The Sun.
London, England, 1808-09-13 00:00:00

LO/VDON SESaTONZ

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!The Quarter Sessions.,. for,. the Qity of Condom
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ivere held yesterday before the Loit,n MAYOR, M,r.
Alderman Litonror.t, the ii.Ecoltnett,
,:Baritet Kurt was indiaed for an4ssault, with in,
tent to commit a- rape, oh the body of Sarah Laza-
rus, a. child of eleven years of age. •
Mr. 1!ooLkY, for the prosecution, detailed the fiyas
of the case, which he said were such as Would have
fully warranted an indiainent against, the;,prisonv
for a capital Offence, highly
as laid the crime must
appear to be one of a highly aggraVated nature, when
the relative situations of the parties were considered,
The prisoner, who %,iiRS a young man of, 'about
Al years of age, was cousin to the prosecli,trix;
aria lived in the house of her mother, who carried
on the trade of a butcher, in Petticoat-lane,• in fte
capacity of her servant. Standing
,in these relations;
in' consequence of which every confidence was placed.
in hirn-,- the prisoner availed himself of the Opportu-
nity he possessed, not to seduce the prosecutrix, but
to attempt a brutal assault on her person.
The evidence of the prosecutrix, her mother, a ser,
vant of the name of Barnet, and Mr. Robin Son, a
surgeon who attended the proSecutrix, fully proved
the case on the, part of the prcisecution, and indeed'
made out a crime beyond that Lid in the inditi-
ment.

Mr. KNAI) P, for the prisoner, partienlarly rested.
on these facts-411M although the assault was alledg-
ed to have been committed on Good Friday, beings
the loth of April, the girl had not informed her
-mother till ille.Thursday following; that it was not
till the 13th day that a surgeon was called in and
that the prosecutrix, at first, attributed the assault to
another person. •
These circumstances, however, were accounted
for, froM the fact of the Prisoner's. having threatened
the Prosecutrix, and informed her, that if she in-
formed her mother of what had happeped, she her-
self would. be killed, and the prisoner likeWi:4e,whi6,
Might have operated on a child of heriender years.
The RECORDER, in addressing the Jury; inforrned
them, that the law had laid it clown; that in act
offence of the nature now charged, Coh;ent conic'
never be alleged on the part-of any -child under
ten years of age: here the Prosecutrix was ele-
ven' years 1, but that there was no consent,'
seemed' apparent :rom the Whole •ci reit Msta nces of
the case. --No endearments seemed to have been
-used, nor were even alleged to have been use,c
for the purpose of inducing such consent : the len-
der age of -the Pro-ecutrix even forb;e!ci such an
idea. rt was obvious, from the way in w hid) the
prosecution was concluded,. that the. Learoed Coun-
sel, entrusted With the management (4.'4, was anxi-
ous hot to prove toe' much, as in that case he (the
Repordett must have -instruBetl the Jury to acquit
the'Priionei= under the present indiet Ment, mid must
Have sent' him to another place to take his trial fkran
offence for which his lite would have been the for-
feiture. Heleft it with the Jury to determine, if
the Prisoner was or was not guilty. of the crime
charged.

Tile Jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty.
The ItEcoßnha then said, the prisoner had, from
the mode in which the prosecution was rnan:,,yed,
escaped a convi&ion under a capital charge. he
circumstances of the case,
,however, as proved,
were of a highly aggravated nature, . and for which
the.prisoner, not merely to bring him to. his senses,
but as a warning to others, ought to receive exem-
plary punishment. The sntent-:e of ,the Courr,
therefore, was, that the prisoner be imprisoned - in
the Jail of Newgate for two yeqrS.
Several other cases of a trifling nature were tried,
and the Sessions ended.