The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 23, 1869.

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THE CONVENT CASE.

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The sixteenth day of the trial, cold and wet, spewed
that the people do not mind the chances of catching cold
if they can hear "revelations of convent life." The
trial commenced on the third of February ; so the jury
have had the case under consideration nearly three weeks,
including an "off" day and three Sundays. The Solicitor--
General was again bard at work yesterday, being assisted
by Mr. Digby Seymour and Mr. Willes ; Mr. Hawkins
appearing with Mr. Mellish and Mr. Chas. Russell for the
defendants. The court was crowded, but not inconveniently,
and the mob, which bad on previous occasions surrounded
the door in Westminster Hall, was no longer there.
Indeed, the weather would hardly have allowed anyone
who felt the cold and had regard for his health to loiter
about in the draughty Hall. Sleet fell in the morning,and
rain fell pitilessly till nearly noon. Inside, however, an
equable temperature was preserved. Canon Walker was
the first witness. He said my first connection with the
convent was getting the bishop's letter appoint-
ing me the president. I never heard Father
Moline ws object to Father Poi ter's presence, or
ask to see Mrs. Starr's letter postulating that he
might be a commissioner. The plaintiff might have been
stopped to secure order, because her remarks were desul-
tory, but not to embarrass her. I never heard Father
Matthews say that the order of the proceeding was a vio-
lation of what had passed between bins and the Bishop.
The Lord Chief Justice: Was any application made by
Father Matthews to examine any witnesses?
Witness : I don't remember his doing so. Towards the
end he may have complained of the hardship of his niece's
position in the witness not being called who made the depo-
sitions. He may have complained of not being able to
call witnesses for his niece ; but that, if it happened
at all, it must have occurred before we finally deliberated.
There was a memos open& till the charges had been
substantially proved, and above that, there were circum-
stances, if the plaintiff was to be believed, that would
extenuate the complaints that had been made against her.
We discussed the counter-charges, and considered what
weight should be given to them.
The Lord Chief Justice: Was she examined about
them?
Witness : Oh, quite so, to our satisfaction. There was
the cruelty about the thimble, for instance, if the circum-
stances were trap.
The Lord Chief Justice: The "if " makes all the dif-
ference.
Witness : She was not questioned more about the counter
charges than when she made her other statement.
Cross-examined by the Solicitor-General : I am rather
deaf. I had a good opportunity of hearing what Miss
Saurin said before the commission. I think I heard it
substantially. I can't say I heard every word. I
examined her to my satisfaction. I thought she had
satisfied herself, and that satisfied me. We allowed her
perfect liberty to make her own statement, if consistent
and not varied. I don't think three or four
commissioners interfered at a time. She was never
interrupted when she was prepared to make a
statement. My interference was from good nature.
Father Porter used more urgency and persistency on one
occasion in bringing her to order than the other. Dr.
O'Hanlon was was quite as much so, but in a more gentle
manner, than the occasion I refer to. Father Porter
was eager to ascertain the truth of the case. You may
Call it, he was a little warm with her.
The Solicitor-General : I was not there. Was he warm
with her?
Witness : Well, he was. I don't remember him contra-
dicting her. I have no distinct recollection of why he
was so persistent. He did not bring his knowledge of the
convent to bear against her statements. I did not know
then, nor had I reason to believe he was connected with
the convent. The secretary on the second day ob-
jected to the reception of statements, because they
were wrong in points of form, but I overruled him, and
said she ought to be allowed to give the explanations.
The question of twelve to one witness was not discussed.
They were not impeached because they were the con-
sciencious, deliberate, and truthful statements of eye
witnesses of the facts.
The Solicitor-General : Then you, I suppose, subtracted
one from twelve, and there remained eleven unanswered.
Witness : That is so, as a mathematical operation.
(Laughter.)
Reexamined: The reason why the sisters were not
called, in answer to the counter-charges, was that it would
have been a violation of the order of procedure to have
called them. They were not informed of the charges that
Sister Scholastica had made.
Canon Walker's report was put in and read, and was to
this effect :—" I am of opinion that the charges against
the accused have been abundantly proved ; but she made
some important explanations which, if true, may be
justly deemed to bare modified some of the complaints
made against her. I find it, however, impossible to resist
the concurrent testimony of such deponents, and I place
much reliance on the hesitating, varying, and indecisive
replies of the accused," &c.
Father Porter, examined by Mr. Charles Russell: I am
a member of the order of Jesus. I conducted the retreat
at Hull in IS6I. A retreat is a period of seclusion in
which people, religious or others, withdraw from the world
more or less completely, and devote themselves to prayer,
self-examination, and to reading of ascetical works. The
tune is spent more or less in silence. The director
of the retreat meets the nuns in the chapel,
and he each day gives them an instruction in
some virtue or some duty of religious life. He received
ordinarily the confessions of those in the retreat, and
should be accessible to them for advice out of the confes-
sional if desired. This retreat lasted eight days.
I directed the retreat of December 1861, which
lasted three days, and again in August 1862,
which lasted eight days. I did not go
to Hull again until 1866. I had occasionally
corresponded in the meantime with Mrs. Starr and Mrs.
Kennedy. In December 1865 Mrs. Starr, who had
accompanied a sister to Liverpool for examination, called
upon me, and I then learnt in fuller detail what I knew in
general of the course of events in the convent from 1862
up to that time. " Precognose " does not describe the
violence of our conversation.
The Solicitor-Genes-al : I said at the time it was a Scotch
term of which I did not precisely know the meaning.
Witness : The nature of the conversation was to tell me
what I knew in outline—the series of events which had
occurred from August 1862 to December 1865. Mrs.
Starr never shewed the slightest ill-feeling or bitterness
to Miss Saurin, but she expressed a wish for her removal.
Up to the morning of the sitting of the commission I had
not the slightest ided of the form the inquiry would make.
The day before the commission met I went to the convent
but nothing passed upon the subject. When the commis-
sion met I did not hear Father Matthews object to my
being a member. Miss Saurin was not interrupted in an
embarrassing or troublesome manner. She spoke with ease
throughout, and even at the worst charges she betrayed
no emotion. Fattier Matthews assisted her throughout
the inquiry. The commissioners expressed themselves
satisfied that the charges were substantially proved.
Dr. O'Hanlan was next examined, Ile declared that
de did not agree with the report f the commission. He
enumerated several cases in which he thought the plaintiff
was ill-treated.
The case for the defence closed with the re-examination
of Mrs. Starr.
The Solicitor-General then intimated that he intended
to produce rebutting evidence, and called Miss Saurin.
She said : I never spoke unkindly or harshly of the
sisters at Baggot-street. They always behaved most
kindly towards me. I never told my family what duties
I had to perform there. There might have been sixteen
sisters at Baggot-street.
The Lord Chief Justice : We are at the close of the
sixteenth day, and I must ask you to confine yourself
to contradictions. I hope I have shewn no impatience.
Plaintiff : I never received a letter from my brother
containing reflections on the superior. I never read my
Carmelite sisters' letters to the sisters. Mr!. Starr read
some edifying letters from them and my Jesuit brother to
the sisters. I never complained of having been employed
in the laundry in Baggot-street. I only kept the accounts
and received messages. I did not cut the ham. I was
not found with my mouth full and my face smothered
with grease. I first heard it in this court. I was never
found eating raspberries or strawberries and cream. Mrs.
Grimston's servant occasionally brought a few for Mrs.
Starr, but I never had any.
Mr. Mellish : If we are again to go into counter-charges,
we shall never finish the case.
Plaintiff : I never saw cream in the house. It was In
1860 when Mrs. Starr and Mrs. Kennedy withdrew from
recreation on Mrs. Norris's visit to Mrs. Starr. Mrs.
Norris was not there after 1859. There arc no docu-
ments that can be referred to. (The book " Devotion
to Jesus" was produced.) This is the hook I cave to Mrs.
Starr. I was always on i;ood terms with Mrs. _Delaney.
I did not murmur at my first reproof in 1861. I did not
request Mrs. APOwne to send for Father Arnold' the
extraordinary confessor of the convent. He came about
Once a quarter. This was his regular time of coming to
the convent. It was a considerable time after that I
wrote to my uncle, and not the same night, as sworn to
by the defence. The letter having been found, I wrote
another in pencil, and gave it to one of the children to
post. They were, in fact, both posted at the same time.
I never admitted to Mrs. M`Owne the writing of this
letter before going to Mill. I avoided confessing to her
that I had written the letter. She asked me if I had
sent it by a little girl, and I said, "No." I had not done
so then. (The plaintiff was further examined on the
points of direct conflict of testimony between her state-
ments and those of the witnesses for the defendants.) I
never took a child's dinner or cake in my life. I never took
a particle of their food. I did not neglect Sister Mary
Catherine. I did not take the medal nor the sleeves from
her dead body. The first time I heard of it was in this
court.
In answer to questions from the Lord Chief Justice, it
was stated that the rebutting evidence would finish
to-day (Tuesday) by lunch time. In that ease Mr. Mellish
said he might be able to finish by Werlne,day toil-day.
The Solicitor-General sail he should require a full day
(Thursday), and the Lord Chief Justice, iu that case, wil
sum upon Friday.
4 hearing 0.4 can was then adjourned.

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