Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-02 00:00:00

FLAGRANT DEPRAVITY.

At the Worship-street police court. Hermann Hacke, a
uitddle aged German, carrying on business as a sugar
baker, in New-street, Whitechapel, was charged before
Mr. D'Eyncourt with having threatened the life of a young
girl named Elizabeth Christie, under the following peculiar
and aggravated circumstances :—From the evidence of the
complainant, a comely and modest looking you g person,
about 17 years of age, it appeared that she was a native
of Kipgston in Jamaica, but in consequence of the
death of h.r father, which occurred in her infancy,
she and her sister were brought over by their mother
to this country, Some time after their arrival her
mother formed an accquaintance with the prisoner
and eventually engaged to act as his housekeeper, but
subsequently lived with him as his pi, rsi wife, which
resulted in Ihe birch of two other children. On the
death of her mother, which recently took place.
witness and her sister ware left without a surviving
relation in this country, and having no means of support,
she reluctantly co lsented, at the urgent request of the
prisoner, to remain in charge of the children, and superin-
tend
his househoid affairs. The prisoner, however, soon
afterwards basely availed himself of her forlorn and friend-
less position, to insult her with improper overtures, in which
he pertinaciously persisted, until his disgraceful conduct
attracted the no:ice of his own brother, who advised her
to leave the house. Before she had time to do so, the
prisoner attempted by force to accomplish his infamous
purpose, but she managed to escape from h'iss, and fled to
the helm of a respectable tradesman in the neighbourhood,
of whom she implored protection, which he kindly afforded
her, ani she had since been staying with his family.,
On discovering her place of refuge, the prisoner
followed her there, and clamourously demanded that she
should be given up to him, as he was the proper guardian;
bat after repeatedly calling at the house, and finding him
self foiled in his nefarious object, he assailed her, at his
last visit, with the most fearful imprecations, and having
threatened to murder her unless the assented to his wishes,
she lost no time in obtaining a warrant for his apprehen-
sion. The evidence of the complainant was corroborated
by the humane gentleman in whose house she had
obtained refuge, and who further stated that in she course
of his last attempt to docoy her away, the prisoner was so
greatly exasperated at her refusal to cohabit with him, that
he demolished several panes of glass in his efforts to drag
her out. The witness alded that he felt so much sym-
pathy for the hapless fate of the poor girl, that he was
resolved to provide for her, until he had an opportunity of
placing her in a respectable situation, as he felt satisfied
that the withdrawal of his protection must inevitably
consign her to disgrace and ruin. Gee, the warrant
offic-r, stated that the prisoner abruptly left'the neighbour-
hood, immediately after the warrant had been taken out,
and eluded pursuit until the previous evening, when
witness found him skulking about close to the house of the
last witness, and at once took him into custody. In
answer to the charge, the prisoner impudently declared
that he had been actuated throughout by the best feelings
towards the complainant, and that the ev:dence of the
witnesses had been g-eatly exaggerated. Mr. D'Eyncourt
strongly animadverted upon the heartless and profligate
conduct 4,f the prisoner, and oriered him to find two
substantial sureties to be answerable for his good
behaviour for six months. The prisoner was unable to
procure the required bail, and was carried off in the
prison van.

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THREE DEAD BOD:Ei FOUND.-01 Thursday information
w.is Riven to the police that no fewer than three male persons
had been dicovered dead. Tha first was th 3 body of a
young man, about 30, f mud on the Great Northern Railway,
at Strandgreen, respectubly dressed in black, and having a
meersch turn pipe and a la'ch-!cey in his pockets. ',the
second body was that of a man aboat 6/, found on
Wandsworth-common, lini n marked " A. 8." The third
was an elderly man, about 70, found in Slade's-court,
Bermondsey, about fire feet tea inohee high. These make
about 40 bodies found by the police in and near the metro-
polis curing the present month•

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