The Sun. — 1851-12-06 (London, England)

HUMPBET—I was not a. dresser at the Italian Opera at the time of this occurrence. I never was a dresser at the Italian Opera before this, but I had been at her Majesty's Theatre. I went to the Italian Opera to dress almost immediately after I met Mr. Goode, and I received 2s. a night. I was living at No. 8, Church-terrace, Stamford-street, behind Waterloo Church, on the night that I met Mr. Goode. Ile knew that I was engaged in a theatre, but he did not know in what capacity. My situation was that of dresser and dress-maker, but it was not until two months after I first met Mr. Goode that I told him what I really was. I went to live at Stepney in the latter end of October. I lived at Mrs. Mead's fourteen months, and Mr. Goode used to visit me there, and we passed by the name of Mr. and Mrs. King. He slept once in the parlour, and I slept up stairs, but Mrs. Mead never remonstrated with me about it, nor did any one express astonishment that a man and his wife should sleep in different rooms.  Mrs. Graham corroborated the plaintiff's statement. She had followed her at the request of a mutual friend, who was apprehensive that the plaintiff, in her distracted state of mind, brought on by the previous conduct of the defendant, would get into some trouble, , _ _ _  Mr. Bromley, the surgeon, spoke to the injury which the plaintiff received from the fall. Cross-examined—The defendant and Mr. Goldsmith seemed to treat her with remarkable kindness.  LAM'. HUMFREY addressed the jury for the defence, and denounced the case as a barefaced attempt to extort money. Tho plaintiff, although only a dresser at a theatre, was an excellent actress, and, with the view of inducing a belief that she was deeply in love with him, she more than once alarmed the defendant by making sham attempts upon her life in the most artistic style. Mr. Goode, the defendant, a gentleman of enormous proportions, presenting a singular contrast to the slight figure of the plaintiff,Astated that when he met the plaintiff, in 1847, she told him she was a 'ballet dancer. He never promised to marry her, nor did he ever in any way give her to understand that he meant to marry her. He was in the habit of visiting her at Stepney, and on more than ono occasion she had threatened to destroy herself. Once she wished him to think that she was about to throw herself out of the window, and on another occasion she had locked herself in her room, when be heard a heavy fall. Ho broke open the door, and found her lying upon the Itoor seemingly covered in blood. Ho was afterwards told, however, that the blood was rouge and water, and that the attempt at suicide was all a sham. He was not married at this time—he bad been married, but his wife was dead. When he met her in Stangate-street he offered her 101. and 15s. a-week until the Opera opened, but she fainted away, and he and Mr. Goldsmith carried her into the doctor's shop. It was not true that Mr. Goldsmith suggested that he should wrench her arm or injure her in any way, and when they got into Mr.Broroley's shop she made no complaint whatever of being hurt or ill-treated, but She had not recovered before he left. Cross examined—He was a married man when he first met the plaintiff, and continued so for a year afterwards. He never intended to marry her, but he proposed to her that she should leave her home. Witness was studying at the Middle Temple for the bar, and was 29 years of age. His father, to whom he had served five years under articles, was an attorney in llowland-street, and his uncle and brother were also attorneys. He was, therefore, pretty well versed in law. When the plaintiff left her home he had an idea that she would live with him, but that idea never was realised. She wanted to live with him as his mistress, but he afterwards refused, because he discovered she wanted to entrap him into a promise of marriage. He went repeatedly to the opera to sea if she went on the stage, but he never could discover her, and when he taxed her with the falsehood rho said the manner iu which she dressed her hair prevented her being recognised. Mr. Sergeant