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THE ACOMB HOUSE INQUIRY.

YORK, SATURDAT NIGHT.
Yesterday, after the reporter withdrew, Mr.
Pemberton, the solicit'r on beitalf of Mrs. Turner,
ad dreQsecl the C.ammissioners at considerable length,
laying beforo them a narrative of the cruel treat-
ment which Mrs. Turner had had to endure whilst
an inmate of Aconab House.

Mrs. Turner was then sworn and examined. In
the course of her examination, which extended over
a period of more than four hours, she deposed to
the repeated outrages committed upon her by Mr.
Metcalfe and those under him. The treatment to
which she spoke consisted of bodily torture inflicted
upon her at various times ; confinement in small
dark rooms for as long as 15 hours, during which
she was deuied the offices of nature ; indecent lan-
guage and offensive epithets repeatedly applied to
her by Mr. Metcalfe. Amongst the most pointed
part of her evidence was a declaration that Mr.
Metcalfe was continually in the habit of applying
an offensive and filthy epithet to her. On one oc-
casion particulariy, when Mr. Metcalfe threw her
down and ordered her to undress in his presence,
she refused to do so, upon which he repeatedly
called her foul names. He said she was a-, and
that it was nothing new for her to strip herself
before men, and he would make her undress herself
before him then. She refused to do so, upon which
he said, " Oh, you are a pious - are you 1 If
you were not such a pious, sanctified-, I could
do with you." He ultimately, by force, caused her
to be undressed, and she was in a state of nudity in
his presence. When she was dragged from the
house in Blake-street, in York, by Mr. Metcalfe
and his groom, she was shamefully used by them,
and struck several times.

At the close of Mrs. Turner's examination in
chief, which the commissioners remarked had been
given with great clearness, Mr. Richardson, solici-
tor for Mr. Metcalfe, said he should wish his cross-
examination of Mrs. Turner to be postponed, on
the ground that he had not had time to consider
the course he should take.

Mr. Pemberton resisted the application for a
postponement of the cross-examination as the most
extraordinary hs had ever heard made. He (Mr.
Pemberton) did not wish to cast reflections on any
one, but it must ba perfectly clear to the commis-
sioners that if the cross-examination was postponed,
an opportunity might be afforded of the domestics
in Mr. Metcalfe's establishment, who had witnessed
the treatment of Mrs. Tumor, being tampered
with. . .

Ultimately, the commissioners consented to the
cross-examination being postponed until this morn-
ing, Mr. Pemberton protesting against it.
Mrs. Serginson, the lady with whom Mrs. Turner
lodged in Blake•street, in York, after her escape
from Acomb House, was next examined, and de-
posed to Mr. Metcalfe and his groom breaking open
Mrs. Turner's bedroom door, and to their violent
conduct towards her. _

At 8 o'clock the proceedings were adjourned to
this morning, at 9 o'clock.
This morning, Mrs. Turner presented herself for
cross-examination, but the only question asked her
by Mr. Richardson was if she borrowed any money
in York when she escaped from Acomb House,
when she replied in the affiru3ative.
Mirindah Hill, the attendant on Mrs. Turner
during her stay at Acomb House, was under exa-
mination the greater part of the day. She stoutly
denied Mrs. Turner's statements as to the illegal
ill-treatment, but admitted that Mr. Metcalfe
pushed her down in the bedroom when he desired
her to undress, but be did it gently. The further
investigation RAs adjourned fora week.