The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-01-14 00:00:00

BRE DPORT.

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RAYS ON A COILD.—OU Saturday lad, Joseph
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W. Wh, thorn, sod W. Hal'. &qrs., °horror' with
ooMmitting • rape no his master's daughter, Elisabeth
Anne Coo, ten years of ore. Mr. Leggin prosecuted,
nntf dt: P:P.r returned
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theirab onui t'th. e
t:s e.rl;:etanhb h itihDe i December,evening. inei thern. gm.rns
dodr Theynltag.:
and the other six, • toadiservabnh tlasaTirdh:per.iaoarets:e:rned. The
youngest was sway from eleven till two. The
-errant (Jots Broke, a girl of 15) was employed
cleaning • bedroom in the front put of the house. and
the child for • dustpan, telling her it wooing room over
tVhieiz'kbeitothenA,nwnheeCreoxknwiasveswaintdh
adjoining prisoner's bedroom. Before the srvaat um-
rnenced her work she saw ;orison* rin that room. Tbe
little girl did not return directly, but the servant says
she did not take any Tootles of that, thinning she had
gone Into o neighbour's honae, where she wu in the
habit of going. On her bringing beck the duitpon she
did not say anything, nor wu there anything
particular in her appeitrainee.—Tne ebild was too
ill that it was deemed advisable to go to
Hr. Cox', boue to take her deposition. She
stated that on going up for the dustpan, the
Prisoner took her into his room, foroed her down, and
committed the sunsuit charged upon her. He then
threatened to murder her if she told any one of it.
Terrofied by his threats which be afterwards reputedly
renewed, tho child told no 0136 what had taken nitivi
She became so ill that she was obliged to remain itt bed,
i and then the poor little thing asked Hrs. Con, "Illonnuo
1 Joe (the prisoner) con't hurt use now, can her which
led io the outrage being &louvered. This was about
the 24th December. Hr. Douala., surgeon, was called
I to attend her, and discovered that she had been assaulted
. with violence, and bad hai communicated to her
1 the venereal diera-e. He has been in constant at.
tendon°e upon her stoop, but she is in a dangerous
stole. On the 31st December Mr. Cox woo informed
of toe nature of her illness, when the prisoner waa
examinedby me. Detsiiiice, and found to be suffering
1 from the same disease. The someday he cut his throat,
but it woo sawn up, and he was given into custody. He
I l.a short thickset young man, and bore hins•elf with
Imuch confidence. His thicsat seemed to be quite well.
1 On being cautioned, the prison r stated that what he
boll done t i the child was at the request of the servant
girl, and with ths will of the child, and that the servant
• stood by. He culled Gad to witneu this was true, and
said he looped he might be struck dud if it was not.
This fearful oath he repeated twina.—The servant girl
, denied having any knowledge of the offalr.—Prisoner
was committed for trial at the anises

PIIIIITZI) sad Published for the Proprietors, at their
Ofeoe, Church-street, Dorchester, by FISIMILICII GILL
Poor. of the Porion of Fordingioe, in tin. Oosaty of
Donlon.
Twolay, January 14, mat

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