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LA WIA TELLIG.ENG.E.—(This Day.)

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COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary and a Common Jury.)
HEDGECOCK V. HEDGECOCH AND ASHDOWN.

This was a suit by the husband, a butcher residing at
Gravesend, for divorce on the ground of adultery with the
co-respondent, a bricklayer's labourer residing at Plum-
stead. The respondent pleaded denial and cruelty, and
the co-respondent pleaded denial, but did not appear by
counsel.

Dr. Wourmbey and Mr. Baker Green were counsel for
the petitioner, and Dr. Swabey for the respondent.
From the statement of counsel it appeared that the parties
were married in 1850, and cohabited until the early part
of 1860, when the respondent's habits became so intempe-
rate that her husband separated from her, and placed her
with a respectable female at St. Albans. The husband
made her a weekly allowance, which was regularly paid
until the discovery of her misconduct, and it appeared
farther that the parties had a family, issue of the marriage.
The other facts are developed in the following evidence :
Mr. David Green, a grocer, residing at Gravesend, said—
I was acquainted with the petitioner and his wife. I knew
them before marriage. I was present at the ceremony; it
took place at St. George's Church. The lady's maiden
name was Watson. I was at Gravesend in November last.
I saw the respondent there. I pointed her out to Mr. Outred,
Mr. Eyre, and three other persons, whose names I have
forgot.
Mrs. Mary Cox—l- reside at St. Albans. II know Mr.
and Mrs. Hedgecock. I have known Mrs. Hedgecock from
her childhood. I bAuubh, hcr. up until she was nine years
old. Her mother then fetched her and pat her to a board-
ing school. She returned to me when she was about 13,
and stayed with me about six months. ' I recollect her
marriage. I frequently visited her after. I had opportu-
nities of seeing how her husband treated her. I saw nothing
but kindness. She occasionally visited me at St. Albans
soon after his wife came,
and stayed
after her marriage, and stayed 'with me for about a week.
Hedgecock came to see
mI ne. the
H earlye
ea
mp
saeir x t
alone,of
o rlB 56 Mr.
b seven i
t
time she conducted herself very properly. In 1858 she
came again—Mr. Hedgecock was with her—and on that
occasion I procured a cottage for Mrs. Hedgecock.
By the Judge—Mr. Hedgecock said he was determined
to live separate for a time through her drink.
Examination continued—Mr. Hedgecock and his wife
returned the same day that they arrived, but in about a
week after she came to live in the place which I had taken
for her. It was not ready, and she stopped a week in my
house, and then removed into the cottage. She had
two children with her. Mr. Hedgecock used to visit
her frequently at St. Albans. Mrs. Hedgecock conducted
herself very indifferently, I am sorry to say. I have seen
her under the influence of drink. 1 knew her to go to the
house of a Mr. West, which was about half a mile from Mrs.
Hedgecock's cottage. She left the cottage, on the ground
that it was not respectable enough for her. I was fetched
to Mr. West's house after Mrs. Hedgecock had been there
about three months. I saw her on the bed very drunk.
Mr. Hedgecock allowed her £1 a week. Mrs. Hedgecock
left St. Alban's early in August, 1858. Her husband
fetched her home. While she was at Mr. West's Mrs.
Hedgecock told me she had signed the pledge. I saw her
at Plumstead Common in 1859.

Cross-examined—Mrs. Hedgecock is about 35 years of
age. In September, 1856, she had a child born. She made
no complaints about her husband. In 1858, when Mr.
Hedgecock visited St. Albans, he, I supposed, slept at his
wife's cottage. He did not tell me that he had done so,
and I never asked him where he had passed the night.
She never complained in the presence of her husband of his
conduct towards her. Mr. Hedgecock never spoke to me
about his wife. I saw enough of her conduct in the news-
papMerr.s.FolSehye, has
aysesrpyagedoken to
m
Plumstead-common, at No. 1, Walworth-road. Mrs.
Hedgecock was my landlady. She let the house afterwards
ma
man,
, aboutsasaid—ln 1859 I resided on
giving evidence here.
to a Mrs. White, and then she occupied the parlours. I
know a man named Ashdown. He used to come to the
house while Mrs. Hedgecock was there. She then moved
up stairs to the front room, and then Ashdown used to
visit her in that room. I lived in the back room on the
same floor. They used to send me out for a good deal of
beer. Ashdown, when he visited Mrs. Hedgecock, used
to stop an hour or two.

Cross-examined—Ashdown used to work at the brick-
laying. Hedgecock has come to the house, but he never
went in. He used to come to see the two children that
wero there. Mr. Hedgecock said he wanted me to speak
the truth about Mrs. Hedgecock.

Margaret Foley said—ln the summer of 1859 I was
living in the house of Mrs. Hedgecock, on Plumstead-
Common. I lived in the house till 1860, when we removed
to the next house. While I was living there Mrs. Hedge-
cock used to take some beer, and I have seen three men
visit her when she occupied the front parlour, in which
there was a sofa. She kept good hours in the house, and
was not up late at night. Her visitors used to arrive
generally about seven, and leave at ten. Mrs, Hedgecock
told me she had a gentleman &ming to see her who was an
editor of the Times—(laughter)—and that he gave her 10s.
a week. (Laughter.) I asked her what she meant about
his being an editor, and she said he was taking down news.
(Laughter.)

The Judge Ordinary—And than he was to report it?
:Laughter.)

Witness—Oh, no; she was to report it to him, and then
he'd take it down.
Judge Ordinary—Then she was to take down the news
for him ?

Witness—Yes. He was to write it down, and she was
to get it put in the newspaper. (Laughter.)
The Judge Ordinary—Well, did the editor come to see

her.

Witness—Yes, he used to come of an evening—(laughter)
—and stop some time with her to get the news. (Laugh-
ter.) Ashdown used to visit her sometimes in the day
sometimes in the night.
The Judge Ordinary—You're not a native of Woolwich ?
Witness—Oh no, sir. I corns from Ireland, sir.

The Judge Ordinary—l thought so.
Mr. Joseph Jacobs said—l am a publican, residing at
Plumstead Common. I let the house No. 3, Warwick-
place. I let it in May, '59. I afterwards let it to Mr. Ash-
down, who took it for his mother-in-law, Mrs. White.
Mrs. Hedgecock remained in the house after I had let it to
Ashdown, Ashdown used to go there of course, as his
mother-inlaw lived there. I don't know that he visited
her before Mrs. White came there to live. I have told
Mrs. Hedgecock that the lodgers had made complaints
about her, and that they were afraid to sleep in their beds
for fear of the house being burned down. I gave her notice
to quit at that time. She made no reply. I was in Graves-
end last November. Mrs. Hedgecock was pointed out to
me. She was the same person as I had known at Plum-
stead. Tho old man Foley used to live in the house I let
to Mrs. Hedgecock.

Mrs. Sarah Hunter said—l used to send my children. to
Mrs. Hedgecock's school, but was compelled to take them
away in consequence of her tipsy habits. I shortly after
left Plumstead and went to live at Sydenham. About
Christmas, 1860. Mrs. Hedgecock came to me at ihat place,
and I then saw she was pregnant. I told her so, and
she denied it. When Mr. Hedgecock left she said
referring to a loose dress that she wore, " I've deceived
him by wearing that dress." I was compelled to get her
some drink. She left my house about a fortnight before
she was confined, She told me sbewasprfoegnre
herant husband
after-
noonbdeneeme whenshe stholedwa
me M
s tipsy.r.iijgh caotck was not the father of the was be
child. She was confined two doors from my place. I went
shortly after, as she had written for me, and brought the
child away to nurse. I know that she used to receive
money from her husband.
Cross-examined—l have seen Mr. Hedgecock at the door
of the house on Plumstead-common, but I never saw him

at Gravesend,
go in.
January, 1861,
Iledgecock was
tstoti Md
attend_r .
iGe
was
ao George ge
Greenwich
S instructed har l a u
bdpy, solicitor,Al..le eu dr
gt.ec residingoek
Mrsin.
charged with deserting her infant child. I made a state-
ment to the magistrate in her presence. I said that she was
living apart from her husband, and that he denied any
knowledge of the child until he heard of the charge against
her. The magistrate told her he understood she was
"Whose child
e
is
separated ,
tforowmhilicehr husband, and
eau ndoasrkeepdlyh;erhthen asked,
her,
"Where is he I:" and she said, " Gone to Barbadoes, and
that he was a teacher of languages.
At the conclusion of the evidence, the learned judge
summed up, and the jury returned a verdict for the
petitioner.
The learned judge then granted a rule nisi.

FISHING AT FILLY.—From the latter part of
March to the early part of June the fishery for halibut, cod,
ling, skate, and turbot continues at the Dogger Bank,
which is about eight hours' sail from Flamborough Head,
and consists of an enormous sand-bank reaching
from the latitude of the coast
off Newcastle
to the Humber, with water from 35 to 40 fathoms deep
following their migration southward between
round it. From July 16 to November 20 the yawls fish for
herrings,
kweeks at a time. Be-
Hartlepool and Flamborough, until late in September,
7 which lies east by
Point the herrings are
tween November and March the fishermen catch cod, skate,
and turbot off the coast, using their coblea
north,s
aw hl
teen d theyaaand
dt
the
while
proceed
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eaae
tdwrs
remaining
rtsmeo
imani Doggernsinncgarthbaeotr
reßo thatu
or smaller boats,
aognrh harbour during some
Ono a Week.
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