New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-01

lady Of his love. Wh,u John ard Sarah euruS2
from their stroll thy found him s'il constant upon
| bis watch, and then STE Informed her couprDion
| that be was yourg gentleman from Cambridge
| ubo desired to pay her his addresses. Leech.
however 70 whom this fact was known before, new
er,beless continued his Wits, though all the time be
was Engaged to another young womsn whom be
subsequently married. till The Sumner Of 1913,
when Sarah suddenly dssPpesrrd.
In July of thst year, Smith sud Sarah were
priyate, married at ST Psuoiss Church, and went
| Immediately aiterward to her friends IN kent
Smith had now Masiersh;p in the Bishops school
at Bristol, bu, with a salary Of only 100 ne was
not able 70 support wife. and was sn"D'Ing to
| acknowle tee the rash step be had taken. lie lex
her. therefore, in Kent, agreeing to pay Ter board
| bopir and waiting for tnst better time to come
when be ,hould he able 10 taho her to home oil
| bis own.
Ieech room discovered the place of residence OF
Mrs. Smith and wrote 10 her; and she Invited him.
one month s(ler her uaTisfe, Ia meet ner AT Csh-
terbury, or more probably, only consented to such
| a meeting. when they went tn Whltstable and
| passed day and night together. Mrs. Smith soon
| sfterwsrd removed to London, and resided there
for several months, and during al that time the IN
terccurse bet aeeu h.r and Leech was frequent &C.
cordir to his own acknowledgment, though he
declined 10 state us character. lD December 81
that Year. ste Joined Der husband at Br-tol; oIt
she va not YET il seems, publicly acknowledged
as his wife, as he was still IN nsrro~ crcumstaucrs
81 d reading for holy orders. On the tral for the
assault L,ech, in the witnes. box, asserted tnat
hen he found Mrs. Smith IN kent she assured hun
tuat Mr. smith was attempting to prove the mar
rse- Illegal and had ofir red her moneyto get rid OF
heI but this assertion is unsupported by any Other
esdence. ard is altogether incompatible with sill
the other circumstances OF the story.
In the course Of the next two yesp, the yoarg
clergyman openly received and acknowledged Sarah
as his WIFE, and during the years from 1871 TO ie'''
four children were born to them. Inc struggle
with poverty was o5er; he had Left the bishoPs
College and had opened school Of his own aud
from this and occasional services as q clergyman
was in receipt of about E400 year. Placed thus
10 comparatively easy circumstances, with the hope
Of prosl erous and useful future before hiti; with
awife BY his side wnom he tenderly loved, ana
surrounded by family of interesting children no
seemed in the full fuition Of happy lot. Nt the
sbsdOw OF the skeleton that sat ut his table pois-
oned bis food aud drink and made him freulbIe
with the prescierce of coming but unseen calamity
He had often be says, observed III It there vas
" melancholy about his wife, and she would sigi
upon his bosom and tell IN that she was not
worthy of him." The cause of tns melancholy
che, with cruel candor, but, no doubt, IN sincere
repentance reyesled to him in January last and
while she eased her own conscience destroyed his
peace forever. She confessed the adulterous CON-
INJUNCTION Of former years with Leech, and on her
knees and with her children about her, besovght bis
forgiveness. Wien assured with the most solemn
reservations that the children before him, at least
were his he consented to pardon the past, on con-
diton that, as Leech had entced her TO Wbtstabe,
she should now lure him to Yate, for her bus
bands vengeance. To this she assented Le.ch
had. in the me an time married the woman T. whom
be was engaged at the time If bis early intercourse
with Sarah Mills; but she bad since died. Mrs.
Smith pre- ended that her husband also was dead,
End opened correspondence with her former
paramount. The letters were written by, or under
the direction Of her husband, and the plot cue
ceeded. At time appointed, Trey met ut GER
tain railway station; after few miles ride, they
alighted at another, when she led him ont upon
bic ak common Oh the way to the house at which
she said she was staying st given signal, the en-
ragged and wronged husband appeared and fell upon
the destroyer of his peace. TAe cries of murder
brought speedy assistance and although the assal-
ants escaped immediate arrest, they were so well
known, end their measures Of cOnceament so
clumsily taken, that they were coon Appreciated.
II was not till the trial that these facts were made
known, when they were pleaded in defense aud in
extenuation by Mr.. Smith, who conducted his own
case, in touching appeal sor Justice and mercy to
the court No doubt the sxaspera.ed and outraged
man meant to infict, if he eould, severe chastse
ment upon the villain who had betrayed the inno-
cence of the girl almost child, and, taking sdyan
tage ia after years of .he power thus gained had
compelled the wife to sabmit to the dishonOr of her
husband; the prisoner, indeed, frankly ayowei that
such was his purpose. But there is evidence Of
an intention to take life; for, though revolver was
found which was shown to have belonged to Smith,
it was without caps, and with pellet under the
hammer to prevent its going of. Though he as
serted that he meant TO resort to it, If necessary TO
defend his own life, the probability seems to be that
he was entirely ignorant Of how to use it, and it
was certainly incapable of being used at all The
Jury, however, found both prisoners Guilty OF
" cutting and wounding, with intent TO dsfgure,
" and TO do grievOus bodily harm, but as the wife
had acted throughout under tae coercion of her
husband, the Judge, Mr.. Baron Channel, liberated
her bail. To the husband, his LOrdship said