The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-20 00:00:00

SCANDALOUS ASSAULT IN A ,
CARRIAGE.-GALLANT CONDUCT
ENGINE DRIVER.

ROMFORD, firrotuar
At the Romford Petty Sessions
(Friday), before C. Mashiter, Fact., Charles De
and J. 0. Hope, req., Robert William* aged Z
maker, in the service of Mears. Burroughs and pyk
billiaratable-makers, of Soho.equsre, was charged at th,
instance of the Great Eastern Railway Company Truk
indecent and awn= 'malt on a young gut mil
Charlotte Martin, aged 17, a domestic servant, la
service of Mr. John Brown, 227, Shorediteb.
Mr. Wood, from the office of Mr. Ashley,
Hostoe, solicitor to the Great Eastern Railway
egilik
attended to p oseente at the instance of the eompaa;rt
L. Lewis, of Ely-place, appearing for the primer.
Mr. Wood, in stating the cue to the bald,
marked that the peoseontria was an orphan, eed-1,:
the age of 10 to 13, had been brought up at the
ditch Industrial Schools. From the age of 13 she had
out atservice, having been in four situatiom 6.67.*
modest, well.cooducted girl. On Wednesday, ihkca4
bar distress, Mn. Brown, gave her • h%,
go to see her sister, who was in the Shoreditch "
at Brentwood. After spending the day at the ea**
left at S dale* in the evening for the purpose of niter%
home, When she got loth' Brentwood station the melee
who was on the platform accosted her, and there ide.
train in the station she walked with him up the dam,'
to en where it was going. Prisoner asked her ehm,
she lived, bat she did not reply, and he then
" You ought to my that is • very rude quessioi3
ask a lady." The girl then got into a third class mei.
next to the engine by herself. Immediately aftersol
the prisoner get in, end sat beside her, and whet
train started they were alone. As soon u it
started he asked the proseoutrix to kiss hire, anghi
hoe refusal pet his arm round her neck, and crintielda,
kiss her. 8110 moved away from him, and he followed I.
and tried to unfasten her frock, but was unsucoessia ff,
then moved to the seat opposite to her, and acted in a nee
indecent and cowardly manner. In fact, but for the Ad
and daring conduct of the engine driver he would tee
stood at the bar upon a much more serious dm.
than the present. It would be proved that the odd
driver bad observed the conduct of the prisoner hie„ h
got into the carriage. He had three times during the
ney from Brentwood to Bamford, which utopia it
minutes, climbed from his engine on to the beer d
the carriage is which the parties were ; haagieg
the hunp.won. and standing on the buffer, he id
looked into the carriage, and on the two lint ea
melons be had seen the prisoner kissing the pft.
seoutrix„ sod she resisting as well as the ps
terrified girl could. On the third occasion he sow
the prisoner acting in a grossly indecent ease,
and he called upon him to desist, his dress being thm der
ordered. The bench would appreciate the conduct of 68
engine driver when they remembered that he If
grave responsibilities in the care of his train, If
aotwithstanding this he watched over the poor yam
orphan girl, and at the arrival of the train at Bede'
the prisoner was removed from it and sent to the commits
police.akie at Shoreditch. The girl was in • most say
state, and prisoner said he would go down on his 'mew lb
could be forgiven, as he had a wife and four childreo.
The prosecutrii was called, and fully bore out thin*.
meat.
In

she said she had not smiled et fts
prisoner. She did not scratch his hoe because skm
frightened of him.
John Bullock, the engine driver, proved that wheals
last saw the parties and interfered the poor girl was sriss
bitterly, the tears running down her cheeks, and she i
most pitiable condition.
In cross.examination witness said that she was deuiyul
• consenting party. He did not interfere before, how
there was not any attempt at indecency, and Its la,
engine to attend to.
Al ter the evidenee,
Mr. Lewis, for the defence, said that although Ids did
had been guilty of gross misconduct, the proeeentrir
been a consenting party. lie urged the bench saheb
discharge the prisoner or send him for trial, where he soil
oertsinly be acquitted.
The bench considered the offence fully proved, and Issi
the prisone! 201., which was paid at once.
The engine driver received a great compliment ferns
manner is which he had attended to his duty and the ;a,
tection of a defenceless young girl.

The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and lay
Emily Villiers oome to town next week from The Gnus,
wear Watford, for the sewn.

The death is announced of Lady Charlotte Elia.
bath Osborn. Her ladyship, who was born in 1811,in
the fourth daughter of the Ooanten of Antrim aid la
Mark Kerr, and was married in 1835 to Sir George field
Osborn, Bark.

The weekly meetings of the members of the Bowl
Institution oowmenoed yesterday evening for the mu
on which oenseion Professor Tyndall delivered a lents:, II
a crowded audience, " On Radiation and Absorption, eY
reference to the colour of bodies and their state of swop
tin)."

It is stated that Mr. G. G. Scott will erect is
new buildings that are required for Glasgow Uniting,.
The site of the new works will be Gilmore Hill.

It is understood that the Rev. C. Pritchard
mowed Mr. De La Sae so President of the Astroeoniel
Society.

On Thursday evening, in accordance with as
annottomemout extensively placarded throughout Dahlia'
some days past, the ladies of the " Appeal Fund Our
mitten" held a bazaar in the theatre of the Module
Institute for the benefit of the Willa of the Poise
sonars. It was stated the bazaar was under the Wimp
of the Head Centre's wife, but, be this as it ram, the pa
medley passed off in a quiet and orderly manor.
A decree of the penal section of the crimineJ
tribun►l of Ventos, published in the official Oaxne d
that province, hu forbidden the sale of "labor*
prints, coloured or not coloured, representing is runs
sizes Victor Emmanuel, Garibaldi. and the Mahn d
Italy, as well as the battles of Boileau°, Magna, NI
Montebello, sad the geographical map of the kingdom d
Italy in which are comprised, as part of the seine, Valk
Istria, Trieste, the Tyrol, and Dalm►tia."
Every year the numbers who,fiock to the glob
and colleges of both the state and the mimics's/is,
aspire to university honours, increase all over Lida, 10
especially in Bengal. A few weeks ago the seem,
hall of the floe new post-office in Calcutta, built Mow
the Black-bole, was crowded with the university cad
dates as only the examination-rooms in Chins are lli
There were 1,500 candidates for matricniatioe at or slos
the ego of 16, and 447 uodergraduates of two yew latui
log for the little go, called here the first examinatios
arts. The following week there would be 120 avail
Bachelors of Arta, besides Masters of Art', sad those
eY
seek protensional degrees. But among the would-In blob
lon there is not ore Musulman. The Bogdan me
where predominate in the proportion of four-fifths Cl
whole. .

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The Rev. Daniel J. Draper, whose name is Fr
mineot in the narratives of the loss of the Loodoo, col
Wesleyan minister of Andrei* who came to this coast!
eight months ago as representative of the Methodist Cs'
femme of Australasia to the Wesleyan Conference of SO
Britain. In his native county (Hampshire), in Wolk
and Beetles& as well as in London and in other owl"
Epees& he endeared himself to a large circle of Meal,
his geoid disposition and his able public ferric*. 0
wife, who is also much lamented, wee the daughter of
•
of the first missionaries to Tahiti, who tailed by the ill
Duff at the sad of the last century. Mr. Draper WO
oily one see, now resident in Australia.
The secretary of the South Eastern Rainlß
explains, with regard to the complaint of the meted
Godateue, that those who attended the late prize fitti_!ll2
by the ordinary parliamentary train, and that the awl
knew nothing whatever of their intentions. Bata
running a train which by law they are compelled telex
the directors rendered no assistance and gave so lactic
whatever to the prize fight as alleged. " And in fact,"t
Mr. Smiles, "they were no more responsible for the or
than the rector of Gaston, himself."
DEATH OF MR. Jolts GIBBON, R.A.—We fife
received intelligence of the death of Mr. John Gilboa ""
eminent sculptor, who expired on Sunday bud, at "
after a short bat severe illness. Since the death of CIO!
and Tisorwaldsen Mr. Gibson may be considered the."
justly celebrated sculptor of the present day. Be al.
native of Liverpool.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOIIIO
=EOM What—Yeeday, Entomological. 7 Gccfr!,,.
at 84, "Explorations in N. W. Australia," M1,1;11
"Claps York, Australia," Mr. Jardine. Ty
_,,40111, 44,
Inditudee, 3, " Heat," Protestor ?yodel' ; Zoccc"'"
The Markhoer (owns esegaceros)," Dr. Marie ;"I"'"—„,„,e
of Birds in the So's Avian.," Mr. Bartlett ;
eat
Canaries," Dr. Hartlanb ; Ethnological, 8. t"
Wands." Etr E. Bather ; " Vila to hesif:g
goolans." Dr. Caddy ; Enemas, 8. M.
of Oseeente "Creiggelleolde Viaduct. mr. e-ris
Wadmoder. Sestete of Aria. 8 ; Gado, ;
Geology; Kr. Gedwis.Aostee ; " Origin of eseteis.
' braise. N. Zealand," Mr. haven ; ArchsoolOPO4
Liter64-11ft• Thursday, Royal fusillades, 3.
Pref. Tynew • Aetiquarise„ 84; Royal, .8i r"."...10
Regal lattittdoc. " Seeress of the Niles
...__""--bje
Saturday, Royal Inditetiee, 3, "Art Eductt"'";
I Works of Art should be viewed," ProL Westansodt.

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