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

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crying, and she • asked
me- what was the matter, and I told her the doc-
tor had thrown me doWn. Cross-examined : Jane
Boyd called my mother, who came to me, and I told
her what had taken place. She took me to a doctor's.
I screamed out as loud as I could, and told him to let
_me go. lie offered me a bottle before and after the
assault. lie did not say anything about " pulse attite."
I screamed out as loud as I could. I was in the room
with him for about half an hour. I called out " Jane"
as load as I could. I was unwell, and had taken herbs,
but did not tell the prisoner so. I took herbs for two

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By ttie Judge : I was very much pained.
Jane Boyd was the next witness. She said : I went
with the prosecufrix to the house. The prisoner told
me to go into the next room. I had been there about
ten minutes when I heard somebody crying and sobbing.
I did not kpow who it was. I thought it was some-
body in the street. She told me, as well as she could
from crying, that the prisoner had knocked her down.
Ellen Ball, the mother : I took her, to the dispensary
on the 29th. The prisoner gave her a prescription, aria
she went to another part of the building. She had Grindlc
some conversation with him, and he told me to send her plaint'
alone at seven o'clock the next day. She did so. She man
raway about two hours, and when she came home
wascrpng very mtich, and said, " This
nice I took her to a surgeon directly. Cros-,
*arnined He did not tell me that he had no accommi
dation at his d*
Iml:he the nest evening. and that I must take her to 1.
She (lid go there.
Inspector
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hen present. - went to the prisoner's house,
and toed him the: charge against him. The girl was
t I
shored l charge
said, "It is not true."
4 ike tl speak to you privately,'
I did not want to hear what he had t-
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nidon whitin,

1" took Mill to .i.place of basin
lie then
as _ 113.burrels. of

le entered her bedroom forcibly a
of bed, and took her into ensto

ion, without making the
At the police station sh,
icr keys taken from her by tl)
who returned to her house and scare}

found, either on her person .or in the
louse, that was not her own, and she was therefore dis-
ivelve o'clock at night. She urged
ratter and business had suffered much
'sequence of the arrest, and she therefore, in this
1, sought reparation for the
.loss she had sustained.
er cross-examination she stated that, on the even-
ing in question, two women were arrested in her house,
named Elizabeth Bentley and Mary Mills ; and at the polict
station the plaintiff was

told that she was charged- with
receiver of stolen property. She was detained
between two and three hours at the station. It was
for the defence, that the defendant, in the .
of his duties, had a legal right to arrest and
.ach the house of the plaintiff, he having reason to
suspect her as the receiver of stolen property.
Thejury gave a verdict for the plamtiff—damages 10s.
BREACH OF CONTRA.CT.-GRINDLEY AND

ANOTRER V. MATTHEWS.
s action, Mrs. Grindley and her son, Robert D.
druggists and drysalters, Chester, were the
ills,` and the defendant, John Matthews, was a
('acturer of whiting at Liverpool. Mr. Wild, Q.C.,
fr. Melhuish appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr.
le and Mr. lliggn appeared for the defendant.
)crt D. Grindley, one of the plaintiffs, being called,
xl that in August, 1856, he had some business
with the defendant in Liverpool, when the defendant

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