The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-19 00:00:00

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RUSBAND.-IN RE WILLIAM KEMP.

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Mr. Power applied on the part of Anna Maria Kemp
that she might be allowed to exhibit articles of the peace
against her husband, William Kemp, ironmonger, of
'Woodbridge, Suffolk, for cruelty.* The articles stated
that applicant was married about 9 years ago to the
defendant, and that for two years past he had treated
her with great cruelty, frequently during that time he
had laid violent hands upon her, and had threatened to
take away her life. In July and August last, and on
several occasions whilst in bed with him, she had been
awoke by feelings of suffocation. On one occasion she
found one of his hands over her mouth and with the
other he was pressing her nose, to prevent her breath
ing. In 1855 her husband, whilst she was in bed with
him asleep, attempted to strangle her by violently pull
ing the string of her night cap. He threatened also to
smother her and otherwise injure her. Oa the night of
the 26th October last she went to bed with her husband,
and in the course of the night she was awoke from her
sleep by finding that he had violently grasped her arm
with one hand, and with the other he was pressing her
head with great force on her chest, so as to prevent her
breathing, and thus strangle her. She, however, suc-
ceeded in breaking away from him, and took refuge in
tbo servant's room, where she remained awake the
remaining portion of the night. In the
morning, en complaining to him of his coaduot, he
threatened to garotte her. On the 29th October she
informed her parents of her husband'e cruelty; and on
their advice she applied to a magistrate for proteotion
from her husband's violent conduct, and he recom-
mended her to leave him and return and live with her
parents, who resided at Hadleigh, about 17 miles from
Woodbridge. She did so, bat returned to him again
en his promise never again to hurt her. She, however,
had scarcely returned home before he seized her vio-
lently by the arm, and bending her finger so as to
cause her great pain, he tore her wedding ring
from her finger, and had refused to give it her
again. The same night he seat the only female domestic
servant that was in the house away, and she had to re-
main with him alone ; he, however, went out, and did
not return home till near two o'clock is the morning.
Applicant, in the meantime, being afraid to sleep with
him, went and laid down in a room adjoining her hus-
band's bedroom, and on his return she overheard him
talking to himself, as homes in the habit of doing, saying
that he would take her gold watch from her and murder
her. He threatened her several times, and being afraid
of her life, she sat up all that night, She then went
home to her parents,
who agreed to support her if
her husband would contribute 101. a-year to her
support, but he would only give her 2e. 6d. per week.
which being too little she was obliged again to return to
him. On the Ist of November she applied to the same
magistrate as on a previous occasion for his protection
but he refused to entertain her application and bind
her husband over to keep the peace, advising her to
separate from him and return and live with her parents.
Applicant stated her belief that the magistrate had been
improperly influenced by some parties and attributed to
that his declining to call upon her husband to provide
sureties of the peace. She was in daily bodily fear of
her life.

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Lord Campbell—l very much regret the magistrate
referred to did not order, when applied to, the husband
to find sureties of the peace, so as to render it unne•
canary for the applicant to have applied to this court.
We think she is entitled to our protection, and we
grant the application. I don't think the magistrate,
in refusing to call upon the husband to find sureties,
acted from improper motives, but he was certainly
wrong, according to the wife's statement, in refusing
her application.

Mr: Po.wer--Then your lordships order a writ of
attachment to issue.

Lord Campbell—yes.
The writ was accordingly issued.
IMPRISONMENT OF A MAGISTRATE.

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. ROBERT BELLAMY, ESQ.,

MAGISTRATE OP TR! COUNTT OF DURHAM.

In this case, the defendant was tried at the last Dur-
ham assizes, and found guilty of receiving money for
compounding an offence. It appeared that two men
were brought before the defendant, charged with tres-
passing on his land and shooting a rabbit for the sick
wife of one of them. He took away the gun, and in-
sisted they should each pay him one pound, other-
wits he would send them handcuffed to gaol. The poor
men accordingly sent to their friends and succeeded in
obtaining the money, having, however, been kept in
custody in the meantime with handcuffs on. The money
was ultimately paid and the men discharged, and it was
proved on the trial that the defendant appropriated the
money to his own nse, instead of returning it in fines to
the Clerk of the Peace.

Mr. Justice Coleridge, in sentencing the defendant,
commented strongly on his disgraceful conduct, and
sentenced him to pay a fine of 2001. to the Queen, to be
imprisoned 12 months in the Queen's Prison, as a first-
class misdemeanour, and at the end of the time to be
farther imprisoned till the fine was paid.
Lord Campbell said it should be known that that
Court had no power to dismiss the defendant from
the Commission of the Peace. He had no doubt,
however, that the particulars would be laid before the
Lord Chancellor, who would immediately dismiss him
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The Solicitor-General, who appeared on the part of
the Crown, said he believed that bad already been done.
The defendant was then removed in custody.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque.)
nia LONDON AND EASTERN RANIC.--IN RE COLONEL

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WAUGH.

To-day wag appointed for the adjourned examination
of this bankrupt, who was one of the directors of the
London and Eastern Bank, and of Branksea, Ireland,
and was declared bankrupt some time since, during his
absence from England, and has not since returned, it
being alleged that be was suffering severely from
ill-health. _ .

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the court, and the assignees
were anxious to get accounts, but all they got were
unsatisfactory lettere.
Mr. Lowrance put in certificates as to the present state
of the bankrupt's health, and urged that no possible
benefit could accrue to the creditors by resorting to the
extreme powers of the Court by proceeding to outlawry,
and suggested that a further adjournment should take
plane, and that interrogatories should be sent out to the

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