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London, England, 1860-06-02 00:00:00

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1%1 a young woman, twenty years of age in a !nestS
brutal and outrageuus manner.
ainant, a decent-looking young woman,
a very modest demea-
nour, and with some hesitation, said that she
worked for Messrs. Josephs, the extensive furriers,
in the Borough, and lodged at 11, Falcon-court,
High-street, near where the prisoner lodged. She
knew him by their living near, but they were not
intimate. On Tuesday night, after her day's labour,
she went to see some friends in Lambeth, and was
returning home, a little before twelve o'clock, when
she met the prisoner at the bottom of Falcon-court,
and he asked her how she had spent her holidays.
She said " pretty well," and was about to pass on
to her lodgings, when he asked her to go and have
a glass of ale. She consented, and they went into
a public house opposite, where they remained half-
an-hour, conversing with other young men lodging
in the same court, and then they all left for their
lodgings and separated. As soon as she got to her
dotir, the prisoner seized hold of her shawl andpulled
her back, and put his hands round her neck. She
tried to prevent him, but he overpowered her and
pulled her down on the pavement just out of the
court at the reel.. She screamed out for help as
loud as she could, and got hold of his neckerchief,
but all to no purpose, as he was too strong for such
a weak person, and after struggling together for
nearly a quarter of en hour, her ruin was com-
pleted. (The girl cried bitterly.) A young man
named Murray then came up and lifted her from
the ground.
Mr. Burcham asked her whether no person came
near them while she was screaming and struggling
with the prisoner.
She replied that three or four women stood
there, and all she heard them say to the prisoner
was, " Get up you nasty beast." They never at-
tempted to help her or went for assistance.
In cross-examination by Mr. W. Edwin, for the
prisoner, she said she never allowed any liberties
with the prisoner, and it was by main force that he
effected his purpose, which the injuries all over
her person could show.
Mr. Burcham asked whether any of those dis-
gusting and cowardly women were in court ?
Witness replied that they were not, but the
young man who rescued her was.
Thomas Murray, the person related to, stepped
forward, and said he lodged in the same court.
Between twelve and one on Tuesday morning, as
he was about to go to bed ho heard a female scream,
but at first he could not tell whether it was in a
house or in High-street, as such things are fre-
quent in that neighbourhood. The screaming, how-
ever, continued louder, and he immediately went
out, and hearing a female again scream " Help,
help," at the end of the court, he proceeded there,
and saw the prisoner and the complainant, who
was struggling hard, and almost exhausted, on the
ground. (Witness described their position, which
corroborated the girl's statement.) There were
three or four females standing by at the time, but
they took no notice. He pushed them on one side,
and lifted the prosecutrix up, and the prisoner
absconded. He conveyed her to her lodgings and
left her there.
Mr. Burcham observed that it was a very brutal
outrage, and he should feel it his duty to cause a
thorough investigation to be made into all the cir-
cumstances. The officer who had charge of the
case must use every exertion to find those unfeeling
women who stood by while the outrage was being
committed, and any other evidence that could be
forthcoming.
The officer who apprehended the prisoner said he
would obey his worship's injunctions. He produced
a medical certificate from Dr. Evans, who pro-
nounced that the capital offence had been com-
mitted.

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Mr. Burcham said that under all the circum-
stances he should remand the prisoner until Thurs-
day, when Dr. Evans must be present, and the
depositions of the witnesses would be taken.
Mr. Edwin asked if his worship would accept
bail for the prisoner.
Mr. Bureham—Certainly not. He must be re-
manded to gaol.

WORSHIP-STREET.--THE RECENT HORRIBLE
CHARGE AGAINST A ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL-
MASTER.—John Spencer, otherwise john Benedict
Spencer, recently a schoolmaster in Goldsmith's-
row, Hackney-road, and stated by the police to be
a Roman Catholic priest, was again brought before
Mr. 1/Eyncourt by Inspector Webster, of the N
division of police, charged with the commission of
an abominable offence upon several of his pupils.
It will be recollected that at. the conclusion of
the former examination, which embraced only the
evidence of one of the pupils, by name Leon
Moresco, the prisoner was, at the request of his
solicitor, admitted to bail, but the amount being
two suretit's of £5OO, he was unable to furnish it,
and hewas consequently conveyed to the House of

Detention in the prison van.
Three other charges were now proceeded with,
each of which, as in the former one, were of so gross
a character as to preclude et clear detail.
Mr. D'Eynconrt remanded the prisoner for the
completion of the depositions in the four that had
been heard, bail being now of course out of the
question.
Inspector Webster said that he had ascertained
the prisoner, about twelve months since, kept a
large school in Great '1 itchfield-street, under the
name of John Benedict Spencer, where similar mal-
practices were carried on, to the truth of which
three boys were ready to avouch. •
The prisoner was then removed.

RAIL Tl' AY INTELLIGENCE:

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE N4EEK.

Miles Opened Receipts.
Railways. ".. . ~...___."...-...
1860. 1859. 1860. 1859.
X X
Ballymena and Portrush 35 35 - -
Bedale and Leyburn lO 10 - -
Belfast and Ballymena 65 65 1,266 1,121
Belfast and County Down 2O 20 596 547
Birkd., Lanc., &Ches. June 32 32 2,852 2,584
Bl'th and Tyne 2O 20 1,954 1,695
Bristol and Exeter 125 119 6,917 6,520
Caledonian
Clies.&llolyhoad(withMold) 94 94 - _
Cockermouth& Workington 8 8 271 230
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 316 285
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l I 61 252 237
Deeside l7 17 351 328
Dublin & Belfast Junction I
, 63 63 1,352 1,262
Dublin and Droghedl 63 63 1,601 1,659
Dub. &Wicklow-(in.Kingst ) 401 404 2,079 2,028
Dundalk and Enniskillen
Dundee and Arbroath l7l 171 818 704
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31 1,165 1,082
East Anglian 671 671 948 908
E.Counties,Nrik.,&E.Union 499 489 28,658 24,763
East Kent 194 - - -
E.Lancashire(in.Blackburn) 111 103 - -
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Edinburgh, Perth,& Dundee 78 78 3,529 3,325
Forth & Clyde Junction
Furness
Glasgow & South-Western 1831 1834 8,546 7,919
Great Northern 283 283 24,557 24,217
Great North of Scotland
9t.Southn. & Westn.(lrind ) - 280 226 7,959 8,526
Great Western 466 466 39,199 31,910
null and Holderness - -
inverness & Aberdeen Juno. 55 65 804 763
Irish South-Eastern 251 251 273 271
Killarney Junction -.-
Lancaster and Carlisle (in.
Kendal and Windermere) 1 1 - -
Lanc. & Yrks.(in.Blackburn) 395 395 37,656 32,050
Limerick and Foynes 2 26 131 142
Llanelly 4 4 537 662
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5l 51 1,703 1,506
London & South-Western . 339 339 24,429 17,245
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast. 2231 2024 22,598 ' 13,852
L'derry and Enniskillen - , -
Lond., TilburY, & Southend. 424 45 1,189 , 1,132
Man.,Sheffield,& Lincolnsh. 174 1734 12,334 ' 10,819
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham, tit 1,087 ; 990
)liar port and Carlisle 2B 28 1,156 950
Midland
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 177 177 4,326 4,171
Monkland 62 52 -
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,-124 2,272
Newcastle and Carlisle 7B 78 4,190 3,464
Newport,Aberg.,& Herefor 5O 50 1,445 1,393
6,138 519
North British (in. Dalkeith) 154 144 485 5,
491
North Devon 35 35
764 764 38,746 33,071
North-Eastern 9 9 2,651 2,560
North London 8,316 7,981
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North Staffordshire 23,,,i3 234
North-Western ..•••••••••• 1
101 - -
N. Yorkshire and Cleveland _ _,..
294
2,005 21:291195
2,193
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,i; ~i.. 7 94r0 i 5,413
278 4,229
50 3,298 3,170
3,631 3,600
48
Scottish North-Eastern ll5 115
3,189 3,049
uuryry Centralalißirminghamd.
Chester. . . . . .
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294
51
Shropshire Union 29} 294 1,070 1,065
72t
, 306 360271 23711::825853322273 12619:: 8:42j
Siihhrletetw'‘vvissBshbbbury & Hereford
South-Eastern
South Wales
StocktonvuS‘
I°la,vualeettthr,oisloenva
eon Devon
. 1 117:1991 17081,14
S. Yorkshire and River Dun' 118 3,346 2,841
Tatf Vale ............. • 53 7,635 7,492
Ulster
W a r ri.ifti..goN.rtdoe ai:ittiliiildmil
,n,ericliic
.r. Stockport.: ... 5217250: 53 4,878 4,691
52
21.914 11,787200330 11,575130036
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Waterford and E. illkoi Kilkenny... 2l 31 271 503
77 1,158 1,261
West Cornwall 274 274 702 657
W. 1 I artlepool 11 arbr.&Rai 1 39 ' 39 4,485 3,483
Whitehaven Junction l2 12 703 563
\Vhitchaven & Furness Jun 35 31 651 04
7 W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt 7 470 431
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 861 761
Austrian I 828 673 34,783 36,005
Belgjau Eastern Junction 264 264 284 310 2e2
Buffalo and Lake 11 urou •.: 161 161 1,114 85 i
I
Detroit and Milwaukie i 185 185 2,528 1,947
Dutch Rhenish
Grand Trunk of Canada 970 880 ( 11,427 8,730
Great Indian Peninsula 277 1941 ' 3,730 3,634
Great Luxembourg l2B 122 2,795 2,219
Great Western of Canada 345 345 7,455 6,992
Lombardo-Venetian 285 285 - -
Lyons and Geneva 142 142 5,017 7,037
• Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 310 284 17,257 10,509
' Maria Antonia 2l 21 - -
Northern of France 574 574 43,891 43,884
Norwegian Trunk 44 44 666 609
73.905 98,770
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 879 840
Paris and Orleans 922 922 -
Paris and Strasburg
7686; 25100,2-376141 25018, :;795
r Royal Danish 69
68
Sambre and Meuse
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wo.Westand Southern
N.W.T Flanders of l
Qrt:a France,e.
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74,27 cg 878 758
721 10,493 35,912