The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-02 00:00:00

DEVEREAUX V. DEVEREAUX.

This was a suit instituted by Mrs. Devereaux
against her husband for a divorce, on the ground of
adultery, coupled with cruelty. A jury had re-
turned a verdict, finding the issues fully sub-
stantiated.

Their Lordships now pronounced a sentence of
divorce according to the prayer of the wife.

INQUEST ON THE LATE J: CADDY, R.N.,

AT FALMOUTH.

Friday afternoon last, at Selley's Green Bank
Hotel, Falmouth, an inquest was held by E. T.
Carlyon, Esq., Deputy Coroner for the county, con-
cerning the death of the late Jas. Caddy, Esq.,
master, R.N., aged 72, formerly for many years in
command of the Swiftsure packet, whose death was
caused, about half-past six o'clock the previous
evening, by a stab which he received in the house
of Mrs. Bell, at Middle Terrace, Falmouth, from
Mr. Stephen Bamfield Lovell Bell, a native of Fal-
mouth, but who bad been practising as a surgeon
for some years at Weston-super-Mare.
The jury consisted of 17, of whom the following
are the names :—Mr. H. 0. Dunmore, foreman, -aid
Messrs. Jacob Oliver, William Sedley, Henry Raw-
lings, John Studden, P. H. Gutheridge, A. B. Duck-
ham, 11. J. Rusden, Samuel Lawry. John Pope,
Thomas Leuty, Henry Scantlebury, David Evans,
James Harvey, Henry Veale Bailey, William Veale,
and John Trethowan.

Mr. Jenkins, solicitor, of Penrhyn, attended the
inquest on behalf of the friends of the deceased, and
also for the prosecution.
The jury having assembled and been duly sworn,
the Deputy Coroner addressed them, pointing out
the law relating to questions of the kind to be sub-
mitted to them. They then proceeded to view the
body of the deceased, which was lying on a sofa in
the dining-room of Mrs. Bell's house, the body
having been placed there the previous evening by
direction of the surgeon, Mr. F. C. Bullmore. On
their return to the Green Bank Hotel, the Coroner
proceeded to receive evidence. The first witnesses
examined were two sisters of Mr. Stephen Bell,
who had been led into the room by the Rev. W. J.
Coope and the Rev. F. H. Scrivener. The poor
ladies were deeply affected ; and, from this circum-
stance and a natural unwillingness on their part to
inculpate their brother, there was considerable
difficulty in obtaining from them evidence on some
of the main facts of the case. They and their brother
were the only persons who witnessed the cause of
the deceased's death ; their mother—a very infirm
old lady—was at the time of the melancholy occur-
rence upstairs in bed, and wholly unconscious of
the proceedings below ; while the servant—a female
—was at the time absent from the house.

The following was the evidence given :
Charlotte Bell, of Falmouth, spinster, deposed—
About six or seven o'clock last evening, I was in
my house with my sister Mary Ann Bell and my
brother Stephen Bell. My brother was very vio-
lent, and asked for money—he threatened my sister,
and I went for Captain Caddy, the deceased, for
help, to quiet him. I was in the house when de-
ceased arrived. My brother was then in the dining
room with my sister—he was still violent, asking
for money, but we gave him none. Captain Caddy
said lie was acting as a friend, and desired my
brother to leave the house, and he would not. The
deceased then, through our desire, said he would
send for a policeman unless my brother quitted the
house. We all entered into conversation, and then
gent all together into the passage. I then locked
the dining room door and jumped out of the win-
dow, and I next saw the deceased on the ground at
the entrance to the house. My sister was left in
the passage. Captain Caddy had been in the house
about twenty minutes. We had kept two spears
hung up in the passage. I was in the passage with
Captain Caddy and my brother when the deceased
threatened to send for the police. My brother was
violent to myself, my sister, and Captain Caddy—
he threatened to knock my sister down—l did not
see any weapon in my brother's hand.
Mary Ann Bell, of Falmouth, spinster, deposed as
follows :—Yesterday afternoon, about six o'clock, I
was sittin in our dining room with my sister, and my
brother Stephen called unexpectedly. I had not seen
him for twelve months past; he came for some
money. My mother had been accustomed to make
him an allowance, which had been discontinued for
some time. My brother was very violent because we
would not give him money. I went to search for
Captain Caddy, as well as my sister, leaving my
brother in the passage. * When I returned I found
him in conversation with the deceased in the dining
room. Captain Caddy desired him to go out of the
house, and he would not, when Captain Caddy
threatened to send for the policeman • and they
then came into the passage together. I saw my
brother take a spear from the wall, which we had
kept there as an ornament. I next saw Captain
Caddy in the doorway wounded. There were no
servants in the house at the time. When my
brother took the spear I thought he was merely
gong to damage the furniture. I did not see him
strike the deceased with it. Captain Caddy desired
him to be quiet and leave us at once. After the
deceased was wounded, he said he was hurt. My
brother was then in the passage ; deceased was
standing in the porch leaning against the wall, and
he fell there. Captain Caddy was not in a passion.
My mother was upstairs and did not see anything
of the occurrence. Deceased had been in the house
about ten minutes. I saw my brother break the
spear. The spear now produced is the one I saw
in my brother's hand. I saw the blood coming
from deceased whilst he was leaning against the
porch. I went to his assistance, and some of the
blood fell on my dress. I think my sister and my-
self desired Captain Caddy to send for the police-
man ; and I fancy when he went out of the dining
room it was his intention to call a policeman, to
eject my brother from the house. Shortly after-
wards I saw the deceased and my brother together
in the passage. I cannot say what they were
doing. During our discussion my brother threat-
enedh to knock me down. I cannot say where e
was at the time. Our fear of him arose from the
great state of excitement he occasionally got into.
Frederick Charles Bullmore, of Falmouth, sur-
geon, deposed as follows :—Last evening, about a
quarter to seven o'clock, I was called by Mr. Pen_
lerick, to come to Mrs. Bell's house, to see Captain
immediately
and Caddy, the deceased. I went
and found him lying on the pathway outside the
doorway, apparently dead. Constantine Pender,
Sydney Godolphin, and William Westaway,_ were
around him. I tried his pulse and found it had
ceased; neither could I detect any breathing. I
found he was surrounded by a pool of blood, which
on examination, I found issued from his thigh ; a
handkerchief had been tied above the wound, and
assisted in stopping the blood. I directed them to
take deceased into the house, and have him placed
on the sofa. I then went home for a tourniquet.
When Ireturned, I found that they had placed him
on the sofa as I directed. I had his trousers opened
so as to be able to see the wound. I put my finger
on it, had the handkerchief taken off, and his trou-
sers withdrawn. I put on my own tourniquet to
command the circulation of the limb in case reaction
should take place. I gave him brandy and after
taking about a wine-glassful he began to breathe.
I continued the application, and his breathing be-
came more free. I heard the heart beating very
feebly, but the pulse never returned at the wrist. I
persevered in the application of the brandy, but he
never spoke but gradually sank. He died at 10
minutes past eight o'clock last evening. Since
that time, at the Coroner's desire, I have made a

post mortem examination of the body, which is as
follows :—Sixteen hours after death ; about one
inch below the anterior superior spine of the
ilium on the left side I found an abrasion of
the skin above an inch long, which appeared as

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wound and one inch to the- outer side 1
.otherz_Nyound about half an inch in length, re -
which -NI probe could be' passed' obliquelyain- Al•
wards about five niches deep. I then laid open the
wound and found it full of coagulated blood, and
the femoral artery :completely divided. I found
two perfoi aliens in deceased's trousers _Correspond-
ing with the wounds in the body, and I am of opi-
nion that the loss of blood from this:wOund was the
cause of death; -I have examined -the spear nosy
produced, and I am of opinion that the wounds:
must have been inflicted by it, or some such instru-
ment. I see some blood on the point of the spear
which has been recently lodged there. Afterl had
been with Captain Caddy and finding that Mr.
Stephen Bell was still in his mother's house, I
opened the drawing-room door to. see him, as Lhad
known him previously, and because it was the com-
mon report that he had stabbed the deceased. I
said to Mr. Bell I hope
,you will get your de-
serts." He appeared perfectly calm and collected
and replied, " You are not. talking in a 'Christian
spirit, you are addingo, fuel to. the fire." then said,
"You have not acted in a' Christian spitit by taking
a man's life ;" to which hemade no reply. He was
not intoxicated.
William Alex. Ross, a captain in the Bengal
Artillery, at present resident at Falmouth, deposed
as follows :—Between six and seven o'clock last
evening I heard a noise at Mrs. Bell's house, and
I went down and was informed that Capt. Caddy
was killed. I found deceased lying at the foot of the
steps at the doorway in a pool of blood. Mr. Pen-:
der was kneelingoyer him, securing, a handkerchief _
over the leg. Deceased was -breathing hard, but
could. not speak. • I went to call 'a surgeon, but
saw Dr. Bullmore coming up the road. I then.
went into the house, and found a 'person ..walking
up and down the dining-room with a broken spear
at his feet. He appeared to be in 'a Very-excitedi
state.- I picked up the spear; and gave it-to the
superintendent of police. 1 went with the
,con-
stable and Stephen Bell 'into the drawing mein ; he
said, " I am a gone man, and I don't deny that I
did it." I asked him to explain himself, 'and he
said, "After Captain Caddy threatened 'to tall the
police to turn me out of the house, I took hold of
this lance, Captain Caddy sprang upon me, and it
must have occurred in this way,"—or words to that
effect. I told him if the deceased made a statement
before he died that it was accidental, it Would beef
service to him. Mr. Bell replied, "My dear Sir,
it's of no use, he's a gone man." The constable
then searched him, but found 'no weapon ohliim. •
I don't recollect seeing either of the Missies Bell at
the time. I asked Stephen Bell if he had been
drinking, and he said, "Not at all," and he did not
seem intoxicated: •

Henry Brice—l am superintendent of the county
constabulary of the Holston district. About a
qtiarter to seven o'clock last evening, as twas pas-
sing the Green Bank Hotel, I saw several parties
running towards Mrs. -Bell's hous‘e. I went up, and
was informed that a murder had been conanitted,
and went up and saw the deceased lying at the foot
of the steps at the doorway in a pool of blood. I
went into the parlour and saw Stephen Bell walk-
ing up and down the room. He said " It's a bad
job ! it's a bad job !" The body was then brought
into this room, and we removed Stephen Bell into
the other room. Captain Ross went with me.
Leharged Bell with stabbing Captain Caddy,
and he said "I did it, tmy character and practice
are all gone, it is no- use mydenying it." He said
" Captain Caddy threatened to send for a policeman,
and I took the weapon in self-defence." What
Capt. Ross stated is quite correct as to the search--
he gave me the broken spear I now produce ; there
was more blood upon it at that time than there is
now, and it appeared quite fresh.
Joseph Harris—l am sergeant of the county con-
stabulary of the Helston district. Last evening I
took charge of Stephen Bell from the superinten-
dent, and conveyed him to the lock-up. I then
searched him and found on him a letter, a memo-
randum book, an advertisement for the sale of his
goods in Devonshire, and a razor, secured in two
pdcket handkerchiefs, although he told me he had
- nothing on him. Mr. Jacobs came in, and Stephen
Bell spoke to him in my presence, and said, " I
have done for Ciptain Caddy," and he then put his
hands on my shoulder, and began to cry.
Robert Constantine Pender—l am a resident at
Falmouth. Last night I heard. a noise at Mrs.
Bell's house, and shortly after I saw Capt. Caddy
cross over the Terrace from his own house with, I
fancy, Miss Bell. About ten minutes afterwards I
went and opened the window and saw people run-
ning towards Mrs. Bell's house, and I went up and
found Captain Caddy lying on the gravel in front
of the doorway apparently dying—he never spoke.
I met Miss Bell and she said—" My brother has
killed Captain Caddy." Stephen Bell came out 'to

the door several times, and he said " You see what
you have driven me to."
The depositions were fully read over to Mr. Bell,
and he was cautioned by the Coroner that whatever

he might say would be-taken down in writing, and
might be used against him. No professional gen-
tleman attended the inquest on his behalf; but, at
the suggestion of the Rev. W. J. Coope and the
Rev. F. H. Scrivener, he declined making any
statement.

The Deputy Coroner, having summed up the evi-
dence with great clearness, definitely showing the
difference between murder and manslaughter, told
the jury that if they thought the fatal blow was
given whilst Mr. Bell was enraged and smarting
under the paision arising from previous and suffi-
cient provocation, and that there were no other
facts in the case tending to a contrary conclusion,
they would be justified in finding a verdict of man-
slaughter; and that he should now leave the case
in their hands, feeling assured that after the patient
attention they had given to it, they would return
a conscientious and satisfactory verdict.
The jury, after about a quarter of an hour's eon-
siltation, returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder
against Stephen Bamfield Lovell Bell ;" and the
Deputy Coroner issued his warrant for the pri-
soner's committal to the county gaol, for trial at
the next assizes.
The prisoner is about 50 years of age. He passed
through Truro, on Saturday morning, on his way
to Bodmin ; and, of course, was an object of much
interest to persons who witnessed his arrival, and
his removal for a while to the Truro police-station.
The spear referred to in the above evidence is a
most formidable weapon ; the blade is about ten
inches long and 12 inches broad; the handle is of
ebony, and, before broken, was about 10 feet long ;

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the lireakage, which was at half length, was new
and exhibited no appearance of any previous crack,
but merely the ordinary appearance of the break-
age of a close short-grained wood. The spear was
silver-mounted, and was ornamented with: a red
plume. When it was shown to the jury and iden-
tified by Miss Mary Ann Bell, there was blood on
the blade and on the end where broken.
The prisoner, Stephen Bell, was afterwards
charged before T. M. Horsford, Esq., county magis-
trate, with the wilful murder of Captain Caddy.
Mr. Jenkins appeared on behalf of the prosecution,
and Mr. Moorman watched the ease on behalf of
the prisoner. Similar evidence was given before the
magistrate, who committed the prisoner to take his
trial at the next assizes on the charge of wilful
murder; and the various witnesses were bound over
who had charge
to appear and give evidence ; Mr. Superintendent
Brice, of the County Constabulary,
in the Falmouth
of the case, being bound over to prosecute.
Captain Caddy was for some time
Post-office packet service, and commanded the S wift-
ur
buthe eldest daughter of the late
Wm. had no family, and his wife
died
Is
me ..
Lake,
aHkee , married
Esci., t
aboutand two years since. He was
very suddenly
a healthy, vigorous, cheerful man of 72 ; he
took an active
interest in
local affairs, and was sub-
commissioner of
pilots for the port.

1Z OYA L YACHT SQUADRON
INTELLIGENCE.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

COWES, JUNE 30.
ARRIVALS.—June 25. The Dream, yawl, George Ben-
thick, Esq., M.P., from Portsmouth, bound west-30. The
Brilliant, George Holland Ackers, Esq., from Ryde.

SAILED.—June 27. The Petrel, Philip Perceval, Esq.,
for the Channel Isles; the Fancy, Marquis of Drogheda,
for Ireland-25. Eugenie, Richard Frankland, Esq., for
Cork-28. Camilla, F. D. P. Astley, Esq., for the west-
ward.

YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.—The Brilliant,
George Holland Ackers, Esq.—the Beatrice, J. E. W
Rolls, Esq.—the Derwent, Charles Lee, Esq.—the Alarm,
Joseph Weld, Esq.—the Gipsy Queen, Sir Henry B.
Houghton, Bart'— the Isis, H. Conway, Esq.—the
Anaconda, L. Powys, Esq., M.P.—the Haidee, Henry
the —the
Thorold, Esq.—the Caprice, Lieut.-Col. Charles
Stella Baring—
the Sultana, Sir Charles Taylor, Bart
Brunette, Col. S. Smith—and the Aurora.
YACHTS FITTING OUT.—The Zara, Commodore the Right
Hon. the Earl of Bolton—the Cecil!, Marquis of Conyng-
ham—the Fidelio, Charles R. Colville, Esq., m.p.—the
Cymba, Captain R. H. Smith-Barry—the Mareni, Sir A.
Bannerman, Bart.—the Lotus, Earl Vane—the Myrtle,
James Brown,
Esq.—Titania, Robert Stephenson, M.P.
—the Dryad, Earl of Cardigan—the Minstrel, William
Morgan, Esq.—the Enchantress, Sir Thomas Whioheote,
Bart.—the Wizard, William Delafield Esq.—an,d the
Stormilnch, Major-General C. R. Bowers.

A public dinner will be given to Sir S. Morton
Peto, M.P., as a mark of personal respect, and in
celebration of his return for Finsbury at the late, general
election, at the Freemasons' Tavern, on Wednessitiy, the
13th proximo; Mr. Roger Cunliffe will preside.

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Tins E VENING will be presented Shakspeare's historical
play of KING HENRY V.
Bing Henry V., Mr. C. Kean, Chorus, Mrs. C. Kean.
After which, IF THE CAP FI rs.

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After which, THE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS. Messrs. C.
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Followed by ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs.
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THIS EVENING, 'VANDYKE BROWN. Mr. J. Clark,
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ROYAL SURREY THEATRE—This Evening
LOUIS XL Messrs. Hermann Vezin, B. Potter, C.
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Alter which, the new comedy, entitled THE VISCOUNT
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GALLERY. Westminster-road.—Open at Seven.
EVERY EVENING during the week will appear
THE DELEPIERRE FAMILY,
Consisting of three Juvenile Violinists, viz., Jules, Juliette,
and Julia Delepierre, aged, respectively, FOUR, SIX, and
EIGHT years.
The perfect execution by these Lilliputian Artistes of some
Of the most difficult and brilliant Solos, Duets, and Trios eves
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hu
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ent
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They will perform EVERY EVENING, at NINE and
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THE WEATHEIL—Strx OFFICE, JVIN 2.
THEnualworns., IN THE SHADE.
68—highest since noon yesterday.
58--lowest this morning and during the night.
69 this day at noon.

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EtuomETER--30.20.
WIND, Easterly; rather fresh, with fine weather.

The deadly particulars of the great battle of
Solferino gradually ooze out in all their stern
reality. It was indeed a battle very dearly won ;
but if we set the loss of life against the certain
advantages that are now ensuing, and must eventu-
ally ensue, perhaps the immediate sacrifice may
prove a vast gain ultimately ; for in petty skir-
mishes between outposts, and harassing marches
and countermarches, thousands of lives are daily
squandered, without taking into account the never-
ceasing casualties incident to sieges and assaults in
the " imminent deadly breach," whereof little or no
reckoning is ever made. It all goes to swell

" The pomp and circumstance of glorious war I'
_ _

and so passes unheeded, because unknown to kin and
kindred. Indeed it is not considered game to let out
the secrets of the charnel-house in military matters,
as such disasters are considered inevitable in the
daily wear and strife of an army in the field. So
we must take matters as they come, and hope for
better.

Now, we must do the Emperor NAPOLEON the
justice to admit that he tempers victory with a
wise discretion, by not shocking the public sym-
pathy with immediate particulars of a hecatomb of
slain. No; he admits that the battle was sangui-

nary—aye, sanguinary on both sides ; but then he
mercifully withholds the numbers, possibly from
their enormity, and the difficulty of acquiring even
a proximate knowledge of the too sad disaster.
Still, he contrives to alleviate the calamity by ap-
pealing to the national spirit to participate in the
glory of victory. In this consists the true secret
of generalship, and so he enlists the patriotic en-
thusiasm of the people in the triumph which, they
are proud to feel, sheds its lustre even on them.
The graphic account from a correspondent of the
Tines, which we copy, will be found to give a better
description of that long-extended field, and the
many vicissitudes of that mortal day, than any
that have yet appeared. It is written by a corre-
spondent from the Austrian side, but it may be
relied on so far as it goes, for it bears all the grand
similitude of truth. The writer was perched on
a hill-top, from which he could contemplate the
boiling tumult below, extending far and far away,
until vision grew dim in the very chaos of its
indistinctness.
t, By Heaven ! it was a splendid sight to see,
For one who had no friend, no brother there ;
Their rival scarfs of mixed embroidery,
Their various arms that glitter in the air I"

to the Presidency of the Board of Trade, to the
dignity of a Privy Councillor, he has nobly declined
each and all of these radiant temptations. An in-
cident like this is really refreshing in the midst of
the general scramble for place observable in almost
every other direction. Here at any rate is one
brilliant instance of a man who really prefers poli-
tical consistency to social advancement. He has
but to stretch forth his hand to grasp the triple
baubles of power placed within his reach, but like
ROBERT BURNS he prefers beyond all things-
4, The glorious privilege of beingindependent."
Honour to RICHARD COBDEN for his decision! Again
we say it is worthy of him—it is worthy of his high
position—it is worthy of his more than European

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THE SUN.
SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1859.