The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-04 00:00:00

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PRICE SEVENPIWGIZ.

been a servant at a public-house in Frome ;'
the coach stopped
at the Bolt-in-Tun; I. stayed there four or five days bef4re
my wife came ; I stayed There some days after; I have lived
with my wife Since;
James Lee examined--I am a clothier; and live at .Kaford ;
I know Isaac Porter; I knew him when he was at Mr. Wick.
ham's I I saw him last year in London at the Hell, in Noble,:
Street, Cheupaide ; I was there froth the 234 September to the.
6th October; I have been there. since I .retvnitnerided the
house to Porter; We dined there together one dal at dinner,
Porter laughed and joked, And asked me to go to Stew:ll:lane
veldt him ; he said he had been at a hattee thereat a girls' rout :I'
he said he knew one of the girls there; he and I went to thitil
house in Seacoal+l3fie ; we orilisair the Iteeper of the house, art
old woman about seventy.
CiOtte•examiped—l am a; dingle man.
fly the COURT—.I knew the old woman was the keeper .at,
the hotisc, because she told me so.
;John Kreirie ewttrn—i lire at rtbme; am a Clerk to M r.s
'
Wickham, the attorney. I know the plaintiff • he was
writer at Mr. Wickham 's alai afterwards at Mr. Alexander's
in Loudon, end then at another office there. In IRV he tame
to Fmme, and issued earls as a land.surteyor. lie Married. in 1821. I have often been !It his hotsse hate ,seen her
weeping more than once, tiviee, or thrice. Within two
or three years he has been a great frequenter of public-
houses. I have often heard Porter use very low, obscure, and
beastly expressions, with regard to his connexions, with other
women in London and elsewhere iu die preSerice of his wife.
Mts. Porter has remained in the room, and has not seemed die.;
pleased. I have heard him sing song of a particular descrip.
tion before his wife; I have heard bun sing those songs on a
Sabbath-day, when I" was In the street, loud enough for me to
bear. On Toestlays,2lith -April, I sate .John Miles, of M.
Wickham 's office, Porter, his Wife, and • my Wife toffether
Miles's was not there, she was ill. Miles and I went to Vortex's
to leave a coat. "lived on Kaford Terrace,.Seren doors above.
Porter's. Porter was not at home. Miles then %vent with rile'
to my house till nine o'clock; we then went out and met.
plaintiff. Porter asked us to go home with him and take some
cider. Africa refused, saying hie wife WA 111. Fie then asked
us to go to the Unicorn, where he said rite had •beera playing
skittles all the evening. We at last: went, to Porter's and
supped; after supper my wife came in, just as pipes and cider,
were introdeeed. Porter then risked' me how ninny children
my brother Harry had, and asked me, bow many f had got ?
Ile then turned to Itils, and said, "Here is Miles, who_
has been married so many years, and has'got none, and I am
m
iu the sante predicaent"- Miles said to Porter, " You have., not been married long enough, there is no time lost for you
yet." Porter said, " Suppose you and I change -wives, ]Hiles ?
I then related a'story of two brothers in porgettshire marrying
two sisters, and neither of them having children; they agreed'
to change wives. At the end of
.the twelve months.they each
hail issue, and 'the women would not go back to their lewful!
husbands. Porter then took up hie hat, and salt he would go'.
to Alilee's wife; but hi turned round, and said, "Oh ! let us
have it in writing ;" and lie went into his office and brought
the paper. Miles said there was no ocraiim for writing, Pot-
ter •••" Damn it, are you jealous ; canl you take a joke ?"'
Miles old he could take a joke; and if it was so meant he•
would write something. Miles wrote something that Porter
did not like, and which he tore. lie then put a piece of paper
before Miles, and told hint to write to his wife, " admit the
bearer to your heti ;" to which Miles, of his own accord, adc!..
.eel, "if agreeable." Porter then tank up his hat, and said,
"I am now off." lie went away, hut returned and said to
me and my wife, " You had better go home, and then Jere'
(pointing to his wife) and Mr. Miles iney Au to oat:ether."
Porter then left the house. In eonmequenee of what had,
passed between Miles anti myself, I went to look for Porter
outside the door, supposing' he was only carrying on a
joke to plague his wife, but he was that at the door. in
about half an hour Porter came back rubbing up his hair, and
apparently out of-breat, saying he 'htid been" to bed to Mrs.
billets. On my saying it was all nonsense, he omit, " be
if I have nine" and pointed to his coat, which was covered
with lint. We tom. him it was all lies, and in a few minutes
.we parted. Miles came to me next morning and made a coin•
plaint to me. As soon as Miles left me I sent fur the plaintiff.-
and asked him how he could serve Miles's wife as he had done ?
she was ill, anti lie had done a very serious injury to her. He
said, "damn it, I always like to have my larks out, and
would serve any other man's wife the same," and that he had
Aliles's authority so doing.. I told him it was only intend.
etl for ajoke, and it was shameful conduct ; and added, sup.
pose Miles had served your wile sa ? He said " Mlles was I
a damned fool for not doing so, as he went away on purpose."
asked to see the paper, but he said he would keep it to produce
against Miles if he should do any thing about v% that passed the'
night before. Alrs. Miles was very LI at the lime.
tross-examined—l have been married nine years, and have
four girls; the child who was with my wife and meat Poyer's
was seven years old at the time; she was asleep when this con•
versation took place; I cannot recollecii the month; I heard,
him sing the infsmous song on the Sunday nigh'; others nuts'
have heard it as well us myself; it was in the first year that he
was married. ,

John Miles, clerk to Mr. Wickham, recapitulated the who; •
of the facts detailed by }Crease. When I went home received
a complaint front my wife; I saw Portcr, a few day! after iett
From e.in srket ;The spoke to me, and I gave him a slap in the face.
Mrs:Sarah Mites sworn—l am the wife of the last witness
we nave been xnarried four years last Christmas.; Linow Par.
ter; I remember, in April 1823, late at night. he came to our.
house; I was in bed in a state of illness; it was between nine
and ten ; he opened the front door, and said, " halloo, Mrs.
Miles:" he said, " You don't know who I am." I said, "It
endeavoured to t
Go farce
—lt inn iyaoelufr intogrea great
mouth,
fl
aft
is Porter." He came through the house, upstairs, and opined
my bedroom door. Ile said, he tvassent there to go to'hed to
sdincoree;aosrdyhoueint:tnandital way for; screamed as loud as I could, and
p
theil ut
the door to go was not my husband, I
down, he asked
he attempted to go out; 1 had a light in the room, waitinA foe
blisirtheh whehnelgohteatrod
me to strike a light, for he would not be able to' find his wav'
niy lighthu s hatband;
b out.
down stairs'; 1 said, I did not care_, and I hoped he would
bfeliklix neck down stairs ; he was forcing his way into bed to
me for 20 minutes ; I was much worse afterwards; and I hive
never been well since.
Crowexamined—l am 28 years of age ; I hail seen Porter
once
.before; toy lituthand has hot
.prosecuted this man for the
injury I have stained ; my husband is 23 years old.
John Nicholls sworn-=I ant bailiff to Mr. Jones.; mime time
in Ma, 1823, Porter applied for the workshop and iteuse at
Kaforu; he said he could not pay the rent without he could get
a lodger ; such a lodger as the ‘4 Squire," to make the rien,c
come easy; he said he thought if he had tire squire be we 11.1
cuckold him ; Porter offerettliis wife as aervant, Mr. JON,*
ongoing to the house declined that Mar.
John AI ilea recalled—By the Coon T—My wife did Trot
reta
ue,
to bed before I came home; I never had ;he door left 1r
Open but that night ; . there was no light inresit
s
when my wife'*
I have. not prosecuted Porter for what n
when I got home; ix....
,
curred that evening; I consulted an attorney, and the result.
was I refused to prosecute ; Porter's wife saw the paper I WrOtit
to my wife.
,
William Stiles Allwood—l know. Porter, arid remembet
Bias's wife being unwell ; Mn.s Blasts Forum's sister;' he was
told his sister was 111.-IThe witness here related an obscene
expression of the plaintiff; on hearing this fact, in ptesenct of
his wife.] •
Cross..exarnined—
,l hate had a quarrel with Porter last May,
dark
it ore into the house, but Wag A.O
He threatened to pi .1
tei_evi:
r lin a matter improperly.
nothing. I thong-in lie li
.
Mr. Sergeant t.,/,
.1. replied or plaintiff' at considerable
length, and
r. Baron (7 ARROW having summed up,
The Jury retired from their box. They were absent upwards
of an hour; when they catne into'Court they returned a verdict
for the plaintift—Da • wages One Farthing.
This case excited immense interest in the county of Somerse3.
The trial lasted front eight in the morning till seven in the ever,_lna, and the Court way crowded to suffocation the whole of
the time.

PoisomiNG.—Jean Bard was lately tried at
Riont, for poisoning
.his wife and children. He was a peasant
and hod dissipsted.hts property. Fired at the just reproaches of
his wife, he resolved to get rid of her, and accordingly put' poison
into n soup, which he gave to his wife and children. There sic
,
some difficulty in proving the crime, though airwoman/ tfi'
only person who died from taking the 'poison
Last she had been poisoned by her husband.. Seven of the Jury
were of opinion that he was guilty, and Are that he wasutno-
celt. 'lite Judges were of the same opinion ,as the anklonlY of
declsied to tine
the Jury; and Hard wits sentenced to be exopcuted. Against
this sentence he npreAleti, and the final resultu not,yet known.