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made a solemn assevoration , and it is true that I had not the slightest idea that anything of the kind was the case . Had I providentially known it , it certainly would have forbid me to make any such criminal attempt . Now , as to the chloroform . There were various other medicines in the carriage , which I had collected from time to time , according as they suggested themselves to my mind . One of them was iodine , which lintendedjhra local application . 1 need not mention what that was . The sal volatile and valerium I bought before the chloroform was purchased , and therefore they could not have been got as antidotes ; but I laboured under this disadvantage . There was brought up , apparently in my favour , but in reality against me , one of the worst witnesses that ever appeared in a court of justice . The character of Dr . Forsyth is well known
In this county . He is a clever man , a bookworm , and is even in private life badly able to express himself ; therefore you may judge of his confusion in this court- I must tell you the real fuels .. Almost immediately before 1 made the attempt it suggested itself to my mind that such extraordinary excitement might produce hysterical affections , and as I did not know how to treat them—fainting , or that sort , of tiling , I might have managed ; and , as I was afraid I would , under the circumstances , be unable to give up the young lady to the frst doctor 1 thought it better to e ; et some advice on the subject . Accordingly , I waited on Dr . Fonsyth . He described to you the conversation in the garden , in the course of which I said , ' By the way , ; i lady , a friend of mine , is suljectto hysterics ; are they dangerous V He said , ' Yes . ' I said , * Could they kill a parson ? ' He replied , ' Something near it . ' ' What is the best thing for them ? ' I inquired . ' Chloroform , ' said he I asked the -quantities . 'Twenty drops in water' was the reply , or , vvhiit he forgot to tell you , ' Thirty drops applied exter
nally . He took his pockethanulcerchiet out , rolled it up deliberately , and showed me how to hold it , and remarked that it should be kept at a distance , if insensibility was not to b « produced , for the purpose of admitting atmospheric air : He told me he was in the luibit of using a sponge for thei . ' purpose . 1 procured the second bottle , fearing the first might be broken . So particular was I about this quantity that I placed a gutta percha bund round a glass so as to mark precisely the necessary quantity , fearing that the rolling of the carriage would prevent my dropping it accurately . I applied it to mytelf , and found that its effect "Was certainly sedative-, but as it gave me a headache and made me sick , I determined that it should be the last remedy on earth I would be tempted to employ . Perhaps , under the circumstances , I had better not detain your lordship with any further , observations " Judge Ball—I am ready , sir , to hear from you evi-ry observation you may feel desirous of uttering .
" ¦ Mr . Carden—It would have been gratifying to me to make you acquainted with the details of my plan , for this reason , that it would have convinced your lordship that no such allegations could ' with truth be brought forward against me ; but it would lie indecorous for me to relate uny ^ story which might by some b « attributed to a wish on my part to put myself forward as the hero of a romantic tale , when I feel I stand here as a criminal for having outraged the law of the country . "" Mr . Garden ' s address was mot . t attentively listened to , and seemed to impress every one present . " The sentence was two years' imprisonment , with hard , labour . The accomplices will not be tried urrtil the next assizes .
Great efforts -will be made to affect our " secret police" —that is , the Home-office—in Mr . Garden ' s favour , and to obtain an alleviation of his sentence . A correspondent of the Cork Examiner , writing from Clonmel , speaks of the truly Irish indignation of the county that Mr . Carden has not escaped : — '" The majority of your readers will learn , I have no doubt , with very considerable surprise , that a strong sympathy is manifested in this neighbourhood for Mr . Carden . This feeling is not , as might bo supposed , confined to the lower classes , who Imvo b « en constantly accusod of this tenderness for grout criminals , but is generally felt by persons in u much higher class of life . It ia quite easy to uscertuin that this exists , as the trial and tliu circumstances form the sole topic of conversation . I have myself heard several
gentlemen , many of whoso names wero on the county panel , palliating the crime of Mr . Carden , and speaking in strong terms of indignation of what they cull ' tlio persecution , ' oil the part of the Government . A general expression , too , in uae among thto class of persona is ' that ho was too good for lior —that is to Bay , that the personal advantages , high birtl ) , and ^ ood fortune- of Mr , Garden made it rather a corulesconnion on tlio part of that gentleman to run away ¦\ vifcln it lady possossed of thirty thousand poundy' fortune , but who was only tlio daughter of an army clothier ; and they appear to bo rather indignant at her presumption in Imviag an opinion of her own upon tlio subject . Among tho lminbler classes , more particularly tho female portion , ' this fooling exists to a for greater extent uven . Tho old feeling of respect lor aristocratic descent tttill appears to possess u very strong influence upon tho people in this win of tho
-country , and makos them inclined to tnko tho uUo of tho fpntluinan against y lmt they consider tho parvenue ; and a not wliolly-extinguiahod admiration for deeds that ia tho old timea used to be considered gallant , or wcro of a d « r < i-dovil character , inclines them to look with great toleration upon thia mode of wooing a-bi'ido . Tho phrase used by persons ol a move roapeotnblo sank , ' that ho was too ^ ood for her , ' ib repeated with grout energy l > y their poorer » eighb > urs . flay , so strong b thin feeling that tho popular , mid part i-< nUurly tho female popular indiRnntion , wan not uiruinat Mr . JJarduu but ugnlnab ilis « Arbnthnot . 1 have been nnnurod tlmt great tears were entertained lost tho young ludy uhould lie hooted in tho atreotB , and I have myaolf liwnl orowda of a iMxonti in tl * neighbourhood of tho Conrt-houao oxprviu J-TiffK $ ?« Kf . * ™ n shoitld bo i ) itl ° « •* » . . i ir-,, WARniE » lH 9 MAUItIRD . At UW ! Kilkenny Aoaizos another case , winch
excites as much astonishment , has been tried . The report reads like a novel by Fielding . Lord Mountgarret had four sons ; and the action was to try the conflicting claims to the hereditary estates of one of those sons , and a son of one of them . The first son of Lord . Mountgarret was created Earl of Kilkenny , and he died mad or imbecile ; the second died without issue ; the third died leaving a son , or a putative son ; and the fourth , Colonel Butler , contests the property with this offspring of his third brother : —the claim being founded on the alleged illegitimacy of his nephew . This is the third son ' s story : —
" In 1794 , whilst lie was still a young man , Her . ry Butler , who was endowed with great personal attractions , became enamoured of and won the affections of the wife of a gentleman in an adjoining county , who was afterwards created a baronet . He eloped with this lady , and left the country , becoming in consequence virtually an outlaw . After living for a while with Mrs . Harrington he deserted her , and she died in great misery a few years'after in another country . It was difficult to trace his career for some years after that . He next took up the career at Brighton , where he went in the year 1809 . There had been a Colonel Colt-brook , who was possessed of great property in Scotland , and he died in 1809 , leaving a widow , one of the most fascinating women that ever lived , and besides possessed of charms which some would consider more substantial , in the shape of a good jointure .
She was left property wotth froml 20 l ) £ . to 1500 / . per annum , together with £ 007 . for the maintenance of her two daughters whilst they remained children , and 5001 . a year more under the husband ' s will . But this was clogged with the unwise , unjust , and cruel stipulation that she ' should lose all if she ever married again- —a stipulation to which her subsequent errors were perhaps to be entirely attributed . This lady proceeded to Brighton , and could not be long there without attracting general attention . Butler met her , a mutual attachment ensued , which led to a connexion resulting in the birth of a child in the year 1809 . In order to avoid the scandal which would attend a person in her situation , the lady rook the course of burying herself in the solitude of London , taking first a lodging in . Sloane-street , and subsequently in Cadogan-place . She was attended by a faithful servant named Sarah Stride , whom she had reared from
infancy , and was much attached to . Butler , for the sake of appearances , did not live with her , but was a constant visitor , frequently dining , and stopping to sleep , without the privacy of any one but Sarah Stride . In 1809 or 1810 the child was bom in C . adogan-pla-ce : it died soon after , and the intimacy of Butler and Sirs . Colebrook continued . She agaiu became pregnant in London towards the close of the year 1810 , and they then resolved to go to Edinburgh , apparently with the view of being privately marriod , in order to render their offspring legitimate , whilst at the same time they should keep the marriage secret , in order to avoid the loss of her . jointure and the removal of her daughters by Colonel Colebrook from her care . Great caution was observed in their connexion , as this was the country jn which the lady ' s estate lay , and she was in society where she was known . However , about
proposed for her . On the 3 d September this gentleman , fresh from the arms of Mrs . Colebrooke , went to the parish church of Harroga . te , and there married Miss Harrison . Tho present defendant was the eldest son of that marriage , and if Henry Butler had been married in the previous April in Scotland , in the way described , this last marriage was but a solemn mockery . " [ It is the Attorney-General who is speaking . ] The whole question , therefore , turned on the Scotch marriage law : the doubts arising as to whether Bntler and Mrs . Colebrook ever were married in Scotland . To contrive their separation from one another , on the occasion of his proposals to Miss Harrison , both Butler and Mrs . Colebrook had . sworn
that they never were married , even in the Scotch way . The evidence , the other way , is Taa £ Fs and that of Mrs . Colebrooke ' s maid , — -who , however , at the time of the Miss Harrison negotiation , had signed an affidavit that her mistress -was not married . Taaff and Mrs . Colebrooke were married , and remorse at " the errors of her life" subsequently drove the unhappy woman to insanity . Taaff ' s father found out the matter and disinherited him : and the Scotch Courts becoming apprised of Mrs . Cblebrooke ' s marriage , or marriages , took her property away from , her : —whereupon she sued Taaff in the Consistory Court for a maintenance—Taaff contesting on the ground that she had been previously married .
The evidence is being gene into . On the whole it seems the most remarkable " family" case that has ever occurred , even in Ireland . At St . Albans some Irish , haymakers , a man and a woman , were detected in the act of attempting to bury a child alive ! But they have been allowed to escape . Last week we gave the case of the men taken in women's attire at a dancing- saloon called the Druids'Hall , and charged with " immoral practices . " But the evidence is incomplete , and the fellows have been discharged on their bail . Their defence 13 that they were only masquerading ' . Mr . Herring , solicitor , has stated the ' following case to the magistrates at Marylebone . He appeared on behalf of a woman named Jessie Ross : —
" He stated that about , a month ago the female alluded to was engaged by a . portly-looking fashionably-attired female calling herself Mrs . June Nohnd ,. who kept a Irongham , to do duty as lodge-gate keeper at 7 , Grove-end-road , St . John ' s-wood . She was at all hours of the night required , to admit through the gate carriages containing Mrs- Noland , young girls stylishly attired , and gentlemen . Suspecting tliat immoral practices were being carried on she complained to Mrs . Noland , who requested her to remain si few days longer , alleging , that she was about to lutthe house to a noble lord . He ( Mr . Herring ) was in possession of his name , but he did not in the present stage of the proceedings deem it necessary to mention it . She remained a few days-, when the
the same time another young Irish gentleman had gone to Edinbur gh also . This gentleman was John Taaff' , son of a man of large fortune and ancient family in the countj' of Louth , and lie was possessed of a captivating person and engaging and amiable manners . He made the acquaintance of Ahs . Colebrook , became madl y in lovo with her , and succeeded in supplanting Butler in her good graces , at least when the latter was not present . Towni-ds the cml of 1810 , or beginning of 18 H , Butler was absent , and Taaff supplied his placo with the lady . There had been no occasion to hurry on u marriage between Butler and her , as she had had a miscarriage ; but Butler , either hearing of or suspecting that the lady on whom he looked as his wire , and who was so according to Scutch law , was unfaithful to him , came to Edinburgh in 1811 . It would seem she expected hU arrival , probably from receiving a letter from him , and hud desired
house having been , as she understood , let to the nobleman , and occupation thereof being taken by two young women ( sisters ) who had been brought there , she was told by Mrs . Noland to go to her private residence in a street leading out of Oxford-street , -where she would have a comfortable situa tion in the capacity of a servant . She went there , and in the course of a day or two she could come' to no other conclusion , from all she saw , than that the house was one of the worst description , commonly known by the appellation of a 1 reception' house , and that , instead of' her mistress ' s name being Nolund , us she had represented , it ; was Moore . Gentlemen were in the habit of coming there at all hours of tho day and night . Mrs . Moore very frequently wont out
in a brougham , accompanied by a mnn name ! Marshal ] , who lived at tho said house , and called himself an attorney , and they usually brought back with them some young females- On Sunday night last , according to information which he ( Mr . Herring ) had received from hia client , a gentleman nearly seventy years of age , possessed of considerable property , and called * Old Crazy , ' wus in a room in the ' etitubliahmcnb' witli Mrs . Moore and four young woman , all of them in a state of nature . This scene being witnessed by Mrs . lions , she insisted upon quitting the sorvico at onco , and demanded her wages , as also the restitution of her furniture ; when Mrs . Moore and Marshall said that they had lost some articles , and insisted upon her being searched , in a search which they made , they used her In a very rongli manner . Sho quittqd tlio place , und without loss of time upplicl to him ( Mr . Herring ) , who wrote a letter to Mrs . Mooro demanding tho
furthat he should not bo admitted when ho should come . When Butler arrived at her house there was a still stronger reason for keeping him out , for Tunff was actually with her in licr bed-room at tho thru ? . Bntler had always shared her purse , which his necessities rendered of importance to him , nnd it was probable that his object in coming bnck was to obtain such a marriage as would give him a right to continue to onjoy it , and which would en ; ib ! o him to proclaim Mrs . Colebruoke hi . s wifo before nil tho world , whenever he might wish . When refused admission to tlio house he kicked up a vow after the most approved Irwh fashion , culled hoc his wifo and tho mother ol bin children , and forced his way in , despite of all opposition . In fuot , u scene occurred the like of which no novelist ever conceived , and yet they would prove as clear as light that whnt lie was stating was truth . Whilst Butler was struggling to got in , Tnaftwaa in tho bedroom , if not in bed witlv Mrs . Colebrooke . "
nituro and wages duo , nt tlio same t ' nno stilting that in the event of the dumand not being complied with by eleven o ' clock on Thursday , ho should make [ an application to the inngistrutout the police court . After tho reouipt of tho letter Mnt . Moore , acuornpanied by the ni » n Marshall , wont in a brouglmin to 2 < 1 , Devonshiro-stroofc , Porthuul-Iilace , nt which house Mra . Ross wus lodging . Slio ( Mrs . . toss ) wan absent at tho time , and on her roliirn homo . sho ww mot in tho pnsnaga by Mrs . Mooro , who , nl'tor saying that who hud rooeivod a hitler from a lawyer , nbkoiI hor by tho throat , struck hor violent blows on tho body , and threatened to ntranglo her If hIio exposed hor . Slio called Marshall to oomo and us . iLit her . Mis . Ko *» criod out , « police' m loudly as ulio could , upon which Mm . Mooro and Marshall jumped into tho bruuglmm and drovoofi . A conawlorublo crowd of poraonit limi «« H 0 inbl <« l . Mr . Long grunted a wamuit ngitintit Mr « . Mooro for tho iitmmUt , and « lno u auimnoni ) fur liordet « li > int { Mru . ^ io . is'a property . "
To shorten tho narrative , she and Butler were married ; and then n child wag born . Next comes n still stranger chrepter : — 41 It might bo surmised that Mr . Butler became pressed for money , and wits obliged to got ont of tho way fur n , while ; at nil events they separated after u time , having quarrelled , nnd she went to reside in Edinburgh . 8 ho b ' ocnino ngnin connected with TnulV , nnd knowing hcraolf to bu in Itatlur ' a power , who attempted to escape from him , going in disguiso to Berwick , whoro Tuuu" mot hor , and going privately on
uonr < l a Hmuok tlioy landed at Whitby , in Yorkhhire , whoro they coh <\ bitud tnguthor . In tho nionntinio But lor wont about junnsing lilmsoif < is fiinnurly , nud at . length appeared in lliirrowgnto , where ho went to tho Grcon Dragon Inn , a oolobrated placo for making mutches . There were there at tlio time , u lad y and hor mother , named Harrison , ponscHHod of n lurgo landed estnfco in Yorknhiro ; tho young lady wan un heircMB j and « n object of gnnoral attraction , linmodintoly on hi « arrival HulU-r mot . Mi . ih Hun Shoii at a public nnMembly , nud liuviiig boon introduced to hor by tho Hov . Mr . Urowno , a Kilkenny gontlumiui , ho acquitted hinmolf ho wdl mm hor partner iit tlio duiuo tlmt who lull in lovo with-him , ivnd ho
At tho Ipswich Assizes wo have hud an English Cimlcn caso , only slightly worse;—n rnpo having actually Inmn comniiltod , nnd no matrimony having been contomplnted by way of assuagement . William Moon , " a gciitloinaii of property , was Indicted for feloniously assaulting Mary Anne Huron , in tho
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August 5 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . 727
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 5, 1854, page 727, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2050/page/7/
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