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that if she fell into trouble through him, and gave
birth to a child, he would maintain it, and support
her as well. The defendant also told Mr. Bell,with
whom she was staying, that he wished everything
to be kept as quiet as possible.
Anna Bell, the wife of Francis Bell, of High-
street, Southwark, said the complainant came to
lodge with her on the 9th Nov., 1858. Soon after-
wards she met Mr. Christy, by appointment, at a
public-house in Southwark. The complainant was
present, and the defendant said he would take
care of her and her child when it was born, and
gave the complainant a sovereign. About three
weeks after that the defendant came to her house
and gave the complainant another sovereign, and
said he would take care of her and his little one,
and hoped it would be like him. (A laugh )
Francis Bell, a labourer, the husband of the last
witness, said that a fortnight before Christmas he
saw the defendant, and represented to him that the
complainant was in great distress and could not
support her child, and he gave him 10s., which he
handed to the complainant. He saw the defendant
again after that, and said to him, "Something must
be done with that young woman and her child ; I
cannot afford to keep them any longer." The de-
fendant said, " She had better come back to my
house and be my servant again." He accompanied
the complainant to the defendant's residence on
Christmas-day last, but did not go into the house
with her. She was there the best part of an hour.
Mr. Orridge said he was instructed to deny that.
the defendant ever had any intercourse with the
complainant except that which ought to exist be-
t weer' a master and his servant. The complainant was
a profligate woman, and not one who came into court
with clean hands. She did not come into court as
the victim of a seducer. She had attempted to affi-
liate another child on a man at Mirgate, five years
ago, and failed, and now she was making an attempt
to fix the paternity of another bastard child upon
an old man, her master. No reliance could be placed
on the evidence of a woman who, according to her
own admission, had been carrying on an improper
intercourse with three men in her master's house.
Mrs. Bell here interrupted the learned counsel,
and said the defendant was the father of seven bas-
tard children.

MMr Bell . Yardley—That is mere rumour, I suypose
rs. ?

Mrs. Bell—He has had seven bastard children in
four years ; he knows it, sir.
Mr. Yardley—He is not the father of all of them.
Mrs. Bell—lndeed he is, sir, and he is the father
of this one, holding up a child which certainly bore
a remarkable resemblance to the defendant.
Mr. C. Young, a solicitor, who was seated at the
table, said he never saw two peas in a bushel more
alike.

G. Rowe, 15 Red Lion•street, -Wapping, said he
was defendant's foreman, and that he commenced
familiar intercourse with complainant in the early
part of 1857, and it continued at intervals until the
31st of August in the same year.
Wm. Christy, jun., defendant's son, said he had
continued intercourse with the complainant in his
father's house until within six weeks or two months
of her leaving. Their bed-rooms adjoined each other.
Sometimes he passed the night in the complainant's
room, and sometimes she passed the night in his
room.

In cross-examination by Mr. Neale, the witness
said that he only began to calculate when his con-
nection with the complainant commenced since the
summons had been served on his father. He knew
Rowe had been intimate with complainant. Rowe
told him so.

In answer to the magistrate, the witness said he
was 20 years of age, and that complainant never
made any claim upon him, and never said he was
the father of her child.
Mr. Yardley said in the whole course of his ex-
perience as a magistrate he never heard a more dis-
gusting case than this. It was one which reflected
great disgrace on the defendant, his son, and his
foreman, and exhibited a low state of morality in a
gentleman's house, or in the dwelling of one who
assumed to be a gentleman, and who kept a female
servant, and carried on an illicit intercourse with
her under the same roof as his wife. There was
nothing in the objection that complainant failed in
affiliating her first child. The most modest of women
often failed in these cases for want of corroborative
proof. After the excellent evidence given by the
man Bell he could come to no other conclusion than
this, that the defendant was the father of the child,
and he made an order on him to pay2s.6d. per week ,
for its support, and 235. costs. The child certainly '
bore a very strong impression of the image of a
Christy.

THE MURDER AT STAMFORD.

STAMFORD, WEDNESDAY.
This morning Henry Corby, charged with the
murder of Elizabeth Pulley, under the horrible
circumstances already described in this journal, was
brought up before the borough magistrates on re-
mand, when further evidence of an important cha-
racter was adduced.
Mr. R. W. George, managing clerk to Mr. Hop-
kinson, solicitor to the deceased lady, was the first
witness examined. He deposed to having inspected
the house after the supposed murder, and finding
the place in great confusion. He at first thought
deceased had acciflentally burnt herself to death:;
but, on missing several articles of jewellery and
plate, came to the conclusion that a robbery, at-
tended with murder, had been committed. Drawers
and desks had also been forced open by violence.
The prisoner, on being asked if he had any ques-
tions to put to the witness, replied—l am innocent
of the charge against me, and cannot ast any ques-
tions, because I know nothing connected with it
beyond what I hear in this hall.
George Jabez Munton, a cabinetmaker, deposed
that ox Monday, the 19th of March, he went to the
prisoner's.shop to work, and on a shelf there saw a
desk, which was opened by a fellow-workman
named March, and that it contained a number of
gold rings and other articles of jewellery, some of
which had the deceased's name upon them. About
half-past two he saw the prisoner take down the
ornaments and place them on a bench at the end of
the shop. He said " These ought to have gone
home, they have no business there." He went
away and left them on the bench. Prisoner then
appeared to be intoxicated. The ornaments were
on the bench when witness left the shop in the
evening, but when he went to work on the follow-
ing morning they were gone.
Police-constable Dalrymple said Since the
prisoner has been in custody he had sifted the ashes
in a fire-place in the prisoner's workshop, and
found several pieces of brass, which seemed the
fittings of a writing-desk. I found in a box (pro-
duced) some more ornamental brasswork coiled up.
The whole of the pieces of brass corresponded, and
appeared to have been the binding of a writing-desk.
The witness Munton was recalled, and said the
fittings seemed to be the same as that of the desk he
noticed in the prisoner's workshop.
The prisoner declined to put any questions to
either Munton or Dalrymple.
Robert March having corroborated Munton's
evidence, added, about 9 o'clock on Wednesday
morning I saw the prisoner take the desk down into
his house; he covered it with his apron. He was
not in the shop when I left work at half-past five
that evening. On the Thursday I was sent for to
prisoner's workshop. When I got into the shop
prisoner was there. He said, " 1 suppose you saw
in a desk seine rings with Miss Pulley's name." I
replied that I had. He said—" It's false—it's some-
thing like it." Prisoner then said he would go and
fetch the things, and he left the shop. In about a
quarter of an hour he returned, and said, " It's a
wrong name, but something like it." He did not
bring the rings and show them to me. Afterwards
he again said he would go and fetch the rings. He
returned in a short time, and said, " I hope you
won't say anything about it. The way I was situated
some time ago I don't know what might be the con-
sequence." Two or three times in the course of the
same day the prisoner repeated his request that I
would say nothing about what I had seen. He ap-
peared very uneasy. I told him I should not stay
with him any longer than that night, and I left ac-
cordingly, but without assigning any reason. The
witness spoke to the several brass fragments pro-
duced being similar to what he had seen on the
writing-desk in prisoner's workshop.
Susannah Munton (mother of the witness previ-
ously examined), stated that in consequence of some-
thing said to her by her son she went to the priso-
ner's house, and there saw Mrs. Corby. Witness
told her what her son had said. On the same after-
noon prisoner went to witness's house, and said--
" What about these boys, and writing desk, and
rings ?" Witness said she had been told by her son
that he had seen in Corby's possession half-a-dozen
rings, with the name of "Pulley" on them. "No
such thing," said the prisoner, " it was not the name
of Pulley, but something similar to it." He added,
that the box was gone to the party to whom it be•
longed. This he repeated two or three times over.
Sarah Ann Ireland, aged 19, stated that she had
lived servant with Miss Pulley five or six years, but
left several years ago. The deceased had a good
deal of silver plate, which the witness described.
She had also some rings. Witness had heard de-
ceased say, in reference to the plate she possessed,
that she could set up a jeweller's shop. The deceased
always carried a good deal of money about with her.
The prisoner was then again remanded until
Thursday, the 12th inst.

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