The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-22 00:00:00

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LAW INTELLIGNOE—This Day.

COURT OF PRCRATE AND DIVORCE.
liAmexim T. HARPHAM.

This was a suit by the wife fora dissolution of her mar-
riage with her Vusband, :ohn Harpham, a saddler in busi-
ness at Alford, in Lincolnshire, on the ground of adultery
and cruelty.

Dr. Spinks was coun4 for the petitioner, and the
respondent made no defoace. It appeared that the peti-
tioner was the daughter of b firmer who formerly lived at
Farlsthorpe, in Lineolnshke, awl that the marriage was
solemnised on the 10th Mty, 1849. Tho parties then
removed to Alford, where thy lived happily for about 18
months. The respondent coni-acted habits of intemperance
at that time, and then commEoced his ill-treatment of the
petitioner, whom he was in he habit of assaulting vio-
lently, and she had frequent/5 had black eyes and other
injuries in consequence. Ills conduct became so bad that
in 1853 she was obliged to hare him, and returned to her
father, with whom she remained until November, 1854,
when she was induced to resume cohabitation with the
respondent, in consequence of his stating that he had be-
come a "teetotaller," and had
•joined the Wesleyan body.
For some time he continual sober, but shortly relapsed
into his old habits of drunkenness and cruelty to the peti-
tioner. On one occasion he came home intoxicated, and
threw a knife at the petitioner; afterwards he threatened
to strangle her. In 1856 she again returned to her friends,
and her father dying in 1862 she had since lived with her
brother at Alford. The respondent made overtures to the
petitioner to come back to him, promising amendment, but
she refused. The brother of the petitioner made some in-
quiries relative to the conduct of the respondent, and disc
covered that he had been leading a most profligate life
since his wife was obliged to leave him. The last act of
impropriety on his part which was ascertained took place
late in 1864.

Decree nisi, with costs.
GORE V. GORE AND MARSH.

This was a petition of the husband for a dissolution of
marriage on the ground of his wife's adultery with the co-
respondent and some other man unknown. Both defen-
dants traversed the allegation of adultery, and the respon-
dent further pleaded cruelty.
From the evidence for tho petitioner, it appeared that the
parties wero married at Ashford, in Kent, in Sept., 1853.
The petitioner was a periumz3: ana flair caresser, Ana tho
respondent, whose maidon name was Wilkinson, was in
the same station of life. There was no issue of the mar-
riage, but the parties lived happily together until 1855,
when the respondent contracted habits of intemperance,
and sometimes became so violent that she had to be re-
moved from the shop. In 1861 she became acquainted
with the co-respondent, who was a married man, and they
lived together at York-road, Lambeth, where they opened
a tobacconist's shop. They had since been cohabiting else-
where. With reference to the charge of cruelty, letters
were read from the respondent to her husband, in which
she spoke in grateful terms of her affectionate treatment,
and admitted that she was not justified in deserting him. It
was not denied that he had refused to take her back.

Evidence was then called to disprove the charge of adul-
tery, and to show that the petitioner did not supply his
wife with necessaries, which her delicate state of health

required.

The learned judge decided that the adultery was proved,
and that the evidence of cruelty was not entitled to cre-
dence.

Docree nisi, with costs against the co-respondent.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.
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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBERY BY A SOLDIER.—John Freean and James
Costello, the former a private of the Grenadier Guards, and
the latter a costermonger, were charged—Freeman with
stealing a watch and chain, Ind Costello with receiving the
same with a guilty knowledge.
The evidence of Wm. Sysless, waiter at the Alhambra
Palace, Leicester-square, went to show that on the previous
afternoon he• saw Freeman and a tipsy man go into the
taproom of the Crown public-house, Green-street, Leices-
ter-square. Observing something rather suspicious in
Freeman's conduct, he looked through the glass-door and
saw Freeman feeling the tipsy man about the waistcoat.
Subsequently he followed Freeman, who left the house
alone, to Trafalgar-square, and gave him in charge on sus-
picion of robbing the tipsy man. Freeman was then taken
back to the public-house, where he passed a watch and
chain to the other prisoner, Costello, who had followed the
soldier back to the house with a crowd of others.

John Richards, staying at the " Sailors' Home," Well-
street, Wellclose-square, identified the watch and chain as
his property. He met the soldier yesterday, and had drink
with him, and got drunk.
Riscorla, 69 E, proved seeing Freeman pass something to
Costello. Costello then walked away, but was taken back
to the house, when the watch and chain were found in his
possession. He saw the soldier give them to him.
M'Cabe, 313 A, proved finding the property on Costello,
who said the soldier must have put it into his pocket.

Inspector Draper said that at the station Freeman
owned the handkerchief in which the watch and chain
were wrapped.

Freeman denied the roberry, but Costello admitted re•
ceiving the articles from Freeman.
Mr. Knox committed them both for trial.

THE ROAD MURD2R.

TRIAL OP CONSTANCE- KENT.—SENTENCE OF
DEATH PASSED.
A summary of the following appeared in The Sun of yes-
terday :

SALISBURY, Friday.
The trial of Constance Emilie Kent, charged on her own
confession with the murder of her half-brother, Francis
Saville Kent, at Road Rouse, in this county, on the 30th
June, 1860, took place in the Assize Court here to-day,
before Mr. Justice Willes. It being known that the ac-
commodation for the public in the Assize Court was very
limited, there was not so great a crush at the doors, on
their being opened, as he had anticipated. The Court,
however, was in a fearfully crowded state ; but the police
arrangements were as effectual as they could be under the
circumstances. It was rumoured about in legal circles last
night that the prisoner intended to persist in her plea of
guilty ;" that every effort had been made to induce her to
retract it, but in vain ; and that her counsel had oven
favoured this course, in the expectation that the sentence of
death, which would inevitably follow, would not be carried
into effect. This rumour, it will be seen, proved to be well
founded, and the proceedings of the trial were consequently
very brief.

By half-past eight o'clock the court was filled. Shortly
before nint' his lordship arrived and took his seat upon the
bench. The prisoner had previously been brought to the
Court-house by a private cab, and not in the common prison
Tan. On being brought up from the cells into the dock she
was addressed by her attorney, Mr. Rodway, who appealed
to her for the last time to alter her determination to retract
her plea, and to plead not guilty. She, however, remained
firm, and then advanced to the front of the dock and raised
her veil, which had been previously drawn over her face,
and, clasping her gloved hands before her, stood facing the
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as she stood awaiting the commencement of the proceed-
ings. Miss Greame, the lady superior of the Brighton
Hospital, and the Rev. A. Wagner, incumbent of St. John's,
Brighton, sat on the bench appropriated to the witnesses,
almoy behind the dock. Gough, the nurse-
maid, and immediately
d,
andmeeemdieaetetlber
witnesses were not brought into court
at all. Mr. Kent, the prisoner's father, was in Salisbury.
but was not present at the trial. It is said that the pri-
soner's brother, who, it will be remembered, ran away from
home in company with his sister, was also in Salisbury.
The counsel who appeared for the prosecution were Mr.
Karsiake, Q.C., and Mr. Lopes ; for the defence Mr. Cole-
ridge, Q.C., Mr. Edlin, and Mr. Ravenhill.
The Clerk of the Arraigns, addressing the prisoner, said
—Constance Emilie Kent, the indictment charges you with
the wilful murder of Francis Saville Kent—are you guilty
or not guilty ?
The prisoner replied in a voice almost inaudible--Guilty.
His Lordship, after a short pause, addressing the pri-
soner, said—Are you, as you are charged, guilty of having
wilfully, maliciously, and of malice, killed and murdered
your brother ?
The prisoner was understood to reply, " Yes."
The Judge—l must repeat, you are charged with having
wilfully, maliciously, and with malice, killed and murdered
your brother—am you guilty or not guilty ?
The prisoner, almost inaudibly, replied, " Guilty."
(after a short pause)—Tho verdict must
bejruesctoircdeeWilles
recorded.

Mr. Coleridge then rose, andin a verylovr voice addressed
his lordship
hat acting on her behalf and by
herdirect
wish,,
him
to say, and she wished him
to say it solemnly, in the presence of God, and u a person
who valued her own soul, that she alone was guilty of the
He
she
desiredt
murder, and that her father and others, who had so long
suffered such injurious and evil suspicions, were wholly and
altogether innocent. Next she desired him to say that she
said
was not driven to the act by any unkind treatment at home,
and that she had there received nothing but themost tender
love. He hoped he might add, on his own part, that it
gave him a melancholy pleasure to be made the organ of
this statement on her behalf, because from his heart he be-
lieved it to be true.

The learned Queen's counsel then resumed his seat, and
the judge directed the officer of the court to call upon the
prisoner in the usual form.
addressing the prisoner, said
youder of Francis Saville Kent;
have confessed yourself
guilty7Cl
what—Constance
nehsoaCt fval net° hrekee
you corf tWohs EmilieaoAyf Krtwrheaheni Arraigns,
thesu sentence of death should
not be passed on you according to law ?
The prisoner remained mute, and silence having been
proclaimed while the sentence of death was passed,
His lordship put on the black cap, and in a voice low
and broken by emotion, addressed the prisoner to the fol-
lowing effect :—Constance Emilie Kent, you have pleaded
guilty to an indictment charging you with the wilful mur-
der of your brother, Francis Saville Kent, on the 30th of
June, 1860. It is my duty (here the learned judge was
mush affected) to receive that plea which you have deli-

berately put forward. It is a satisfaction to know tlat!his
plea was notpleaded until after you have had the advice
of counsel, 'Who, I know, would have relieved you of that
painful duty if it could have been done. I can entertain
no doubt, after having read the evidence in the depositions,
that you arc guilty of the crime ; that you have pleaded
the plea as being the only guilty person concerned in the
crime:; and that it was one committed , with great deiMe-
ration. You appear to have allowed feelings of jealousy
andanger to.have worked in yourbreitst until they assumed
over you the•infiuence and power of the evil one. (His
lordship here paused for a few niemente, evide.ntly overcome
by his feelings. He then added-,--) Whether her Majesty
(with, whom alone the prerogative of mercy rests) may be
advised to exercise that prerogative on the ground of the
fact of your youth at the time of the committal of the mur-
der, or of the fact that you have 'been bonVicted chiefly on
your own Confession, and the faCt that that confession re-
moves any suspicion from others, it would be presumptuous
in me to say here ; but it will become you to live what is
left you of life as one who is about to die. .Seek for more
enduring mercy by a sincere and deep contrition for your
crime. (Here the prisoner buried her head in her hands
and wept bitterly, still maintaining a firm and erect posi-
tion)—and by a reliance on Him who is the only redemp-
tion, propitiation, and satisfaction for all the sins of the
whole world. It remains now for me only to discharge
the duty which the law imposes on the Court without any
alternative--that is, to pass the sentence which the law
awards to the crime of wilful murder, which is, that you
be taken from the place where' you stand to the place
whence yo'u came, and thence to the place of execution,
that you be hanged by the neck until your body be dead,
and that your body be afterwards buried within the pre-
cincts of the gaol ; and may God have mercy on your
soul !

The prisoner then turned round in the dock, and pulling
her thick black veil over her, face, walked firmly and
slowly downstairs to the cell beneath.
It was observed by those who stood near the prisoner,
that when his lordship attributed the crime to "feelings
of anger and jealousy," the Piisoner.said, in a low tone,
" Not jealousy." This was the only audible remark made
by her after her plea.
At the close of the case his lordship,.who appeared quite
overcome by emotion, left the court for a short time.
Subsequently, on his return, Mr. Cderidge made an ap-
rlioetioh to the judge for a special orderto admit the rela-
tions and friends of the prisoner to see her in the con-
demned cell, subject to the regulations of the gaol.
It is stated by those who have conversed with the pri-
soner since her commitment that she deprecates an inter-
ference on her behalf for substituting imprisonment for
life for the capital sentence that has now been passed on
her. She declares that death can be the only expiation of
the dreadful crime which she has committal.

• The priedner was, in the course of the afternoon, re-
moved to Salisbury gaol, where she will remain until the
sentence is carried out—that is, unless the Royal clemency
should spare her life.

Loss of the Ship Van Cappellan,

HORRIBLE DEATH AND •SUFFERING OP THE

CREW.

3, The ship Naturalist, Captain Hyde, has arrived
in the Victoria-docks from Calcutta, having on
• board five' seamen, the only survivors out of the
crew of 16, of the iron-ship Van Cappellan, which
foundered in the Indian Ocean. The statement of
the survivors shows that the poor. fellows underwent
the most horrible suffering, several of the unhappy
crew, who were drifting about in a boat for 15
days, dying from eihaustion and the want of food.
The Van Cappellan, Captain Sewell, left Calcutta
in the early part of February for Hull, and the
voyage proceeded as usual, nothing particular oc-
curring until the morning of the 16th of March,
when the vessel was in lat. about 6 S., long.
58 E. At 5.30 a.m., all sail being set, ship on
the port • tack, a heavy squall struck her, heeling
her over on her starboard beam ends. All the en-
deavours of the crew failed to right her, and the
ship being noticed to be settling down, the boats
were cut adrift and spare spars prepared to make a
raft in readiness for leaving the ship. At 7 a.m.
the ship disappeared, taking down with her Captain
Sewell and Mr. L. Price, chief officer, John Stone,
the cook, John Herman, seaman, H. French, A. 8.,
and George Allan, apprentice, leaving 16 hands
clinging to the bottom of a small boat, spars, hen-
coop, &c. Robert Hamilton, the carpenter, thus
describes What followed With great exertion we
managed to get the boat turned over. We baled her
out, and picked up the survivors, who were clinging
to spars, &c. We succeeded in picking up three
pumpkins, a small pig, and four ducks. Seeing a ship,
we pulled after her, but the breeze springing up we
lost sight of her, leaving us to our fate. To each
man we then served out 1i• inch of pumkin, a piece
of raw pork and a piece of duck. On the
17th sighted a ship with painted ports ; pulled
for her, but the breeze increasing we were
unable to get to her. The sun very hot, and
we had little or no clothing to protect our bodies,
having cast them off to save our lives. We suffered
very much from want of water, and the pork being
spoiled could not eat it. There were a number of
sharks alongside, and we tried to get one, but were
unsuccessful. On the 18th, cloudy, with a light
breeze, sun very hot, served out to each man some
pieces of pumpkin ; tried to entice a shark into a
running bow-line with a piece of the spoiled
pork, but was unsuccessful. 19th. Cloudy, but
no rain. Thinking the water was fresher be-
low the surface, I lashed an oar over the stern
of the boat, and went down and drank
freely, but without finding any relief. 20th. Cloudy
with a light breeze ; we bathed frequently to keep
ourselves cool. 21st. Cloudy. Caught a shark
and drank its blood, which relieved our thirst a
little, and partook of a small piebe of the shark with
our daily allowance of pumpkin. Wm. Allan, A. 8.,
George Liberty, A. 8., Joseph Pask, and Hugh
Howard, steward, persisted in washing the meat of
the shark, but they became delirious, and died in the
evening. 22d. Cloudy, with a light breeze. Em-
ployed ourselves in cutting a gutter in the shafts
and gunwale of the boat, to catch fresh water should
it rain. 23d.Cloudy, with a few drops of rain. 24th.
Clear ; sun very hot ; no sail in sight. Bathing fre-
i quently to keep ourselves cool, but the salt water was
making our skin very sore. 25th. Dark and cloudy
weather. Hawkins died. Caught about a bucket-
ful of fresh water off the shafts of the boat, drinking
sparingly. 26th. Light breeze and hot sultry wea-
ther. Served out one and a half of pumpkin. This
being the last morsel of food in the boat, and no
Water left, things began to look very dismal. Thomas
Price, 2d officer, died. 27th. Cloudy. Bathing fre-
quently, and drinking our own urine. Hugh
Coonar, boatswain, Hugh Price, A. 8., and Smith,
acting 2d officer, died. Drank the blood of
Coonar and Smith, and eat a piece of the body.
28th. • Cloudy, eating sparingly •of human flesh.
At sun dawn sighted a 'sail, Ibut night coming
on, lost sight of her ; pulled with all our
strength all night in the direction of the ship. 29th.
Light. airs and cloudy ; 1 a.m. Andrew Brince died.
Drank his blood, and cut a piece of his flesh off, in
case we might lose the sighted the previous night.
At daylight we saw the vessel coming right for us,
at 7.30 a.m. came alongside the vessel, which proved
to be the ship Naturalist, from Calcutta, for Lon-
don, and the following men, all those remaining of
the 16 who first took to the boats were taken on
board :—Robert Hamilton, the carpenter, a cooper,
Chas. Eade, Alfred Ralph, and Antonio Nicholas ;
but the latter was so weak that he shortly expired."
Had the poor creatures been out twelve hour
longer they would doubtless have all perished. Mr.
James Muir, the chief officer, was on deck when the
boat, which was a mere speck on the water, was
first seen, and having reported the circumstance to
Captain Hyde, the ship at once bore down for the
boat. When they came alongside they were in
such an exhausted condition that a chair had to be
lowered in order to lift them on board. Captain
Hyde at once made every' provision for their com-
fort, but great care had to be taken in giving them
stimulants, in consequence of their critical state,
arising from the horrible sufferings which they
had gone through during the fifteen days they had
been tossed about in the boat. They 'at length
were refreshed by sleep, and gradually recovered.
Nothing could exceed the kindness which they re-
ceived on board the Naturalist. It seems that the
boat was seen by a passing vessel, since arrived in
London, on the day after their own ship foundered,
but it being thought or represented that they might
be pirates, the. ship sailed away without rendering
them help. At that time the whole of the 16 men
were alive in the boat, but the want of food and
water and the intense heat soon began to tell upon
them, and they one by one perished, as before nar-
rated.

The Earl of Sandwich and Lady Emily Montagu
will leave town early in the ensuing week f9r a tour in
Italy.