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WESTERN CIRCUIT.—Exeter, July 25.
NISI PRILTS COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice COLE-
RIDGE and a Ccmmon Jury.)
DINGLE V. BAKER.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover
compensation in damages for the seduction of his
daughter. The case has created considerable interest,
and obtained some notoriety from the manner in which
it was disposed of at the last summer assizes for Devon-
shire, by Chief Justice Wilde. When the whole of the
plaintiff's case was gone through, and the counsel for
the defendant was addressing the jury, he was inter-
rupted by the Lord Chief Justice Wilde, who stated
that a difficulty had occurred to him as to the right of
the plaintiff to maintain the action. In order to main-
tain au action for seduction there must be a loss of ser-
vice, which there did not appear to be in this case, as
the daughter, Mary Dingle, bad left her father's service
before her pregnancy had so far advanced as to dis-
qualify her from the discharge of her ordinary duties.
For the plaintiff it was contended that the loss of service
had been occasioned by the act of the defendant, for if
she had not been pregnant by him she would never have
left her father's house. Chief Justice Wilde, however,
ruled that the action could not be maintained, and di-
rected a nonsuit. A rule nisi to set asido this nonsuit
was subsequently obtained in the Queen's Bench, which
was afterwards made absolute without the plaintiff's
counsel being called on to support the rule.
Mr. Sergeant Kinglake and Mr. Greenwood now • ap•
peered to conduct the plaintiff's case; Mr. Crowder and
Mr. Iloldsworth for the defendant.
The facts of the case were, that the plaintiff was the
renter of the tolls of several turnpike gates on the Dart-
mouth and Kingsbridge trusts, and the defendant is a
brewer and spirit merchant, living at Dartmouth. The
plaintiff has six daughters, of whom Mary Dingle, the
subject of the action, was the second, and at the time
of the alleged seduction was 19 years of age, and was
a pretty and attractive-looking girl. She and one of
her sisters received the tolls at one of the gates called
Week Gate, which is close to Dartenouth,aad lived by
themselves at the toll-house. It appeared by the evi-
dence of Mary Dingle, who was the principal witness
in the case, that the first acquaintance between her and
the defendant was at a ball given in 1845 by Mr.
Moffat, the unsuccessful candidate for the borough at au
election which had just before that time taken place.
On that occasion the defendant was one of the stewards,
and paid much attention to Mary Dingle. An inti-
macy then sprung up between them. For some time
the defendant was kind and respectful in his manner
towards her; but in September, 1845, ho met her one
morning, as sho was returning from Dartmouth to
Week Gate with her sisters, when he wished her to
get up on a horse which he was riding. This in joke
she did, when he put his horse to full speed and rode
on some distance until she jumped off, when he got off
and took liberties with her. This she resisted, upon
which he begged forgiveness, promising not to do so
any more. She accorded her forgiveness, and they con-
tinued to meet as before, but on several occasions he
took liberties with her, which she resisted, and at last
told him that she would speak to him no more. After
this, on the 15th of April, 1846, Mary Dingle went
into Dartmouth in the evening ,with one of her sisters
and a cousin named Popplestone. By some accident she
became separated from her companions, and soon after
she met the defendant, who told her that he had met
her sister and Popplestone, and had given them tickets
to go to see some players who were at that time at Dart-
mouth ; he then asked her to take a walk with him,
which she refused, on the ground that on the last occa-
sion that she had met him he had forgotten his promises
and had taken liberties with her. He begged her to for-
give him, and to take a walk with him if for the last
time. She consented, and walked some way with him,
when he asked her to drink a glass of champagne ale
with him " to drink friends," from a bottle which he pro-
duced from his pocket. She did drink half a glass, and
then asked him to take some of it, but he excused him-
self, saying he had been smoking cigars and drinking
brandy and water, and that the ale would disagree with
him ; ho then threw away the bottle. Mary Dingle
then turned to wish him good night, but he begged her
to stay, saying that he had something particular to say
to her. She then said to him, " You have given me
something which has made me quite drunk," and soon
after she felt herself quite stupitied, and hardly knew
what passed. The defendant then led her into a stable
of his, where he effected her ruin. From this time up
to August frequent meetings took place between them,
and eventually the girl found herself to be pregnant.
On her informing the defendant cf it, he told her to
never mind—that she should never want for any-
thing. He then wished her to get away from her
friends to some private place, that " things might be kept
sly." She then made an excuse to go to Exeter to see
her cousin there, and saying that she wished to look for
a situation. On the occasion of her going to Exeter the
defendant gave her 21., and advised her to go to Exmouth
as a more private place than Exeter. After staying
some time with her cousin at Exeter, who was a married
man, named Torr, he took her to Exmouth, where he
engaged lodgings in the name of Wilson, and passed her
off as his wife; but he (Torr) swore that he never slept
with her there, but slept at a coffer-house. Shortly
before this Mary Dingle had gone to Dartmouth to see
the defendant. She met him, her cousin ropplestone
being with her. The defendant then gave her 31. to
take her to Exmouth, and promised to give her more
when at Exmouth. This part of her evidence was cor-
roborated by Miss Popplestone, who swore that she
heard what passed between the defendant and Mary
Dingle from behind a hedge. After Mary Dingle got
to Exmouth she wrote to the defendant several times,
through a girl called Milling, asking him for money for
her support, but this he did not send her, and at last she
became in such a state of destitution that she was com-
pelled to write to her mother and communicate her
situation. Her mother then came and brought her back
to Dartmouth. On coming back she saw the defendant,
and begged him to do something for her, which he re •
fused to do unless she would say that some one else was
the father of her child, and told her that if she would he
would give her 501. This she indignantly refused, but
said that if he would give her the 501. no one should ever
know the father of the child. The defendant then said,
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child.

The girl Dingle was subjected to a most severe cross-
examination of five hours in duration, the object of
which was to show that she was a girl of immora:
habits, that she and her sister were in the habit of re-
ceiving male visitors at the toll-house, and that she had
charged other men with being the father of her child.
The case for the prosecution having been closed, the
case was adjourned till this day (Tuesday).
Mr. CROWDER then addressed the jury on behalf of
the defendant, and requested them, however they might
during the examination of the witnesses for the plaintiff
have been led to give credence to their statements, to
suspend their judgment as to the credit due to those
witnesses, until they had heard the witnesses whom he
should call on the part of the defendant, who would con-
tradict in the most positive and direct terms nearly all
the material facts that had been sworn to by the wit-
nesses for the plaintiff. lie would prove that the charge
was utterly false, and supported by conspiracy, by direct
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called. He drew the attention of the jury to the contra-
dictions in the evidence of Mary Dingle and her sister
Rebecca, and their cousin Popplestone. As to the al-
leged scene at Dartmouth, from the statement of Mary
Dingle it would appear that she met Baker after the
others had gone to the play, that he took a pint bottle of
champagne ale out of his pocket, and a glass, which he
had in his handkerchief, and in the middle f the street
requested her to drink. She at first refused, but after-
wards drank some of the ale, Baker himself declining to
take any. She then described that she became nearly
senseless, went into the house, and there, while she was
in this state of lethargy, the connexion took place. Now,
it was not pretended that Baker was aware that Mary
Dingle was in the town, and if so, how did it happen that
at this purely accidental meeting the defendant should
have been so well prepared to effect his purpose? Again,
none but members of the plaintiff's family were
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Counsel drew the attention of the jury to the dis-
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and said that he should be able to produce evidence that
Tore did not sleep at a coffee-shop, or at the public-
house, and even Tore himself could not say what was
the name of the house at which he had slept; and, al-
though a twelvemonth had elapsed since the last trial,
when the same questions had been put to him, he had
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From the evidence which he was instructed he would hne.
able to bring forward, he would show that Mary Dingle
was a girl of loose character, and after the jury had
heard the evidence to be given by the defendant's wit-
nesses, he believed they would arrive at the conclusion
that the charge made by the plaintiff was utterly un-
founded, supported by fraud and perjury, and he confi-
dently anticipated their verdict for the defendant.
Numerous witnesses were then called to support the
case which had been opened by the Learned Counsel,
Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKE then replied,

After which Mr. Justice COLERIDGE summed up the
case to the jury, contrasting the evidence which had
been given on both sides, and remarking on the extra-
ordinary nature of the case. The jury were to judge of
the credibility to be given to the witnesses called on
the one side and the other, 41414 they were to say

which they believed. No doubt their task would be
a difficult one, as there was a groat discrepancy be-
tween the story told on one side and that on the other.
The jury then retired, and after being locked up about
an hour, found their verdict for the plaintiff—damages,
201.
The case was not finished until eleven o'clock at
night.
CRIMINAL COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice Wia-

Lums.)
John Cruwys was indicted for having stolen a cow, the
property of Robert Baker, at Chumley.
Mr. Lernpriere conducted the prosecution; Mr. Stone
defended the prisoner.
It appeared that when the prisoner was first arrested
on the charge he made his escape from the lock-up, and
the defence now was that he was not the person who had
thus been formerly apprehended.
The jury, however, found him Guilty, and he was sen-
tenced to twelve months' imprisonment.
John Richards was indicted for having, on the 16th of
July, broken and entered the dwelling-house of the 11ev.
11. T. Beadon, and with having stolen therefrom a bank-
note, value 51, and five sovereigns, the property of Henry
Dirnicom be.

Mr. Collier conducted the prosecution; Mr. Cox de-
fended the prisoner. _

It appeared by the evidence adduced on the part of
the prosecution, that on the morning of Sunday, the 16th
of July, the prosecutor, Mr. Beadon, and his family,
were all gone to afternoon service, except one female
servant; and during church time the prisoner called at
the door of a cottage near to Mr. Beadon's, and inquired
of an old woman who lived there, if the minister lived at
the house which he pointed out. She told him
that he
did; but the minister was out. He said it did sot mat-
ter, but went on towards the minister's house. Very
soon after this the old woman was alarmed by Mr. Bea-
don's servant coming down and saying that there was a
man in the house.

The servant, Dinah Kingdon, proved that she was
housekeeper to Mr. Beadon, and was left alone in the
house on the day in question. She fastened up the house,
and went into her bedroom, when she heard- the ,glass of
the kitchen window broken, and the footsteps of a man
go across the kitchen. She came down stairs and went out
Of the drawing-room window, which is on the ground
floor, and called a man named Ridge, who lived near; he
returned with her. They heard the man in the house,
but he made his escape by a back door without their
seeing him. Upon this the man-servant of Mr. Beadon,
Henry Dirnicombe, was called out of church, and on his
coming to the house he found that a five-pound note of
the Barnstaple bank, No. 818, and five sovereigns, and
also a bad shilling, had been stolen from a box of his in
the servants' hall. Upon this he mounted a horse and
rode on the Barnstaple road, where he overtook the pri-
soner, about two miles on the road. On searching him,
the 5/. note was found on him, as also the counterfeit
shilling, both of which the witness at once identified.
The prisoner was then given into custody of a con-
stable, who was just about to wrap up the note with the
shilling to take care of them, when the prisoner jumped
forward, seized the note and instantly swallowed it.
The constable, however, not to be outdone in ingenuity,
sent for a surgeon, who administered an emetic to the
prisoner, who became sick, and the note was brought up
by the prisoner uninjured.
Mr. Cox having addressed the jury, they immediately
found the prisoner guilty.
A former conviction of felony was then proved against
him, and the Learned JUDGE sentenced the prisoner to
be transported for 14 years.