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London, England, 1804-12-26 00:00:00

CHUM V. tMlTtit.

Am,aelion for carrying on a suit upon a Bill of
Exchange, by the Plaintiff, ai Attorney for the De.
fendant ; and the whole question in the Cause was,
whether this suit was carried on for this Defendant,
or for a person of the name of. Douglas ; and after a
full hearing of the circum,tances of the case, Mr.
GAttpow for the Plaintiff, and Mr. Glues for the
Defendant, the Jury- found a verdi& for the De.
fendant,..

COURT OF COMMON. PLEAS, DES. 24.
SITTINGS AT NISI PRIUS, BEFORE 'MR. JUSTICE

BRED AND A SPECIAL JURY

BOLTON AND RICR.MAN V. ROGERS.

This was an A4lion broueht by the Plaintiffs,
linen.drapers, against the Defendant, one of the
door.keepers at Covent.gatden Theatre, for goods
sold and delivered to his wife, from whom he had
been for some time separated.
Serjeant SHEN-IPA)), in stating the case of the
Plaintiff,- said, though he was not in reality em.
ployed as Counsel for the wife'of the Defendant,
yet the shameful manner in which she, was treated
by her husband, obliged him to declare her wrongs
in open Court, and he had no doubt 'of obtaining a
veriii6t when he should prove why the goods were
got, and that the fifteen 'pounds, which were the
vatue of ahem, were all that had been charged to
the Defendant for necessaries for his wife during
the last three years they had lived separate.
' After the Defendant's marriage was proved, Mr.
Campbell was called, who said, that Mrs. Rogers
lodged in his house, and that he saw Mr. Bolton
leave a parcel of linen and cotton goods at his
house for her : and that, from what he knew of her,
he considered her conduit as meritorious.
On hircross.examination, he said he had, some
time ago, summoned•ivh. Rogers for a small sum
of money, for the purpose of trying the experiment
whether he was liable to'. pay her deb's ; but did
not succeed, not being able, to prove the mirriage.
Mrs. Campbell, wife to the formetwitneas, stat-
ed, that some wearing apparel had been left with
her by Mr. Bolton for Mts. Rogers. She, could
not take upon her to say whether all the articles
mentioned in the bill produced were at the time
wanted by her ; but they were such
.things as a
woman in her line should have, as she could not
earn her bread without -appearing decent, as she
used to go about to-Gentlemen's houses with smell-
ing bottles and trinkets cocci% •
On her Cross;examinatioo, she said,'she could not
take, upon her to say how much the Defendant
earned at the Theatre,. but she had heard that some
people earned a deal of money there.
Serjeant BEST said, he also hail heard that some
people earned a deal of money there ; that he had
heard of an astonishing young Gentleman there
lately, who earned fifty pounds a night ; but that
was not the case with his poor
Mrs. Cuff deposed, that she lived. about three
years go in the; same house with Mrs, Rogers, who
had at that time separated from her husband ; she
remembered that,one Sunday evening the D,..fendant
came, and asked for Mrs. Rogers. She not being at
home, he waited for. her, anti when she came in he
asked Ifer for his property ; she said she had got
none of his ; he then took her muff from tier, and
buttoned it
,under his 'Coat; took her handkerchief
off her neck, and est:piled out her pockets ; and,
after sona-e words had' passed between them, he
struck- her, still asking her for his property, and
she saying. she had .not gut it : she at length got
away from his hold, and- was attempting to get
under the bed, when he threw the candle and candle.
stick: tit hcr, calling her all the vita names that could
possibly be thought of. He then -went sway, and
in a few days came again's. Mrs, Rogers, on-seeing
him, attempted- to make her escape over the yard
wall, bat he seized tier, and brought her into the
imbue, and having' stripped all her clothes
.off,
except her shift, beat her in a most dreitlful maw.
net, and knocked her down: the witness then went
ont to 'get some person to. interfere, and when she
,was coming back she saw Mrs. Rogers running out
011ie house without any thing on her but her shift;
she then saw the Defendant gathering up her clothes,
but could not say whether he-took them away or
not, and never saw any misconduft on the part of Mrs. Rogers : she afterwards heard they lived' to. ,
gether. .
•

John Hardy, saw Mrs. Rogers almost naked in the
meet, anal held his coat over her until she got into
a house, where the Defendant brought her clothe.,
and left them there. •

, .
Sarah .Brown deposed,' that shelves et a work,
house in
,the= neighbourhood of Clerkeowell, then
kept'lty a Mr. M'Kenzie; ,that-thePefendant and
another man brought Mrs, Rogers there in a back.
ney.emich ; 'when she was-on the steps, ihe held by
the rails, and did not wish to go in, but the De.
fendant forced her; she afterwards heard him tell
the* keeper th.a.she wotild be wanting'clean',sheets,
and a tv-(1 to !tersef,. but not to let her have 'them.
Mrs. Itorrs retn,lined there for eight or ten days,
and then site.ittlped her to escape over the garden
plc. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers afterwards lived to.
gether, and she lived with them as servant for Ave
'months, during WhiCh time "Mrs. Rogers kePt the
hnuse entirely by her Own earnings ; he beat her
two or three tune, a .week she has seen him-catch
her by the neck, and hold her until she was black
in the face.

Charles Cobham, Who lived in the chambers un.
.dir the Defendant and. his wife in Lion's-inn, gave
evidence as to the general ill:treatment that Mrs.
Rogers received from her husband ; .and that one
'night', when he interfered, Mr. R. being half
of the window, and a crowd about the door, the
Defendant threatened to' knock mini down: biit 'at
appeared, from bia -crosi.eitaininatiiin, that he and
the Defendant had quarrelled about an satnissioil
ticker to Vatbahali, 'which the 'Witness had as. onei
of the Musicians, and'Which the Defendant; wh
was a duor-keeperthere, charged him with handing
over to another person.

The porter at Lion's Inn gave his testimony to
the same rffiet.

Mt. Hughes, treasurer to Coient.garden heatre,
said, that.tl►e Defendant's' salary was twit* shillings
a night, and some small perquisite for 'keeping Meat

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