Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-29 00:00:00

some time had

17th Janne'ry, and doxir

there up to u

with whiche was charged was alleged to
en committed With John Charles Browne, a little
vn of Daniel 'Charles Browne, the

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prosecutor. The little boy was called, and proceeded to de-
scribe 'the committing of the crime. Daniel Charles
Browne was called, -and said he -was a- professor of
music residing in tiverpool. Thu prisoner 'had re-
sided at his house up to the 17th ' January last.
Mr. Mann had beentengagecl by him on an understanding

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that he.was to get E. greater portion of his earnings for
whatever he weadqlo for him. ,On his •hearing of the
offence, he went to Mr. Mann the next day and charged
him with corruption • one of his children, and ordered him to
leave the house instanter. Mrs. Browne said, better to
give-him his things, but the piisoner made answer that he
-wanted nothing, as he had a razor. The prisoner
sent the prosecutor a letter' asking to be forgiven,
and when he , would see him again he would
End him to be an altered man. He asked in the letter to
nis tnings that might go on with his
engage

_ .
its, though'he knew Mr. BrOwne could stop them.
not call on Mr. Browne, but requested a meeting
at the Landing-stage, or to leave a note at the Victoria
Hotel. The letter went on,—" What shall I do ? I shall
be ruined. I will always think of you, and never forget
you,—!but do see me." The greater part of the earnings of
the prisoner was put into the hands of Mrs. Browne, and when
he wanted money he had to get it from her. Mr. Browne
made most of the engageMents for the prisoner. The week
before the prisoner had been suffering from rielerium
tremens. The learned counsel for the defence ad-

Be lic

dressed the jury in ari able speech, remarking
that it•was a charge of the most serious consequence to the
prisoner. It was a very. hard thing for the prisone
to collect his senses so as to offer a proper defe,--
crowded court, and if he did address them he was not
alloived to give one word of his statement of the case, while
they were obliged to listen to the story of the prosecution.
—Under these circumstances, it would be their duty to
examine, most carefully, the whole of the evidence, and
when they had examined it, if they saw the slightee-
to doubt as 'to whether the charge was true, it would be their
duty —and he was sure in such a case it would be a pleasing
duty—to discharge the prisoner. He contended that
they could not put much confidence in the evidence.
He held that the letter, or that portion of it in which the
prisoner admitted to be in the power of the prosecutor, was
not on account of his criminality, but his being thrown
-upon the world without a penny, or even his things, to
allow him to go on with his engagements. His Lordship
summed up, and the jury, after a short deliberation,
returned a verdict of "Not Guilty."

;e in a

t reason

SECOND COUNT.

The jury were resworn, to try the prisoner on a secon
charge of having committed a like offence on Robert S. Brown(

seven years of age,. and son of Daniel Charles Browne. The
child was examined, and gave similar evidence to that of
his brother. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty in
this case also. The third count was not gone into, and the

prisoner was discharged.
RAPE.—Thomas Tomlinson, aged 56, was placed at the
bar, charged with having, on the 26th February las
milted a ra
Cross prosecuted

A Oldham, on Eliza Tomlinson

Mr. K. A.
was undefended. In this

The prison

case. the prisoner was the father of the prosecutrix. Thu
girl had been for some time suffering from a pain in tlu
chest, and was subject to fits. On the day in q
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prosecut

the pris
The prosecutrix became fright
one of the fits. In the fits she is perfe _
id on that occasion she retained her senses,
in such a state as not to be able to mak(
nor conip?..t,.°!ltit(A):2l,Pasgis?,(n(q

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and went into

ly con-

scious,
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that the pr
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