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twice not to inform the plaintiff of Major Barrow's
visits, which she thought was very curious. At ano-
ther time Mrs. Hall desired her to say, if any one
called, even Majoi Barrow, that she was not at
home: the Major came that morning, and notwith-
standing she told him Mrs. Hall was not atkome,
he went up stairs, and, as she supposed, hearing her
voice, said, " This.is the first time I have caught you
in your bedgown." Mrs. Hall did not seem offended
at this observation, and replied, " If you come so
early, you-must take me for better or worse." The
defendant remained there for some time: she did not
observe afterwards any derangement of her dress :
the plaintiff appeared to treat his wife with every
kindness during the time she lived in his service: he
kept a regular house, and the family generally went
to bed about ten o'clock at night.
On her cross-examination, she stated she never saw
the defendant come there at night-time ; his visits
were generally in the day, between eleven and two
o'clock : she could not positively say the Major was
let out of the house when the plaintiff returned so un-
expectedly; she only meant to declare she did not
know what became of him ; she had never known
him come in a clandestine manner, or take any liber-
ties with Mrs. Hall ; it, hOwever, appeared to her
that the defendant was more intimate with Mrs.
Hall than any other Gentleman who came there •
and she formed her belief from the circumstance of
his calling so often in the absence of the plaintiff:
she had heard the plaintiff and his wife did not agree,
but never saw aaything of the kind during her service.
• .John Haverstock resided nearly opposite to Mrs.
Hall's house, and frequently saw the defendant go
there : his visits were so frequent as to excite his at-
tention and curiosity, and more particulaily so, be-
cause he always came after the plaintiff went to his
office, and went away before his return : lie saw the
defendant and Mrs. Hall bOth at the window : Mrs.
H.ill put her head out, and looked up and down the
street : she then put down the blind : they both got
up, and walked away together side by side: in about
a quarter of an hour Mrs. Hall returned, threw up
the blind, and resumed her situation at the window:
he observed her smooth down her dress : be never
knew the plaintiff to ill-treat his wife; he had re-
peated opportunities of seeing them go out together,
and they appeared to be extremely sociable.
On his cross-examination he said that he never
saw the defendant go to the plaintiff 's house at
night; he had not observed any other person call
there except Major Barrow—not even Ladies: the
blinds were not frequently put down in the morning;
the plaintiff sometimes came to see Mrs. Strewe, who

lived in part of his house : Mrs. Anson also lived tin 7
der his roof; but he never recollected Mr. Hall hav-
ing any conversation with her: he knew of no fur-
ther improper conduct than what he had mentioned :
he did not undertake to say that Mrs. Hall's clothes
were tumbled when she rubbed them down : he was
not near enough to ()twelve so minutely : the situa-
tion of his house was about half-house length to the
southward of the plaintiff's, on the opposite side of
the road : he never heard any quarrel between the
plaintiff and his wife, nor did he know of any sepa-
ration having taken place between them.
Samuel Lawrence, a private of the 62d Regiment,
related that he used to work for the plaintiff as gar-
dener, and had seen the defendant there frequently
when the plaintiff was at his office : he could see Mrs.
Hall's bed-room from the garden, and he had re-
marked the blinds of the windows were down wl.en
the defendant called there : but he never (except
once or twice) saw them Own in the middle of the
day when the plaintiff was at home.
Mrs. Ann Strewe deposed that Mrs. Hall had told
her she was "ery comfortable, and intended, by eco-
nomy, to endeavour to extricate the 'plaintiff from
his embarrassments; that she should live happy with
lit' had they but a shilling a day. She was in the
habit of sending her little girl to Mrs. Hall's to in-
quire if she was at home, previous to her going there,
and always learnt that Major Barrow was at the
house, except the evening when the plaintiff came out
of jail; she was present when he came home: Mrs.
Hall, she thought, received him very coolly, never
even asked him to take a chair ; Mr. Hall manifestly
appeared hurt at her conduct; the plaintiff soon af-
terwards
,produced a paper, and said to his wife,
" Here is the paper you would have me sign, but 1
would rather remain in jail than sign it." Mrs. Hall
spoke in a very angry tone to Mr. Hall, and it af-
fected-him' so much that he fainted ; and when the
plaintiff recovered he exclaimed—" My GOD, am I
supported by strangers ?" (The Counsel for the de-
fendant here interrupted this kind of evidence, but
his objections were overruled by the Court, consi-
dering it was proper, inasmuch as it went to shew
an alienation of affection 'towards the plaintiff, since
liis commitment to jail). The witness then went on
to relate, that upon a shell falling from the shelf over
the fire-place when the plaintiff went near it, Mrs.
•Hall ran out of the room, and said he wanted to
murder her; the plaintiff never used any, provoking
language to his wife, and her conduct seemed to, be
the impulse of the moment ; Mrs. Hall went to Mrs.
Cleary s, and at the request of the plaintiff witness
called upon her there, and urged her to come back,
but she said she would not ; Mrs. Hall slept at her
mother's that night, arose early in the morning, went
to Mrs. Woolford's, and 'told her she slept with the
witness in the kitchen. Mrs. Hall went lame that
day, and on her return, declared that what had
passed was merely affectation on the part of the plain-
tiff, who wanted nothing but the defendant to horse-
whip him, Soon after Captain Pilcher came in ; Mrs.
Hall said to him, " Whp sent for you, you impudent
puppy ? 2T want none of your advice." Captain
Metier replied, " I will have nothing to do with the
little woman." When Mrs. Hall came back, the
plaintiff received her kindly, and she said," Hall, I
hope you have got over your capers ;" and he te-
" My dear, I am a child, and you may do with
me as you like;" they had,tea together, and seemed
perfectly reconciied. The witness once saw Majov
Barrow holding up a letter to Mrs. Hall from his
own house, and the day afterwards Mrs. Hall called
upon her andcomplained that the plaintiff had ill-
treated her, and that she was determined to leave her
family ; soon afterwaids Mar Barrow came into
her house also, and finding Mrs. Hall there, said,
" Good GOD ! is a woman to be treated in such a
manner by such a vagabond ?" He then went out,'
and returned with a letter directed for the plaintiff,
and read it to Mrs. Hall ; it was a most abusive one;
it called him a villain, 4se. and threatened to cif him

gp to mince-meat ; after the Major bad read it, Mrs.
Hall said, " Certainly, send it to hina."
On her crosvexamination, she said that she never
knew the defendant to beat plaintiff's house when he
was at home; she never understood there was any
intimacy between the plaintiff and the defendant ;.
Mrs. Hall, she believed, kept no company ; she never
saw any other Gentleman go there but Major Bar-
row; the paper Mr. Hall produced, and which it
appeared Mrs. Hall wanted him to sign, she under-
stood was a teed of separation ; but the witness did
not hear of the contents; she was certain the results
of that evening did not proceed from his refusal to
sign the paper, although she could not say what
was the cause of the difference; Mrs. Hall's affection
for the plaintiffseemed to by alienated on his return
from jail ; witness was unacquainted with the con-
tents of the letter the defendant held up; the distance
from Major Barrow's house to the plaintiff's was
about twice the length of the Court-house; the first
time she beard of the ill-treatment• of the plaintiff,
was after he came out of prison.
Mrs. Anson lived in the plaintiff's family about
ten months ; the defendant made daily visits, and
continued there till nearly the hour of the plaintiff's
return from business ; during the time the plaintiff
was in jail, his visits were frequently in the evening,
generally about eight o'clock; she had known him
to stop till nearly one o'clock in the morning ; the de-
fendant and Mrs. Hall were together during that
time, in the parlour ; -Mrs. Ilall used to call her
when she wanted anything ; she took up, at her re-
quest, some warm water to make punch ; could not
say where the rum came from, but had sometimes
lumen the defendant to bring betties to the house;
Mrs. Hall was in the habit sometimes of drinking
more than she should have done, and she had known
her to be the worse of liquor when the defendant
was there ; she recollected the plaintiff being unwell
the evening be came from the jail ; Mrs. Hall left
the house about a quarter of an hour after he came
borne ; the bed-room was off_ the parlour, and she'
remembered Major Barrow once going into the bed-1
room in the day time, when Mrs. Hall was sick in
bed—she had not been up that morning, and he re-
mained there about an hour; the witness could not
say whether The door was shut or not ; she also knew
that the defendant had given a golden necklace to
Mrs. Hall ; she saw him throw it up to her at the
window, and heard him tell her to wear it for his
sake ; in throwing it tip it fell down, and Mrs. Hall
went out and picked it up. Witness had also a
knowledge of Mrs. Hall's visits to the defendant, dis-
guised in her *dress, in the evening ; Mrs. Hall re-
turned home between ten and eleven o'clock, evi-
dently in liquor; her dress was muddy and dirty,
and her clothes disordered ; she recollected one Sun-
day, when Mr. and Mrs. Hall were going to church,
that Mrs. Hall received a note from the defendant,
and immediately changed her mind, and said she
was unwell : the plaintiff went to church without
her; no sooner, however, was he gone, than Mrs.
Hall went out through the fields past Major M'Colla's
house; Major Barrow then lived near the exercising
ground. Witness could not testify where she went,
but she appeared to go in that direction; she had ob-
served a difference in Mrs. Hall's dress after the de-
fendant had been there ; her tippet was frequently
out of her gown, and she looked as if she had been
pulled about ; she knew also of the ladder being re-
moved, and saw the marks of foot-steps in the snow.
[The witness gave the same account as her husband
did, relative to what Mrs. Hall said about Major
bl,Colla3.—She remembered once going out, when
she left Mrs. .Hall very well ; but on her return was
let into the house by the defendant at the back door,
who told her her mistress was unwell ; the witness
went up stairs, and found Mrs„ Hall wrapped up in
a boat-cloak, and in a state of intoxication. During
the time she lived at the plaintiff's, he seemed an at-
tentive, good, and affectionate husband ; his conduct
in the regulation of his family was most orderly, the
house ies-is shut up at ten o'clock, when they went to
bed ; but during the defendant's visits, whilst the
plaintiff was in the jail, the house was sometimes
kept open till twelve o'clock, and drinking going on.
On her cross-examination she stated that she always
thought the plaintiff and his wife lived happily toge-
ther. Witness recollected seeing Mr. Uniacke once
call there, and of having given him pen and paper
to write a note; but did not remember his acquaint.
ing her of the nature of his visit, or of having had
any conversation with him, except his asking her if
the plaintiff was not in jail, and desiring her to de-
liver the note to Mrs. Hall; she never saw Major
Barrow take any liberties with the plaintiff's wife;
the reason she did not give a full detail of every
thing she knew relative to this affair when she was
before the Magistrate, was, because she was in hopes
Mr. and Mrs. Hall would come together again; wit-
ness lived at Mr. Haverstock's, but never had any
conversation with him about the business, or with
Mr. Hall concerning what she should say ; at the
time Mrs. Hall went out in disguise, it was about
seven o'clock in the evening, and she was sure she
wore a large cloak and fur cap belonging to the
plaintiff; this circumstance was so singular that the
witness went out purposely to watch her, and she
saw her go distinctly into Major Barrow's house -J
Mrs. Hall was in the habit of making patties for the
defendant's children, and her husband used to take
them, accompanied with a note, the contents of which
she was perfectly unacquainted with; the defendant
sometimes used to stop there till late ; and on the
night when Mrs. Hall was wrapped in the boat-cloak
and intoxicated, he did not go away tdi past twelve
o'clock ; at the request of her mistress she took up
some warm water teethe parlour, and Mrs. Hall took
it from her at the door; she had no orders not to come
in; she remembered at one time, when the -defendant
was there, the parlour-door was locked; the witness
was only married yesterday, and at the time of which
she was speaking was far advanced in pregnancy ;
she had never expressed a wish to Mrs. Hall not to
call her into the parlour on account of her delicate
sensation ; witness knew of the defendant bringing
wine to Mrs. Hall's, and of sending a fowl, Which
Mrs. Hall had roasted, and sent to the plaintiff-while
he was in jail; and the witness was desired not to
mention to him who gave it to her; witness could
not be mistaken in believing Mrs. Hall to have been
in a state of intemperance, because she could scarcely
take her clothes off, and she vomited considerably.
From the appearance of the sickness she believed it
to be the effect of drinking rum, because it smelt
strongly of that liquor; on the following morning