The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-17 00:00:00

DIVORCE COURT.
,Before the Judge Ordinary Baron Bramwell, and Justice

Williams.)

M‘KECIINIE V. MIKECIINIE AND MENZIES.

This was a suit instituted by John M'Kechnie, a copper-
smith, for a dissolution of his marriage with the respondent.
No appearance was entered.

Mr. Macqueen appeared for the petitioner. He said the
petitioner was married to the respondent in Scotland, in the
year 1832. In January, 1854, he removed to Birkenhead,
where he procured employment in an ironwork factory, and
resided in a row of buildings called Dock-cottages, which
were built to accommodate about 300 labourers. Some time
after the removal from Scotland, the co-respondent, who
was a young man about 16 years of age, went to Birken-
head, and called on the petitioner, who had known him
when he was residing in Perth. Ho appeared to be in great
distrese,petitionerobtained him employment. Until the year
1857 the respondent, who had given birth to five children,
conducted herself with great propriety; but she then ac-
quired habits of intemperance, and became extremely
violent in her conduct, and in the January of 1858 he was
obliged to leave her, but at the solicitation of one of the
children he returned. From some information which he
had received he was induced to suspect that she had been
guilty of adultery, which she subsequently admitted,
stating that the youngest child was Menzies'. She ulti-
mately went away with tho co-respondent, and had not
returned to the petitioner.

Evidence was adduced in confirmation of the preceding
statement, and the court decreed the dissolution of the

marriage.

HASWELL V. HASWELL AND SANDERSON.

Dr. Phillimore in this case applied fora decree dissolving
the marriage of the petitioner and the respondent. The
petitioner was the son of a gentleman residing in the city,
and in 1852 he married a lady named Mary Jane Black-
wood Gilbert, who r esided in a kind of tavern in Eastcheap.
The marriage was a clandestine one, and the difficulty was that
there was no matrimonial domicile. The two parties, it ap-
peared, had been in the habit of secretly meeting after the
marriage; but during the absence of the petitioner, who was
an artist, in Scotland, his father found out his son's mar-
riage. The wife aftewards formed a connection with a per-
son of the name of Sanderson, with whom she was now
living in open adultery.
The father of the petitioner, Mr. David Haswell, was
called, and proved the marriage of his son with the respon-
dent, Miss Mary Jane Blackwood Gilbert, at the registrar's
office, in Bethnal-green. He became acquainted of his
son's marriage by accident, by the discovery of a letter
signed "Mary Jane IL," at his son's chambers, in Lyon's-
inn. He sent to the residence mentioned in the letter for
the writer; the lady came, and said she was tho wife of his
son. Sho afterwaida visited his (witness's) residence, as
she had a general invitation, but altogether she did not
eome more than three or four times. Her absence caused
souse surprise. lie afterwards saw the respondent at
a house in Alpha-road; Now-cross. Knocking at the
door, it was opened by Mr. Sanderson, who in answer to
questions informed him Mrs. Sanderson was not yet up.
On the respondent coming down stairs witness asked her AI
she was married to Mr. Sanderson, and she said that she
was.

By the Judge—He could not say where his son was living
in 1852. He left home when he was 18 or 19 to follow his
profession as an artist.

Agnes Haswell, sister of the petitioner, said she had a
slight knowledge of the respondent before her marriage.
Her brother used to ♦isit the beershop in Eastcheap with
other men, and ho was told by different members of his
family that the connection he was forming was not a good
one, as the young woman was seen walking with other
gentlemen. •

Jane Cooper said sh• was in the service of Mr. Sander-
son, sen., in 1852, and during that year eho had frequently
seen the respondent walking with different gentlemen.

Harriett Bayley, first cousin of the respondent, said, in
1852 she was visiting her aunt, at No. 11, Eastcheap. She
recollected Mr. Haswell coming to the house. She recol-
lected a person of the name of Sanderson also used to come.
Miss Gilbert told me of her marriage, as we slept together.
She used to get up and let Mr. Haswell in. She did so
three or four times. During ono of the times I was on a
visit I saw a gentleman kiss her. She always appeared
flirty.
James Bayley, the husband of the last witness, said he
knew the petitioner and respondent. Mrs; Haswell told
him her husband had left her because he had caught hor
withillelmes.
The la :y of the house in Alpha-row said the person whose
name she now knew as Haswell resided for 12 months in hor
house with a Mr. Sanderson, as his wife.
The. Court had not given its decision when wo went to
press.