The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-23
Serious Charge Against tho Rector Of
Beaumarfs.

[From the Liverpool Daily Mercury, July 81
At the Aenai Bridge Petty Sessions on Monday,
the Rev. John Williams, M. A.. rector OF Beaumaris,
was summoned to show cause why he should not
be adjudged the putative father OF child of whom
Elizabeth Jones was the mother. The case orig
inally came on for hearing at the September ses-
sions, but owing to the detect In the Bastardy act
the summons had to be Withdrawn and the case
commenced de novo. Mr.. Marcus Louis, Of Rutnin,
Tor the applicant and Mr.. Jordan, barrister,
instructed BY Messrs. Barker and Hughes,
Bangor, for the defendant, who was present
during the hearing OF the case. Mr.. James,
the diocesan registrar, watched the case on behalf
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station in lie Of both complainant and defendant
the proceedings attracted considerable interest
single woman, thirty-six years OF age, and is the
daughter ola lodging house keeper living In Beau
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rector, who told her, az she was older than tho
other persons who were going to be confirmed.
chat time he was living at a place called Trosyra.
ION and complainant went there very frequently,
r Sr tine s
he told her he wished her to confess to him,
and that II she told him everything he would be
chair In which she sitting, In his dining r0om
and, Selling her by the hands, kissed her twice.
He also invited her to take walk with him In the
garden, and to accompany him up stairs to view
the rooms, she having expressed an opinion that
the house was much too large for one person. The
rector In the habit OF calling on an elderly lady,
named Miss Harper, who occupied apartments
at compliments house, and after paying his
visit to that lady up stairs he would turn into
complain ants parlor on the ground floor, and
remain cl0seted with her for q considerable
time. In 1869 complainant went to live next door
to the rectory and late one night about the close
or that year the reverend gentleman had Illicit
intercourse with the complainant, having pre-
viously promised her marriage. The Illicit cOnnec-
when the complainant discovered herself to be
ier,cetnte. and on her acquainting the rector
Win the circumstance he went away in "hun"
and she saw no more OF him. The child was born
on the lyth OF June and about fortnight alter Its
birth she wrote to the rector signing herself The
ErrinR One" and asking for money TO support the
child, otherwise, as she had no means of her own,
she would be compelled to divulRe the paternity.
The rector placed the letter In the hands OF his
solicitors. whO on bis behalf, wrote to the com
plainant, strongly denying the charge she had
brought against him. In cross-ex Examination IL was
elected that the complainant had been confined of an
ulegitimate CHILD IN Liverpool or eight years
ago. The father, sailor, had, before and after the
birth OF the child repeatedly offered her marriage
but, as ne had deceived her once, she declined To
have anything to say to him. Several servants
and two charwomen, who had been In the CON-
planant's employ, gave evidence as to having seen
the defendant In company with the complainant in
her room, and having also found the door fastened
Owen owens, police constable stationed at Beau
maris. swore that ABOUT the beginning of Septem-