The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1858.

my' own wife. If you had 99 men out of 100 to deal
with they would knock you down." I regret to say
that in leaving the room I called her an aggravat-
ing and a little beast. About half-an-hour
afterwards I heard her say to the servants, " The
tof all this is that he ha, some woman." I
went to the door of the room where they were talk-
ing, and said, " If you talk like that about me in
my absence you deserve to have your tongue pulled
out." She then left the house. I saw her in the
next garden and followed her. She tried to go into
the next house, but the door was shut. I told her
from my own garden to come in. She ran back
screaming. I walked deliberately into the next gar-
den and took her by the hand and asked her to
come home. She said, " I'll see you first."
" Then," I said, " I shall be under the painful ne-
cessity of carrying you," and I carefully lifted her
up and put her over the wall into the arms of the
housemaid. She ran away again, and was stopped
by the painter and Mr. Mansfield, and I took her
into the house. She behaved extravagantly, went
to the window gesticulating, and screamed " Mur-
der !" She said, " You know you murdered your
poor mother, and you want to murder me." I did
not threaten to throw the scissors at her. A letter
was brought to me, and she said it was from one of
my w—s. Tobin said, " Don't talk so, marm ; you
give me the palpitations." She said, "D— you."
I poured out some wine, and offered it to her. She
said, " D— your wine ; I hope it will choke you all."
Sir C. Cresswell—That is an impartial benedic-
tion. (Laughter.)
Witness—That night she complained of illness.
I personally atttended upon her and administered
remedies. We occupied the same bed, and Lewis
slept in the adjoining room. The following day
she took her breakfast from my hands. She would
not take food. I asked her when she was first
taken ill, and afterwards, whether she would have
a doctor, but she said she did not want one.
I also offered to send for her sister or for
a nurse, but she said I need not. When I gave her
some wine she said she would drink part if I would
drink part, and I did so. I told her I thought her ill-
ness was caused by apain in her temper. I went out
for a short time in the evening, and she abused the
servants for not telling her. That night we slept to-
gether. I offered to send for any one whom she
might like to see. On the Sunday night I slept in
an adjoining room. On the Monday morning she
said that my having left her bed proved that I was
tired of her. I denied it, and explained my reason
for sleeping in another room. On that day I offered
to submit all our differences to her trustees, and be
bound by their decision. She said she did not want
them. I asked her if she would have Dr. Mitchell.
She said "No," he was sucha gossip that she should
prefer Dr. Bird. I said I would send for him, but I
put it off till the next morning, as it was late and
he lived at a distance. Mr. Mitchell came the next
day. When Mrs. Davis came to see her sister she
accused me of having married for money. On that
and the following days my wife also accused me of
having married her for money. I had no notice be-
fore being taken before the magistrate. Mr. Mitchell
offered that Mrs. Marchmont should stay at his
house for the night, but I did not understand that
the arrangement was intended to be permanent.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant Pigott—She
was not reluctant, but eager, for the marriage. I
wished her to sign an engagement to marry. I
neither drew nor offered to draw her settlement.
This is my handwriting. (A paper dated the 10th
of July, 1857, was read, signed by the respondent,
and addressed to the petitioner, in which he took
the most solemn oaths not to interfere in any way
with any of her property in the event of her be-
coming his wife.) She had asked me to set down
what I was willing to agree to, in order that she
might give instructions for the settlement. I cannot
remember whether I tore up that paper or not. I
knew that a settlement must be by deed, and I told
her so. I decline to answer the question whether
Mrs. Marchmont behavedunkindly to my children.
She did not always behave kindly to them.
She was mean and ill-tempered to me. I wrote to
her in June that she had been the best of wives to
me, and I had been the worst of husbands to her.
(The letter containing this expression, dated the
17th of June, was read. It was in the same strain

as those already read, described the intense misery
he was suffering, and entreated " his dear little
wife's" pardon, and assured her that his heart burnt
with the purest flame of intense love.) I formerly
belonged to the London Congregational Board of
Ministers. I was expelled from that body in 1850.
It was not on the ground that I attempted to
seduce another man's wife, but on the ground that
I had written two letters which were disapproved
to a married woman. I did not propose an assig-
nation in those letters. I was not charged by Mr.
Stiff, of Sydenham, with attempting to seduce his
wife. We had no quarrel when my wife accused
me of cheatnig her when her change was a shilling
wrong. The first time I noticed that she took too
much sherry was on the 17th of November. She
generally drank sherry and water. I do not accuse
her of actual intoxication. I wrote the letters which
have been read for the purpose of conciliation and
of avoiding the appalling exposure which has come

upon me. -I
wasivillini to lick the dust for that
purpose. I persist in the account I have given
about her refusal to let me have eight postage
stamps. I don't remember taking money from her
box or any other place at Tunbridge-wells. In
May last, during her absence, I took £5 6s. out
of her wedding purse, but I told her of it when she
returned. I never spent a penny of it. I don't
remember a syllable of the contents of my letters,
such was the intense excitement and sorrow under
which they were written. I solemnly declare
I did not eat a crumb or have a wink
of sleep for a week. The only occasion on
which I ever used the word d to my
wife was on the 4th of June, when I called for
ad- aggravating b----. I brought my wife
out of Mr. Wahnisley's house forcibly, but not
with violence.

Sir C. Cresswell—Did you bring her out by the
application of your strength against her will
Witness—l did. She did not make resistance.
I do not know whether I took her out against her
will or not. I infer that she did object to go with
me. She was without bonnet or shawl. In the
cab I did not hold her down. I sat by her side,
and put my arm round her waist.
Mr. Sergeant Pigott—Why did you put your
arm round her waist ?

Witness—Because I was very fond of her.
(Laughter.) She screamed on account of what I
said about the Walmisleyg. She told me on the
road that she had been anxiously watching for me
day after day. She screamed the words " Con-
founded blackguard" and other epithets. My in-
formation as to the contents of the will was derived
partly from my wife herself, partly from rumour
and common conversation, and partly from an an-
onvmous letter. I had no ungenerous motive in
referring to it. With regard to various other
matters upon which he was questioned, the witnesp
adhered to the statements be had made in his ex.
amination in chief.

Before the conclusion of the cross•examination
the Court adjourned.
The trial of the cause will be resumed on Satur-
day, as to-day the learned judge will have to be
present at the sitting of the full court.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—Nov. 25,

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.)
Lewis Lewis, 38, draper, was indicted for felo-
niously omitting. to surrender himself after being
declared a bankrupt, and also for removing and
concealing his books.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, Mr. Metcalfe, and Mr.
F. H. Lewis prosecuted ; and Mr. Giffard defended.
It appeared from the statement of the learned
sergeant and the evidence of the witnesses, that the
prisoner had up to May, 1857, carried on business
in Exmouth-street, Clerkenwell, and about that

time, being unable to meet his engagements, Mr.
Charles John Leaf, of the firm of Leaf, Son, and
Co., to whom he owed £1,200, had an interview
with the prisoner in consequence of his having re-
fused to allow an accountant to inspect his accounts.
This interview took place on the 6th of May, 1857,
and prisoner was then in bed from illness, brought
on from excitement about the state of his affairs.
He then made an appointment with Mr. Leaf,
to meet him the next day at their premises
in the city, when others of prisoner's creditors
would be there to come to some arrangement
with him. He did not attend, and upon the Bth of
May the messenger from the Court of Bankruptcy
was put in possession. Prisoner, upon being asked
about his books, said he had put them into the
hands of Messrs. Lewis, the solicitors, but this

proved to be untrue. The prisoner staid in the
house after the messenger had entered until about
half-past four the next morning, when he left, and
was not heard of until he was in New York, Pro-
ceedings in bankruptcy were then instituted, and
the usual forms gone through, and upon the 18th
of May he was adjudicated a bankrupt by Mr.
Commissioner Fane. Upon an investigation being
made, which in the absence of books, was a most
difficult matter, it was found that he had gone round
to all his creditors and obtained from them bills
and money to a large amount, with which he ab-
sconded to New York. From one person he so
obtained a debt of £500; from another £335 ; to one
of his creditors he gave a receipt in full for £2OO
upon receiving four £25 bills. These bills it was
found out were being paid as they became due to
Mrs. Lewis, and sent to New York ; whereupon the
creditors sent Huggett, the city detective, to New
York in November last. Huggett then. found that
he was living there under the name of Richard