Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-03-27
from The n. 7. Post.
TILE NUPpIALS
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At four o'clock Yesterday afternoon the first
public hearing in the case OF dr. and Mrs. John
Dean took place before Judge Davies, in the
which was filed with a fraction OF the crowd
that blocked up the entries and lower rooms of
the building. Neither Mr.. Boxer nor his daugh-
ter were IN court
Judge Davies commenced the proceedings by
reading the report of Drs. John II Metcnlft,
Benjamin Ogden and ~ Ranney upon the sani-
TT Of Miss Boxer that was.
They were unanimously of the opinion that
she was s'of sound dispensing mind and memory
and Judge Davies subsequently staued that lin
the course Of his life he had met with few ladies
of 50 much intelligence, 50 much delicacy of
feeling and l,roPriety of deIneancr, with so
strong and deep . sense of the duties which she
owed to her parents and the duties which she
owed To her own free chosen husband"
Mr.. Boxers return to the writ of hubeds corr
pns sued ont by his son-in-law was then read
by his counsel, MF. Charles Edwards. Il begins
/ by denying that the young lady had been or
/ was restrained of her liberty. II goes on to
/ traverse the averments OF the petition one by
lone. It admits that some form of marriage
ceremony took plaeein the presence Of the Rev.
| Dr. Hatfield, between Miss Boxer and person
named John DslHNl, but AYERS that It was per-
formed under false and fraudulent representa-
tons that tho lady was servant girl, and at q
| time when she was not mentally or bodily a
/ treeageRt, John having gained an improper in.
fuence over her mind. 1t further says that a
member of the Catholic Church is fnrbid3en to
I marry in Lent, lat this statement a loud litter
ran through the courtroom, particularly in
those quarters of it which were occupied
by good Irish CatholieS,) and that where
the ceremony Is pertored by Protestant cler-
tgyman, is not considered binding by the Ca
tholic Church until consummated, as it has not
been in this case.
The return also contains good deal of mat
ter with reference to the strict surveillance
kept over Mr. Boxer and his house by Capt.
Mckee and other members Of5tlie 10Th ward POI
lice, since the night of the alleged contemplated
abduction; and states that all interviews which
had been had with John Dean or his counsel
had been with view to temporize.
Judge Davies observed that his simple duty,
now that all illegal detention was denied, was
to order that the writ Of hdbeas corpus he dis
charged and the lady be set at liberty, and to
iSec that this order be executed.
AT this decision the Democracy expressed its
Joy through its heels
The court next took up the motion to dissolve
the Injunction, hitherto granted, restraining Sir.
Dean from interference with his wife, pending
the suit for a divorce brought by her father.
Mr.. Edwards having read an affidavit of the
Rev. Dir. Hatfield narrating the facts ofthe mar.
iriage, which arc already known to the public
made a speech in which he discussed matters
fron the fathers point Of view. rplteratinp thu
tassertion that the young lady had some untor
and ending With these words is = '9''s. 5'''1
ssAnd in regard to her future course. so IA,
las the family Is copcered. the door Is orened =
tShe has made her bed. and ii She finds nm,