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he had given her the .---+' difleMperi, tat that
the would have been well enough, if the bad bad
patience to take medicine enough... He. laid his
anger was for her having reported that to the:fad:oFr
PITTMAN O. LORSON. and all beer the neighbourhood. I did not hat.
Mr. Gaitaciw.—This aftion is brought to recover thing improper from the woman at all; I
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between so'. and 601. upon the fubjeft which I shall to fume of the &ft people in London that lam tieing
Rate to you. The Plaintiff is a tingle lady, and Rif - in a creditable manner. There is not the ICA fowls-
ter to a perfon who has the great misfortune to be the dation for fuppofing that there Ladies conch:Red
wife of the Defendant in this caufe. We were all of themfelves in an indelicate manner; if they had they
us, in the courfe of yelterday, very much affefled by &add never have been fuffeted to mime with my .
a fcene that was exhibited, and his Lordfhip was par- wife. I made an application' to the Defendant for
Ocularly fo ; and he, with great humanity and kind- the clothes of his wife ; I told him they tbould each
nets to a perfon who (offered apparently from tome of them give and take a little towards each other, for
violence, inquired into the cattle of it, whether any I wanted them to come together again. He faid, it
injury had been offered to the perfon whole Ridden was a very comical bufinefs ; he did not know what .
exclamation alarmed us all at once in Court ? to make of it. He Paid, he code/not roams her had las
Mr. Gaaaow laid, that the tnmalt Oft noticed, 'the terror the war Wore ; bat brfire would cow had, ad
stole from a pato:Tim of delimit into which Mrs. he the fervant of the lemma, fhe might come 67;110 tile
Robfon was thrown, on obferving her late female do- may palsy that came to her, jbould come Aro the los
meßic arm-in-arm with her hulband, the prefent de- inures bands. After I had preffed Dim, as confider-
fendant. This aftion is brought to recover, as I told ed it to be my duty, to take his wife back, 1 did ath ,
you, about 601. but lam afraid I (hall not be able t i that flue might go back in that way. He was tIt0••• ,
make out the plaintiff's claim, to your fatistallion, for roughly againft her corning back as a wife.
more than about aol.; it is for the hoard and lodg- Dorothy Paine and Mary Earl proved, that the
ing of the Defendant's wife. By the law of this land, plaintiff and her finer, the defendant's wife, conduaed
as indeed reafon and jultice would require, if a hut- themlclves with; propriety, having lived with them
band turn his wife nut of doors, and cans her upon for tome time.
the world, by making it impoilible, from his own It appeared that the defendant's wife had been
milcondud, that the Ibould continue with him, he is !imported by her fitter, at her lodgings, for forty-
bound to pay for all the provition and maintenance (even weeks, and two days..
the may receive from any humane perfon who may Mr. ~.raseirre addreffed the Jury on the part of
take her under protation. The unhappy womana the delenelant, and laid, he was inftrufted to Rate
who is the wife of the Plaintiff, was of the age of th.t the cafe had been grofsly mifreprefented by the
twenty-feven when he married her; the was an hand- witnelfe; on the part of the plaintiff. that intlead of
tome, accomplithed, well educated perfon, and had its being a misfortune to the wife it was a misfortune
a right to expel to be treated with tendernels and for the bulband shit this marriage took area ; that
affeetion ; inllead of which the was treated with the he was furrotinded by this family to his ruin; that
molt infamous and fcandalons brutality. Tilts on- his wife bad teveral times eloped, and &pc away for .
fortunate perfon, foon after her marriage, found her f.veial nights in places that were improper,. and
health materially injured by the theanijoeiee of he; wile' e the contraftei a complaint which the domino-
bulb ind. She communicated her liteation from vii nicated to him, and not he to her; that his income
cattle to the defendant, who told her he w"obl now intlead of being a thoufand a year, was only
procure her medical aid, and he inreeated the would half guinea a v'etk ; and it this cafe was proved,
not impart her condition to her mother. She patiently the defendant would are entitled to a verdita.
complied with his withes; but rme of her lets ants, Matilda &midge amseated dreffed in white mail
perceiving the was hastening to her grave Isom lin, and with a ;all of fine French glove,, dtc.—•
the effett• of &reale, gave the melancholy relation to Being ('worn, the fail--I was fervent of Mr. and
the parent. On this account alone the afflailed wo- Mrs. Robfn.
man was turned tart of doors. Lord Ectraananuoa—This is the farvant of a
Richard Pittman (wore as follows : lam the bro. perfon who gets s nly half a guinea a week.
ther of Mifs Sarah Pitman and of Mrs. Robfon. The witnefs proceeded—l was hired by Mrs. Rob-
She lives now at No. 8, Charlesdlrect, Wcilmintler. fon, but I was recommended by her fi knits, rind alfo
Mr. Robfon and my filler have been married two by Mifs Pittman (the Plaintiff). I went to live with
years, I believe, laff March. I know of het:leaving them on the 23d of September, in the year before fius
her Ironic in confequence of brutal treatment, from left the houfe. They had no children ; fometimes
what 1 have realon to believe. She left him on the they lived very well together; only when their friends
Tuefiay, in Whitfun week, 1803. She went to my would not let them alone. I include in that number
filler Sarah's houfe; I went with her and my tiller Mifs Sarah Pittman, the Plaintiff: She was always
Sarah to (peak to him. I gave her a letter to him coming backwards and forwardsj and my matter did '
&ft, but not having an anfwer to it, I went with not approve of their comingbackwards and forwards.
her to him on the 31 II of May, 1803. I law Mr. I cannot fay why my miltrefs at fish left the houfe.
Robfon : be lived at Wellmoreland.row, Walworth. Three weeks or a fortnight before the ,9th of May. I
I told him that I came home with his wife, who had remember Mifs Pittman taking her away. She de.
been afraid to Ray in his houfe, in confer:pence of a fired her to go and fee her brother. Mr. Robfon was
letter I had written to him. I have no doubt Mr: not at home then. I cannot fay where the went to.
Robfon has that letter by him. She went to fee her brother and fitter, and a weawas
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The letter was not produced, and as the Plain-
that is kept by her brother. She was abfent all the
tiff's Attorney had not given notice to produce it, day, She flept away two nights. She was With ISA
nothing more could be laid of it.] Pittman. She nfed to jump at and fight my Wafter,
He would not agree to her entrance. He poll• and ctiapieces out of his face. He behaved very well
tively laid fo ;he threw up the fafh of the window, to her as far as 1 fan. Mils Sarah Pittman Paid the
as we Rood in the garden before the houfe, and he could have a very good livelihood of it. She laid he
fired a gun at me, a; a trofpaffer, as I was handing did not (late how that livelihood was to be earned.
in the garden before his houfe ; I went away in a Crofs-examined by Mr. Gaititow —Q._ Matilda,
few minutes afterwards, and my filler went with me, you certainly mull have had a hard time of it, child,
to the houfe of a Mr. Prellon, a Gentleman who lived in your place f—A. Never you mind that.
almoll oppolite, where we Raid while the had Come Mr. GARROW--POll off your bonnet.—A.'l will
little refrethment ; I went home to my fitter Sarah not pull off my bonnet.
Pittman's, the Plaintiff's apartments; the hod main- Lord r ...t.LINSCROUGN—I (hall not order her tO
tained my filler, Mrs. Robfon, ever fence that time. pull off her bonnet, if the anfwers In as to be dif.
I think my filler ought to have not leis than a pound tiraffly heard, and Rand that the may be teen.
a-week for the maintenance of Mrs. Robfon ; but, ac- Mr. Gastow—Stand forward, that the Jury may
cording to the Defendant'. cif-cum:lances, as they fee you. •
have been reprefented tome, I have reaf ot to believe Q.:.. You tiled to fee your millrefs fly at your maf.
he can afford much more ; for at the time he married ter to tear pieces out of his face, I think you Laid t•-•••
my fitter, I heard fo from liirofelf—" There he is : A. Yes ~ the did.
I have pleafure in Ipeaking in his pretence." Mr. GARROW—I wonder be has fo much fate left.
Lord ELLIIINBOROUGH.-4. Yon may have virtuous He has rather more than any other man in Coon, I
caufe for your anger for aught we know, brit you are thilik.
now in a Court of Jullice to give your evidence tem- , Q.,. Are you a fervent of all-work, child?—A. I
and a 1`,.;,1 of all work, and a very good place I have.
petately, and not in a theatre ufed for the explonon '
of human pafiloto." Q.... Had you fared much money before you wait
The Witncf. proceeded.—" The Defendant tad to Cas place ?—.ll. me a civil quetlinn.
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me his butinefs was very Loge ; that he had not Are thefe the cloatlis you ufually do your
lets than 2caraco quarters ell gram by him—he i.. aws r,e in I—A. They are the cloaths I work in Come
warehotifeman for Coro.faators—l have heard him .„,:n„,, „hen I
put them on.
reprefenr, before the marriage, that his butitiels could (...)„, Do you alaa)s wear French gloves, child?—
nut produce lets than ionfand a-year." .
A. 1 always wear french gloves when I can get
Mr. ERSKINt. In coaratitip a man will fay any . them.
Q.„ I low many beds do you make up now?—A.
thing.
Just the fame number as I do now.
Witnefs. I have not had an opportunity fince of .
obferving what Iris bulinels ha. been. t 0. And arc there as many ufed?—A. Afk me a
James Lane—l live at No., 2, ‘V,..:,:)eTAIC2t, C:tt: toreilion and I a.:l give you a civil anfwer.
Blackfriar's Road—l am a :harried niao, and have , Q.:What part of the houfe does your matter limp
two children living with no ; I k:.nw the I'l dorsi'', in —A. He (leers nn tire Ertl floor.
Sarah Pittman ; 1 remember her comic a
.11 ,rne. rrild • Q..lad volt in the garret I—A. Always.
bringing with her her lister, Mors. R.,11/1. Ile at hvc I (1. V•u alv.arys fleep in the garret?—A. Yes.
o'clock in the atter' ))))) n, on the 3i ii esi May. Mff Do you mean to fwear that ? Do you means I (:',:
to twear that you always Ceep in the garret of your
Pittman at that time, and tome time belote, lodged in
my houfe, two months I believe. Mrs. Roletim !mallet's honk ?—I deep in the houfc.
continued with the Plaintiff, her tiller, to the 2 7111 of ' Q... What part of die houfe do you fleep"in, epos
Augull, to the bell of my kcouledge. She was en- your oath ?
tertained and maintained by her furies tegularly drir. A few kennels elapfed.—No anfwer.
ing that time; the was taper:red aoh every thing ne-
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Lord Etta a asatoucu.—She has anfwered the
celfary, according to her litter's means and titration ciii.iti,'n —Her filence anfwer it. I can only fay this-
in lite. I know the Defend rut
(a"Giati,"n r 9 bi"S;"1:ours•I, —I am vet y glad !be did nut give the anfwer that
perhaps have been caperfted, for I had made
I was prefentWll2l4 All apprication was made to Lull 1 ifi;gl,,
mind, it the matter went much ratifier, to have
refpe4ting his wife, the sth of June lea was a twelve- 1 up
my
lent leer to Ness gate if the parties would under Ake to
month. The Defendant tent t. r an wile, and the was
prnfecate her fur perjury. Gentlemen et the JUT,' it
not at home. She came ire lice minutes with her filler.
,appears that the Defendant's wife was dr ;yen s art of
I told her of tire mefiage. ar.d the desired me to go
Tins . her litilt rnd's h .4e—tire precise manic/a v torn, or
And fee who it was that wanted la (peak to her.
brought me into the company ot the I:eteo a .1. I
how, we do not lee from the evidence ; hut if the be
wanted to pacify men
ass_a wife. I went to the Dc- driven out the mutt be fupparted. 1 lictridaist's
tendant noyfell, anti art his a ife—t Id him his wise coadsiet is :nett barbarous. He f.s s, if be law her
a i'dsed me to tee what hr wanted. He was then .t the treat liinnac would drag her by theloor td ICr head,
Carpenter's Arms. He a tilled to ,have the ma. set 'ri-
fled it he could. I told 1 i,n ,1 he had any thing t.. cs n,_ 'i tsr
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and Lave onlY hie era ugh in het to (ewe fr i, ose 0.
ic cafe i• with you.; and ; 1...yc no doubt yap
municate to his wile 1 U(1,1.; 0.1 it. the fAjo. I j,, n t
n t a fun • 11111 tuft c: 11:.
know what to conoatinic o 2 to '- 'al. a 1" I; ' l':'.
/am quit mad 7/.1:i; is ,
her by ibt hair of he,
alive, 1. fine niy WWI
p tfli M refpc •s .g
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