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England for some months, and I should think I
must have spent £2OO on my wife's legs. I used
sometimes to go into her room at-night as a husband
would, but never with a razor. I don't know what
I should want there with a razor. I never knew
gentlemen go into her room. They did not go
there with my knowledge. Mr. Wedgewood did
not take her some strawberries into her room, nor
tell me that he was helping her to eat them.
I made Mr. Wedgewood's acquaintance in Novem-
ber, 1860, when I visited him as a patient. j
afterwards met him at one of my wife's Thurs
day evening parties. He was very intimate
with my sou—at least with Mr. lon Turner. He
was not intimate with me, nor did I know that
he visited my wife two or three times a day, and
drove out with her in my brougham. He was intro-
duced into my house during my absence by my wife,
who said that she could not turn a friend on the
streets. I was visiting my brother-in-law at Reigate.
My wife used to visit my relations till she had in-
sulted them all. I was very indignant when 1 found
a lot of Mr. Wedgewood's furniture in may drawing-
room. Mrs. Turner said they were only there for a
day or two, till he could find a place far them. She
said he was looking out for a government situation,
and that he would probably get one in a week. She
afterwards told me that she had made an arrange
meat with him that he should pay two guineas a
week while he stayed with us. He stayed with us
six weeks. On one occasion 1 turned him out, be-
eause he had taken my wife to Cremorne, after
hearing me state to her that she would incur my
severe displeasure if she went there. She came
home between two and three in the morning, and
admitted that she had been there with him. I
went down and found him taking off his boots in
the c 3 ning-room. I put him out of the house ; but
the next day I wrote to him, requesting him to
return. I did so on the representation of my wife
that it was wholly her fault, and that it would com-
promise her with my household. When Mr.
Wedgewootgreturned I apologised to him, and shook
hands with him very cordially, but I don't think I
kissed him. (A laugh.) I found the diary pro-
duced in my wife's desk, and then I made inquiries
as to her conduct.
Cross-examined—l never charged my wife with
infidelity till after I found her diary, which was on
the 6th of November, though I had certainly had
some suspicion excited in my mind by the letter of
Wedgewood .beginning " Dearest Augusta." When
she wrote imploring me to take her back I declined
because she had been very extravagant, had sub-
orned my servants, had; borrowed money unknown
to me, and had written to a patient of mine to borrow
£5OO. It had also come to my knowledge that
when I was out she would come home drunk. I
did not send anyone to her. I wrote to her my-
self. I did not think of discarding her without
making a provision for her, but I found that if she
came home I should not have been able to control
my expenditure or to maintain my credit and
respectability, and therefore I determined that
she should live apart from me, at least for a
time. In the early part of her diary there are no en-
tries of W.s or E.s, or R.s, or Babys ; and the
strongest comment on my conduct is merely " The
doctor in a passion." I believe that some of. the
jewellery obtained from Emanuel's was for Mr. lon
Turner. My wife was most brilliantly dressed at 1
her son's wedding, considering our means. She
used to represent that I had a very large income, and
she acted accordingly. My income really was about
£2OOO a-year. I was always remonstrating with her
about her dress; but she said she had started with
a large wardrobe and that she exchanged one thing
for another, so that I never had the least idea she
was in debt for clothes. On the 3d of October I
was not violent to her. I looked at her, and she was
pale and trembling. I saw the time had come for
me to act, and I did act ; but I said nothing. When
lon Turner was married he spoke to me about his
mother ; but I will swear he did not ask me to treat
her better. I suppose he is now with his regiment,
but I don't know. I have now no communication
with him. I knew very little about Mr. Wedge-
wood. He represented himself to have been an in-
timate friend of a bosom friend of my own, but that
friend afterwards told me that he had only attended
him and his father out of charity. I wrote to him
after I had turned him out, because I believed I had
injured him. I did not kiss him. Had I known his
position I should rather have kicked him. I never
talked to him about money matters. She told me
he was in debt to us when he left. Whenever I did
see him he looked agitated and trembling, and I used
to twit him about his late hours. My wife was
always pleasure seeking. As a medical man I had
often had-tickets for the opera, or for theatres and
the like sent me, and as T could not go myself, she
used to take a female friend with her. I used to
accompany her sometimes. Once I wished her to
go with me to Kew, but she said on the way, " I
hate your trumpery flowers." She then got out of
the cab, and went home by the 'bus. For the £2OO
I had advanced to the agent of Mr. Palmer I was to
have an interest in the speculation ; but he went
away, and I heard no more of him. (Laughter.)
Mr. Macaulay=Did you ever hear of your wife
being carried up to bed by the coachman ?
Mr. Turner—l have since heard that he carried
her up to bed when she was too drunk to walk.' (A
laugh.) That was the only instance I heard of; but
be might have carried her up when her leg had gone
to be repaired. I will swear I never locked it up to
prevent her going out. Will swear that I never de-
sired her not to show her finger to any other medi-
cal man. Will swear she never said the deformity
was owing to my having trodden on it. If my assis-
tant had interfered between me and my wife I
should probably have knocked him down. I dis-
missed him for taking the message to my patient
that I said she was mad. Will swear I never refused
to let my wife see a letter from a patient. I never
chastised lon so that he kept his bed for a week. It
is utterly false. Nothing of the kind ever happened.
There was a negotiation about a separation, and I
told her attorney I would agree to anything that
would make her more comfortable. That did not arise
out of any quarrel respecting my inordinate chas-
tisement of the boy. I had set my heart on making
him a medical man. He was very obedient and a
very nice child, but his mother would not hear of it
and tore up his books. She did not dispense medi-
cines for me in the surgery, or render any great as-
sistance there. She rendered great hindrance.
(Laughter.) She did keep the books for several years,
but she only did it from curiosity and a desire to
know where I had been during the day. She once
took charge of two children whose mother, a patient
of mine, had died. For that their father paid me
£l5O a-year. Several persons also lived in our house
who paid for their board.
Sarah Beany, servant to the respondent, after
corroborating her master's account of the affair of
October 3d, said she had seen her mistress lying
outside her master's bed in her dressing-gown, e.trd
dressing-goon .
Mr. Wedgewood was inside- Merely t
room
1
Wedgewood a jug of beer and left the
stantly-
saneigate when
Cross-examined—The doctoras
w good terms
this happened. He was always
man could Conld always
h
with his wife, but of course no'i sometimes a
live with a woman withohuter.r34
a (Laughter.) Had
little unpleasantness withivhen
master opened the
been married 11 years. angry but silent. He said,
plate chest he was my ,
personal present
" What, all mysaid it
e just so, in that
gone !" (Laughter-,
plate - .
(Laughter.)
mild way. aged 10, was niece to Mrs. Beany.
Sarah
The petitioner told her to sit on the stairs, and
came out of the consulting-
tell her when
gr. Wedgewood was with her, and she
was cur rmg his hair. (A laugh.) Had seen her sit
on Mr. Wedgewood's bed while he was in it, and
kiss him. She said she would have Mr. Wedge-
wood for her husband.
Patience Sopp, another servant, said that in
1851 her mistress scratched the respondent's face.
He was reading the paper just be fore she did it.
He merely said in a mild voice, " Now, mother, dear,
don't do that again." (Laughter.) Then he went
down into his surgery. His face bled, and was so
bad that he could not go out the next day. On
another occasion she threw a knife at him at table.
He said that time, " Augusta, dear, don't do that
again." (Laughter.)
James Beany, the respondent's coachman, and
husband of the previous witness, said that on the
doctor's birthday, March 8, he drove his mistress
to Covent-garden, and took up Mr. Wedgewood.
Then he drove them home through Hyde-park. It
was dusk. Heard an extensive laugh. The springs
of the carriage being weak it gave a sway. Looked
round and saw Mrs. Turner sitting in Mr. Wedge-
wood's lap, and completely concealing him by her
extensive crinoline. (Laughter.) Had driven them
to Richmond and to Acton. At the former place
they went to the Star and Garter, and were there
eur
some time, At Acton they stayed for an o
and a half, at the King's Head, where they had
a
private room. Received from them half-a-crown on
the one occasion and eighteenpence on the, othber;
Had heard Mrs. Turner call Wed
4i Bobby," " Robert," and "Egerton." One unb ay
gewood 'sßady '
during divine service, she walked a couple of un-
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Thos. Tugwell, a police-constt.6lo",*W9,lotlt ;
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Mrs. Turner and Mr. Wedgewaod,ufoAlo. r 1.7
morning in a gutter near her hu4a4tlVEO)regi*W-*-:
was on her knees, and Wedgewoottia4r3iitefo
get her up, but he was so much in liinor Opt *0
in rais-
could not. Succeeded, with great difficulty,
ing her and taking her to her door. She was intoxi-
cated.
Some other witnesses of less importance having
been examined, ana the learned counsel having Led-
dressed the court for their respective clients,
Sir C. Cresswell summed up.
The jury, after tin hour's consideration, found a
verdict negativing both issue., in other words, ac-
quitting 11r. Turner and Mrs. Turner of
adu-

POLICE IN TELLIGiCE.-'

A9d ND SUICIDE
THAMES.--THE LATE MURDEMURDERIN SHADWELL. A young man nsnl. Daniel
so
Brian, of No. 7, Cartwright street, Rosernh.TY-lancm,
who was accompanied by several other pa-
came before 111 r. Selfc and said he was the )`. rsti
cousin of the unfortunate woman Honora Scatincl.,
who was murdered by a Spaniard named Roca, in
a brothel, in Albert-souare, Shad well, on Saturday
last_ He wanted the magistrate's oriier to compel
the landlady and other occupants to deliver the
body to him for the purpose of being decently
interred according to the rites of the Roman
Catholic Church, of which the deceased was a
member.
mr. Selfe—l cannot interfere in the matter.
Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, said the prostitutes
of Shad Well intended to honor the murdered woman
with a white funeral on Sunday next ; and on
being asked for an explanation, said it was
customary for the prostitutes to follow any of
their fallen sisters to the grave in pure white dresses
and carrying bouquets of dowers. The body of the
deceased, who had been a prostitute for many
years, was publicly exhibited for the landlad of
the of
the house, a native of Germany, at ls. per
and she took £lO or £l2 on Thursday.
Mr. Selfe expressed the stronest indignation
M
and disgust at such a proceedigng, and asked,
"What am I to do ?"
i Brian asked if he could not remove the body by

force.
Mr. Selfe—No ; do not attempt to do that.
I
cannot countenance anything of the kind.
Brian—Fourteen women in white and fourteen
women in black are to follow my cousin's funeral on
Sunday.
Mr. Selfe—Let them bury the corpse. That is
all you want, I suppose ?
Brian—The foreign landlady is showing the body
to all that like to see it for a shilling each to-day.
Mr. Selfe—You are quite a boy. Is there no older
relative who can interfere ?
Brian—No, sir; my mother, who is the deceased's
own aunt, is in the country, and I am the only re-
lative in London.
Mr. Selfe--Was your mother on good terms with
deceased. Did they visit each other ?
Brian—Yes, sir, they did.
Mr. Selfe—l have no power whatever to interfere
in this case.
Brian—Can Igo to the house and take the body
away ?
Where is the
Mr. Selfei—You had better not.
body of the unfortunate woman ?
Brian—At home, sir, in the house where she was
murdered, and where the Spaniard shot himself after-
ectabl
wards. I want the betterto be buried resp.
Mr. Selfe—You had apply to the coroner
who presided at the inquest.
Brian—l did wait upon Mr. John Numphreys,
the coroner, on Thursday. He was very much sur-
prised that his orders were not carried out. He gave
directions that the body was to be delivered to the
relatives, if any appeared, and if not, it was to be
buried by the parish.
A respectable woman, named Heath, here said--
Will your worship order the body of the murdered
woman to be carried back to the dead-house, and
not be made a show of any longer ?
Mr. Selfe —I cannot do that ; it is not in my power
to interfere at all. The coroner has power to inter-
fere, and I would advise the youth who says he is
deceased's cousin to wait upon the coroner agaer
in
and ask his advice. If any parish officer or oth
person has acted contrary to the orders of the coro-
ner they will be called upon to answer for it, Go
and see the coroner without delay.
The body of the murderer, Roca, was removed on
Thursday from the vault under Shadwell church
and conveyed by Mr. Burridge, the paris undewas
r-
taker and his men to Ilford Cemetery, whehre it
buried by torchlight between the hours of 9 and 12
o'clock, and without any burial service being read
over the grave. Mr. Hann, the beadle of Shadwell,
was present to see that the requirements of the law
wer caied out. Th verdict as regarded Roca was
feloe derr
se, and ofe course he was buried with
" maimed rites."

HAMMERSMITH.—MRs. WINDE[AhI AND nEE.
SERVANT,—Ann Connor, a genteel-looking young
woman, was placed in the dock before Mr. J)ayman
charged with stealing a 110 note and other property
belonging to her mistress, Mrs. Agnes Windham,
of 3A, Upper Westbourne-terrace, Paddington.
Mr. E. Lewis, of Marlborough-street, appeared
for the prisoner.
Mrs. Windham, on being sworn, stated that the
prisoner was her kitchen maid. When witness re-
turned home from the opera on Thursday night,
week she missed a £lO note from her bed. She had
a £3OO note and four £lO notes under her pillow,
and she found all safe with the exception of one of
the £lO notes, which was missing. She asked her
servants about the note, but they denied all know-
ledge of it. The note was, however, traced to the
prisoner through the washerwoman. Several things
which she had not missed were found in prisoner's
box, consisting of collars, stockings, handkerchiefs,
and a pencil-case, all of which she identified as her
property.
Mr. Lewis elicited from Mrs. Windham that the
prisoner returned nine sovereigns, and stated that
she had spent the other. She asked to be forgiven,
and she freely forgave her, but the constable could
not release her after she was given into custody.
Mrs. Windham farther stated that
she had no
uc
de-
sire to prosecute.
Mr. Day man ordered the prisoner to be discharge,
and told her that she ought to be mh obliged to
her mistress for letting her off so kuidly.
The prisoner then left the court.

7.11 E ALLEGED 111URDER OF A MAN BY
payne, coaronn.enrqufoirryt,haet
A YOUNG TVOlifilN IN SOUTHWARK.
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iof a man
Yesterday Mr. Sel----rg;ant
was stabbed by a
City of London anredi:Sgtoievudeth3twoo,arwtkhheho edwlde
Guy's Hospital,
Manna,
dagantherine Nolan on Wednesday last.
M Allen deposed that she lived at Fulham
namedwona Ji :saw.
deceased and the accused had resided-
I,rsa.na
the
in the same house for about a fortnight.
ro:d
Passed by the name of Mr. and Mrs. They
Walters. On
Wednesdaymorning Mrs. Walters to ld her (witness)
that her husband had not been
home all
night, and
asked her to go with her to his place of business, at
London Bridge. Witness did
so, and upon going
to Dover-road they saw the deceased in a parlour.
Some high words took 1
p ace about money and family
matters. It was afterwards agreed they should have
some rump steak for dinner. Mr. Walters at first
refused to fetch the meat, but afterwards consented
to do so. When he returned he only brought beef
steak instead of rump, and this circumstance ap-
peared to have still further annoyed Mrs. Walters.
She (mr s.Walters) then said that she would get
some rump steak, and in passing the deceased pushed
against him. He had a glass of beer in his hand at
the time, and when
she pushed against him he
threw the beer into her face, calling her a vile name.
Directly the beer was thrown in her face she be-
came violently excited, and seized a knife and struck
the deceased with it. The knife was in a basin
containing some potatoes, which stood upon the
table. Witness could not tell where the knife struck
him, but she noticed that after he put his hand up
to his left shoulder it was covered with blood. She
(witness) went for a doctor, and the deceaased, by
his advice, was taken in a cab to the hospitl. Mrs-
Walters did all she could for the deceased after the
occurrence took place.
By Mr. Edwin—Mr. and Mrs.' Walters appear appeared
remarkably fond of each other, and in
his not returning
state of the greatest anxiety st
home all night. Mrs. Walters town in her face.
ook up the knife
ou the instant the beer wans thr
" I did not mean to
She said over and over agai,
harm him; why did y provoke me so." No
ou
harm would have occurred if the beer had not beau
ce. Deceased appeared to have
thrown in her fa
been drinking.
Other witnesses corroborated this statement.
The learned Coroner having summed up,
The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a
1 verdict of "ganslaughter against Catherine Nolan,"

and
The Coroner made out his warrant for her com-
mittal.

CONSCIENCE MONEY.—The sums remitted to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer by persona unknown, for con-
science sake, in the course of the financial year 1861-62
amounted to £7,573. This annual item in the finance ac-
counts is chiefly maintained by the income-tax helping to
" make the straight way yet straighter." There is another
remarkable item in the accounts for the past year—the sum
of £333 13s. 4d. was repaid to the Committee of Council on
, Education by teachers who have quitted their professions
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