Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1889-04-20 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

VICAR'S BRUTALITY TO BIS  SHOCKING REVELATIONS.  In the Divorce Division on Friday week 1.4 Justice Butt had be:Ore him the case of nery v. , Ovary. The petition Was that of the wife for a judicial separation by reasou of the alleged cruelty of her husband, the Rev. Henry Overy. who is ! Vicar of St. Veep's, ectruwall. He ailawered denying the charge. Mr Hayford, Q.C., and Mr Middleton appeared for the petitioaer ; and Mr luderwick, Q.C., and Mr H. B. Deane fcr the respondent. Mrs Amy Overy, the petitionef, deposed that she was magried to the respondent on the lend of March, late, and afterwards lived with hint at St. Veep@ Vicarae, Cornwall. There were five ellildreu of the itoarrittee. Her husband was a taxa of violent teluper. and would speak to her sometimes most coutemptuously. On one °coa-1 (lion he said that marriage was a curve, and ! that there was a curse upon him. He hat Idragged her round the room. flung her front the bed, and struck her very violently. Be I had also struck her on the face. lie told her that she was on a level with women in the streets. He threw the lid of a earl-box at her, and it *track her on the face. She had I threatened to tell his Bishop of his conduee He intentionally struck her on one occasion, wed sad that she was too cewar...ly to die, I saying that it won't(' be a happy release for one or the other ii else would die, , It was his habit to pull oti toe itedolothes wheel ! she was inked, and on one occalion she in con- ! I sequence got an iesenmatery cold. Ile took the children away, and said that she was not fit to hare them. Afterwards she fount that she I Iwas locked la the room. Be had said that if she did not go out of the hoes. he would fling her • ont. On the same dey she left. Upon occasions he was very severe with the eldest child, whom ,he intensely disliked, and beat him w:th I driving whip. The boy was wh:preel in each a way as ti leave marks upon b' m. The whipping I Iwas of a brutal character, the bruises lasting • • some duya. It vise arranged that he should I leave her for a year said he ,arne to London. Iwhere he worked under the Bishop of Bedford. I . After he left she returned to tno vicarage. In crose-examinetion, Use wituest said her ho.band had a chaplemely at Trieste, the il.ngadine, and e-la• Chapelle. She wrote to him affectionate letters, rut they were writtou "to order." ll'he ! , expressions "Mv dearest hesitate! " and " Your I ' loving wife " she always wrote s.a she proatissi I Ihim she would ; bat they di J not express be I seutiusente towards him. Her hoetand hod I taken her to a sisterhood at Truro to hate instructions in leading a mother's missing. She !admitted having used tarots laagesegs towards her hnsliand, and had called him names, snob as "brute "and 'would-he murder, r." She also I said that he had talked blasphemy in reference to • sermon of his. Once when he struck hoe she curved him. Before the cross eNamination hail eoueluded the learned Judge otronely advised that the parties should come to an arratigement. , After a long consoltatbm, Mr ilayford, said ho was glad that terms hal been come to, and ho woeld ask that the cows ht) adjonroed in the view of a separation being agreed upon—Mr mutate, Butt accordingly adjourned the ease. Htltteet Fvotv,  Lin.—Fitty vears'