The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-03-24

meant to sustain and protect her to the end of my
days. Did you mean II to be a mockery, No. Did
you mean to fulfil that obligation you had contract
ed on your knees in that house OF God, So far as
il was arranged between there. What else
that you should be free? 1t was to be observed.
thought, and she always expressed the same be-
lief that 1t was not good in the legal form OF mar
riage. She always thought that, She expressed
which you sw0re before your God at that altar.
Up to that time. Did you mean to keep it At
that time, and as far as we had previously ar
ranged. You will give me direct answer, Major
Yelverton, if you stop there till night; did you
mean to keep the obligation you swore to her at
that altar did, subject to that explanation. viii
you tell me how much off was mockery, and how
much was not? ] will tell you, sir; we had pro-
missed each other; the arrangement between us
was that she was to accept this, which we be-
lieved, as she expressed to me-, not to be good IN
law, that we were to be bound in conscience, and
SO intended it to be. To be sure, you have an
easy conscience? Qaughter.) have not now, sir.
The witness was crosse xamined as to the ex-
pected birth of Mrs. YelyertOn's child. What do
you mean by the cat being kept in the bagy
mean the ceremony, not the marriage. What is
the duty mistress owes her keeper! To be hon.
est and true to him. What Is the duty wife owes
her husband, To love, honor and obey. There
was no engagement to pay her.
Court-YOu were not to pay her for her serr-
ces? l was not.
What do you mean by saying told. you the
event we feared could be avoided What Is that!
q
be avoided? meant to soothe her; | meant to
avoid the birth of child.
Court-By procuring abortion? No; meant
that doctors would procure the birth OF child, so
reduce the risk to the mother; was to leave her
legacy Of facts that she would leave to pOsterity
that she was my mistress. She told you Il she had
child born she would divuge 1t to the world!
do not recollect getting letter from her at
Carlisle; took her to Bordeaux; she was
i'll there; ] was affected at her illness.
At the time you left her in Bordeaux had
the intention was formed afterwards. believe You
promised that in the following autumn you were
to take trip together, when you could get leavey
cried leaving her. And when you came BACK TO
think so though was talking of going. back to
her; she was not content about something not
openly acknowledged. Sergeant Sullivan-Open-
~ acknowledged. True, sir. Witness.
breaking your VOW in the chapel never crossed
your mind until you went back to Edinburg! 1t
did not. (Sensation.) Did you not convey to her
that your protection was to be lastingy Yes. And
in about two months after you had ano-
Their marriage in Scotland? Yes. Your second
marriage took place in June, in Scotland, and did
you not, in the preceding April, write to Madame
andre inquiring how Mrs. Yelverton was? Yes;
and on the 10th wrote to know how she was. Did
y0u write in May, asking how she was, and
giving your compliments to Madame LIE
Fevre, her sister! Yes. And on the
26th Of June you had o marriage ceremony
in Scotland? Yes, sir (sensation). Was there any
talk of telling your mother about the marriage!
Yes, she had spoken to me about acknowledging
her before the world-(sensation); mean that she
was TO be publicly acknowledged; she proba-
bly, proposed it herself. She did not tell
me that the only sacrifice she could not
make for me was to keep the mar
rage secret; she stated that falsely in her letter.
there was no sacrifice that she was not to make
(great sensation). On what day had you arranged
for the marriage ceremony Of the Goth of June |?
do not think it was definitely arranged until about
the 15th-the middle of June; had been accepted
in May Mrs. Yelverton came to Edinburg? To
Leith. You saw her? wrote her letter; had
not told her the exact reason why could not go
to see her; the immediate cause did not tell her;
she taxed me about going to be married; there are
letters of mine about this that she does not pro-
duce. You kept your second marriage secret that
she might not prevent it Yes; told her that
she and / must separate. Produce the letters
she wrote from Bordeaux? ! have produced the
worst Of them; l knew she would prevent
the banns; told her she might go and captivate
some rich man: believe was about violating the
oath had taken at the altar, but that was subject
her to New Zealand; | sent my brother to her; he
is dead. Did he say anything of the interview he
had with the lady, and the part he took in it? Yes
authorized him to act as my agent in the matter;
brother tell you before he died that he regretted
this act of his lifeg He did not tell me, but dare
say he said it-(sensation). No, he did not tell
you to hurt your feelings.
G.etters handed to witness.) Are these in your
brothers handwriting? Yes, that is his handwrit-
n.y.
And had the lady to whom you were married
on the 26th Of June the Dame of having large
fortune! A moderate fortune. Did you pay an
other tradesman for goods supplied to your wife
after you repudiaEed her? Yes, under the expla-
nation that my counsel should put in notice, and
that there might be had verdict against me with
aufun inf thp mar
This closed the examination of the defendant.
There was an attempt to prove by hotel keepers
and chambermaids that the parties had occupied
the same bed chamber prior to the Irish marriage.
The evidence on that point, however, was not We
ry satisfactory.
THE CORRESPONDENTS.
The correspondence. which ran through peri
cd of five years, exhibited wonderful literary
ability, particularly on the lady's part. We can
only make room, however, for few extracts.
Here is one in which she sketches her family his
tory and describes her home in England after the
AFFIRM, HAM Cheshire, July 49,
CARO- CARO- EIcI do not know II this form Of address
pesses you you fastidous in the matter but do
not like II. II ia too familiar than can feel to
such . myth as YOU TO me. You q sort OF pet
phantom Of mine, and pure faith alone which makes
believe IN your exstente do in that OF the Empe
Of China DO Lot see WHY am to form the excep-
from the OF the world who call you bl Cap
ian Yelverton Why don't you like IT from me? Win
l tcacely hope that this viii reach you,
II Is rather wild oosc; but expect It. Anthony Is
interested Ia correspondence and makes II his
special bus to take charge OF eptstles.
summoned home from Venice TO take1 my post papas
sick chamber and for long. Death also his way,
and closed the chapter OF our strange tragedy.
Il was awful affair and spoke a deep les.
son never TO be forgotten. Ne died as he lived,
atheist, unrelen'ing; with but passion prevail
g as you said 70 the last with dsbolcal earnestness
There great gathering or the wandering an from
all parts OF the world but there word Of kindness
OF feeling Tor any All my life has been up
Of violent contrasts; until mammals death IL pure
and unaloyeo sunshneevery thing thai love wealth
could procure lavished me- then the night
" utter misery pen can describe Human nature
at length could bear more, aad sought refuge
where you alike concealed from frienos and foes
years In Italy, where all sunshine again.
Now the shacow Of solemn events still fingers round mo,
and feel dismal as every thing about Tho
RED people all paired OIL ana left Jock and myself
to, what is called, sete affairs" SO here Ike
lonely sparrows in this sad melancholy place where
the people all barsns speak unknown tongue,
az d cali foryncers Then there lawyers
tns nrnctore actuarea and incomprehensh bic Of all