Another long investigation into Mrs. Cullum's ease took place before
Mr. Hardwicke on Wednesday. Mr. Steel appeared on behalf of Mrs. Cullum, and Mr. Roberts for the accused party. Facts with which the reader is already acquainted were restated with much minuteness. Mr. Lmnley, who offered to give bail for the offender, said— lie rode from Romlbrd to Stratford on a second-rate train : on arriving at Stratford, on the evening of the 13th November, he heard the charge made against the accused; amid, believing then that it was a frivolous and unjust one, he proffered his assistance to the accused, who was a perfect stranger to him. Ile, however, thought he had seen him at the King's Head at Romfbra on that day; and finding dint he had known several friends of his, and on his representation that he was in the habit of hunting with Lord Petre's hounds, he believed him to be a respectable man ; and thus it was he had offered to bail him.
Thomas Hays, Inspector of the Railroad Police, said, that after the gentleman had been about ten minutes at Captain Petty's house, Mr. Lumley came up in a fly, and on getting out, he shook hands with the accused, and said, "Well, old fellow, I ant very glad you got over this unpleasant affair," or some such expressions.
Mr. George Jones, landlord of the Swan Tavern, had seen the gentle• man since the " outrage" on Mrs. Cullum. Since that time he calia twice at his house ; having driven there in a handsome stanhope, and hi the company of a lady. his turn-out on both occasions was that of a gentleman ; but Mr. Jones had not the slightest knowledge as to who he was.
Mr. Stafford, a resident in Stratford, was at the Swan, and in com- pany with the unknown culprit, on the night of the 13th November—
On one occasion the accused and himself had been left alone in the room, the constables and others haying withdrawn. Addressing the accused, he subl.
" I say, old boy, I have nothing to do with you, and they all appear to have bolted, and if 1 was you Ed bolt too." To which he replied, " 1 have nothing to fear; have done nothing to be alarmed about, and I dual see why I should bolt." • It viar,proved that Mrs. Cullum was gayly dressed ; that She ex- change&lier second-class for a first-class ticket, that she might go in the same carriage with the stranger;' that she made no noise that 'was beard by persons in the adjoining carriage ; and that her dress was in no way disordered when she got out. It appeared that a person who bad gone with her to Captain Pelly's, and given his name as Mr. Cul- lum, was not her husband, (who was absent from town,) but Richard Kinun, a merchant's clerk, who lodged in the same house. And this witness, who gave evidence very unwillingly, was forced to confess, that Mrs. Cullum had showed him her thighs, from which some of the flesh had been torn off.
Mrs. Cullum herself being called in, declined making a charge against any of the persons connected with the railway. There, for the present, the matter ended.
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