The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-29 00:00:00

MANSLAUGHTER AT MANCHESTER.

John Cull (24) was charged with having, at Manchester,
on the 28th of February, feloniously killed and slain
George Mayne. It appeared that a quarrel took place
between the deceased and the prisoner in a public-house
in Deanseate, which ended in a fight, during which the
prisoner knocked the deceased down, from the effects of
which he died. The prisoner was found guilty, and sen-
tenced to three months' imprisonment.
The Court rose shortly after six o'clock.

NISI PRIU S COURT.—WEDNESDAY.
(Before Mr. Baron MARTIN.)

In the first case, that of Dogherty v. Barton, which
was a matter of dispute between the landlord and tenant
of the Blackfriars Hotel, in Manchester, a reference was
agreed to.
BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.
RICHARDSON V. DELEMER.—Mr. Monk and Mr.
Wheeler, for the plaintiffs ; and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins
and Mr. Tomlinson, for the defence.
The plaintiff was Miss Katherine Richardson, the niece
of Mr. Ostler, an architect's assistant or clerk of the
works, residing at Manchester; and the defendant a
Frenchman, named Delemer, a mechanist.
Mr. MONK said the plaintiff was the daughter of John
Richardson, who, during his Urethrae, was a non-commis-
sioned officer, a serjeant- major in the Dragoon Guards, who
died when she was very young, leaving her to the care of Mr.
Ostler, who maintained and educated her. She was now
25 years of age ; and the defendant, who had a long string
of names,.Charles Henri Ferdinand Desiri klexis Delemer,
by birth a Frenchman, who had been some time in this
country, was 32 ; and, therefore, there was no discre-
pancy in that respect. In 1846, Mr. Gautier, a professor
of languages, lodged at the house of Mr. Ostler, and
when the defendant, Delemer, came to Manchester, he
brought an introduction to Gautier. He frequently dined
at the h e, and subsequently became an inmate of it
on Mr.' nautier going to France. Thus an intimacy
sprung up between the parties, and Delemer expressed
his desire to marry the plaintiff. Both Mr. and Mrs.
Ostler, in the first instance, objected on account of the
difference in their language and tastes ; and it was ulti-
mately agreed that they should wait at least twelve
months. From that time Delemer became a frequent
visitor at the house, until Mr. Ostler went to Cheadle, a
short distance from Manchester. He used to visit her
every three or four days ; and he (Mr. Monk) would read
a letter which the defendant wrote to her about this pe-
riod, when he was residing at Radcliffe. At this time be
was negotiating with Messrs. Bird, of Radcliffe, for the
sale of a machine connected with calico printing. The
letter, which bore no date, was received in March, 1849 ;
at which time Delemer was received at the house of Mr.
Ostler, as the future husband of his niece; and he should
in justice state, that Mr. Delemer was not then very
familiar with the English language :

" DEAR KETTY,—I have been to Birdcliffe. It is very late ;
but I have promised you to write some words this evening,
and I am glad to have promised it, for indeed, if I had not
some very good reasons to fear in writing, I would, I thinck,
do it so often that it is possible you would be tired of my let-
ters. But if my ignorance of your langued do not permit my
to expri me all my filling for you at last I knwou one word
whic is sufficient. Ketty, I love thee more than I could tell
thee, even if I could speak in my own langued ; every time
I see you, I thinck impossible to love more than I do; and
every time I leave you, I find that I do love you more still.
And how would it not be so? Do you not yourself love my
more every day. Yes, my Ketty, or at last I think so, and
so happy, that 'my heart, some
it is this idea whic mak my
time when I thinck of you, is so full that 1 can scarcely
refrain in my filing. But I must finisch ; my dearest you
have my first thincking this morning ; have my last good
night. I wish I could take from your pretty mouth the kiss I
give to your likeness. Kelty, when shall we have so sweet a
moment as yesterday ! my heart is full of the remembrance ;
and yet what is the remembrance near the reality.
" Good night my love—my only hope. Good night. Sa-
turday I shall be whit thee.
" A. DELEMER.
" Kiss aunt for me, will you ? I hope she is better to-day."
This proved a strong attachment, which would be shown
throughout the evidence, until a circumstance occurred
to which he would presently advert. Mr. Monk pro-
ceeded to relate that about the time of the French revolu-
tion in 1848, the defendant became in very distressed cir-
cumstances, owing, as he stated, to the misfortuneS of
his father; and he made the shabbiness of his appearance
an excuse for not visiting at Mr. Ostler's as usual. After
this, however, Delemer went to live with them for a short
time, and remained about six months, without being
called upon to pay for either board, lodging, or washing.
He left upon being reminded by Mr. Ostler that his visit
had been eomewhat too long, and in the autumn of that