The Sun. — 1857-11-12 (London, England)

THE PEACE AGAINST A CLERGYMAN.  Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., applied to exhibit articles of peace against the Rev. Henry Curtis Cherry, by Emily, his wife, on the ground of cruelty. It appeared from the articles that were read by the officer of the court, that the applicant was married to the Rev. Henry Curtis Cheiry, rector of Burghfield Rectory, near Reading, on the 23d of August, and that immediately after wards a systematic course of annoyance and indignities was adopted towards her by her husband and his relatives in the presence of the servants. On the 28th September, 1855, resolved on leaving him, and did so with his knowledge, taking up her residence at Reading. Whilst at St. Giles' Church, Reading, on Sunday evening the 31st of August, 1856, after she "Dad left him, he came there and conducted himself towards her in a very unbecoming manner, dragging her by the arm to the vestry after the service was over, saying that was nothing to what he intended to do to her. On the Sunday evening following, after he bad attended two services at his own church, and administered the holy communion, he came to Reading with his gardener, and with the assistance of the police forcibly removed her on the following morning from Reading to Burghfield Rectory, in the course of which she was subjected to rough treatment. On their arriving at the rectory her husband directed her to go up stairs, for if not the inspector of police would assist him to carry her up. She was then taken up stairs, but afterwards escaped, and had remained in concealment from that time to the present. During her concealment, and about three months after the above encounter, her husband's mother sent a message to her through a friend that it would be inexpedient for the applicant to go to Reading, because the Rev. H. C. Cherry was in such an excited state that if they met she thought something terrible would ensue—if not murder. Ever since her escape she had been in constant fear and alarm, and she was informed that her husband was searching for her, and had stated that he would bring her back to his house at any cost. She had been compelled to live in conceal. ment to prevent a repetition of the violence of the Bth September, 1856. She had been informed, and believed, that the Rev. H. C. Cherry (her husband) had for three months past employed Field, the detective officer, to discover her abode, but hitherto without success. On the 16th Sept., 1857, she received the following letter from her husband :  " For my wife Emily Cherry alone. Enrghfield Rectory, Reading, 16th Sept., 1857. "MT DEAREST EMILY, —I have reason to know that your sister not only withholds from you what she knows isnow going on for your compulsory removal from me, but that, unless it suits her purposes, you do not receive nor see half the letters I forward to you through her. Oh what an awful responsibility rests upon her ! When will you be no longer deceived I Can you doubt I can lay hold of you any moment 1 Defy me, and by the living God I name where you are and have been the last two days. What did I marry you for ? To be separated from me ? A man does not thus bind himself to be a woman's fool (the last lines scored under three times). What power have you to help yourself ? What have I not done to prove my love for you, and what will I yet not do to have you with me. Yoursilly nephew refers totbe abduction in September last. Why I will hare a dozen more, if necessary, and then 'shill he perfectly justifiedin law. As God is my witness, I'll have you with me ere many days, why not then accept the terms I have proposed through Mrs. Henry this day to you ? You are at liberty to tell your silly adviser that I laugh at his nonsense, and he knows he cannot help you. For God's sake be wise at last and meet me. You will never repent that you treated a living generous inflexible God and not man fearing husband till death,