Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-18 00:00:00

offence ?

Mr. Aspinall

:about two hours after. But beyond
this, there was some difficulty, and I will admit that I
am left in some difficulty about it. The girl states
that she made some resistance, but, in that I shall not,
except as far as I have stated. be able fn

her statement. There was a'. cellar unde;;:th—il;
parlour. A woman lived in that cellar; that woman
was examined before the magistrates when the prisoner
was committed, but she has sines died, and, strange to
say, I do not know the reason why her deposition had
not been sent down, but I shall not object to its being
read. But if, as I think, you will believe the state-
ment for -the prosecution, you can have no doubt of the
offence having been'committed, but that will be for you.
to decide after hearing the evidence I shall call.
Ellen Ball, the prosecutrix, was then called, and was
examined. She said, lam eighteen years old. I live
at 5, Blackstock-street. Last April I was unwell. On
the 29th I was taken by my mother to the Homceo-
pathic Dispensary, Harford-street. Ile prescribed for
me. I went for the physic. The next evening I went
again, about twc

nnutes past seven. It was on the
Boyd went with me. My mallet
r the door. when

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the pr

could say if the offence had been attempted, it had rest
been completed.
His Lordship : I don't know what you think of ehis
case, but I don't see what can he made of it after that.
Mr. Aspinall : I am in your hands, my lord.
His Lordship : It is for the jury, not for me, to
decide.
The Foreman of the Jury :My lord, we are of your

His Lordship : Let the prisoner be dischamed.
Mr. Aspinall : I feel it my duty to say that I sissuld
have called an officer, who would have told `•ou that
the deceased woman had stated she (lid not hear any
noise, and he won} add that if the prosecutor had
made any resistance, she must have been heard, as he
had examined the place, and would hear the slightest
noise. _ _

Mr. Sowler : And I can say that the prisoner has
borne the highest possible character, and since he had
been in the town, chrtti done a very great deal of good. -
The prisoner was then discharged.

RAPE ON A TITTLE GIRL AT LIVERPOOL,
John Rone, aged ti 3, a porter, was indicted for haling,
at Liverpool, on the 22nd May last, assaulted and
ravished his own daughter, Jane Hone, a little girl aged
nine years. This was a very brutal case. The jury
found the prisoner. .gnilty of the principal offence. Sen-
tence deferred. The prisoner was removed from the

gentlemen

I am as annocent

ATTEMPTED RAP:

s the child tiaboni."

AT LIVEAPOOI

James Mawddey, -aged 18, was indicted for having,
at Liverpool, onthe 2nd March last, feloniously assaulted
and ravished Elizabeth Langton.
The prpsecuttix isn married woman. The offence was
alleged b have been committed on the 2nd- of March
last, but no charge ,was brought against the.prisoner

until the end of the following. June.
The jury returaed,a verdict of guilty of attempting
to commit a rape. sentence deferred.

NIANSLAVGIITER AT LIVERPOOL

Alice ill'Alister,l2, was indicted for having, :at Liver-
pool, on the 21st of Nfay last, feloniously killed Sarah

Mr. Brett appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Littler for the defence. 1311 Saturday evening, the 21st
of May last, the deceased, the wife of William Eva-as,
residing at No. 5 Canrt, Blenhicm-street, was preparing
supper, when the prisoner came in and sat down in the
house. The prisoner was intoxicated, and the prose-
cutor desired her to leave the place. She refused, and
he thereupon put her out. She came back again in a
violent passion, took up a candlestick, and threw it
at the prcsecutor. Tree prisoner then seized a large

delph ornament that eras on the chimney piece, aiid
hurled it at the head of the deceased. A lighted candle
was extinguished while the prisoner was in the
reaching another candlestick, and the place was then in
darkness. A struggle was heard, and when ali

brought in by a neighbour, the prisoner was found on
the body of the deceased, holding her by the hair of her
head, and blood was seen flowing from the temples of
the deceased. A medical man was called in, and he
dressed the wound. 'rho skull was found to be frac-

tured and the brain lacerated. The deceased wa3 con-
fined to her bed, and slie died in about a week.

For the defence it was alleged that the wound was
inflicted by the husband with a poker while endeavour-
ing to get his wife away from the prisoner._

'The -jury found they prisoner guilty. Sentence d
ferred.

WOUNDING AT LIVERPOOL.
Ellen Langley, aged 40, was indicted for having, at
Liverpool, on the 10th July last, feloniously assaulted
William Whittaker, with intent to do him some griev-

ous bodily
The priAmer had been housekeeper for tli
fourteen months to the prosecutor, William WI
a butcher, residing in Suffolk-street. They
quarrel on the Bth July last, and the prisoner left the
service of the prosecutor the same day. On Sunday,
the 10th of the same month, between twelve at tight
and one o'clock in the morning, the prisoner rustled
into the prosecutor's house, and struck him a heavy
blow on the nose with a piece of sandstone. The pri-
soner alleged that the cause of the quarrel was that she

rteen or

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fist, and also with a poker, and that, in self-defence, she
struck him with the piece of sandstone.
The jury found the prisoner not guilty, and she was
immediately acquitted.