The National Register.
London, England, 1809-10-01 00:00:00

THE XATIONAL. REGISTEtt,

John Jones, an old man, aged 00, and of respectable appear.
ance, was indicted for a most outrageous assault, with intent ti
perpetrate a rape on the person of a respectable young woman,
named Elizabeth Stevens on the di h of September in,tant.
The Defendant is a carver and gilder, residing Ei Bream's
buildings, Chancery Lithe; a artrried man, with a family of
grown-up•children. Tice Prosecutrix had been for the last
eight years an intimate, sometimes a resident, aid occasion 1117
a visitant in his family; to which she had been oriinally
traduced by the name of Mary Blundell, through the m (limn
of a draft in her favour for 201. remitted to her by a rcirad
abroad, and payable to the Defendant. The Prosecutrix win?,
some time afterwards, induced to become a resident doinestic
companion in the family, still calling herself Mary Blaisdell.
In about three years, she left the house, but continued occa-
sionally to visit there. O. the day,' above stated, she called try
see Mrs. Jones, and her children. 'rite for Mer happened to be
then in the country, and the eldest son h u 1 also left Loudon that
morning. The Defendant, however, tle Prosecutrix in;
iisal it should seem, deternsiced to %dz.. the present opportunity
for his criminal purpose: the better to facilitate which, he
sent his daughter and servant out upon frivolous in-fleeces, and
he went down to the kitchen, where the Prosecutrix was ease
pl()) ing herself iu some domestic occupation; and itnmediattly
began his advances in a way that astonished the y oung womaa
and could Out fail to excite her apprehensions of his intent.
She remonstrated n ith him upon the indecency of such condct,
in a man of his years, :tad the father of a farttily---hut io vaina
he proceeded to use force, dragged her out of the kitchen to the
foot of the stairs, tripped up her heels, stopped her mouth
with one hand, held hot h her's will' the other, and 11.cd evtlry
effort of strength and stratagem to which such a purpose could
urge the violence of an sad Satyr. At one time, he seized her
fly the throat; and, in the endeavours to stifle her cries, nearly
strangled her. Her repeated screams of " Murder!" mid
" Help!" were at length heard, by the passengers theme) (bye
lonely neighbourhood ; a crowd was collected round the ors
several persons endeavoured to force in through the window,
hot without effect ; others rank incessantly at the bell ; and, at
length, the Defendant was so alarmed, as to discontint I his
attempts; when the intended victim of his brutality belt g e,,
(Heated, opened the hall-door for the admission of her delivoi 0,
who, on searching the house, found the Defendaut concealed a
a cupboard in the hack kitchen; upon which he was t:skett
into custody, and brought beCore a Magistrate, who couanittod
him.

The Jury e and him Guilty ; aid the Chairman xfte.r a .11.1-
able lecture At thr occasion, senteuced, him to milky LuJutus
imprisuutueut iu the House of Correction.

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

On Wednesday a Coroner's Inquest was held at a pnblie-house
in Blackfriar's, on the body of an Want supposed to have been
murdered, found by a watchman in the Temple the eveuinebe-
fore. The watchman stated, thetas he was going his rounds oil
Tuesday evening, about eleven o'clock, he observed something
standing on the steps of No. 2, Fig-tree-court, which, on ex-
timing, he discovered to bean eart hen) jar, covered with brows
paper; thinking he had found a prize, he took it up, but did not
immediately open it. On doing stio sometime after, he saw it
was tilled With something white, which he took to he tallow;
but which, on a closer inspection, proved to be the body of an
infant. A medical gentleman and several women, who were ex-
audited, stated it as their opinion, that it was thr body oi*au in-
fant about six days old ; and from several circumstances, that the
mother must have been delivered by a midwife. Thejae was int
small that it must have been with some difficulty the body was
squeezed into it, and on its being taken out a considerable goal.-
tit yof blood was discovered at. the bottom of the jar. Under
all the circumstances, the Jury returned a 'Verclict of Wilful
Mu:•der, against some person or persons unknown.' The jar Rs
not a common one, bur is made of finer earth titan they o,ually
are, and is ornamented- with a variety of fi,Atres oa the outside_
Mr. Barret who was accused of assaulting Miss Latham. at
Worthins:, is honourably acquitted. _
On Friday se'nnight, as Col. Bell of Berwick, was shooting
on the Lowhatighs, near that place, with. a double barreled run,
having fired ata bird, and loading agajn,.tta ot.tice barrel, which
was charged, .went of, ale cuateuts in his WO: :he
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