The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-10 00:00:00

EXTRAORDIN.d.RT CASE.

On Tuesday a case which, from the respectability
of the parties concerned, has caused much interest
in the neighbourhood of Windsor and Eton, was
beard at Slough by the following Buckizthrram-
shire magistrates—Col. Vyse, Capt.- W. F.
M
r. W. Pennington, and Mr. Wanklyn. It appeared el
from the lengthened evidence, which occupied the
greater part of the day, that Miss Geraldine Stokes,
of High-street, Eton, an interesting-looking young
woman, daughter of a schoolmistress of the same
place, was delivered of a Foy on the 9th of May last,
and she positively swore that a solicitor named
Turner, of Water-lane, City, was the father ; that
on the 14th of August, 1880, she travelled from
Windsor by the South Western line to Waterloo
station, and that a gentleman who shook hands with
Mr. Madigan, the station-master, as he entered the
carriage with her, was the defendant; that they
soon got into conversation; and that when they
arrived at Vauxhall the other passenger got out
and they were left alone. She told him that she
was going to Hackney, and as he offered to take
her over the Waterloo-bridge in a close cab,
where the omnibus started, she agreed to accom-
pany him. No act of familiarity had taken place,
excepting that he kissed her once, and squeezed her
hand. Just before they reached the bridge he asked
her if she liked scent, and placed his pocket hand-
kerchief to her nose. She became insensible, and
on recovering about two hours afterwards she found
herself in a cab on the Strand side of the bridge
with the same gentleman, who took her to a pastry
cook's shop close by and gave her some brandy and
-avatar, as she felt ill at the time. The gentleman
soon afterwards left her to post a letter, and said he
would return and call an omnibus, but she saw no
more of him. She then proceeded to Shoreditch
church, and thence to her friends, Mr. and Mrs.
r, at Hack
it Was not wry, who formerly lived at Windsor.
n the 17th July last that she could
ascertain the
She then went toalillie-ay_aenldlinrgesidence of Mr. Turner.
chambers, and told him that
the result of her 48
birth of an infant. with him had been the
not the person. shMe r! Turner at once said he was
more of it. then told him he would hear
Emma Woolls, another witness, remembered
travelling to town a the ti
Miss Stokes and the defendenrate mentioned with
At this stage of the proceedingsistthe court were
me
inclined to consider it a case
of x
mistaken identity,
but on her cross-examination defendant'sby
counsel
the complainant admitted thatshehadket com an
with
a gentleman at Camberwell
Whpen she
living with her mother, four years previously, wasand
that he had seduced her, but that she had never
mentioned the circumstance to her mother until
shortly before the birth of this second child.
Mr. Madigan, the station-master, produced his
diary, which showed that thelnd
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in the habit of visiting him at
and that his name was not on the diary after July,
1860.
Mrs. Stokes, the mother of the complainant, spoke
to the day her daughter went to town to visit her
d h
friends, but she admitted that herdaughter had
am:, and that the
been confined about four years ,
child was still living, although the complainant had
distinctly sworn that her mother knew nothing of
the matter until her confinement in May last. This
announcement caused great sensation.
The magistrates immediately stopped the pro-
ceedings, and said that the defendant left the court
with their unanimous belief in his innocence.
Mr. Voules appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr.
Charles Preston for the defendant.

E.S.E.

EXPLANATION.—B. Barometer, corrected and reduced
to 32 deg at mean sea level; each 10 feet of vertical rise
causing about 1-100th of an inch diminution, and each 10
deg above 32 deg causing nearly 3-100ths increase. E.
Exposed thermometer in shade. M. Moistened bulb (for
evaporation and dew-point). D. Direction of wind (true--
not magnetic). F. Force (1 to 12—estimated). C. Cloud
(1 to 9). I. Initials :—b,, blue sky; c., clouds (detached) ;
1., fog. ; h., hail ; 1., lightning ; m., misty (hazy) ; 0.,
overcast (dull) ; r., rain ; s., snow ; t., thunder. A letter
repeated augments—thus, r.r., much rain. S. Sea disturb-
ance (1 to 9).

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English dealers. The fair commenced at 5 o'clock in the
mo/ning, and from that hour till noon the town was much
crowded. On the whole the fair was considered inferior to
that of last year. There was a good demand for carriage
horses, but valuable ones were difficult to obtain.
THE WESTMINSTER MURDER.—A respite during
her Majesty's pleasure was yesterday sent to the gaol of
of Newgate for William Maloney, who was convicted at the
last session of the Central Criminal Court of the murder of
his wife. The sentence of death would have been carried
out on Monday next,