The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-01 00:00:00

Green's Mill, near Bacup, Lancashire, millwrights—J.
Gillham and J. Womack, Haymarket, tailors—H. Wood
and Anne Gresham, Blackburn, Lancashire, tea dealers
—C. Hodgson and R. Hodgson, Durham, coach manu-
facturers—T. Rutland, jun., and D. Ball, junr., Cooper's-
row, Tower-hill, wine merchants—E. Burdes, W. Burdes,
and E. Anderson (as far as regards W. Burdes), Sun-
derland-near-the-Sea, lime burners—G. French and D.
Pratt, jun., Walsall, Staffordshire, mercers and drapers
—W. P. Toms and T. 0. Toms, Plymouth, plumbers
and braziers—Ann Armitage and J. Armitage, Mytholm-
bridge, near Huddersfield, dyers—J. Moon, jun., and
J. Woolacott, Barnstaple, furnishing ironmongers.

ATTEMPT AT RAPE BY A POLICEMAN.

Yesterday at Hammersmith Police Court, John Kelly
a policeman, 44 T, was brought up in custody, by order
of the Commissioners of Police, and placed in the dock,
charged with violently assaulting and attempting to
commit a rape upon Martha Moore, a married woman,
in Hanwell.

The complainant, a respectable-looking woman, about
thirty years of age, deposed that her husband was a
police-constable, in the same division as the prisoner, and
they resided at West-end, Northolt. On Monday last,
while returning home, about half-past four o'clock, she
saw the prisoner, who was dressed in plain clothes, near
the Southall railway station. He bowed to her, but
she took no notice of him ; he then crossed the
road, and asked her if if she did not know him. She
replied that she did not ; he also asked her where
she was going, and said she was going greatly out of
her way, and that if she went back with him he would
direct her the nearest road. She consented to return, and
they walked as far as the Hanwel] iron railway bridge when
he commenced taking indecent liberties with her. [The
witness here described what ensued, which is quite unfit
for publication]. She struggled very hard to release
herself from his grasp, and screamed out for assistance.
She heard the sounds of a coach, and again screamed,
but it did not stop, and the prisoner still continued to
hold her in his arms. Fortunately a man in a white
smock frock appeared in sight, and the prisoner released
his hold. Her cloak had been dragged off her shoulders
in the struggle, and she also lost a hag of biscuits
which she had bought for her children. She ran to the
man and claimed his protection. The man walked with
her until she met her husband. She did not know the
man who accompanied her, and she did not tell her hus-
band what had occurred until the man had turned back
and was gone.

Mr. Beadon observed that it was very singular not to
tell her husband, or to obtain the man's name.
The witness said she did not think of anything, and
was so flurried at the time that she was not aware of
what she did say. The prisoner went away in an oppo-
site direction when she spoke to the man.
Inspector Cooke said the prisoner had no business to
be away in plain clothes. In the evening, when it was
time for the prisoner to go on duty he sent word to the
sergeant that he was sick, and he had subsequently said
that he had been sick in bed the whole day, and that he
was very ill.
The prisoner said he met the complainant, and they
walked together, and she stopped outside a public-house,
where lie brought her some gin and shrub, which she
drank.

The witness denied this. He asked her to go with
him to Hanwell, and have a glass of something, but she
declined.

The prisoner said he could produce witnesses who
would prove that she drank with him. They walked
together arm in arm, and she first induced him to act in
the manner he had done. He should never have taken
liberties with her but for her willingness. Complainant
would never have said anything about the matter if the
man had not been passing. It was her wish that they
should go that road and not the other.
Mr. Beadon remanded the prisoner.