The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-13 00:00:00

BENUMB STUMM AGATES'S A TRADESMAN.

John Fmk, a confectioner, was charged with a rape
upon Ann Maria Kennington.
Mr. Cherry and Mr. Graham appftred for the prose-
cution ; Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., Mr. Metcalfe, and Mr. Sims
Reeve for the prisoner.
This was a case which excited considerable interest in
this town, in consequence of the position of the prisoner,
who keeps a shop in Tavern-street, the principal street in
the town, and who has relatives who are also tradespeople
in Ipswich.
The prosecutrix is a young girl sixteen years of age, and
in the early part of this year she went into the pnsoner's
service as • general servant. On Sunday the Bth of
March last the prisoner's wife went to London, and the
prosecntrix was left alone in the house with the prisoner,
and according to her account he asked her to take tea with
him in the evening, and after tea committed the offence
with which he was charged in the room upstairs in which
they were sitting. Two females slept in the house that
night, but she made no complaint to them, nor did she
complain to the shop-woman or the laundress who were
at the house the next morning, but she saw her aunt in
the afternoon and told her what she alleged had occurred,
and she took her away from her place.
In cross-examination the proeecutrix contradicted many
of the statements she had made before the magistrates,
and it was elicited that some overtures had. been made
with a view to a compromise.
Mr. O'Malley addressed the jury at great length on be-
half of the prisoner, contending that there was no truth
in the girl's Amy ; and after a very careful summing up
the jury Acquitted the prisoner.

CROWN COMT. —Avner It
(Before the Lord Chief Justice.)
ELNILIIIPICY

The Lord Chief Justice sat this morning and disposed
of the last case, which occupied nearly the whole day.
George Gosling was charged with several offences under
the Bankruptcy Act, the charges mainly relied on being
that he, having been adjudicated bankrupt on his own
petition, made a fraudulent and untrue statement of the
amount of his pr ; and that shortly before and after
his adjudication he of his property, with intent
to defraud his creditors.
Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Graham appeared for the prosecu-
tion ; Mr. Reeve defended the prisoner.
It appeared that the prisoner was adjudicated bankrupt
on the 14th of July, 184,6, and that he then swore that the
value of his property, including cash in hand, was only
201. The proceedings in bankruptcy were not proceeded
with at that time, and it was not until early this year
that he attended before the county court judge to pan
his examination. It then appeared that on the 7th July
he was in on of money and goods to the value of
nearly 1 06/., and on the 9th of that month everything was
cleared out of his shop. The county court judge there-
upon directed this prosecution to be instituted. The
case was very clearly proved against the prisoner, and the
jury having found him Guilty,
The Lord Chief Justice made acme strong remarks on
the dishonesty of such frauds as these, which he said were
calculated more than anything else to injure the commer-
cial community, and he sentenced the prisoner to twelve
calendar months imprisonment.
This case concluded the business of the Norfolk Circuit.