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[PPitHIE 4D. ST ED 5D.]

We made preparations for the marriage in Fob.
He holds two farms of about 230 acres. The value
of his sock is about 6/. per acre. He has a farm
at Cosby, for which I bid him 501. an acre. Do you
know the defendant's writing ?
Mr. James—We do not dispute the letter. No-
body could forge the writing or the spelling either.
(Laughter.)
Cosi-examined—l never said that the defendant
was as big a fool as Billy Day. I swear I never
heard it said in my presence. Ido not know whe-
ther my daughter went to see the defendant after
be ha-d written to decline marrying her. My
daughter told me that the defendant's farm was
not mortgaged. I never heard him say that it was.
George, Parsons, farmer and grazier, who had
known the plaintiff's family for 20 years, proved
that the plaintiff and the defendant always acted
towards each other as if they were going to be
married.
Cross-examined—There was every appearance
that they were going to be married theft, two years
back:

Mr. James—How do you mean every appear,
ance 7

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Witness—Well, according to the way, yon know,
as iS generally the-case. (Laughter) They were
very affectionate to each other.
Mr. James—A strong contrast, I. suppose, to
what it is after marriage T
Witness-;--Nci; a strong contrast to what it is
said it is afterwards. (Great laughter.)
Mr_ Sarnia--A re. ynn a. relative of the plaintiff'?
amtneti. r ••
Thonia4leriepOol fkigt*e known
both the plaintiff and defendant for some years. In
1856 I said to Mr. Weston, " When is this little
event to take placce ?" He said, " I'm ready,"
and I said, " Why don't you get it off then 1"
(Laugh'er.) He replied, "That is what I want."'
They seemed to b 3 on jury affectionate terms.
After this action was brought, I met him in
Leicester market. I said, " Mr. Weston, you've
got married r He said, " Yes ; they are going to
play the devil with me now—they have sent a law-
yer's cl•rk 14 miles after me to serve a writ, bur, I
know the law as well as they do, they can't touch
me before the latter end of June or July, and
before that I shall he a'l safe." Since then he has
left Keyhatn, and ha. had a sale.
01os-4-examined—l do not know that a person
had a mortgage on his property, and put in a bill
of sal...

Mrs. Sedg,eley, a widow, who resides at Crow
Lodge, eight or nine miles from Keyham, proved
that the plaintiff and the defendant visited her five
or six times. About 12 months ago the defendant,
asked her to come to the weddinT, as they were
going to be married. They b-haved like lovers
toward-4 one an.stlier. The defendant asked the
plaintiff to go and buy some furniture at a sale, and
sugg,-sted that witness should go with her, but she
declined, and the plaintiff said perhaps her mother
woul,l go.
Cross-exatninel by Mr. James—l was not to be
the bridesmaid. (Laughter.) I am too far
gone in years for t`Jat. I thought it was a vely
long courtship. Itt ChriAni,s, 1856, I got a dre,s
ready for the wedding. I cannot say why it did
not came off. I never heard 11,ss Chamberlain say
why her marriage did not come off in 1856. She
did not complain to me that it did not come off.
Richard Chamb the plaintiff's brother,
prow, d that in 1848 the defendant had invited him
and the plaintiff to tea.
The following letters, written by the defendant
to the plaintiff, were then put in ev:dence :
" Lencesterehirs Gentleman.
0, how his me my tender hart As peaced with fatal dart
Lon; time against it points but find it in vain to strive
love again
If I did but know that you loved me as I love you
Nothing in the world should p,rt us two.
" 0 my dearest Sarah Ann, I often wishing you was 4
or 5 years oiler ; bnt never mind, my dearest of all.
" I remain your most dearest and Efectuate friund.
" I have not subscribved my name, but yours for ever-
more."
(Envelope dated 25th January, 1849 )
"3 Febry., 18;9.
" A Warwickshire Gentleman.
"My dear Sarah Ann, ---I wrote a letter a will ago and
I never received answer and I think I shall come in weak
or two. Oh my dear Sarah Ann I cannot sleep for think
of you. I love you as I love myself. lam D ar Miss
Yours most obedt. and humble servt. I have not rote my
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sincere love. I I
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Whenever rose shall shares tlatiin when time is on the win 3
The rose's red the violetta blue
Carnations sweet and so are you.
" You are one of the prety girls that ever I did but see.
" I love you I cannot but think of you."
Thisclosol the plaintiff's case, which was summed
up by Mr. Maca.nlay.
Mr. James then a,ddre.sed the jury for the de-
fence. He said he could not deny either the court-
ship or the breach of promise, for they were proved
by the letters, and he must say from th .ir tenor
that the defendant was not only an illiterate man,
hut that lie was not of the most acute intellect.
Toey were made up of:a farrago of nonsense mingled
with quotations from Scripture, but they were
ceria'nly not very strong or passionate. The
defendant wrote to the plaintiff, "I love you all
night," spelling "night" will a k—(laughter)—
which reminded him of the lines—

" Man's love may be as clustant and as tract
Although he does spell mother with an 4."
(Great laughter.) Love, which " rules the court,
the camp, the grove," made a serious inroad in the
heart of this guardian of the poar, and had inspired
him to write very ridiculous letters. The first
thing which the young lady had done after the
m +telt was broken off, was herself is instruct an
attorney to commence this action, and to cause
the defendant to be served with a writ. There was
one thing quite clear—and it ought to mitigate
the damages—Uat the defendant coup not have
passed a very agreeable honeymoon, for. if anything
on this earth was calculate,l to destroy the felici.y
of that period of married life, it was a man to b 3
served with a writ two days after his wedding for a
breach of promise of marri iv. (Great laughter.)
He really hoped the jury would take this matter
into their consideration in estimating the damages.
(Laughter.) It would be for the jury to form a fair
estimate of what the plaintiff was entitled to.
They would recollect that the defendant had not
availed himself of the confidence o' this girl to take
advantage of her, and he had taken leave of her in
a letter, embodying the sentiment of the well-
known ballad of " Lard Bateman"—
" And so, old lady, take back your daa4bter,
she's eeitht-r the better nor the worse for me."
Mr. Baron Watson told the jury that this was
in reality an undefended action, The young
woman bad pledged her faith to the defendant
when only fifteen, and had lost the best years of
lvr life. He would warn them again4t being
vindictive, but they should give her substantial
damages.
The jury immediately returned a verdict for the
plaintiff—damages 4001.
Mr. Macaulay applied for immediate execution.
Mr. Baron Watson—l will grant immediate exe-
cution.

Mr. James—lt is the defendant's honeymoon,
my lord.

Mr. Baron Watson—l do nit think he is entitled
to much mercy, Mr. James. It is a very heartless
affair.

POL IC g INTELLIGENCE.-:I1-ay 6.

CLERKEtt,TWELL.—An elderly man, who gave
the name of .George Alfred Brown, aged 57, a boot-
maker, of ic o. 1, Fox-court, St. Andrew's was
charged with unlawfully cutting and wounding
Stephen Perry, sen., and Stephen Perry, the
younger, his son, with intent to do grievous bodily
1i rm.

When the case was called on, Mr. Inspector Al-
leu, of the G division, said the elder Perry was
dying, and that the surgeons considered it neces-
sary that the magistrate should attend at the
Royal Free Hospital, Gray's-inn-road, and tido,
the dying man's deposition. Accordingly, Mi
Tyrwhitt, accompanied by Mr. Alexander, the
second clerk, and Mr. Baylis, the chief (!ish.o r, at-
tended, and the oath being administered, the in-
ju-cd mart stated as follows :
My name is Stephen Perry, and I reside at No.
1, Fox-court, Holborn. That morning about half-
past
five, in the house where I
in the back rt-nzn
lodge, I was on the
first floor. The prisoner lodged
first flo-r, and I occupiedthegfirst ram' of the s•ime
11.,nr. I went to IN?ci
last night,and this morning
when I was dresed I went down stairs for .a tub of
When I got to the first floor lauding the
water.
onerrushed at me.
Dr I do not know what malice
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he owes we' On Friday the woman he was living
withwas turned out of doors by him. She did
some
e washing for me. She asked prisoner fora tub,
and when be gave it her he struck her, and. she
then ran into my room. Since then he has threat-
ened to murder me. As soon as the prisoner ru,hed
at me, Le struck me, and inflicted upon me the
injury under which lam now labouring. I cannot
say what he did it with. Ido not remewb.rwttether
he struck me more than once. [ln add Lion to the
wound on the throat, be had a v. ry v.vere cut on
the right arm.) I ran down stairs into the court

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21;464 alarm. Me prisoner fklowl
of the way down stairs. There was no
room at the time. When I got into
saw a policeman. I was very ill, and
hero.
Prisoner—Hare you been prostituting yourieit
day and night for the last six months with my wife ?
—Witness—Nc ; certainly not.
Prisoner—Was she not sleeping with you in your
room last night ?—Witne.ss—No.
Prisoner—When did she sleep with you ?—iWit-
ness--Never in her life.
The prisoner here said that the woman -was in
Stephen Perry's room all last night.
Stephen Perry, the son, said—l am 13 years of
age next birth-day, and reside with my father
at No. 1, Fox-court, Gray's-inn-read. This morn-
ing, at a little after five, my father had come to
the first fLor lauding with a tub of water when the
prisoner rushed out of his room. I was in bed at
the time. I heard my father scream out and the pri-
soner swore at him. .1 then got up, and was sitting
in a chair screaming when the prisoner rushed in
and stabbed me in the finger and thigh. - did it
with a black-h.indled knife like the one now pro-
duced, and which he b ought from his own roam.
When he cut me he did not say anything to me.
After this the prisoner went and pulled the bed-
clothes from off the oth-r four children and was
going to do samething to them, when I struck him
with the tongs and then opened the window and
called out, "Murder." A policeman then 'carnet up,
and I was taken to the hospital where I had my
thigh sewed up.
The prisoner here, in a very loud and excited
manner, said, "I never touched him with the
knife. He had the knife in his hands as well as the
tongs. I never touched the child or the children.
The woman Wilkie was in the roam when I went
in. I have been working for the last six months
to keep that fellow's family."
Mr. Tyrwhi t—Was there any woman in the
room

Witness—No. The woman Wilkie came last
night about eight o'clock for the washing, and
stoppea about, Lco.‘. whan II ha went away,
and she did not come b:!ck again that night.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Has she been living in the same
room as your fathur ?
Witness—Ne, sir.
Tile prisoner—Will you have the audacity to
swear that she was not in the room this morning ?
Wituess—Ycs, she was not there.
After the evidence of the policeman had been
taken,
Mr. Tyrwhitt told the priioner. after the usual
caution, that he might say anything he please I in
answer to the charge, bat at the same time advised
him that he had better, in the absence of any legal
adviser, refrain from doing so.
The prisoner said he should like the woman
Wilkie called. She was a bad person, and although
he had worked for h rshe would go with the other
man. When he was at the hospital he stw her
watiteg to see Perry in the ward. She had kept
that man's family for some time with his (the pri-
soner's) money.
Mrs. Wilkie was then called, and said she bad
been living with the prisoner as his wife for about
18 mooths. Since he had turned her out, she had
Aeiee washing for Perry and his sister. Witness
was there last night, but dil not stop.
Prisener in a vehement manner—Why, I saw
you there ;his morning, after the act was done. I
;Ain not jealous without a cause. Have you not
been improp rly intimate with Perry
Witness—Certainly not.
Mr. Tyrehitt said he could not see what good
the prisoner had dine by calling the last witness ;
and if he had taken his advice, ho would not have
done so. It was his duty t) remand the prisoner
fur a few d Sys on the charge of attempted murder,
to sea how the injured man progressed.
This prisoner, who seemed to work himself into
a passion, wa,s then removed.

Upon inquiry at the hospital, it was stated th4t
Peery was still in a precarious state. By ttiis
event five children were left without any one to
look aft,.r them, and by the advice of the magis-
tratL: S..rgeant Weston, of the A division, took
them to the workhous-, with the exception of the
eldest girl, whom the rector of St. Andrew.'s.ut once
k:ndly took into the Na icrial Seiools in Hatton-
g,rden.

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