The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-23 00:00:00

screamed es loud as I could all the time I was in
the cab, and he tried to stop my mouth. I begged
the cabman to stay, for God's sake, or I should be
murdered. I did not call him a liar and a cut
throat. When we arrived at the police station he
begged me not to make a charge. The police begged
me to be reconciled. We went home in another cab.
We occupied the same room. I was obliged to do
as he liked. The letter written by, him at Mr.
Prescott's, the banker's, was not written as a con-
dition for the payment of the money. He wrote
voluntarily, and we were then friendly. I never
said to him that I supposed while I had been away
he must have had a nice time of it with his nasty
women. On the 19th March there was an unplea-
sant discussion about the house. He said if he re-
mained the trustees must make him tenant of the
house, in order that he might not be subject to be
turned out by them. He also said I must give a
check for the rent. When I had a dispute with
him it was my habit to ring for the servants. On,
the 19th March I rang for them, and went to the
window and screamed. He thrust me on the sofa.
I trembled before him, and he knows it. I did
not leave the house because when he went away
he had kissed the children and had not given me a
kind look. I left on account of the piece of work
we had had in the morning. I wrote to him from
Mrs. Mackenzie's. Several letters passed, and on
the 27th of March he came to fetch me. The soli-
citor who prepared my settlement was Mr. God-
win. I first consulted him, but after I had been
to Mrs. Mackenzie's I consulted Mr. Barnard, be-
cause Mr. Marchmont had used expressions with
regard to Mr. Godwin and myself which caused me
to determine not to resort to that gentleman. Mr.
Marchmont never apologised for those expressions.
On the 6th of April there was a quarrel about my
will. The effect of what he said was not an inquiry
whether I was aware that I had left a large sum
to my residuary legatees. He complained of my
having only left him £lO,OOO, and said he ought to
have half. I said if he behaved well for six months
I would alter the will. At the end he said some-
thing about destroying my will, and not making
another for six months, and if I died in the mean-
time he would not come in for anything. I offered
to send him up his breakfast in bed, and he de-
clined, but he did not say I had taken away his
appetite. I went away the same day, and was ab-
sent fora week. I took lodgings with Mrs.-Mac-
kenzie. After my return he insisted on my going
with him to his father's farm, at Shandley. We
were there for two days. After a sale at Shandley
he asked me for £lOO, and I gave him part .of it
then and made up the rest the following week. I
did not charge him with having had improper in-
tercourse with other women during my absence. I
had a different opinion of him then, but I think he
is that now. After a certain letter had fallen into
my hands I told the servants to give me all the
letters before they were delivered to him. He
showed me one letter, which purported to be from a
young lady asked him to recommend her as a gover-
ness. He at first offered to let me answer it my-
self, but he would not allow me to answer it after-
wards when I wished. If he had, it would have
relieved my mind. I remember his asking me to
lend him 14s. to pay the coachman, and I reminded
him that he had promised not to ask for more
money until November. I went to the window and
told the servant not to pull down the blind. He
snatched my purse out of my hand and put it into
his pocket. There were either sovereigns or checks
in it. We then drove to a shop in Newgate-street,
where he accused me of having left him seven
times in six months, and of having lived with
another man. On our way to Newgate-street he
had called at a money-order office, and I slipped
out of the carriage and ran away. He saw me
again in the shop in Newgate-street. He told me
to go to the Mansion-house if I had any charge to
make • but I did not know how to act. I went away
from him that day. On the 24th May I returned
home in consequence of what I had heard about the
child. (The witness repeated her denial of having
charged her husband with having had improper in-
tercourse with other women, and continued :—) I
perhaps rode out with him afterwards and made it
up, because I am of too forgiving a temper, and he
knew very well that one kind word would bring
me round. He would not let me see my friends and
relations. I wanted to have a party after my wed-
ding, but he said that if my relations came he
would go out. On the 4th of June he was angry
at my having been to my lawyer. He did not ac-
cuse me of carrying on a course of deception, nor
did I call him a liar. I did not insist upon
his giving up the chapel before I married him, but
I wished him to do so, and' offered to build him
another. He told me I should be " bonneted" if I
went to the chapel, I suppose because I was a
Roman Catholic.

Sir C. Cresswell—Very likely.
Cross-examinaton continued—When he caught
me in the garden, after I had escaped from the
house, he flew upon me like a tiger. When we
were in the house I did not swear at him and say,
66 You muraerod your mother, and now you want
to murder me." I was locked in all day
and became ill. He did not attend upon me. He
slept in the same bed with me that night, but re-
rimmed at as great a distance as he could from me.
He did not sleep with me on the Sunday night. I
lived at Mr. Mitchell's for nearly three months—
that is within a few doors of my own house, where
my husband is living. I did not go to my stster's,
because Mr. Marchmont protested against it before
the magistrate. He wished me to go to Mr. Mit-
chell's. A friend of mine called on me after visiting
my husband, but I would not hear about a recon-
ciliation.

The cross-examination of Mrs. Marchmont occu-
'Pea the entire day, until the rising of the Court at
five o'clock.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Mr. Baron Martin
and Common Juries.)
TRUSS AND ANOTHER V. SMITH.-FALSE