The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-18 00:00:00

GORE V. RAMSEY.

This was an action to recover a sum of money
that had been expended by the plaintiff, as was
alleged, under the authority of the defendant,
Sergeant Shee and Mr. M'Donnell were for the
plaintiff, and Sergeant Parry and Mr. Pierce for
the defendant.
The plaintiff in this action, it appeared, was a
respectable young woman, who had for several years
been in the service of a nobleman as cook, and upon
leaving that service she was engaged in the same
capacity in the establishment of a lady named Cope,
at Highbury. The defendant was also young, and
he assisted his father in carrying on the trade of a
butcher in the same neighbourhood, and he was in
the habit of calling at Mrs. Cope's for orders ; and,
as is not unfrequently the case, under such circum-
stances, he and the plaintiff became on very inti-
mate terms, and according to her statement he pro-
mised that when his father set him up in business,
which he had agreed to do, he would marry her.
The consequence of all this was that the plaintiff
found herself in the family way, and in July last
year she wrote to the defendant telling him that
she was such a size that people were beginning to
take notice, and she left Mrs. Cope's service, and
obtained another situation with a lady named Els-
worth, where she thought her condition was not so
likely to be observed. While she was in the service
of this lady it appeared that the defendant gave the
plaintiff a ring to wear, and he told her to inform
her mistress that she was married, and she did so;
but at length it became necessary that preparations
should be made for the reception of the young
stranger, and the plaintiff asked the defendant what
she was to do ? He told her he could not marry her
then,but he knew she had some money in an old stock-
ing, and ho said that if she took a lodging and fur-
nished it he would repay her the money, and he at
the same time promised that, when his father set
him up in business he would marry her. Upon the
faith of this promise the plaintiff furnished a lodg-
ing at Islington, and expended about £3O for furni-
ture and other necessaries, and she went to this
lodging, and was confined there at the end of Sep-
tember, and in the beginning of October she
announced the fact to the defendant in the follow-
ing terms :—" Dear Henry,—l have got it over. I
have got such a fine son for you. He is much like
37. Git. I had a very bad time, and began to wish I
was
in heaven.—Your loving Emma." The plain-
"an in this letter also begged the defendant to come
herd.
,Z,".,11er and the child, but he did not go near
and fl,",l',ron her meeting him shortly afterwards,
such a mane what he meant by treating her in
to take the V, he only laughed at her, and refused
represented t:tast notice of the baby that was
facts the pleantiii.to much like him. Upon these
cover back the Qught the present action to re-
direction of the aefeaashe had expended by the
Sergeant Parry, at ti:t
plaintift
submitted that no cont,l,o:e of the plaintiff's case,
that the arrangement refe,t4lad been proved, and
maintain.
support of a bastareet?....was merely one
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bwaassta;
bo.unoi which by the
had nothing
bastardyf or the
law
If the
to do with the case.
Baron Marttilnie
lieved, there was a sin*
le aoreelneritll"
etwe
to be be
she ',ough en her
and the defendant that
her the money she pertain
things he would repay ad ex-
t recover,
pended, and she was clearly entitled
• If
was an undefended
the agreement was admitted it
action.
Sergeant Parry said be had no ansWer upon the
merits.
the plaintiff
Thejury then returned a verdict for
i or-
for the full amount claimed, and his 10rd.313 P
dered immediate execution.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—GLOUCESTER, Aug, 10.
CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.)
THE ALLEGED MURDER AT NEWENT.—The trial
of Hannah Thurston, John Thurston, and Mary
Ann Thurston, mother, son, and daughter, charged
with the murder of the child of Hannah at Nevvent,
was concluded last night between eight and nine
o'clock, when the jury, after consulting an hour,
found the prisoners not guilty of the murder, but
guilty of the concealment of birth.
On being asked, in the usual form, if they had