The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-18 00:00:00

her on Wednesday last to Blackfriars-bridge, to
receive from Nicholson some property which
he had detained of mine, and which he proposed
giving up. I had my child with me, and Nichol-
son invited us into a pubic-house in Water-lane,
Blackfriars, as he wanted, he said, to speak to me
alone. When we got inside, be told Tuler to take
the child and buy it a soft cake; but I objecteu ts,
his being taken out, and nothing more was said
about it at the time. Nicholson then engaged my
attention in conversation, and when I turned round
shortly after, I found my child and Tuler were both
gone, but the latter had left his hat and stick be-
hind him. I went out at once to seek for them,
but could find no tract) of either Tuler or the child.
Nicholson said, " Now I have done you at last : he
will be 100 miles away before night." I did not
see my child again until yesterday evening, about
eight o'clock, when he vas brought home by Tuler.
He only brought him neax the house, and a stranger
brought him home to the door.
Cross-examined by Mr. Beard—l have been living
apart from my husband for the last two years, be-
cause we could not agree ; and during that period
I have had the child with me, and my husband al-
lowed me a separate maintenance until I went to
live with Nicholson. I had means of my own.
Nicholson did not buy me everything I had to wear.
He did not buy me jewellery. I have two small
brooches which he gave me. The child was with
me the whole of the time I was living with Nichol-
son as his wife, and he supported us both until I
left him, when I took the child to my husband's
mother. When I left Romford I came to London
on business. I came to receive some money, £l6O,
which I became entitled to under the will of an
aunt of mine, who died about nine months previous.
I had seen my husband twice before returnirg to
him, and after getting the money. I went home
with him voluntarily, not wishing to return
to Nicholson. I had the sole control over
the money, and have it still. My husband knew I
was entitled to the £l6O, and that I was going to
receive it before returning to him. He had been
trying to find me for months. Nicholson was not
particularly partial or unkind to the child. He
was more partial to the mother, without doubt.
Since I have been home I have written to Nichol-
son, begging that he would keep away from me,
as I do not wish to have anything more to do with
him. I suppose my husband was living with whom
he thought proper in my absence. Ido not know
who he lived with.

Charles Baker, a detective officer, said—l received
a warrant for the apprehension of the prisoners
yesterday afternoon, and immediately proceeded to
a publichouse called the Calthorpe Arms, in the
Gray's-inn-road, and I had not been there very long
when Nicholson came in. I followed him into the
passage leading to the back of the house, and ad-
dressed him by his name. He said his name was
Wilkinson, not Nicholson, but I told him I should
take him into custody on the charge of child steal-
ing, believing him to be the party named in the
warrant. He said he knew nothing about it, but
he afterwards said he wished the case to be settled
before Mr. Waterman, and he would make all things
right. On the way to the police-station he said he
would have Mrs. Waterman if it was five years to
come. I then went down to Battersea, and I saw
the prisoner Tuler near the bridge, but as soon as
he saw me he was about to make a start for it, when
I sprang forward and secured him. I told him the
charge, and at the station he said he would tell the
truth and all about it. He said he certainly did
take the child away, and left it with Nicholson's
mother, but he took it back the next day. He said
he took the child at Nicholson's request. The child
was stolen on Wednesday afternoon, about 4 o'clock.
I apprehended Nicholson at 5 o'clock on Thursday
afternoon, and within a quarter of an hour after-
wards Tuler became acquainted with the fact, and
at 8 o'clock the same evening I found him at Bat-
tersea, the child having been returned about half
an hour previously.
Mr. Lewis upon this evidence asked for a remand.
Mr. Beard trusted, after the disgraceful expose
which had taken place, that the Court would hot
allow such a case to proceed any farther. If, how-
ever, the worthy aldermen thought it a case for re-
mand, it would be his duty to disclose, on a future
day, facts that would satisfy the Court that this
person prosecuting these parties was not the im-
maculate husband he had been represented, that
his wife had not been seduced from her home by
Nicholson and that consequently lie was not the
inju-ed individual he had been described. He
should prove that while the wife was living with
Nicholson, the husband was also living in adultery
with another woman, and his solicitude for the
welfare of his wife and child did not induce him
to make any inquiry for either of them until he
found that his wife was about to receive £l6O, and
then he could overlook that which few men could for-
give, and receive back his repentant wife,but not until
she had drawn her .£l6O. It was clear, therefore, that
the object on the part of the husband was to obtain
possession of the money, while that of Nicholson
was to obtain possession of the wife ; and however
immoral his conduct might be, it was quite clear
that his motive in taking the child was to induce
the mother to return and live with him as she had
been doing. He was a widower with several small
children, and having a good business at the Wool-
pack Tavern at Romford, he was anxious to obtain
the assistance of Mrs. Waterman in the manage-
ment of it, and the arrangements for that purpose
resulted in their living together as man and wife.
He had some feelings of affection for both the
mother and the child, whom he had supported for
many months, and his only object was, not to
deprive her of the possession of her child, but to
make it the medium for renewing the relation in
which they stood to each other prior to the recon-
ciliation, which would only last as long as the
money lasted, with the husband. He could not for an
instant justify the conduct of the prisoners, but he
thought,under all the circumstances, the Court would
scarcely feel itself justified in even holding them to
bail on such a charge. If the prosecutor had come
into court with clean hands it might have been dif-
ferent, but with the present aspect which the case
had assumed he confidently asked the Court to dis-
charge the accused.
Mr. Lewis said, not only was the charge a very
serious one, but the prisoner Nicholson's conduct
very much aggravated it. He felt bound to inform
the Court that Nicholson had lately been going
about with a loaded pistol in his possession, and
had held it to Mrs. Waterman's head, and
threatened to kill her if she did not return and live
with him.

Sir H. Muggeridge said the case was surrounded
with great peculiarities, but from the facts which
had transpired in the course of the inquiry he could
not help thinking that the restoration of the child
was the result of the warrant and the officer's
promptitude in executing it. That being bis
opinion, he should remand the prisoners until
Thursday next, but he would accept bail for
Nicholson in his own recognisances in £2OO and
two sureties in £lOO each, and half those amounts
for Tuler, who appeared to have been acting under
the instructions of Nicholson.

Bail was not procured before the rising of the
Court, and the prisoners were therefore conveyed
to Newgate.

It is reported that in last term in Oxford out of
180 candidates no loss than 70 were rejected, and that these
had been recommended by the tutors to go in for their
degree.

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