The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-08 00:00:00

TILE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.

The Atlantic Telegraph is at fault. Whether the
stoppage be a temporary or a permanent one—
whether it is caused by some flaw in the cable
within such limits that it can be detected and reme-
died—is yet to be determined. There is no great
cause for despondency in the present interruption.
It rather sets forth the necessity of more cables.
Now we find we can lay a cable two miles deep in
the sea, and that a cable so laid can be made to
transmit electric signals, it seems a folly to depend
upon all the chances and accidents which may
happen to a single line.
During the short time this single cable has been
laid down between Ireland and Newfoundland, the
signals to Newfoundland have once before ceased.
Win Whitehouse discovered the cause of the
intt:rruption. There was a faulty portion of
the cable near Talentia ; it was fortunately easily
aece.3o.ble. As soon as it was taken up and repaired,
the electrical communication was re-established.
This i 'uterruption happened while the President's
reply to the Queen's message was waiting at New-
foundland to be transmitted. It must appear very
curious, if not inexplicable, to those of our readers
who are not familiar with the mode in which elec-
trical telegraphy is carried out, that while no sig-
nals could be sent from Ireland to Newfoundland,
they could be received in Ireland from Newfound-
ion.d. To electricians like Mr. Whitehouse the
use :of this is obvious. But the phenomena of
owtrical telegrapy are so novel to most people,
tha.t we shall be excused if we endeavour to make
our ,-,-‘aders appreciate the obviousness of the cause.
The. bond of electrical union between Ireland and
Newfoll ndland consists of a copper strand, contain-
ing seve.i twisted wires of pure copper. Each wire
is not v 7 uch thicker than a thread of sewing
silk, and a oection of the rope formed by the twist-
ing of all ses, en not much larger than the head of
an ordinary ;li:zed pin. Such is the thickness of
the electrical Wad to America under the depths of
the ocean. Tim gotta percha coverings of this
copper rope, as Nvcll as its hempen and iron wire
sheathings, are on.ty for the insulation and support
of the precious core,
Of the marvels of n.,odern electricity, perhaps the
.most astounding is thiC, that either water or earth
will - serve as a return wire for the telegraph.
When the electric telegraph was first introduced,
it -was supposed to be necessary to lay down, or
erect, two insulated wires, between the stations
from and to which signals were to be received and
despatched. Supposing, for instance, we wished to
communicate between London and Edinburgh ; the
electrical current could only be sent from London
to Edinlatirgh, so as to record itself, upon the con-
dition that there should be some means by which
it should travel back again to the place whence it
started.
The electrical current could only be created in
L ondon, and. detected at Edinburgh, by the exis-
te,nce of two electrical roads, one to carry the cur-
rent and. the other to return it, so as to establish
what is called a complete or closed circuit. This
requived two wires, one to carry the message shock,
wave, or current, from London to Edinburgh, the
other to return it. It was soon discovered, first,
that
wherever there existed an unbroken body of
water it might be substituted for the return wire ;
and secondly, that the earth itself, for all known
distances of electrical stations, might be similarly
used. •

How it comes that earth or water acts as a means
of enclosing or completing the electrical circuit, is
not yet well understood. It is one of many mar-
vels of science, well determined, yet hard to grasp
intellectually. Electrical waves or currents, call
them what you will, have been transmitted from
Ireland to Newfoundland through 2,000 miles of
copper rope not thicker than a bodkin ' • these cur-
rents have found their way back through the earth,
under the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, accurately
to the spot from whence they started. How have
they found their way back again ? Has the subtle
lightning forced a path through the shortest mathe-
matical line from the spot where the copper wire
dipped into the earth at Newfoundland, to that
where the other end of the wire was buried in Ire-
land ? Are we to conceive some marvellous fluid
flowing, or some equally marvellous vibration of
particles of matter transmitted, by the shortest
route, between the twoearth ends of the cable, or is
it diffused through the surface of the earth for some
unknown distance on each side of this narrow path?
Are we, instead of these processes, so hard to con-
ceive. to suppose the earth a great reservoir of neu-
tralisation for molecular - disturbance, so that the
p articles of the wire being disturbed by electrical
vibrations, the earth at both ends of the wire may
nwatralise these vibrations, when both the ends are
in 0 ontact with it ? These are some of the scientific
speevlations as to the rationale of the fact that the
earth serves as a return-wire for any lengths of
electrical cable, provided that cable be kept through-
out its whole length out of electrical communication
with the earth.
The scientific digression is necessary to render
conceivable the fact stated by Mr. Whitehouse, that
the transmission of signals from Newfoundland to
Ireland continued uninterrupted, while they could
not be transmitted from Ireland to Newfoundland.
If the copper rope had been completely broken
across and the ends separated from contact, no
signals could have been sent either way. But if
there existed a leakage of electricity near one of
the stations, or a diminution in the conductibility
of the wire by its attenuation, or some other cause,
a signal might be received at that station, though
it could not be transmitted from it.
The intensity of a current of electricity sent
through any length of electric wire or cable is dimi-
nished in some ratio, depending upon the length of
the wire through which it passes. The current,
which may be of great intensity as it leaves New-
foundland, becomes much weaker as it reaches Ire-
land. As it leaves Newfoundland it would perhaps
paralyse you ; as it nears Ireland you might take it
with impunity. Now, if there be an interruption or
leakage, not a total stoppage, of the electrical current
near Ireland, the current sent from Newfoundland to
Ireland might suffer a great diminution of intensity
near its destination, and yet be strong enough to
make itself manifest to the recording instrument in
Ireland. On the other hand, the current sent from
Ireland to Newfoundland, suffering a great loss of
intensity near its starting point, might not, after
its diminution of intensity, be able to record its
presence at Newfoundland.
The deep and intense interest which all must feel
in the present interruption of communication be-
tween the Old and New World must be our apology
for endeavouring to popularise an abstruse point of
science. The letter of Mr. Whitehouse is most
satisfactory in one respect—it makes us hope that
the cause of the interruption may be from some
injury to the shore end of the cable, either near
Ireland or Newfoundland.
We cannot enter into the dissensions between
Mr. Whitehouse and the directors of the Atlantic
Telegraph Company, so long as only one side of the
question is presented to the public. All personal
discord and difference becomes insignificant when
compared with the great question now at stake.
There are numerous causes which may have pro-
duced the interruption of electrical communication.
A single hole through the gutta percha or insulat-
ing covering of the copper wire, no larger than
sufficient to allow a single hair of the head to pass
anywhere between the wire and the, outer easing of
iron or the water, occurring at any point of the
whole length of two thousand miles of cable, would
produce the fatal result.
It must alsobe borne in mind that the mysterious
interruption for some minutes of communication
between the Agamemnon and the Niagara,. after
the faulty piece-of rope hadbeen repaircd, which
afterwards as mysteriously disappeared, has never
accounted for. The raising the temperature of any
portion of the gutta percha sheath from 42 deg, to
60 or 70 might be productive of a serious inter-
ruption of the electric current. In addition to all
this, we have the extraordinary pranks of terres-
trial magnetism. The history of the preliminary
Proceedings of the Atlantic Telegraph, published
, last year by the directors of the company, contains
the following
instructiveive passage :—" It is within
the bounds of
possibility that the perturbing in-
fluence of terrestrialthe occurrence of magnetism, especially during
magnetic storms, may prove to a
certain extent troublesome.ltfis so even on shorter
circuits. The superintendent the magnetic and
meteorological department of the Royal Observatory
at Greenwich, Mr. Glashier not unfrequently finds
indications of t magnetic
disturbance coincidence of such aogenea.tic
disturbance with failure in the service of certain
lines of electric telegraph. He tells of the editor
of a provincial newspaper who suspected the officials
of a telegraph of being in league against him to
withhold certain information which he required,
when the. Greenwich self-registerig
wererecording
'on their paper a perfect tornado t
of
magnetic oscillations, looking on their linear and
tabulated sketch like some wondrous Alpine land
of jagged peaks and abrupt valleys.'
Whatever may be the nature of the present in-
vestigation, whether temporary or' permanent, we.
must remember that the great problem—against
the possibility of which so many chances of failure
seemed arrayed—of the possibility of electrical
communication between the Old World and the
New has been satisfactorily solved.--Daily News.

SOUTII KENSINGTON MUSEtiM.—During - the
week ending 4th Sept., 1858, the visitors have been-as fol-
low :—On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, free day F,
3,875 ; on Monday and Tuesday, free evenings, 5,289 c n
the three students' days (admission to the public 6d.) 05 ;
one students evening, Wednesday, 123 ; total, 9,882, From
the opening of the Museum, 681,410.

THE ILIILWAY CATASTROPHE NEAR
DUDLEY.

Yesterday Mr. T. M. Phillips, coroner, resumed
the inquest at the Bell Hotel, Brierly-hill, on the
bodies of 13 of the 24 persons who have died from
the collision on the 23d August, on the Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, near to
Brettel-lane station.

The inquest upon Mrs. Rogers, who died at Tip-
ton on the night before the last inquest, was opened
a day or two ago, before Mr. Hinchcliffe, coroner
for that district, but upon the application of Mr.
King, solicitor for the railway company, it was ad-
journed until the sth October, after this inquest is
concluded. _ _

John Cording, the under-guard in the train that
separated, deposed—l lived at Worcester on the
23d of last month, when I accompanied an excur-
sion train from Wolverhampton to Worcester.
Frederick Cook was the head guard. Heard no
complaints of defective machinery or engine on that
morning ; 29 carriages in our part of the train
arrived at Worcester. We put on some extra car-
riages at Dudley. One engine left Wolverhamp-
ton. There were two guards' vans. I rode in the
front van. At Tipton, before we put on more car-
riages at Dudley, four or five persons were in my
van. I had them in my van because there was no
room for them in the train. lam not aware that
anything broke down before we arrived at Brettel-
lane. Some more carriages were put on at Stour-
bridge ; about seven carriages were put on at Dud-
ley. After repairing the broken shackle at Brettel-
lane we started, having before taken in more
passengers, When Cook gave me the signal at
Brettel-lane that all was ready for starting, I gave
it to the engine-driver, Jonas Lockwood. Another
engine having been put on at Dudley, there was
another driver also. His name was Thomas Benson.
The shackle broke just as we were starting from
Brettel-lane, about 15 carriages from the front; one
bow of the shackle was broken, and the other bow
pulled off one of the pins upon which it worked.
Cook was at the point of breakage when I got down,
and he replaced the broken shackle with a strong
goods chain. Another breakage took place at Hag-
ley, instantly after we left the station. In that case
also the shackle was broken. We repaired that
breakage by hooking on the spare shackle that was
suspended near to the broken one. The assistant-
superintendent, Mr. Charles Harris, was in the
train from Dudley to Worcester. I don't know whe-
ther Mr. Harris or the head guard made a report of
the accident at Worcester. Before we left Worces-
ter at night the chains were all repaired but one.
I saw them. They were repaired by a blacksmith.
I don't know what chains were used in coming
back from Worcester. We left Worcester at 6.30.
In the first portion of the train from Worcester
there were 29 or 30 carriages. H. Cook had the
charge of the first portion. There was one engine
at starting, but we put on a second engine at Stour-
bridge to take us up the incline from that place to
Dudley. Robt. M'Gee was the driver of the engine
that was put on at Stourbridge. Nothing occurred
till we got to Round Oak station. Just before we
got to that station I looked out, and saw that the
train was all right. Just as the signal was given to
go on again from Round Oak, the engine-driver
Burke told m• that the train had divided. The
breakage did not, to my knowledge, occur till the
breaks were put on at the station. After Burke
had told me that the train had broken and gone
adrift I looked out and saw that the lights behind
had gone. I then went back to where the breakage
had taken place. The number of the carriage from
which the shackle broke was 114, through Bristol
and Liverpool. The side chains of 114 through car-
riage were not broken, but the side chains of the
carriage to which it was connected were broken.
I went back with some carriages, and,under the direc-
tion of Mr. Ivetts, brought on some of the wounded
in a train of 12 carriages. The break I had coming
back Cook had in the morning. It was in good
working order. I saw Cook at the place of the
collision. He did not complain about any portion
of the couplings and seemed quite sober.
The Coroner—Do you think, if the break had
been properly applied, the train could have been
stopped before the collision took place ?
Mr. King—We have scientific evidence on that
point.
The Coroner—But surely this man, having been
in the habit of working trains upon the line for
years, is able to give some practical information.
Witness resumed—He did not think that the
guard could have stopped it on that night, because

One rails were greasy:
By the Foreman—l did not perceive any jerking
in the morning, and heard no complaints from pas-
sengers wishing to get out. lam quite sure that
the train did. not break until we got to the Brettel-
lane station.
By the Foreman—The coroner cautioned me not
to say anything that might criminate myself ; but
before coming here I was twice under examination.
Mr. King objected that, as he was the solicitor
of the company, all communications that had taken
place between him and the witness were confidential.
Mr. Sheriff said he wished that the witness should

answer any question that might be put to him.
By the Foreman—There is a rule against passen-
gers riding in the guard's van, but we don't like to
leave passengers behind. It is not usual to allow
passengers to ride in those compartments of second-
class carriages where there are breaks.
By Mr. Burbridge (solicitor for the deceased)—
I have never been on any other narrow gauge line
than the Oxford and Worcester Railway, and can-
not therefore speak to the proportionate number of
breaks employed in trains. In this train in the
morning I think that in addition to the break vans
there was a second-class carriage with a break to it.
By Mr. Ellsworth, solicitor—When I was acting
as assistant-guard I had 18s. a-week. I was porter
as well. Before I was made porter and assistant
guard I was a lamp cleaner, and received 16s. a-
week. There were some schoolboys in my van in the
morning, and at Brettel-lane the stationmaster
directed me to take in more persons till we got to
Stourbridge, where there were some more carriages
put on. Mr. Phillips, the stationmaster at Round
Oak, might have seen me several times, but I cannot
account for his not knowing me. I was dressed as
a porter. Ido not know how many persons there
were in Cook's van.
By Mr. King—The number of one of the carriages
where the breakage took place was 114, but I don't
know the number of the other. The shackle of No.
114 was broken, but the side chains of the carriage
were not broken ; of the other carriage one of the
side chains was broken. The screw pm of the side
chain on that carriage was stripped through the nut.
I saw No. 114 and the other carriage coupled toge-
ther at the scene of the accident. After they had
been coupled I proceeded with them and others to
Wolverhampton and pointed them out to Drink-
water, the inspector of carriages there. On the
day after the accident I took No. 114 to Gransmore,
the inspector of carriages, and also to Brown the
platform inspector.

Joseph Williams, boatman, of King-street, Wor-
cester, said—l was coming back from Worcester in
the train that broke. I left Dudley in the morning.
On coming back from Worcester there were more
persons in the guard's van than myself, the guard,
Cook, and Marshall, the deceased. There were
about six. The guard said, "Jump out, lads, there
will be an accident." He had been trying to stop
the train with his break, but we did not know that
we were going back till he told us. When he told
us to jump I don't know what took place after-
wards, I was so frightened, I got up to the other
end of the van. . I don't know whether Cook
jumped out. Before then I don't know whether he
used the break. When he was using the break I
did not perceive any alteration in the speed of the
carriage. I was quite sober. I was hurt in the
forehead. As far as I can recollect I was thrown
out. When I came to my senses I was by the side
of the broken carriages on the line.
By the Foreman—l had not been drinking on
that day.
By a juror—Cook was not absent from his van
from Worcester to the place of the accident. There
was no. light in the van. Cook was sober. I have
had io from the company as compensation for the
injuries I have received.
By the Coroner—Cook did not complain about
the break,
By Air. Ellsworth—Only two or three minutes
elapsed, betveen the. time of the
jump out and-the time of theaeetellterfant. inog us t
okh had
his hand on the break when h
When the accident happened thereoweruesotnolyjturahrepe.
persons.
By a solicitor—l had received my £5 before I
came here.
Mr. King protested against questions being put
which
reflected upon the company. Such questions
Were most unprofessional. The company, desirous
of affording all the information in their power, had
heard that Williams
vi
ms
evidence.
was in the guard's van, and so
sent for him to g
• A juror—I think heheadbe.etter go, Mr. Coroner ;
we can get nothingoutof him.
saidthat t
Frederickoh,e aaCfteoe:lo)-km beingpof accompanied
Worcester, the guard before
referred
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cautioned by the Coroner,
excursion train from
Wolverhampton to Worcester on the 23d August.
Cording was his under-guard, and Jonah Lockwood
was the engine-driver. There wejt
and two break vans.. We had eighptasemsoonrieecraasirTiriaa with
loti t to at Dudley and also additional go
another engine. Nothing occurred till we got
Brettel-lane. There a shackle and the two side
chains broke at about 14 carriages from th last
van. I fetched four-big links from the behind
put a scrag into the wheel of one of the carriages,
and made the carriages tight. The porter at the
station misted me to do the fork, I don't know

if Mr. Hart, the station-master, was there. We
attached five more coaches at Stourbridge. At

Hagley, the next station from Brettel-lane,w e were
just starting out of the station as at Brettel-lane,
when a shackle and two side chains broke at about
12 carriages from the behind van. I there hooked
on the second shackle at that point, and we went
on again. At Droitwich I found another shackle
had broken, and the train was held together by the
two side chains. I took in some passengers at
Prince's End, expecting that there would be "room
at Dudley.
The Coroner--But you were acting contrary to
the company's rules in doing so, were you not ?
Witness—Yes ; but rather than leave them be-
hind I took them in.
Coroner—Were the men sober P—Witness—Yes.
Coroner—Did they work the break ?
Witness—At Netherton and Round Oak ; and
I asked one of the men to take off the break.

Coroner—Was there smoking there ?
Witness—There was, sir.
Coroner--Didn't they use your break all the way
to Worcester.

Witness--No, sir, they did not. I did not com-
plain abotit the couplings at either of the stations.
I did not at Worcester, for Mr. Harris was with
us: In coming back the first train was composed
of 27 carriages and two break vans and one engine
till we came to Stourbridge, where a second was
put on to help us up the bank.
The Coroner—ls that usual ?

Witness—l have been piloted up before. There
were several persons in my van coming from Wor-
cester. All went well till we got to Round Oak. I
told only two persons to get into the van at Wor-
cester.

The inquest was then adjourned for a week.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. Creasy.)
John Knight, 28, cabman, was indicted for
feloniously assaulting Mary Catherine Barry, put-
ting her in bodily fear, and stealing from her person
a purse containing £1 19s. 6d. in money, a mantle,
a parasol, a pair of boots, four sleeve studs, and a
handkerchief, her property ; and in a second indict-
ment he was charged with having assaulted her
with intent to ravish, for unlawfully and indecently
tearing her clothes from her body, and for a com-
mon assault. _ _ _

Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Austin appeared for the
proSecution, instructed by the Associate Institute
for the Protection of Women ; Mr. Ribton defended
the prisoner.
Mr. Sleigh, in opening the case, said it was
one undoubtedly of a very serious nature, for if
the prisoner were really guilty of the crime imputed
to him by the prosecution he had been guilty of as
gross an outrage as could well be conceived. It
would be his duty to place the evidence before the
jury, who, of course, would, analyse it well, and if
they had any doubt about the prisoner's guilt, of
course they would give him, the benefit of it ; but
if they were satisfied that it proved the case against
him, they would perform their duty in the interests
of society by finding him guilty.
The case was then gone into at great length. On
the 27th of July, the prosecutrix, a young woman
about 23 years of age, who gave her evidence with
great propriety and decorum, and who stated that
she was a servant at Ashley's Hotel, in Henrietta-
street, Covent-garden, a situation she had been in
about 11 months, had leave to go to Islington to
see a lady named Bennett, of whom she was desir-
ous of borrowin a small sum of money with which
she wanted to'provide something for a sister living
in Bermondsey who had been confined. She• pro-
ceeded to Islington from the Strand by one of the
" Favourite" omnibuses, and got to Miss Bennett's
at about six o'clock, and after staying there be-
tween two and three hours, she left, and Miss
Bennett's servant went to see her to the omni-
bus, but it was a very wet night and all the
omnibuses were full. They went into a public-
house, and had six pennyworth of brandy-and-
water, for which the prosecutrix paid with a sove-
reign, one of two which Miss Bennett had lent her,
and having placed the change in her purse, she
and the servant walked on towards the cab-rank
near the Angel. They engaged a Hansom cab,
of which .it was alleged the prisoner was the
driver, and, he asked ls. 6d. to take the prose-
cutrix to Covent-garden or Charing-cross, but upon
the servant girl, Lucy Paynter, making some
demur, he agreed to take her for 1 s., and she
got in. When they had gone, as near as
she could guess, about half the distance between
Islington and Charing-cross, the cab drew up
at a publichouse, without any direction from
the prosecutrix, and the driver got off the box and
said, as it was a very wet night he should have a
glass of ale, and asked the prosecutrix if she would
take one with him. She assented, and he brought
her a glass, the contents of which she drank off at
one draught. The man then drove on, and from
the moment the cab started she recollected nothing
that occurred, and next morning, about six o'clock,
she found herself in a wretched bed in a brothel,
No. 4, George-street, St. Giles's, the best part of
her clothes and her money gone. It appeared that
shortly after ten o'clock the night the cab was
hired the prisoner drove up to the Sussex Hotel,
Duke-street, London-bridge, and ordered two
glasses of ale, one of which he drank himself, the
other he handed to a woman (the prosecutrix) in
the cab. From there, it would seem, he went to
the Gregorian Arms, near St. James's-gate, Ber-
mondsey, kept by Ir. Alfred John Wrangham ;
there was some little confusion as to the exact time,
but it was supposed to be about eleven o'clock, and
he had some conversation with Mr. Wrangham.
He said he had got a woman in his cab quite drunk,
whoin he had taken up somewhere in Oxford-street
or Holborn, that she was sober when he took her
up, and she requested him to drive her to the Spa-
road station, Bermondsey, but when he got to the
Gregorian Arms he found she was asleep and drunk.
He said, " What would you do, governor ? It's a
- bad job," or something to that effect, and Mr.
Wrangham told him that the best thing he could
advise him to do would be to take her back to as
near as possible where he took her up,*and that if
she had not then recovered herself he had better

:ake her to the nearest police station, and explain
he matter there. To this he remarked, " How am

I to recover my fare ?" and Mr.Wrangham told him
he would take 'his number, and if he found it neces-
sary to summon the woman for his fare, he would
attend on his behalf to state what he knew of the
matter. After this the prisoner asked the ostler if
he-would have a drop of gin, and he being nothing
loth a quartern was procured, and after they had
drunk a glass was handed to the woman in the cab,
who drank a portion of its contents. He treated
the ostler to more gin, and then asked him if he
would like to earn 4d. • Of course, he had no objec-
tion, and asked what he wanted' him to do. The
prisoner said it was to drive his cab up to London-
bridge, while he rode inside with the lady,. and he
said he didn't mind if his master would give_ him
leave, but his master Would not consent to his doing
so, and on his returning to the cab to tell him he
could not go, he found him kneeling on the cab in
front of the woman. The prisoner then got up into
the driving-box, and went off• towards London-
bridge. The next that was heard -of him was at
the brothel in George street, Where he made his
appearance at a little before 12 o'clock, and asked
a young man named Smith, a servant in the house,
who went by the nickname of " Carrots," if he could
engage a room for a young friend of his who wanted
a lodging. Smith replied that he could, and the
prisoner, having left l's. 6d. went.away. In about
an hour he returned with-the prosecutrix, who was
so drunk that she could not stand, and her head was
leaning on his shoulder. Ile asked Smith to assist
him with her upstairs •, he did so, and, when in the
room; he asked him to lend a hand in undressing her.
The prisoner turned ',her pocket inside out, and
Smith asked him to let him see what he took, as he
should be held answerable for anything that might
be missed. The prisoner showed him a fourpenny
piece, a halfpenny, a German coin, a pair of gloves,
and a bunch of keys, and said she was a respectable
young woman, and he did not mind paying ss. for
her accommodation for the night, provided she was
well taken care of, as he knew her to be respectable.
Smith, according to his own statement, then said,
" Well, if she is a respectable woman, and she looks
one, this is not the proper sort of place to bring her
to ;" to which the prisoner replied, " It's all right,
she's a friend of mine, and I'll see it all right in
the morning." He then, according to Smith's
evidence, asked to be left alone for a while with
the young woman, but Smith refused, and the pti-
soner said " Why, she's a stranger to me as much
as you are." " Why," said Smith, " you just told
me she was respectable and a friend of yours ;"
and the prisoner then said he had been driving
about with her all the night long, and had brought
her there for safety. Smith then told him to leave
the room, which he did, and the door was locked.
The prisoner then asked Smith to have a drop of
gin, and 'they went to a public-house, and spent the
fourpenny piece which he had taken from . her
pocket. While Smith was taking the gin the pri-
soner left the house, and he had been absent, some
little time, when Smith went back to the brothel,
and then, he said, found that during his absence.
the door of the.room in which the young woman
was had been broken open, and her mantle, boots,
&c., taken away. The prisoner had said he would
call in the morning, and he did so, but the prose-
cutrix was then gone, and Smith was not up, but
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