The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-04-09 00:00:00

IMMORAL MOINES : SHOCKING
DISCLOSURES.

At the Liverp ol Police Court, Friday, two women
and a man and hi. wife were charged with keeping
h•ittese of ill-fame under the guise of temperance
hotels. It was sated that thew houses were on the
increase in the borouzh. In giving evidence in one of
the cases • police superintendent sail he had visited
the houses at night, and found some people drinking
champion,' in a front room. One of the persons said
he bad paid 10s. for it. There wee In moat. room •
ckcent looking, respectable girl, to all appearance, wh-
was not an ahandoned woman. She said she came
thirst.. meet • geittlensau loam, iiittuittit. In another
room was a girl whams behaved to he respectable, but
she was with • man. She told warless that she wag
engaged to the "gentleman." and that while th-y
were out walking he suggested they should go in and
have a cup of tea. She txmaenteil. and then discovered
she had been brought into a bedro on Witness hal
MOM to believe her Oory. In another roo n witness
found • barmaid from an hotel, and with her a man
of good means, well known in town. A widow, who
was a mother of two children, and in agood monetary
maition, was also there. Then, in other rooms there
were some of the lowest women of the town, and they
admitted that they cane to use the house as a
brothel. There was besides a young girl sod 10, key 4
In the house. The prosecqtin n iicitot said no
profits of theo homes were enormou. and the inspec-
t., add.d that there were tiOieLl in the neighbourhood
tehionotreet, • respectable locality. •I'he
stipen-
diary said he should commit the priamen for trial if
the came was contested. This new plum* of an evil
most be put down ; and after thi• notice, which he gave
million, if any case of this kind was brou,ltt before
him of persons carrying on brothels under the guise of
✓efreshment-houses, be would send the parties for
trial. This notice would be final. The prisoners
would be reminded for a week. !lfr. Button asked
for a remand for 10 ilays, but Hr. RAW replied that
he would not give • day more than ,even. The police
were instructed to bring up all the offenders. and they
would be committed. The prisoners were then
remanded for a week to giee up the houses, their
recognizanose being taken in £2O each.

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A FARMER.
At the Somerset Amite', before Mr. Justioe Grove,
°cove Deakin, a tall, middle-aged man, • farmer of
Nailam. surrendered to his bail to answer the serious
charge of committing a rape on Phae'm Jones —Mr.
Hooper prosecuted, awl stated the girl was for some
time an inmate of the Bedminster worth otes, and in
the early part of last year was placed out in the
service of the prisoner, who was a married man, but
his wife was • cripple. The prisoner was charged
with ravishing the girl on two °maniocs, one as long
back as last Whitsuntide. Immediately after the
offence slm told her mistress what had occurred, but
the difficulty in the case was that neither for her nor
against her husband could the wife's evidenoe be re-
oeived,—Phtebe Jones, a little girl, about 15. gave her
evidence In chief, in • clear and modest manner.
According to her account the prisoner came to her on
the first occasion as she was lighting the fire, and with.
out saying a word, thr w her down and perpetrated
the crime. She went at once to the prisoner's wife,
but she continued in the prisoner's service until the
offence was committed a second time, and she did not
return to the workhouse until August—ln mom-
examined= by Mr Carter, the said she went to the
prisoner's site in January. The prisoner slept at his
mother's, and came to his wife's once • week. The
house was • email cottage. She did On scream.
because she could hardly breathe, but she cried and
then be got op. She told him she would tell his
wife, and he said she might tell everybody—he didn't
care. The first offence took place in May, and the
other in June, and she did not tell anyone at the
workhouse until August, when she went nack.—ln
re-examination, she said the reason she did not tell
any other person than her mistress, was became her
mistress told her not to do Wk—Mr. Carter had never
heard • case which, supposing part of it was true,
more clearly spoke consent The girl passed the
street, the church, the neighbour'; and yet said
nothing Upon her entirely unsupported statement
this Knee charge meted. He did not 1.04 to repeat
what was said in the books, ages ago, but they knew
IL was in these came laid down that it was • charm
easy to make and difficult to rebut; that it should be
corroborated ; that there should be some amount of
resistance—the hinds and nails could do a great, deal
in sorb came and that the ch tree should not be a stale
one. He analysed, with considerable skill, the words
used by the girl, and deduced from her Language that
she most have had precocious knowledge of matters
about which virtuous girls are ignorant. He declared
• the words of Byron applicable to this cam—
A little still she strove, and then repeated,
i And whispering she would weer consent—consented.
The prisoner had had this charge hanging over his
head ethos August last; be had been liberated on bail
and he had surrendered to meet and rebut this accu-
sation, and Mr. Carter asked the jury to protect, bon
against charges which dedgoing women and forward
girls were but too ready to make.
The Judge, said the prosecutrix was of an age when
the law presumed her able to exercise her own wilL
If younger, consent would be of no avail, but if she
had commuted, the charge would not be maintained.
He left the jury to say whether they believed the
girl's statement, end whether the full offence, or an
assault only, had been committed. After a few
comideatios. the jmry hound • vadat of
*! Osilty."