The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-05 00:00:00

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-
tween 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 Margate, 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.
Mr. Yardley—That is mere rumour, I suppose,
Mrs. Bell ?
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 pay 2s. 6d. per week
for its support, and 235. costs: The child certainly
bore a very strong impression of the image of a
Christy.