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cieteusroass. MAtCH 12.
In the case of Flynn 0. Grant, the aftion tried
gasterday, for Grins-, (Jett. the Jury returned their
**did, at a very late hour, at the lodgings of the
Judges, for the Defendant.
CIVIL alDt.
lIABSERTON e. Al, /011•11 WAIN And AN"' CIANN.
This was an indiament against the two Defend-
ants, for assaulting the Prosecutrix; first, with an
intent to murder ; and, in a second count, with an
intent to ravish.
This was a very singular ease. The Prosecutrix
was a very pretty and decent looking young woman,
and the story she told was as fellon 6 That nut
being very cell, she had resolved to leave London,
to go to her friends at StOWMalket, and on the 25th
of July, she took her place in the waggon. The two
prissners, Abraham Hearn and Ann Crann, were
also passengers in the waggon, and Hearn, she
understood, was brother to the proprietor. As
the night approached, she made herself abed in the
fere-part of the waggon, and at night wont to
sleep ; near Stanway she was awakened by Hearn
taking scene indecent liberties with her ; she
called out to the waggoner for assistance, who
desited her to put her head back, or she would
fall out of the waggon ; she drew back, and
fainted; but, when She recovered herself, she
found the Defendants taking her out at the
side of the waggon. Crann asked her to go
walk a little way ; she objefted, because she had
lost her shoes ; but Crann prevailed upon the wit-
ness to accompany her dawn a lane ; when she
had got a little way she insisted on returning. Just
at that mement she received a blow en the head from
genie one behind, and a kick in the ha -k. A man
at that moment, whom, by his voice, she knew to
be 'learn, took her up in Hs arms, and dished her
against the ground. Anat happened alto:weeds she
dad not know, for she became insensible. When she
recovered herself, she fJurd herself Orme in the
lane in the da•k ; she ciarled upon. he: fends
and knees antil she reached the high road, and tbfqi,
as it seemed to her, she fell asleep, for she dreamt
that she was in bed, and pulling the bed-clothes over
her, which awakened hat, and she found she had a
handful of grass : she was too feeble to rise, and she
saw several coaches pass, but site could not make
them hear; at last a z.uard of on.e of the coaches
saw her and took her up. She was carried to Col-
chester, where she wandered about for six hours,
sometimes sensible and sometimes not, her senses
coming and going ; at length she found her way to
Mr. Hedges. a Magistrate ; she did not remember
bow; but she told him her story. He ordered her
to be taken care of. The next day she was quite de.
lit-ions, and remained so for six weeks, before she re-
covered.
On her cross-examination, she said, she was ill
when she left town, but she had never been delirious,
nor was she so when in the waggon.
Abraham Hewett, the waggoner, stated, that the
Prosecutrix called out to him near Shaman.", saying,
" I'm interrupt,d by these vagebondfs." He told
her to draw back, or else she nightfall out of the
waggon • she did se, and he thought he heard her
crying. Before he got to Colchester, he heard Hearn
and Crann talking in the waggon : he heard Hearn
say, he wished he had not done it. The woman re.
plied, •• Never mind. it will be thought somebody
else has done it." When they got to Colchester, be
missed the young woman, and asked the Prisoners
what had become of her ? They both said, they
did not know, but that she had been out of her
senses in the night, and probably had got out when
they were asleep.
The Guard of the Norwich Mail proved lie found
the girl in the situation she described, and that he
carried her to Colchester.
Mr. Perkins, a surgeon, proved, that he had ex-
amined the gill. From his testimony it appeared,
ete had been most cruelly ill-treated. Her head was
much bruised—enough, in his judgment, to have
produced the delirium; her neck was scratched;
and there was a mark round one thigh, as though
from a tight ligature, with a rope, or somesuch thing.
Ann ( rann, in her defence, said, that the Prose-
entrix had shewn evident signs of being out of her
mind on thevoad, and that she was very disturbed
just at dark ; she persuaded her to lie down and be
quiet, which she did at last ; and when she thought
that the Prosecutrix was gone to sleep, she herselt
also went to sleep, and never waked until they
reached Colchester. When they arrived, they missed

the you • g woman.
Miry Squirrel was called, but she completely con-
firmed Hewett as to the conversation ; and stated,
that Crarn, in the latter part of the journey, behaved
so indecently with Hearn, that the Witness rebuked
her for her conelua. She stated further, that Crann
bad talked of what had happened on the road, and
said they had used a young woman very ill, and she
was afraid is bad would come of it."
The Jury, without hesitatioa, found both the Pri-
soners Chatty.

A man belonging to a Torbay smack, lately ar-
rived at Dover, for the fishing season, from Torbay,
was found drowned in the Outer Bay, on Thursday
morning. He has left a wife and five children.
On Monday last, as two men, with a cart and two
horses, were going, at a quick rate, along Bled:-
Mars-road, one of the mere, who was riding on the
_ fore horse, fell to the gr, und, and the wheel went
over his head, which it cut and bruised in a dread•
ful manner, is two places ; the skull was laid quite
bare, to a great extent, by the wounds, and one of
his ears was neatly tom off. He was taken to
Mr. PRICI, the surgeon, in Blackfriars-road, who
dressed his wounds, and reported him to be in a fair

way of recovery.
Much of the time of the Magistrates of Carmar-
then was occupied, nn Tuesday, in the e7aminaticn
of persons detefted in the diabolical ertempt to
extort money from Mr Davie Wynn, of Buley,
a Minister of the Gospel. A girl of the town, of
most infamous eharater, had employed persons to
write, and others to deliver, letters, to Mr. Davits.
saying she was pregnant by him, and therein threat-
ening to expose him before his congregation. if he
did not conform with her request, by giving her a
meeting. This charge appears to be totally false
and groundless, and the innocence of Mr. Davats
/I.c hen hilly established. Sir of the delir.,l lents