New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-02-06
The Forrest Divorce Case.

The Baltimore Sun contains the following description
of the closing in the great Forrest divorce case
The fact that the jury in the Forrest case wer
prepared to render verdict, the assembling of tn
Court Monday morning the 18th ut created the mos
intense interest in NETWORK and together at al
early hour large of persons The NewYorl
Evening Post thus describes the scenes in and about thu
Courtroom:
Precisely at the hour of ten Judge Oakley resumed hi
seat upon the bench Every vacant place in the
room was already occupied except the jury-box Mrs
Forrest soon entered preceded by Mr. OConor Mr For
resi- was already in his seat In about five minutes Mr.
van htren came in and the court opened The jury
were tncn admitted looking pale and rather depressed
AZ answering to their names the clerk proceeded to ask
neh they were prepared with their verdict The fore
man rose and said they and handed the clerk
sealed package which the latter opened and handed
| the court.
Judge Oakley took the document consisting of several
sneets ana proceeded to his eyes its contents
silence, while the audience the counsel and the more
deepy concerned parties sat fixed in breahess emotion
M FORREST seemed to be composed and showed less in
Ieres than might have been anticipated in the result
fls "ie mo longer Mrs Forrest, but Mrs Sinclair
showed by her face and that her future peace
not her life depended upon the contents Of that paper
wiich the court was silently perusng She almost gaped
Tor breath when it handed back the clerk be
read TO the jury She closed her eyes and grew pale then
rest them upon to steady her and keep her from fantng
When the clerk read The first question and she
again closed her eyes and lifted her head silently
giving thanks and presently recovered herself sufficiently
TO listen to the rest Of the proceedings with composure
I'VE omit the details of the verdict, have already
published the main facts that Mrs Forrest was adjudged
innocent and allowed $4,000 alimony1
When the clerk read the answer which exonerated
Mrs Forrest from the guilt with which she had been
charged, there loud applause among portion of the
audience and yet louder expressions of appreciation fol-
Low .e a OF her anony, which the jury
A. When the clork had concluded Mr. Van Buren, asked
to nterrogate them individually Is this your verdict as
you wish it to stand recorded Each answered PROMPTLY
It r. until the name Of Mr. Page called who hest
tated moment to rise, he then bowed the clerk asked
MS answer he bowed again. Mr. Van Buren, then re-
marked that he did not hear the WITNESSES answer Mr.
Page then stated distinctly 1T is''
BY this time the tenor of the verdict had reached the
crowd gathered outside Of the buing. numbering from
eight hundred to thousand people and tremendous
SHOUTS and hurrahs came echong back indicating to
large number at least the verdict, not unsatisac-
tory.
Mrs Forrest Immediately retired with an attendant to
an adjacent ROOM while the council proceeded to have the
verdict properly recorded
Mr. Van Buren, asked for stay of proceedings to enable
to take the opinion Of the court above upon of
the questions of law that he had raised Mr. OConor
asked the court to appoint tomorrow morning to meet
the council to adjust the form of the Judgment The
court decided to meet the council at that time and said
that the allowance of time for making bill of exceptions
would be granted at the same as a matter of course
The court was then adjourned
Mr. Forrest and Mr. Van soon left the court and
when they made their appearance the door they were
met with loud cheers attended for distance v
large crowd Of friends who took that mode of tetfyn
their sympathy for Mr. Forrest. |
Mrs Forrest had yet left the building The crowd
was still large and kept increasing. After some twenty
minutes delay it was deemed best leave there being
ITSELF i'e
Mrs Forrest then took Mr. O'Conor's arm and walk
ing through the chambers Of the Superior Court in which
faine was holding court and through the Circuit
COURT room in which Judge Edwards trying cause
they descended by the back way into Chambers street
anu turned their steps towards broadway Mrs Fs re-
treat was soon discovered, and the crowd in few mo-
nents came thronging through the doors and over the
eces filling up Chambers street shouting and hurrahing
most vehemently but crowdng and alarming tile object
u ther curiosity not little When they got Broad
way the impossibty of getting into an omnibus with
fhaHrtn
louise where they remained until proper conveyance
o be provided to transport Mrs Forrest some place
lone
lus ends one of the longest most bitterly ltigated
ma IN some respect one of the most disgusting trials that
yer was held in this country This is the thirty-thir
lay that the cause has been in progress.
NeU fnk Jan. 21-The Forrest case continues to cx-
lite great attention in this city.
The Superior Court thronged to-day to listen the
on the exceptions raised by the defendants
counsel Ihe subject was finally postponed until Satur-
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