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said the lady had her veil down, but she could swear
that it was Mrs.oll.
Matilda Morse had lived six years in. Sowsey-
lane ; knows the house occupied by Mr. Aubrey ;
he took it in the latter end of October, 1817 ;
,she
saw him at the back ddor of his house a few days
after he had taken it, looking up the lane; be im-
mediately went into the house, and soon after she
saw a lady come quickly down the lane, and go into
Mr. Aubrey's back door. In about half an hour or
an hour, witness saw her come out again. Witness
said this lady (whom she did not know) was dressed
ki a crimson velvet pelisse, a deep black veil, and a
hat or bonnet, with feathers; her figure was very
genteel. Witness saw the same lady two or three
times, within a few days, go into the same house, but
witness only saw Mr. Aubrey once. Witness never
saw a similar dress in Hereford before. Witness,
in answer to the question from the Judge, said, the
direct road would have been more private for a
person coming from Hailstone-hill (the residence
of Mr. Gill),
Two other witnesses (James Balaam and his wifej
spoke to their having seen a lady in a crimson pelisse,
in Bowsey-lane, about the time that Mr. Aubrey .en-
tered to his house, and that she went in at the back
door of Mr. Aubrey's house.
Sarah Cole was servant to Mr. Aubrey in the
latter end a the year 1817. She was employed to
make the fires in the house, previous to the arrival
of the family. The object of her testimony seemed
merely to prove that there was a bed in the room,
which was afterwards used as a drawing-room, and
that Mr. Aubrey was some days at the Hotel before
he came to live at the house.

Ellen Lewis was a most important witness. She
stated, that she lived one year and a half in the ser-
vice of Mrs. Wainwright, in wide Marsh-street, He-
reford : her house was opposite to that oceupied by
Mr. Aubrey : he entered to the house in the year
1817. Witness knows the drawing-room ; one of
Mrs. Wainvrright's upper rooms commands a view.,
into. this room. Witness knows Mrs. Gill; has seen;
her in the street, and has seen her go into Mr. Au-
brey's house many times, perbaps a dozen, at dif-
ferent periods of the day, at ten o'clock, ball-past
tea, and &even o'clock in the morning. There was
seldom any person with her; upon one occasion she
saw Mr. Gill with her; sometimes a female servant
was with her, and sometimes her little ones. Witness
has seen her go frequently alone; the times she went
the latest was when she had somebody with her.
Wi:ness has seen Mrs. Gill both in the lower and
upper room, but more frequently in the latter. Upon
one occasion, she saw Mr. Aubrey lean towards her
to kiss her : she was sitting in a chair, and did, not
move, but witness cannot state positively whether he
did kiss her or not. Witness said, when Mrs. Gill
left the house, Mr. Aubrey attended her to the door,
in a different manner to what he did any other Lady.
Being asked to explain in what this difference con;
sisted, witness said he talked to her at the door, and
it seemed to the witness as if he was speaking to her
concerning the meeting with her again. They ge-
nerally remained some minutes in conversation be-
fore she quitted the houte. Witness then said, that
in January or February, 1818, she saw Mr. Aubrey
and Mrs. Gill in the front room together
Witness described, with great minuteness, what she
had seen, and which she said she distinctly saw from
a window in her mistress's house. Witness repre-
sented this scene as taking place between ten and
eleven o'clock in the morning. Witness never saw
this kind of familiarity more than once. Witness
has known Mrs. Gill leave the house before Mr. Au-
brey has come down to breakfast. Witness stated,
that those mornings when Mrs. Gill visited Mr. Au
brey, be remained at home the whole morning ; at
other times he generally went out between eight and
nine o'clock in the morning.

Witness cross-examined at great' length by Mr.
RAJNE.—Mrs. Gill was in the habit of visiting Mrs.
Aubrey. She (the • witness) was first applied to in,
January, ISIS, by Mr. Gill, who sent Harris down
to her, to desire that she would be upon the watch.
A telescope was provided tir her, which was given •
to her by Harri, but she did not use the telescope
to view the scene which she bad been describing.
After some unimportant questions, as to the situa-
tions
the witness had been in since she quitted Mrs.
Wainwright, she stated, that she was a fortnight at
Worcester, in lodgings, provided for her by Mr. Gill.
She took tea with him at a public-house. After s;ome
hesitation, she admitted that he took hold of her
hand, and that she drank part of a glass of rum and
water with him. Mr. Gill never called upon her
more than three times at her lodgings ; she was wait-
ing there for the commencement of the Assizes. Wit-
ness said it was more than a year after the transac-
tion that she communicated it to Mr. Gill ; her sister
had dissuaded her from doing it. She wished him
to find it out by some other means. Mr. Gill did not
supply her with money ; he did not "pnrchase the
dress the had on. Witness was in private lodgings
at Lancaster, and not with the other witnesses. Her
sister was with her. Mr. Giil has not called every
day to see her ; may have called three or four times.
Mr. Gill appointed to meet the•witness at Worcester.
She had written to him to inform him that she was
going from Gloucester to London, and that it was
to prevent the great expense of bringing her from
town, that he had provided the lodgings for her at
Worcester.

Witness, on her re-examination by Mr. SCARLETT,
said, there was no improper connection existing be
tween herself and Mr. Gill.

Mr. Justice PARK.—Having been employed by.
Mr. Gill to watch, and having seen what you have
stated yourself to have seen, why did you not men-1
tion it to Mr. Gill mach earlier?

Witness replied, that she had been advised by her
sister not to mention it. Harris often asked her if
she had seen anythitsg. Witness told him that she
had seen something, but would not say what ; she
told him the very month in which it occurred that
she had seen something. Witness said she had told
Mr. Gill that she had not seen anything. Witness
stid that Mrs. Aubrey breakfasted in that very room,
'the same morning that that transaction took place.
Witness said she told Harris that something
.partica-
lay had occurred. Witness communicated it to her
sister, never told her plain, but her sister knew what
she meant. Mr. Aubrey keeps four servants.
Catharine Morgan, the sister of the last witness,
is a widow, and lives in Colt-lane, Hereford: her

sister made some tommmicatiOn tp h er respecting
Mr. Aubrey and Mrs. all.
.. Mrs. Wainwright lives at Hereford. Ellen Lewis
was her servant at the time of which she had been
speaking ; her house was immediately opposite to
some part of that occupied by Mr. Aubrey. Witness
has seen Mrs. Gill go into Mr. Aubrey's house ; she
was dressed in a scarlet peliise and a straw hat ;
other ladies in Hereford wore similar dresses. Ellen
)Lewis had lived with her about a year and a half.—
Witness supposed, And if the light was favourable,
it might be posslbleto see into Mr. Aubrey's draw-
ing-room from a window In her house, but she could
not speak from her own observation.
Samdel Harris is the keeper of a turnpike-gate
near Hereford. Mr. Gill came to him and desired
that he would watch Mrs. Gill. Mr. Gill then lived
at Hailstone-hill. Witness stated that he frequently,
saw Mrs. Gill passihrough•his gate, generally alone;
has seen her in different dresses; sometimes she had
a. reddish one, with a black bonnet and feathers : she
had no veil. The question being repeated to him
rather significantly, he corrected his evidence and
said she had a black veil over her face. In the
month of January, 1818, he saw Mrs. Gill and Mr.
Aubrey in a room together. Witness said he saw
Mr. Aubrey go through his gate on foot between
three and four o'clock in the afternoon (Mr. Gill and
the servants were from home). Mr. Aubrey Ana
towards Mr. Gill's cottage, and witness followed at
a distance:• he saw Mr. Aubrey walk twenty yards
past the cottage: he then returned and entered the
gate, and walked into the house. Witness, as soon
as the door was shut, concealed himself in a laurel
bush, from which he could see into a small room :
the window was about eight or ten yards from the
bush. Mrs. Gill and Mr. Aubrey came into the
room soon after. Witness,then proceeded to detail
a scene exactly similar to that described by Ellen
Lewis. Witness having satisfied his curiosity, got
unobserved away.
Witness underwent a very long and severe cross-
examination, in which he equivocated so much, that
the Judge threatened to commit him. Witness stated
that the first time that he communicated this extra-
ordinary circumstance to Mr. Gill, was on the very
day that he was examined by his Attorney, in refer-
ence to- the evidence he was to give on this trial,
which was in the present year. Witness said he never
told any person that he could have any money he
wanted ; nor did he ever tell Williams, the butler,
that there was no more between Mr. Aubrey and Mrs.
Gill, than between Aubrey and his wife ; never told
Williams that he would give him 40 guineas or any
smaller sum for information; never said anything of
that kind. Witness was employed by Mr. Gill to
watch ; he was to follow the.coach to Wresham ; he
went as far as Church Stretton, and then told Jones,
the coachman, that it was of no use going any far-1
Cher, who said he believed it was of no use. Witness
did not offer him money to conceal from his master
that he (the witness) had not been to Wrexham ; but
he offered him half-a-guinea because he understood
that he was short of money; he did not accept it._
Witness did not desire him not to tell his master.
This journey took place after the scene of the laurel-
bush. Witness did not, in September last, tell Mr.
Read that his mistress was innocent. He had a con-
versatien with Read in September, who asked him if
he was the man that apprised Mr. Gill of that cir-
cumstance? and witness said no. Did not say it was
to no purpose to watch, for that Mrs. Gill was as in•
nocent as his wa. Witness stated, he might have
said that Mr. Gill would never find anything out,
Witness being asked how Read knew anything of
that circumstance which he had not then mentioned?
said he understood Read to mean to ask if lie was
the man that first put the suspicion into Mr. Gill's
head ? The question being repeated, if lie dlll not
say that it was of no use to watch, as Mrs. Gill was
innocent, or something to that effect? he stated
several times that he did not say that word, and
equivocated so much, that the Judge again threat-
ened to commit him. He then admitted that he
might have said that. Mr. Gill would never find any-
thing oat. Witness knows Mr. Watkins, the auc-
tioneer; had some talk with him in June, 1818, long
after the laurel-bush affair; that was the time when
a hole was to be bored from an empty house adjoin-
ing Mr. Aubrey's, for the purpose of watching Mrs.
Gill, but it was found impracticable, as the wall was
hollow. Mr. Gill was assisting in this boring scheme.
Mr. Gill knew nothing about the laurel-bush at that
time ; the reason why he did not communicate it to
Mr. Gill was, because he was authorised by his owe
wife not to do it. This was the only reason the
witness could assign for his long silence. Witness
said that Mr. Gill was in disguise in his (the wit-
ness's) house two nights and one day ; he was dis-
guised in a great coat, a red ruff, and a wig. This
was in December, 1818, for the purpose of watching
Mrs. Gill. Mr. Gill saw his wife pass the gate, but
he did not follow her. She was followed by the
witness's wife.

Mr. Justice PARK.—How could you see this poor
Gentleman distressing himself in this manner to ob-
tain information, and ytt remain silent, though you
had seen all about it from the laurel-bush ?

Witness.—My own wife told me not to tell. Wit-
ness has not had much money from Gill ; he may
have had from £8 to £lO to pay expenses.---Some
further questions were asked, respecting a curious
device which Mr. al was supposed to have pro-
posed to ascertain the guilt or innocence of his wife,
but of a nature unfit for the public eye. Witness said
he never told any person that Mr. Gill would give a
thousand pounds to obtain a divorce. Witness, on
his cross-examination, said it was Mr. Gill that pro-
duced an instrument for boring with; and that Mr.
Gill and Mr. Watkins bored through the wall in the
house adjoining to Mr. Aubrey, but they found it
was of no use as the wall was hollow. The boring
was about Christmas in 1818.
Mary Harris is the wife of the last witness. She
was also of the watching party, but shit did hot seem
to have made any d' , as the *thole amount of
ber evidence was, that she d seen-Mrs. Gill go into
Mr. Aubrey's house.
This finished the case on the partof the inarseention.
Mr. RAINS rose to address tho Jeri fOr the
fendant ; but the Jury, after Callibtrigg blgetber a
short tune, said it was anaeassney, as they were
already satisfied.
Mr. SCARLIIITT said, if this was the Opinion of the
Jury, he would be nonsuited.
the *iota was accorikily reistarked, much to