The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-30 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS•

(Before J. K. Johnson, Bp., Chaining.)
=ICI= iIIIL&CILT 11111. • ILAILWAT CARRIACJI,

Henri Nark a well-ateared 'Lod. respeetablerleakiag
middle-aired ma, yea indicted for hems, as the 6th July
eoramilted aa indecent assault epos owe Mary Moody.
Is a woad count the ciefesdaat was charged with s corn-
MOD moult.

itob7eson, with whom was Mr. Rates, appeared
(instructed by Mr. L. Crumb* the solicitor to the !.Dodos
snd Boeth•Westsrn flailintyCeaspany) for the promotion ;
the wowed was &leaded by Yr. 810gh and kb. J.
Tbompsoe (instructed by lb. Bre, of Aldershett).
Mr. Robinecs, is opening the teas ea the part of the pro.
secutioe, stated that the young lady who less the somplets.
sat was the daughter of a very respectable patlesnao,
baldish. the DM* of curator of the museum at Wise/meter,
sad that she was ou her return bonus from a visit into Suf-
folk, whither she had bees for the benefit of bar health.
db. took her ticket at the Waterloo SUitiolll of the Loudon
and South Western Railway Company in order to continue
ber homeward journey, when the assault complained of was
alleged to bate been committed under the circumstances
detailed in evidence. _ _

The prosisentrix, a lady-like persoaage, apparently shoat
19 years of age, bat wearing apostasies, having bees sworn,
stated, is reply to interrogatories put by Mr. Ribtse, that
ea Wednesday, the 6th July natant, she left the Waterloo
stake by • mooed clam carries of the 1.10 Main. The de-
readmit mitered the same carriage shortly after alie had
takes her mat, and offered to place the parasol she held in
her head on the seat opposite that she was compyieg. She
declined to allow him to do so, and the defendant then
opened • conversation with her by asking her the reason why
she wore specteclea. She replied that she bad always &me
so. mother female got into the carriage, and the defendant
appeared to have dropped off to sleep, and nothing further
transpired until the female referred to left the trails at the
Barham station. The deftodeat then questioned her as to
bow old she was, but she did not answer his inquiry. The
defendant then laid himself full length on the seat opposite
to her, and there remained staring her full in the face. The
prosecutrix then stated that she began to feel nervous, and
rose from her mat to open the window of the carriage with a
view to get out, the train at that moment having
scarcely got into !notice. The defendant said, "Do
not get out," and she closed the door and
remand her seat. The defendant wanted to close
the window, but she (witera) obiected, and stood up
to prevent his doing so. Whilst she was making the attempt
to open the window, she felt the defendant's band upon her
shoulder. She moved as if annoyed, and immediately after-
wards she felt his arm round her waist. She moved agars,
sod thee he pot his hand quite round her waist, and then
she felt her dress quietly raised in frost. She (wither)
then turned round, and taking up her parasol and lag,
opened the carriage door and got out upon the ledge
that runs from one carriage to another. Some one palled
her by the waist, and she found herself is mother
earringgs,w but that wee after she had been carried a
cassiderable distance, hanging on by the iron work of
the tentage, and hold up by a gentleman named Stokes sad
&young man lamed Young. Them parties gave an shrug,
and the train was stopped by the guard, and she was pet
into another carnage, and on arriving at the Farnboreegb
station she save the defendant into custody on the chugs of
as indecent meanft.

The promeetrix woe rigidly eromeamaired by Mr. Sleigh,
bat stable( was eilented to Make bar digest teetiosey.
Hr. Henry Stokes, military bootee/rd Govestry.street,
Haymarket, was alao exassised, sod osemberand the testi.
gooey of the preescutrix so far as related to his isterfensee
for the relief sad meth el the young lady. Tbe testammay
ef Job. Towle fay established the presidia' evideace, and
that of Jobs Itsdahaw, the guard of the tram is questiou,
Hoary Crook, the woad guard of the teals, sad Ausfas

Whitlock, of of the Bests assetabalary, to whom the
deteadaut was given in chore at Paraboroagh.
Yr. Sleigh addressed the lard cm behalf of the defendant,
i - %mos their eoseiderstios that the complainant might
have bees alarmed, aod that all the defeadaat had does 111Aa
to ramie her, se others had doom, from the perilous
walks is wilt& the bad platted herself is a moment of
Demon exelteateat. _

Tited;fendantreesived • good character from most
respectable witnesses.
The jury, theta deliberation of twenty minutes, returned
a verdict of Ostuty on the second count of the indict-
ment, that for • common assault.
The Chairman sentenced the defendant to be imprisoned
and kept to hard labour for the term of nine calendar
months.