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London, England, 1862-07-12 00:00:00

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‘-'ll' ''/117.141 Thos. Tugwell, a police-constable, spoke to seein
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ness for a cab for her. Ordered the cabman to drive
her to Mr. Wedgewood'a lodgings.
Thos. Tugwell, a police-constable, spoke to seein
Mrs. Turner and Mr. Wedgewood at 2 o'clock one
morning in a gutter near her husband's house, She
was on her knees, and Wedgewood was trying to
get her up, but he was so much in liquor that he
could not. Succeeded, with great difficulty, in rais-
ing her and taking her to her door. She was intoxi-
cated.
Some other witnesses of less importance having
been examined, and the learned counsel having ad-
dressed the court for their respective clients,
Sir C. Cresswell summed up.
The jury, after an hour's consideration, found a
verdict negativing both issues, in other words, ac-
quitting Mr. Turner of cruelty and Mrs. Turner of
adultery.

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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,wife's Thurs-
afterwards met him at one of my
day evening parties. He was very intimate
with Mr. lon `Turner. He
with my son—at least
did I know that
1860, when I visited him as a patient.
,I
was not intimate with me, nor
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 I found
a lot of Mr. Wedgewood's furniture in my 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
merit 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
-hotiie 'between two and three in--The-morning, an&
admitted that she had been there with him. I
went down and found him taking off his boots in
the dining-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.
Wedgewood:returned 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
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 whPll 1,0 ]eft_ TiTh onovpr I d;,l
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 I 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 beard 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.
corroborating her master's account of . ttress lying
October 3d, said she had seen her
.mis
wn, and
outside her master's bed in her dressing-
took Mr.
Sarah Beau, servant to the responden
at ,
inside. Merely .
Mr. Wedgewood was
d left the room in-
Wedgewood a jug of beer an
stantly.
d ctor was at Reigate when
Cross-examined—The
lo
s on very good terms
When master opened
this happened. He was
course no
man could always
aairfteorf
with his wife, but
With her. (Laughter.) Had
little unpleasantness N.,
course
having sometimes a
been married 11 Yea the
._e was angry, but silent. lie said,
plate chest u late I all my personal
" What, all my P •present
live with a woman R'
gone !" (Caught'er.) H© said it just so, in that
mild way. (Laughter.)
Sarah Hart, aged 10, was niece to Mrs. Beany.
The petitioner had told her to sit on the stairs, - • and
tell her when the doctor came out of the consulting-
room.
Mr. Wedgewood was with her, and she
was curling 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 before she did it.
He merely said inaain mild voice, " Now, mother, dear,
g
don't do that a (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
some time_ At Acton they stayed for an hour
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 other.
Had heard Mrs. Turner call Wedgewood " Baby"
" Bobby," " Robert," and " Egerton." One Sunday
during divine service, she walked a couple of hun-
, died yards from her house and then she sent wit,