and were on
the most friendly and intimate relations with him.
Cross-examined—Witness's sister, who was married to
the plaintiff, was older than she was. She had £35,000 for-
tune from her father, and witness had the same amount.
She had lent Mr. Woolley £13,000, for which she had the
security of a mortgage upon Campden House and its con-
tents, and in addition to this she had lent him between
£3,.000 and £4,000 for which he had not given her any se-
curity whatever. She was aware that the whole of this
money was spent in beautifying the house. She believed
that Mr. Woolley's establishment was now supported from
her resources entirely.
Baron Bramwell asked the witness whether the Court
was to understand that Mr. Woolley had no other resources
but what were derived from her and her sister.
She replied she knew of no other resources he had, but
his wife brought him a very good fortune.
Captain Cope deposed that he was brother of the late Mrs.
Woolley, and that he was formerly in the 67th Regiment,
and was aide- de-camp to Sir Robert Wilson at Gibraltar.
Ho had lived several years in Campden House, and he could
state that it was elegantly decorated, and furnished in the
most substantial and beautiful manner. He was not aware
that his sister had made advances of money to Mr. Woolley,
but he knew that the income she was entitled to was paid
in to Mr. Woolley's accaunt. The witness then went on to
state that the furniture was all in the house when the family
went to Brighton at the end of 1861, and that no portion of
it had been removed.
Mr. James Cope, another brother of Miss Cope, gave
similar evidence, aid the trial was then adjourned.

THE LATE LORD CLYDE.—As every matter re-
lating to this gallant and distinguished soldier must
at all times be interesting to the British public, we deem
no apology wbatsoever requisite in calling the special atten-
tion of our readers to the life-size portrait model of the de-
parted hero, attired in military costume, which may now be
seen in the Hall of Kings, at Madame Tassaud's Historical
Gallery, in Baker-street.

LORD CLYDE AT SAN SEBASTIAN.—At night,
on the 24th, Graham ordered the assault. From the
trenches to the points of attack was 300 yards along, and
by way of the rocks of the sea shore, which were in the
way of the march, and sippery from the quantity of sea-
weed growing upon them. A detachment under Colin
Campbell, of the 9th (now Lord Clyde), accompanied by
the engineer officer, Machet, with a ladder party, led the
way. The Ist Royals, under Major Frazer, and the 38th,
under Col. Greville, followed in support. It was quite dark
when, at 5 in the morning, a globe of compression exploded,
to their astonishment, in the midst of the defenders of the
hornwork, and made a road for the stormers along the
covered way, Frazer and the engineer officer, Harry Jones,
first reached the bleach, and these brave soldiers rushed up
it, Expecting that the troops would follow; but in the dark
the men got scattered, and only attained the foot of the
breach in small parties, and breathless, They soon mounted,
but the steep descent from the top of this breach, which had
not been broken, awed the stoutest of them. In fact, it was
impossible to get down, In the meantime, some shells from
Monte Orguno fell rapidly into the midst of them, and the
enemy, from the houses and adjoining walls recovering their
confidence, smote with their fire the head of the column.
The flanking batteries, which had been prepared for that
purpose, now opened with grape upon the crowded and sta•
tionary assailants, and their ranks were torn in a dreadful
manner. Frazer was killed amid the flaming buildings; the
engineer Machet also was killed, and Jones struck down
wounded. In vain did Greville, Cameron, Archimbeau,
and other officers strive to rally the men, and refill the
breach. Campbell again and again ascended it, but while all
who were with him died, he, reserved for greater deeds, was
only seriously wounded. Four officers of engineers, in-
eluding Sir Richard Fletcher, the chief, 44 officers of the
line, and 500 men were killed, wounded, or taken prisoners in
this dreadful assault. The troops were so clogged and
massed that at last they could not move, and it was deter-
mined to raise a flag of truce to save the gallant fellows
from being devoured by the adVancing tide, which already
threatened them, and they were surrendered to tho cut my,
---4nna6s of tio; Wars of the kinsteenth cootter,y.