The Sun.
London, England, 1831-09-06 00:00:00

CHARGE OF RAPE.

At. the Bury Petty Sessions, on Saturday week,
before Major Wadkin and William Grant, Esq.,
Joseph Longworth, a labourer on the Bolton canal
bank, was charged with committing a rape upon
Susannah Booth, a respectable-looking woman, re-
siding at Prestolee, near Radcliffe. It appeared
that on Monday week the prisoner had been at
Bury, which place he left, in a state of intoxication,
about eight o'clock in the evening, to proceed to his
own house, near Radcliffe. He overtook the com-
plainant on the banks of the Balton canal, near to
Radcliffe, and he instantly seized her arid forced her
over the hedge. Here she struggled until her
strength was exhausted, when the prisoner effected
his base purposes. He then left her, and soon
afterwards she saw a boat going along the canal ;
upon which she called the boatman to stop her
brutal ravisher. This appeal, however, the fellow
disregarded, and the poor woman, being then left
unprotected, proceeded at her utmost speed for
about half a mile, along the bank, to get away from
the ruffian who had ill.used her. She afterwards
turned down Green-lane, leading to Radcliffe, when
the fellow, who had been in pursuit, overtook her
again, Another struggle took place, the poor
woman exclaiming--" Oh, man, I can't live, do let
me alone." He turned a deaf ear to her entreaties,
however, and effected his purpose a second time; after
which he ran away, telling her she might go home.
She arrived at home in a state of great exhaustion,
and informed her neighbours of the outrage, at the
same time giving a description of the man. On the
following morning a son of the complainant's, and a
I,ve.3ng man who lodged at her house, repaired to the
banks of the canal, and saw the prisoner, who cor-
responded with the description. They then went
and informed the constable of Radcliffe, who, on the
Thursday, apprehended the prisoner at his own house,
and he was subsequently identified by the com-
plainant. In addition to the above facts, an acquaint-
ance of the prisoner's stated that on the Wednesday
ho had asked the prisoner how he got home on the
Tuesday night ? Upon which lie replied, " Very
well," and hinted at the outrage he had committee
on tho complainant. The case being fully proved,
and the prisoner having nothing to say in his de-
fence, he was committed to Lancaster to take his
trial at the next assizes, and the witnesses were
bound over to appear. During the examination the
prisoner displayed the greatest indifference, but on
hearing his committal pronounced he appeared very
uneasy: The prisoner is about forty-he years of
age, and has two children. The complainant is
' about the same age, and has a family of seven chil-
dren : she was much afflicted during the examination.

CAUTION.—.A correspondent informs us that
a vast number of counterfeit sovereigns and half-sovereigns,
made of mosac gold, to represent the new coinage, are in
circulation. He says, the means of detecting the spurious
from the genuine metal are simple and cheap—namely, by
merely rubbing the metal suspected with a solution of
vinegar and salt, which will turn the mosaic gold quite
black in an instant, whilst the legitimate gold, by the sam*
process, will remain unaltered.—Morning Paper.

REASONS FOR DISCONTINUING A PE-
111QDWAL.-The publisher of a Scottish periodical, which
'ecently went the way of ail things, gives, in his expiring
number, two reasons, which he terms " cogent" ones, and
they certainly are so, for the demise of his journal. The
first is, " that all his contributors left him ;" and the
second iv, " that all his subscribers, in obedience to the
Scriptural injunction, went and did likewise."—Literary
Gazette,

Letters from Bucharest speak of a dreadful
conflagration in Constantinople, by which 18,000 houses
were destroyed, including nearly the whole of Peru.—
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