abduction, he went into Miss Glenn's room
to tell her that Mrs. Tuckett was unwell,
and found her gone. He instantly sent
off express in all directions, aroused the
servants to open the gate, that he might go
in pursuit, and said:

"You are all detaining me to prevent my
going. She would not have attempted it
by herself: she was not bold enough."

They all loudly protested their innocence,
and declared they knew nothing at
all about the matter. Soon after this, however,
Mary Whitby confessed the truth, on
a promise of forgiveness. She told him
Miss Glenn had gone off with James Bowditch,
and that she had heard her say that
she would poison herself, if she could not
have him. He then said to the servants:

"Convince me of your innocence by
going directly to Holway, and bringing
back my niece."

On the afternoon of that day he met a
woman (Mrs. Mulraine), who seemed much
agitated; she held a note in her hand, and
asked him if he had heard of his niece. She
then informed him that she was a mere
visitor at the Bowditches, and that she
had come down out of friendship to tell
him his niece was at Thornford. He then
went straight to his solicitor.

Mary Whitby, the servant implicated in
the elopement, or the abduction, whichever
it might be, swore very hard. She pleaded
that she had acted in the whole matter to
please James Bowditch. It was at the desire
of Jane Marke, she said, that she told Miss
Glenn she must go away with James Bowditch,
or that he would certainly murder
her. James Bowditch also pressed her to
make Miss Glenn like him, and so did
William Bowditch; Mrs. Mulraine also
intreated her. James Bowditch spoke of
his love for Miss Glenn, and she heard Mrs.
Bowditch say (all in the same tone) that
she did not know what had come to James.
Jane Marke had told her the day Miss
Glenn was to be carried off; on the afternoon
of that day, James Bowditch met
her at the turnpike, and asked her to leave
Mr. Tuckett's front door open that night.
Coming home from church, Jane Marke
told her that she had a letter from Mrs.
Mulraine for Miss Glenn, and that she
(Mary) must leave Miss Glenn's door open
that night, and also the back-parlour window.
She could do it in a minute, and prevent
any noise being made. Jane Marke
also said that, when asked about it, they
must have a stare on their countenances,
or else they would all be hanged. Cross-examined:
She had never heard Miss
Glenn say that she wished Mrs. Bowditch
to teach her how to be a farmer's wife.
When they marked Miss Glenn's stocking
with a B., it was by Jane Marke's desire,
not by Miss Glenn's.

The Reverend Blakely Cowper, surrogate
to the Dean of Salisbury, deposed
that, on the 18th of September, James
Bowditch came for a marriage licence.
He swore (after a little hesitation) that the
lady was twenty-one, and signed the bond.

The first witness for the defence, John
Oxenham, an attorney of Taunton, who
had succeeded to Mr. Kinglake's business,
denied Miss Glenn's evidence in toto. He
had never shown her a document in Greek,
or any other language. He had never seen
the lady till Mr. Leigh brought her to his
predecessor's office in January. He had
not been to Bowditches' house in September.
Mr. William Bowditch had come
to him in that month and mentioned his
brother's intended marriage. The witness
then produced two most damnatory letters
of Miss Glenn's—one beginning " My dear
James," and asking him to buy the licence,
and the other directed to Mrs. Mulraine,
fixing a secret interview at half-past twelve
at night. The authenticity of both these letters
Miss Glenn, however, solemnly denied.

A great many persons from the neighbourhood
of the Bowditches' farm were
then called. There was plenty of evidence,
clearly proving that James Bowditch and
Miss Glenn had been much together, and
apparently as lovers. One farmer had
seen them walking together " as though a
little in the sweetheart way." A gardener
had seen them together in French Weir-lane.
A third man, who was much tormented
by the counsel, because he had been drinking
with the Bowditches before the trial,
deposed to seeing Miss Glenn run out of
Mr. Tuckett's house after James Bowditch,
take his arm and walk off. But a Mrs.
Priest, a relation of Mrs. Mulraine, proved
more than all the rest, and her statement,
if not refuted, settled the matter. She
said that Miss Glenn occasionally called on
Mrs. Mulraine, and once came and inquired
if James Bowditch was there. Miss
Glenn and James Bowditch called together
once, and walked away together. Witness
remembered the christening of Mrs. Mulraine's
child. Miss Glenn and Betsy Bowditch
were the godmothers, and James
Bowditch was godfather. The church at
which the christening took place was St.
Mary Magdalene.