The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-25 00:00:00

he thanked her for " the pretty flowers enclosed in

her last letter, but he would much rather have seen
the flower that sent it." In another letter of August
of tie same year he again wrote, acknowledging the
plaintiff's long-looked for letter, and also informing
her that be had received her portrait, which, he
said, was a good resemblance, but than which he
would rather have the one it was taken from. He
then said the portrait employed the greater portion
of his time; it looked " such a modest little crea-
ture. "In November, 1858, she left service and again
went home ; and just about this time the defendant
having some difference with his uncle, was also
taken in by the plaintiff's mother, and kept as a
member of the family. In January, 1859,
plaintiff went again into service; and in writing to
her in February of the following year, be said he
" hoped the time would soon come when he should
,`-:e able to call her his." Thus up to the above date
he h;.4 talked to the plaintiff of marriage, made
her present s, had been honourably received by her
marriage was expected shortly to
friends, and the
take place. At lam: the defendant took advantage
of hia position with thplaintiff, and from that
e;
moment he deserted her.
for the plaintiff—
The Jury found a verdict

Damages, 1125.
CROWN COURT.
THE CEMETERY OUTRAGES AT SHEFFIELD.—THE
TRIAL OF THE CLERGYMAN.
John Livesey (on bail), was charged with making
a false entry of burial on the 3d of April last, and
giving a false certificate of the same burial on the
sth of June last, at Sheffield.
Mr. Price, Q.C., and Mr. Hannay prosecuted;
Mr_ Bliss, Q.C., and Mr. Blanchard defended the
prisoner.
The case seemed to excite an unusual degree of
interest, and the court was crowded at a very early
hour.
Mr. Price stated the case. The prisoner at the
bar,-,the Rev. John Livesey, has been, and is now,
the incumbent of St. Philip's Church, Sheffield, and
has had the office some 30 years, and so far as he
(the learned counsel) knew had conducted himself
as any one in that position of life could be expected
to do. Mr. Livesey was indicted under the 24th
Victoria, chap. 98, sec. 36, which enacts to the
effect, among other things, that whosoever should
knowingly or unlawfully insert, cause, or permit to
be inserted in any register of births, marriages,
deaths, or burials, or any certificated copy
thereof, any false entry relating to any such
births, deaths, marriages or buriaie, should
be guilty of felony. The entry out of
which the present case arises is one con-
cerning a body brought frompthe Medical Hall, of
one John Gretorex. It purported that it was buried
on April 3d, which was utterly false, as it was then
lying in a coach-house in the cemetery. Next came
the most important entry, " By whom performed ?"
Answer, "John Livesey," which was equally false
as the other, and more than all, must have been
made with the full knowledge of the prisoner in
whose handwriting the entry was. In consequence
of certain disclosures concerning the exposure and
mutilation of dead bodies in the cemetery the sexton
became the object of much excitement and public
opprobrium, and in consequence Mr. Livesey took
upon himself to write a letter of explanation to the
Sheffield newspapers, in which he tried to excul-
pate himself, and cast all the blame upon the sexton.
He spoke of what was found in the coach-house as
" a mass of foetid matter, black and shapeless," and
of the existence of which he surely ought to have
known ; and he also referred to what was found in
the cemetery catacomb, or large pit, as " relics of
humanity, over which the burial service could not
legally be read." Now, there were only three cases
in which clergymen can refuse to perform the burial
service. The first was in the case of one who might
be excommunicated by the Church; the second where
a person had not been baptised ; and thirdly, in the
instance of one respecting whom a coroner's inqui
sition bad returned a verdict offelo de ae. Now, al-
though the prisoner knew this, yet he represented
to the authorities that he had read the burial service;
besides which, if he had refused to do so, the autho-
rities would probably have decided the question,
and thus have satisfied the prisoner's mind. Since
the time that the question had been before the
grand jury Mr. Livesey had had the register, to
which he had appended a long note, explaining that
on June 23 last he had discovered that the body of
Joseph Gretorex was not buried, as he had supposed,
on the 3d April last, but that after its removal it
had been decently buried.
The above facts were then proved by the wit-
nesses for the prosecution.
Mr. Bliss addressed the jury for the defence.
He contended that the present was rather a
question for the bishop of the diocese than a
criminal court. He submitted also that the burial
service was addressed to the living, and not to the
dead, and when the interment was a square box,
with a dissected body in it, and without any kind
and mourning friends to witness the ceremony, the
service might, without impropriety, be left out.
After an absence of nearly half an hour the jury
returned a verdict of Guilty. Sentence deferred.
The case of Isaac Howard, the sexton, was then
proceeded with, but was not concluded when our
parcel was dispatched.

as Robson, offlth
with nommi a
amvi-oglerenetn a:sKsaeunitt. upon
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in
. evidence totf. the complainant, corrobo-
charged
of his, two sisters, it appeared that,
Mr. Thom
' pre.viou s evening, the prisoner came
r a tFe rdo baly Ith t
at
the servant. Hearing a
o'clockesidtehn ,Led by the
' and rang violently at the bell.
t o9r his
The door was opt
disturbance, he aTeat to ascertain the cause, and
then found a nu )1) collected. The prisoner de-
nounced him and h
a account, and would not leave
is sisters as swindlers. He said
be had called for a.
untii he saw his (co mplainant's) sister. The com-
plainant told him th at was not a proper mode of
obtaining his debt. The prisoner, however, made
his way into the hall e. Itrance,and the prosecutor put
up his hand to prevent his going further. The pri-
soner then broke a sti ck over his head, and, Seizing
him by the whiskers, I mid him down with one hand
across tl;e hail table. He afterwards broke a square
an al threatened to have his re-
ofvalut' 65.,
-le 9G R said he took the prisoner
I vengglea.ss,
hear' i him say he would have his
Police-co.nstat.
ne r was perfectly sober.
into custody, and .
k; lefence, said tbLe complainant
revenge. 'l' he prist.'
A 'arious times amounting to
The prisoner, in his
had ordered meat at
£2 65., saying it was
for his sister :, but the com-
plainan t having since be come a bankrupt, he had
been unable to get his L noney or to see the sister.
He callad for that purpose the previous night, and.
comrlain an t, on coming to the door, struck him,
when he sAiraply acted in self I.lefenal 3.
Robert Cave, an engineer, 'was t hen called, and
deposed to s:leimg complainant raise I its hand towards
the prisoner, but said he could not sp ,eak to anything
which had eitcorred previously, o: r inside of the
house.
Is at so late an
Mr. Maude sa.id a gross outrage had been com-
mitted. The pn.soner bad no businet
hour of the night, or, indeed, at any o ther period of
the day, to go to the house of a creditok-, and refuse
to leave, there being a legal mode of procedure.
The magistrate then imposed a fine of £5, or, in
default, one me nth's imprisonment.
The fine was immeditttely paid.

MYSTERIOUS MUEDER AY CHATHAM.

CHATHAM, THURSDAY.

Between five and six o'clock last evening, the body of a
respectably-dressed boy, apparently between nine and ten
years of age, was found_ in one of the fields adjoining
Chatham Lines, with his throat cut, and the head and face
much bruised, leaving no doubt that the poor child had been
cruelly murdered.
On the body being removed to the Napier Arms Tavern,
it was soon identified as being that of Thomas Frederick
Boughton, the son of respectable parents, residing at
Almon-place, High-street, Chatham, and it appeared he had
left .his home in the afternoon for the purpose of playing on
the Lines.
Fron." the medical examination of the body, made di-
rectly after the deceased was discovered, it was evident
that the murder had been committed early in the afternoon,
and that the deceased had been dead some two or three
hours when the body was found. The principal wound
was one, of some three or four inches in length, in the
throat, which was of itself sufficient to cause death.
There was also a bruise on the mouth and cheek, as if
done by a blow with the fist. The place where the body
wao lying gave indications of a severe struggle having taken
place, but there was comparatively little blood to be seen.
At nine o'clock this morning Mr. Thomas Hills, one of
the coroners for the district, opened an inquest on the
body at the Napier Arms.
At the commencement of the inquiry the Coroner inti-
mated his ,intention of only taking sufficient evidence as to
the identity and finding of the body, after which he would
adjourn the inquest, to give the police time to endeavour
to discover the perpetrator of what there was every reason
to believe was a foul murder.
The inquest wa s accordingly adjourned for a week.