Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1861-03-13 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

MRS. YELVERTON. up at the Mansion-house on the charge of aiding and abetting one Thomas Richards, or Richardson, to commit The Dublin Morning News gives the following pen-and- suicide, and also of making an attempt on her own life. ink portraits of Major and Mrs. (Lonsworth) Yelverton: The evidence was a repetition of that given at the in-" Major Yelverton looks every inch a roué, neither ugly quest, and the prisoner, who declined to ask the witnesses nor handsome, but with a face the aspect of which is any questions, was remanded to admit of evidence being simply unpleasant, dubious, disagreeable. His head is procured as to the identity of the deceased. bald on the back of the crown alone. He wears a mous- The prisoner was again brought up on Thursday. The tache and flowing whiskers of reddish fair hue. He only additional witnesses examined were Corporal Lees, seemed very nervous and agitated, like a man who found of the 7th Foot, and Catherine Herbert. nurse at St. himself 'in for the worst that could befall him, but re- Bartholomew's Hospital. Lees stated that he had been solved to go through it at all hazards His manner of to the coffee-house, in Union-street, and identified the answering the questions was very remarkable. He go- body he saw there as that of Thomas Richardson, lately aerally paused a good while, as if weighing every possi- a private in the 7th regiment stationed at Chatham. The ble bearing or effect of his answer, and shaping it ac- 1 deceased left Chatham on the 23rd of February on leave eordingly, like a chess-player calculating before he made of absence for four days, but did not return to the regi • his move. His mode of pronunciation was that so often ment. He knew nothing of the prisoner. In answer given in Punch as the language of 'swells.' The indigna- to the charge the prisoner said her brother told her be lion in ceurt while he was giving evidence was really would never go back to his regiment. She begged him to indescribable; but it was when he coolly detailed his do so, but it was too late, and he said he would not return directions to Mrs. Yelverton about getting rid of' the without her. She had sprained her ankle, and found it infant that it reached its height. Indeed, so much was it impossible to walk; and they had no means of getting apprehended that, without waiting to catch him outside, back. They then went to the coffee-house mentioned, the indignant auditors would set upon him in the court afterwards parted with their things, and then both agreed itself, that after declaring the adjournment the Chief to poison themselves. He gave her a dose first, and then Justice remained on the bench until he saw the court took his own. Being sick, she parted with the poison, cleared of the crowd that bad stayed behind in very me- and then she thought she would stab herself. The priflaring bearing towards Yelverton. An immense con- soner, who appeared to be in a state of stupor, was course awaited bins outside, openly avowing an intention accomodated with a seat during the examination. On of making him acquainted with the Liffey, ruuning close the completion of the depositions she was committed by. In consequence of this, numerous ingenious devices for trial. were resorted to in order to gat him away safely. It is said, and I believe with truth, that the War-office has intimated its intention, as soon as ever the present trial is over, to arraign Major Yelverton before a court-martial for 'conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.' It is said that his own evidence, to the effect that he frequented as a visitor the house of a superior officer ((leneral Straubenzee) in pursuance of the design of seducing the friend and guest of that officer, will be laid as one of the exact offences in the indictment. Mrs. Yelverton is probably in her 25th year. She is under the middle height and of fair complexion. She was pale, very pale, evidently impressed, if not agitated, by the circumstances of the occasion, time, and place. Subsequently, when slightly flushed with the excitement, or possibly the heat of the court, her face assumed the semblance of what it doubtless was in days passed by, when it wore the charms that attracted the despoiler's gaze. Beautiful she was then indeed! Not that her features, when examined one by one, would be pronounced regular or beautiful. There Was a matronly, a grave, thoughtful sorrowful expression over all, that I am unable to describe; and this it was that first struck and impressed the beholder. Grief— grief that may net be measured, had left its traces there. There was a atulnese in the first tones of her voice, and she threw a quick glance all around, in a half-troubled, apprehensive, inquiring anxiety, as if she wanted to be sure that she was indeed amidst the friendly hearts fame had always told her were ever tube found in Ireland by the children of sorrow and misfortune. Hope spoke to the troubled soul that had so long lain in anguish, and thenceforth she seemed to acquire a strength none would have looked for in such a fragile frame. The countenance is oval, with a delicately pointed chin; the general ex. premien of the face is most decidedly that of great firmness, calm, resolute, persevering, dignified power—confidence in repose. It is the eye that lights up and makes beautiful the whole countenance, which, in fact, is one f those which has its beauty and attraction more in expression, the seat of which can never be securately'fixed, than in mere symmetry and regularity of the individual features themselves. Her glance penetrates, while it charms as with a spell. She has a profusion of rich glossy auburn hair, which was worn ala Eugenio. Her hand, thesmallness of which has been necessarily alluded to in the evidence, is indeed one which your fair readers would admire. Madame Yelverton was attired, on the first day, in a light-coloured fashionable bonnet, and wore a black moire antique dress. On the following day the news had reached her of the death of Mr. Bellamy, her brother-in-law, and, accordingly, she appeared subsequently in mourning. So far for her personal appearance; but how shall I describe what constitutes the greatest charm about her? The perfection of graceful motion in the simplest movement, and the voice—such a voice ! clear, soft, liquid, and musical. Brewster was a child in her hands. In the very first sentence exchanged between them their relative positions were fixed, and the ascendancy was hers. At the very start she completely took up her position, without effort or attempt, but somehow simply because it was her rightful position; one which exacted the most respectful and deferential demeanour from even her antagonist."