The Sun.
London, England, 1830-04-05 00:00:00

DENBIGH:3IIIR% GREAT SESSIONS.

At the present Assizes there are eighteen pri.
,oners for trial, an unumtally large number for this
county, and several of them for offences of serious
rompiexion.

Edward Roberts was indicted for an assault upon
Nliwy Jones, of Haellan, on the 17th of March last.
The prosecutrix, a very pretty, modest-looking
about eighteen years of age, deposed as fol-
lows :—I live at liaellan, and am the eldest of five
children. My mother is dead, and I keep my
father's house. I went to Denbigh market, which
is four miles from our house, on the 17th March. 1
left Denbigh about two o'clock. On my return
home the prisoner overtook me near Gwaynynog
Smithy, and asked me how far I was going ? 1 did
not answer him,.but kept walking on. He continued
close to me for about a mile, when I stopped to let
him go forward. He did so, and when he was our
of sight I went on. I turned up the lane towards
Eriviatt, leading to my father's house. When I had
got a little way I saw the prisoner following after
ine. He took hold of the zollar of my cloak. I
threw my cloak, pattens, and bonnet away, and ran
from him. The neck-string of my cloak broke,
when I burst from the prisoner. I ran back towards
the high road. The prisoner overtook me. He
pulled me towards the hedge bank, and threw me
down. I called out as loud as I could. He @aid if

I did not hold my tongue he would lunge me. He
held me so closely by the neck that I was almost
strangled, and could not call out any longer. I
fainted. When I came to myself again I found—
(Here she described particulars which are unfit to
meet the public eye. Owing to her extreme bash-
fulness, however, she did not state the circumstances
so satisfactory as to leave no doubt of the comple-
tion of the capital offence, even under the new law
upon that subject.)—l get up, and the prisoner
walked near me until we came in sight of Eriviatt,
and then he ran away. I saw Simon Williams, the
gardener at Eriviatt, and told him I had been abused
by a man. He was the first person I saw after it
happened. I also told my father that the prisoner
had ill-used me, and my father and I went to Ithyn•
Baled after the prisoner. I was so tired and ill that
I could not go any farther. My father apprehended
the prisoner.
Mr. David Hughes, surgeon, of Denbigh, had
examined the person of the prosecutrix the next
day, and in his opinion, the capital offence had been
committed.

Simon Williams, the gardener at Eriviatt, and
John Jones, the father of the prosecutrix, corrobo-
rated that part of the evidence of the presecutrix
which rciated to them; and the former spoke to
having seen her hair dishevelled,her dress disordered,
and that she was crying bitterly.
The Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a
verdict of Guilty of an assault, with intent to com-
mit a rape.
His LORDSHIP informed them that they could
not return such a verdict; they must either find the
prisoner guilty of the capital offence, or acquit him
altogether.
A verdict of Not Guilty was accordingly taken.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL expressed himself ex.

:remely dissatisfied with the verdict, and intimated
IN intention of preferring nn indictment for the

minor offence.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

On Saturday a gentleman waited upon Mr. HALLS,
and having stated that he was a relative of Captain Moir,
now a prisoner in Chelmsford gaol for the murder of a
man n tined Malcolm, said be came for the purpose of
making an application on the part of Captain Moir, of the
utmost importance to that individual. The gentleman
then reminded the Magistrate of the fatsi occurrence
which had taken place at Shellhaven-farm, near Barking,
Essex, and said he applied for the purpose of ascertaining
whether the Magistrate had power to compel the brother
of the deceased to pertnit the body to be examined by an-
other surgeon previous to its interment, which he under-
stood was to take place on the following day (Sunday) at
Hammersmith. It was thefirm impression of Capt. Moir's
friends that the deceased had died from neglect and un-.
skilful treatment, rather than from the serious nature d
the wound, and it was therefore most important to the
accused, who was to take hie trial upon the charge of
murder, that a second examination of the body should take
place by competent medical men, in order thtt their evi-
dence might be obtained upon the trial. Under these cir-
cumstances he, the applitrant, sought the assistance of the
Magistrate, with a view to compel the brother of the de-
ceased to allow a second examination of the body before
burial. •

Mr. HALLS said it appeared-to him that as the cause of
death had already been investigated by the Coroner and a
competent Jury, who returned a verdict according to the
evidence produced upon that inquiry, no Magistrate could
now interfere to compel the brother or any other relative
who might have charge of the body to permit another
examination, unless such permission were obtained volun-
tarily.
The applicant said it was quite clear that the deceased
had died from ill-treatment, and not from the mortal na-
ture of the wound. Instead of adopting the simple means
which should have been had recourse to, another method
of treatment was pursued towards the deceased, which
produced lock-jaw, and consequently death.
Mr. HALLS again observed that to interfere in the mar.-
ncr suggested, after the finding of a Cototter's Jury, would
be to overstep the limits of a Magistrate's duty.
The gentleman-then withdrew, expressing his determi-
nation to make an immediate application to Mr. Peel for
the purpose of preventing the interment of the body until
another examination should have been held upon it, in
order to ascertain prifisely the cause of death.

QUEEN-SQUARE.
OR Saturday, the person styling himself Mr. Frederick
Sims was brought to the office from Tothill-fields prison,
for the purpose of being bailed fur an indecent assault on
a police.constabla in disguise in Hyde-park.
The bail on Friday last was enhanced to two sureties
in 200/. each, and the prisoner himself in 4001. This
caused considerable emotion amongst his friends, who hur-
ried about in all directions, and as the close of the busi-
ness of the office they were informed by Handley (the
officer) that nothing could be done that afternoon, as the
Magistrates had *gone. The parties then gave directions
to the hackney-coachman to drive to Fleet-street; it was
then:conntermanded, and he was ordered to drive to Gol-
den-square ; finally, he was whispered to drive back to
Tothill-fields prison, the doors of the office were eosed,
and we could hear no more about him that day.
On the following day, iturday, he appeared amongst
the auditory in the office, apparently not in custody, sur-
rounded by several of his friends, and without any thing
being laid to the Magistrates he was taken into the clerk's
office, the doors of which were ordered to be fastened by
Handley, and the prisoner entered into his own recog-
nizance of 400/. to answer the charge at the Sessions.
Thomas Davies, a shopinan to Messrs. Cress and
Sewell, linen-drapers, at Knightshridge, was brought up
for final examination, charged with stealing two pieces of
silk, the property of his employers.