Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-13 00:00:00

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have been be

tten at a title when she
fourteen sears Old: The father kept a shot

was also a ihOpku

the oni

would have not had she been one of a 1
Just before the !rave birth to the child site wa

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y gone to see the

and 'upon ofie.oc6.siOn'sl
She would tell the jury that V
had connexion IVith her, and that I
child. Helvould prove something which occurred
pool, which would show, at all events, that the defendant
was not oifly paying great attention to the girl, but .atten-
tion of a kind which was likely to lead to the consequences
which resulted. -He took her out riding on one or two
occasions ; and one witness would prove that he had kissed
the girl at Blackpool. The learned counsel -then called the
following witnesses -
Harriett Ann Walker examined
daughter of the plaintiff, and was fifteen years of age
in March last. I had' a child which was horn on
the 17th o'f Fel.ruary last. Thomas

went wit

She said, I am the

twtstle was the

father of

my mothers family, and he 'V

stay with the defendant and his wife at Blackpool. • The
defendant has a daughter and a son, the youngest being

very yonnz and the eldest three y

It was in

7 that-I went to Blackpool wit

'When at B 1

pool, I went out riding

letimes with the defendant. I. went
r. When I came back from the ride

out twice on the same day
I was in the room with the (
kiss. He -asked me on that occasion to. have a second ride
with him. The defendant had connexion with me at Black-
pool. He had connexion with me twice:; the first . time
was on a 'Sunday, last summer, in his own house ; the
second time was the same night.

,fendant al

Cross=exaMined by Mr. J;;111C3 : I did' not tell my father.
He shook some chloroform over my head, and made me
insensible. I know the Rev. Mr. Walker, but I did not
know my father told him I had chloroform administered to
me. He took liberties with me twice afterwards,' when I
went into his house. A young man of the name of Ambrose
Lees was'issistant in the defendant's shop. I never spoke
to - Lees, except in the shop. He went away about, Sep-
tember or October last, but whether to enlist in the army
I don't know. I knew Alice -Pilkington, but' I never spoke
to her. The defendant told me that Alice Pilking,ton had
had a letter from Ambrose Lees. My mother did not tell me
about it, nor my father either. Thomas Entwistle said Lees
sent his respects to me' in' the letter. He did not tell me
that Lees said in the letter he had -enlisted, and that they
were to 'bid me farewell for him. I never walked out with
Ambrose Lees upon any occasion whatever, and 1-.3 never
kissed me, or took any liberty with me. I never was with
him in' the kitchen at all, and never went out of my own
house when AnibrOse Lees whistled for me, or threw peas
at the window. I told my mother all that had taken place
between myself and defendant. I told her in January.
My mother did not speak to the defendant, and she did not
tell my father about it.
By Mr. Monk.--Ambrose Lees never courted me.

Jane 'Wild, the next witness, deposed to seeing the defen-
dant and the last witness riding together, at Blackpool; she
also saw the defendant with his arm round Miss Walker in
the room at-the house where they were lodging at Black-
pool.

James Walker said he was the father of Harriett Ann
Walker, and the plaintiff in this action: She was his only
child. Tie had known the defendant ten or eleven years ;
the defendant was a druggist and grocer. For some months
before her confinement she had been unwell, but he did not
know of her condition till the 2nd of February
T,
‘, Mr. James.—l know the Rev -4 I

Mr. Walker, ant.
remember him coming to sympathise with me. I told him
I understood .Entwistle wasbn the sofa, and my daughter
sitting near the table. I. did not tell him that Entwistle
went into the shop, took something from a bottle, and then
returned, and waved his handkerchief over her, and made
her insensible with chloroform, or something else. He heard
of a letter coming. from Ambrose Lees, and that Lees sent
his respects to Miss Walker.

This- closed the evidence on the part of the pliinf;ff

Mr. .Tafties then addressed the,j uiy on behalf of the defen-
dant. Are declared that he never before' saw a case like this
put before any jury. It was one of the most extraordinary
stories any female could have propounded, and, if his instrue-

tions were correct, it was a tissue of falsehoods. This was
the defence he would have to lay before them. The defen-
dant would positively swear that he never had connection
with the young girl. He would show them, by a host of
witnesses, that thiS' young woman, who swore that she never
spoke to Ambrose Lees, saving across the counter in the shop,
had been Been, - over and overagain, taking walks with Lees
in the direction of the country. They would tell the jury
1--t T 1_ 11
"v, and

for her repea

that she had -answered the call and c;neolitofthe house.
The witnesses, would, moreover, say that Lees used to throw
peas at the window, and that, on those occasions, she came
out to him. He (Mr. James) would show that, on many
occasions, •when she went .to. defendant's house, she went not

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connection

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became of the testimony of this young girl ? Ambrose Lees
was a " larky " young man, and he was frequently
in the habit of having company, and enjoying, himself
at.the shop during his master's absence. It would appear
that this young female was amongst those who went to the
defendant's house on such occasions. He would show the
jury that the two were often seen in the kitchen together,
although she swore she never was there with Lees, He
would also show that the young woman and Lees were seen
in circumstances of such a suspicious character as to leave

.oubt upon the mind of anybody that somebody else
was the father of the child—not the defendant. The learned

counsel, having endeavoured to show the improbability of
the whole story, witnesses were called.
Thomas Entwistle, the defendant in the case, was exa-
mined. lie said he was a chemist and druggist at Bury
Ile dr 1 -

—enied emphatically that he had ever connection with
the girl, at anyplace or at any time, and never took any
improper liberties with her. Ambrose Lees was formerly in
his service, but he left suddenly last year, without assigning
that I any reason.

By Mr. Monk.—He was quite surprised at Lees leaving
him. He never had any quarrel with him. Witness learnt
that in his absence Lees had young men and 3 oung women
in his house drinking, and that the neighbours had to com-
plain of. the disturbances. He never kissed Harriet Ann
Walker, and he would swear that he never put his arms
round her. He never had been charged with being too
intimate with any other izirl.

. The Rev. John Walkel; examined : He said he was the
acumbent of St. Paul's Church, Bury. lie conversed and
ympathised with the defendant one day about his
laughter. The plaintiff told him that the 'affair h appened
n a Sunday night, and that the defendant had waved a

and when she was unconscious, effected his purpose.
Betty Bi-ggles,. a factory operative, deposed that she knew

end. of J uly last summer,
nine o'clock at night. She saw them re-
" about twenty minutes to eleven
the same week, walking
4he i had seen them several

tlAa defendant's. !Tad frequently seen Harriet Ann Walker
7come to the defendant's shop, and talk to Ambrose Lees.
On one occasion the-last witness called to him; and On look-
ing through the :window, he saw Harriet Ann Walker sit-

'ose Lees'

ker ,deposed to

Ambrose

iogether on the sofa of

xer, wt

when he

defenth

d to not