The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-01 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY

FURTHER EXTRAORDINARY EVIDENCE.
The investigation was resumed on Wednesday afternoon,
after the usual business of the court had been disposed of.
The anxiety to hear the proceedings was so great, that long
before the first witness was called—about three o'clock—not
only the court itself, but the stairs and passages leading to it
were crowded to excess, and many parties were constrained
to take their departure, being unable to obtain either seats or
standing room, from which the prisoners could be seen or
witnesses heard. Several magistrates were on the bench.
The prisoners were again placed at the bar, and Mr. Gro-
cott proceeded to cross-examine the last witness.
Mrs. Charnley said that when she saw Miss Crellin in a
car in Berry-street, no one was with her but Jones and Mrs.
Clayton. She met Mrs. Rogerson that morning while she
Scotland-road, near the
was in search of Miss Crellin, in
market. She addressed her. She (Mrs. R.) appeared to
shun her. Witness told her that Miss Crellin was missing,
and she said that she would go down and inform her brother.
Witness did not recollect -say?hg anything to her about Miss
Crelland's being desirousto marry Mr. M`Gill, or her desire
to settle her money upon him.—[To questions put by the
Court, said, the conversation she had alluded to was the
conversation that had taken place at Roby. Mr.M`Gill had
proposed that Miss C. should go and settle half the pro-
perty on herselq—She did not recollect saying that it would
be well if Miss C. married. She saw no objection to
M`Gill marrying her at that time, and told him so. She told
Mrs. Rogerson that if she intended to settle the whole of
her property on herself, he was behaving honourably. She
saw Miss Crellin on the Tuesday evening after the m arriage.
She recollected Miss C. saying sbe would go down to Mr.
Sanders and refute all that was said, but did not hear her say
that that statement was made to him in a moment of
irritation. She saw nothing disrespectful in the conduct of
Mr. M`Gill to Miss C. _nothing that showed that he liked
her or otherwise. She thought she might have been more
determined in telling him not to come. She never heard her
speak kindly or affectionately to him : but quite the reverse.
When she and Miss C. spoke of ships, steam-engines, &c., he
seemed displeased. She never saw Miss C. salute or kiss him ;
but she had seen him kiss her, and go down on his knees to
her. She believed he kiss d
e her twice in her presence. Wit-
ness was with the party at Roby on the Sunday, and they
dined, tead, and supped there, at Mr. Hodkinion's who was
present. She saw nothing particular there. She did not
see her put her hands round his neck, and say, " I will have
a husband to protect me," and give him a kiss at the same
time. She had known Miss C. for 14 or 15 years. Her
habits were perfectly sober. She never saw her in an im-
proper state till the day she saw her in a coach with Jones
and Mrs. Clayton.'
By Mr. SNOWBALL.—The conversation alluded to at
which Mc. Gill took offence, was about ship-masters and
smuggling, which displeased him, and he went away. Mc.
Gill was, she believed , a cigar dealer.
On 2ross-examination by Mr. Davenport, witness said she
was not with the parties at St. Paul's Church, but was at
the George and Vulture with them, where they had half a
glass of brandy each. She never, on her oath, mentioned
any thing to her about a ring. She had always heard her
say, Mr. Jones had trepanned her and behaved to her as a
villain.

The Rev. John H. Stafford was then called by Mr. Snow-
ball, and being sworn, said,—l am a clergyman and sur-
rogate. One of the prisoners applied to me for a license—
the prisoner Rogerson. A Mr. Dunlevie, a surgeon, was
with him. This was on the evening of the Ist of .March ;
and no one else was with him at my house. I asked them
which was the party. They said neither of them was the
principal. 1 said it was necessary that one of the parties
should be present, to answer to the affidavit, before the
license was granted. One of them said, could I not fill up
the affidavit to be ready to be sworn to when the party
appeared. 1 filled it up. I cannot particularly say which
gave the dictation, but I think it was Rogerson, who, at the
time, told me he was a brother of the party.
The affidavit was here put in and read. It was in the
usual form, and the names were those of John Orr Mc.
Gill and Mary Crellin.
I was asked if it would be convenient for me to be at the
church on the following morning, to swear the party and
solemnize the marriage. Dunlevie said it was a friend of
his whom they wanted to get married, and he could not
attend. Rogerson represented himself as Mc. Gill's bro-
ther, and I thought at the time his name was Mc. Gill, I
attended at the church on the following morning (the 2nd).
The marriage was not solemnized on that day, nor the affi-
davit completed. After waiting some time, Mr. Rogerson
came in. I asked him if the parties were there. He stated
that his brother had not arrived, and that he was pretty sure
he would not arrive that day. I asked, if he had not seen
him the day before, and arranged with him. He said he had,
but he was pretty sere he would not come that day, and he
would not give me the trouble to wait any longer. I saw a
car at the church gate. Ido not think Rogerson returned
to it. When I came out, I saw Rogerson and another
person—l believe Dunlevie.—speaking to a lady whose back
was turned towards me. She was dressed in a scarlet cloak
or shawl; but I would not know her again. Dunlevie got
into the car, and, I think, he and the lady drove off.
Rogerson called on me last week and asked me if it
would be convenient for me to attend in the church
that morning to marry the parties for whom he had applied
for a license. It was on a Thursday or Wednesday.
He asked me to attend at eleven o'clock, but I said I
could not, as prayers would at that hour be said at the
church. I inquired why the marriage was not solemnised at
the former appointed time. He said there was some disa-
greement about the settlements. He also said the parties in
the meantime had taken a trip to Gretna Green. Nothing
further occurred but the settling of the hour, which was
again appointed for that same day, and I attended at church.
The parties did not arrive, and no marriage took place. I
looked into the coach, and saw only Dunlevie.
Mrs. Catherine George, landlady of'` the George and Vul-
ture;" Houghton-street, was then called. She said—l know
the defendant, Quick. I have known him about 12 months.
I recollect him coming to my house sometime in March, with
some others. The first party that came in was Mrs. Clay-
ton. She came on the 10th of March. She said she wanted
to ask a favour; and I asked her what it was. She said she
was going to bring a lady to our house to meet a Mr. Martin ;
and she afterwards said it was not to meet a Mr. Martin,
but a Mr. M`Gill ; and added, that when she comes you
must tell her that Mr. Martin was here last night, and wouli
be there again to-night. I said what was all this about. She
replied, there is a lady with a great deal of property, and she
went to church with Mr. M`Gill some time ago, and made a
complete fool of him ; she added that he had tried every way
to get to see her, but some one had denied him and his
friends; and as he could not get to see her, they were con-
triving to meet him at that place. While she was there Dr.
Quick came in. He asked Mrs. Clayton whether she had
seen Mrs. Crellin, and she replied that she had been for her,
but would go there again. While he was there she went,
and lie stopped till she came back. When she came back she
said Miss C. was not in, but had left a note for him, and
would be Sore to be down this evening. Quick and Mrs.
Clayton went away together. In the evening, Miss Crellin,
Mrs. Chamley, and Mr. Jones came about half-past five
o'clock. We had a dancing party that night, and Dr. Quick
was up stairs in the dancing-room. I went and told him
that the lady had come. I told him there was a person with
Miss. Crellin who I was sure was a friend of hers. He asked
me to describe the man, and I did so. He said, " Oh, call
bins out ; he is friend of mine ;" and I did call him out, and
they went to the door together. Mr. Quick said lie wanted
to get rid of one of the ladies; and I was to let Mr. Jones