The National Register.
London, England, 1815-07-23 00:00:00

JUIN 23

Jahn Eilem, n considerable rope manufacturer, at Barking in Essex,
wsss indicted fur ,elonionsly ravishing Anne Pearson, on the 124th day
of M rch cnse lusted several hours, and excited considers-
i.,ftrest atusx,g the inhabitants of the neighbourlmod of Harking.
Cenwoon. who conducted ,the case of the prosecuton, stated,
that this was a ease of twist serious import to 111,e prisoner, as it touched
berth his lite and character; %vas a respectable tradesman, a married
',cot, and tha accuser 'sass is servant at the time of the fact tilled Led.
Voit be did net mention these circumstances as miters to prejudice the
•tds of the Jury. for he held it unfit in a criminal proecution, to ad-
a single ob•ereation to the passions. They would confine them-
m the consideration of the simple fact charged upon the priionets
at dcnvA. e, er No. was he guilty of that tact. if, upon entisidemion,
tile), should think .1 ty, they souls! say so; and his Lordship,
Mho ss,ls the voice of th;Jsw, would pronounce that judeenieut which,
the I le: had decreed as the penalty for the otfence. The facts airy
hod hest hear from herself, and he had not the least doubt they would
Bice them the attention they merited, and conic to the proper eons
clasion•

Ance Pearson, the proseentlix, stated, that she was of the age of 14
Jut Christmas. In Mirch last she lived servant with the prisoder,
elm was n rope maker at Barking, in Essex. On the 24th day of
March her master, his wife, and the servant bey went out to go to
London, hilt the prisoner returned in about half an hour, it was about
sis o'clock ; he asted her if the kettle boiled ; and told her to get the
tea things; there was no person in the house bikt themselves ; having
placed the ten things, he desired her to go up stairs and fetch his
pceket•hook from his breeches pocket ; she went, but did not find it ;
she called down stairs to say it was not there; he again called .up tp
lopli into his waistcoat pocket ; she did. it was tot there; she told him
so, sad he desired her to look into his jacket pocket, it was not there;
she then heard him scow-lag up stairs, and she, having a suspicion a his
intention to take improper liberties with her, shut the door and locked
ke knocked At the
,door and desired her to ripen it ; she refused, un-
esit be would go dowA stairs ; he said it she did not open the door, lie
would break it open, ridding, what the hhell do you think I want with
you ! she thin opened the door ; he imke,diately caught her round the'
waist, and dnew her upon the bed ; she gut up DYW, and h :d reached
(lie door, but he again caught her and accomplished his purpose; he
114 en went down stairs, and she followed in about two minutes; he
walked about the mum whistliee; she left the hence in leis than hell
an hour. and went to her mother's; on her way she met a young friend,
seho asked .her what she was crying aboet ? She said her master had
behaved rude to her ; she told her mother the same, but did not then
tc:l her the whole. Her friend came in shortly afterwards, and she
toed her the particulars, de,iring that she would tell her mother, as she
did not like ;o .do it herself. In the evening whop she went to bed, she
dinlosed the whale to her mother ; who (on the aio.n.day), this being,
6,)0cl Friday, sent for tAIr. Desormeaux, the Doctor.
She was subjected to a .very severe cross-examination by the CPst-
mos( Sent EA NT. She said she could not have been heard to cry out ;
sine could not get to the window ; she denied hewing had any loose
miversation with a miikman on that same day ; she knew a Mr.
S-nith. a Doctor, ut Barking, hot she bad never applierl to him for and
medicines, or had ever spoken to him: she said she had c irtied a
waistcoat of her master's to the mangler's alter tkis had happened, and
explained it by stating, that when she went away she took a kundld of
her dirty clothes with her, amongst thorn, by mistake, was a waistcoat of
her master's, which, discovering the same evening, she took it im-
rre,dattly to the washerwoman's; but she denied that
,she had any
girl with her, or went in a gigging laughing manner.
Het Mother—Ur. Desormeacx and Caroline Walker were called,
tern confirmed -her statement as to her immediate disclosure of the
Buts, except that Mr. p,sormeaux said, that in stating the mode of
perpetrators, she bad described it differently with respect to confining
lii r hands.

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he pri.oner being called cn fcr biy de(^nce. said he left it to dos
Thee called witnesses to 'hew a contradiction in parts of her
IP $t
;he washerwomin'a girl said, that,wile” she brought the waistcoat,
she had another lir) with t'ei, and that she came in a laughing manner,
as though nothini, had happened ; hut the principal wituess was
Piclood Laker Sioith, who described himself v. a surgeon and apothe-
cary, riw, tesidi, uat Ilford, then at 13arkirg. lie said the girl came
ICI hi, house about tun &chick id the night of the I,t of April. When
he opened the door, he supposed she held come about theyenercal, and
he asked her if it was o. She said no ; hot some Sound; nunn had been
trias with tier, ond she "Tapia sortie rhystc. 4 was

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