Bridgend Chronicle, Cowbridge, Llantrisant, and Maesteg Advertiser. — 1883-01-12 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

OOO. Dr.  Whitinarsh said,"! don't think you are; but we will submit the matter to arbitration, and if you are entitled to £l,OOO you shall have it." Dr. Edwardes said, cannot wait for arbitration, Its there will be a warmnt out against me in the morning." Mr. Lay said, "I can't say anything about that " Dr. Edwardw then asked Mr. Lay whether he WOl,lll continue the prosecution if he accepted his ! partner's offer. Mr. Lay said he could not say ;he added that he did not think the other gide w ould have proseeuted if Dr Edwardeo had not made a start. Dr. Whitinarsh, in reply to a question from deceased, refit-eti to inereage his offer. Deceased said, Will you put that down in black and white?" Dr. Whitmarsh said. " No. My word in as good as my bond." (Ironical laughter.) Dr. Edwardes then said, " Well, before I accept it I should like to consult my wife's father, whom I cannot see till the moraine. I will telegraph the decision to-morrow morning." He said if he accepted it he would meet Dr. Whitmarsh at Mr. Lay's office at Drent ford, to sign the dissolution of partnership by ten o'clock, which Mr. Lay W4B directed to prepare in the meantime. He then partook of some whisky and water, and asked me to go back with him. We entered his house, and he then asked me what he should do. I said I did not know how to advise him. He then said, "We will talk the matter over with my wife," and asked me if I objected going to her bedroom. Ho spoke to his wife. and I WHA asked into the room. He said to Ids wife, "Von have heard the circutnetaii,m," and aided, "U! don't accept it and go Whitmarsh will appear in the witness-bon against me." He said to me," You know that 10 00." I said, "Well, !have  not heard him say so." He said, "Well, but you know in your heart he believes that I'm guilty." I said, "Well. I do not think he considers you innocent." (Sensation in roitrt.) I told him I would do my best daring his absenee to crush down the rumour which had spread. That it was not alt.,gether like leaving in disgmm as he would he bought nut. .  Mr. 'Lewis Did you say "bought out" otH "sold out" ?—Wit ness : " Bought out." (Ironical laughter.) Witness (continuing): Au! left the room Mrs. Edwardea urged me, as their only friend, to persuade the deceased to accept the offer. Ultimately he mid he thought the better plan would be to accept the offer. I then said, "Well. corne over at once and aceept it." He said "No, Whitmarsh will hemn hod ; I'll leave it till the mot ning."He 11 then appear.] calm, and i left him. This would have believeeinneagh:)tility".74”,lle,..lll:l"d(o"nrort.,kn' do n}n7thing about that ."tlethencalledGomttowitneuo.nnd said " I am innocent, and it lam not may He strike me dead within the hour." On my way home I saw Mr. Lay leaving Dr. Whitmarsh's house. (Oh.) I said, "I think lir. Edward.; will accept the altar; in fact, lie says he will." . _. . .  A Juror And did you item go into the house with Dr. Whitioarsh and Mr. lee? Witnera I did. I told them I lied something to tell them, and than mentioned that it was the intention of the deeessed to accept Dr. Whitrn irsh's offer.—Dirl they expect to see you? No. After bearing what I mid Dr. Whitmarsh turned to Mr. Lay and said, " Well, then, you had better prepare the papere." (Ironical laughter.) Croes.exlmined by Mr. Lewis: I never heard Mr. Edwarden threaten to corona suicide. Mr. Lay expressed the opinion, however, that if the pronecution was gone on with he would not go through it. My opinion is that up to the night previous to his death Dr. Edward's; never directly I denied his guilt. Are you not aware that he refused toapologise ? Dr.Ed ward. mid he could not apologise.—What inipressim did you yourself form no to his guilt ? Well, I thought there was circumstantial evidence that corroborated statements of the woman and also the treatment by Dr. Edwardes of the matter, in keeping the letter in Ids pocket ! from the Fiirlay till the Sunday, and I told Min I thought I should have gone to see the woman before them—Perhaps you hove more experienr'n with worsen. Were you married in the year 1875? Ant I bound to answer ?—Mr. Lewis It gone to  is credibility. Were you? Y..--To Mise Eva, .S.—leelle alive? No—Mies Mary Jane Evan, ,ae is alive—Were you inaeried again in 1879 t. Mine Buckliurst ? V.; I married my deceased wife's sister in 1875.—Y0u only married two • Misses Evans? That is all.—When were you first married? In 1872, I think. I arm then 22 tears of age, . and I am now 32. It would be 1876 she died, four years after, and I afterwards married my deceased wile's sister. There were no children, and we .i.greed to separate and consider the marriage annailed. I married a third time a few months after I left my second wife. I then lived .1 9, Bess, borough.street, Pimlico, in the sante house as my 'wife. In the marriage certificate I deacribed myself ass journalist—And you previously des,ribed yourself as a surgeon? No, assistantsurgeon.— . Look at the certificate, don't be afraid of it. Did you not describe yourself as a surgeon •, I did not. —On your oath? I did not. I probably mid I was an assistantsurgeon and wan put down as • Burgeon —Have you had any other wiv.? I think not, I am eure--You say with your experience of women you would have gone at once to the woman and not have waited until the tuorning to see your partner? I would—lto you think a woman making a false charge would withdraw it? It in probable I have heard of • false charge against a doctor.—Was any charge made against you? Never. (Laughter.) The Coroner at this point mid this conduct was most disgraceful, and if it were repeated the court should be cleared. Cross-examination continued Can you explain how it wm that Dr. Edwardes came to write the letter? I cannot. At the retuned of Mrs. Edward., t : p,suaded him to accept the £5OO. I understood that about this time be. Edwarden was going to prosecute the woman for libel—Ott your affirmation. sir, was not Or. Edwardes got over there to be terrified into accepting the £5OO and leave the practice ? No. Examined by Mr. Lynch: Mrs. Bignell Inns been Foe some years a patient of the firm, baa she not? Site lim.—And bears an utiblemi.lied character? Mr. Lewis, interrupting. mid he could prove that the lady had a child directly after her marriage. Mr. Lynch mid it was rather a thing to be proud of, as the man had married the