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London, England, 1859-06-15 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
THE QUEEN ON THE PROSECUTION OF DR. GODFREY

V. WILLIAM NEWTON.
The trial of the above cause was again proceeded
with yesterday morning at 10 o'clock.
!Sergeant Parry, Mr. 'Tindal Atkinson, and Mr.
Poland again appeared for the prosecution. Ser-
geant Ballantine, Mr. Sleigh, and Mr. Giffard,
appeared for the defendant.
The following additional evidence was given for

the defendant
Sane Marshall deposed that she was 13 years old,
and lived with her parents at Chelsea. In 1857 she
was living at Stepney, and a child was ill in the
house, which Dr. Godfrey attended, and witness
used to go to fetch medicine from his surgery.
Upon one occasion Dr. Godfrey asked her how old
she was, and she told him 12, and he then said that
she would soon be 15, and then he would teach her
a grand secret. He also told her that he should like
her to nurse his baby when it was born. Witness
took money for the medicine, and Dr. Godfrey gene-
rally gave her a shilling or a sixpence out of it. In
the early part of 1858 witness's mother was ill and
was confined. Witness went to fetch Dr. Godfrey
at his house in Finsbury-square, and he came into
the room to her, and she told him her mother
required his attendance. He locked the door, and
came up to her and tried to pull her on his knee,
and behaved in a very indecent manner to her. She
struggled, and at last got away from him and went
to the door. During the struggle D. Godfrey said
he would not hurt her ; he loved her too much to
do that. After some time he allowed the &Or to be
opened, and he then said he had tight boots on, and
he wanted her to ride with him in a cab. As they
were goinc, along he offered her two fourpenny
pieces, and also said he was going to have a pic-nic in
the forest, and that Miss Gardner and other young
ladies were going, and he wished her to go with
them. He also promised to make her a present.
Two or three days after her mother was confined
Dr. Godfrey gave her 25., and he also gave her
mother a smelling-bottle, and when she thanked
him for it he said that was not the present he in-

tended to make her.
Cross-examined—Witness's mother was barmaid
to Mr. Gardner, and she was acquainted with Miss
Gardner. She had never been to a dance at Mr.
Gardner's. There was no room for public dancing
at Mr. Gardner's, but occasionally he had a private
party to dance, but witness was not present on any
of these occasions. - She was present at the trial of
" Gardner v. Godfrey," but was not called as a
witness. She did not hear Miss Gardner examined,
and was not aware that she made use of the saihe
expressions alleged to have been made use of by Dr.
Godfrey—that he would not hurt her, and that he
loved her too much to hurt her. Harriet Lewis, the
person Whose name had been mentioned in .the
course of the trial,was witness's aunt. Witness was
acquainted with a young girl named Caroline
Booth, and also with another girl, named Lavinia
Pratt. The latter was barmaid to Mr. Gardner.
Witness did not go about during the former trial
to get witnesses for Mr. Gardner. Witness had
never been seen by Caroline Booth sitting upon the
steps of Dr. Godfrey's house. She knew Caroline
Booth, and had spoken to her. but she never asked
her to go to Gardner's house with her and have some
beer. She asked Caroline Booth what her name was
by the direction of Mr. Daley, the clerk to Mr.
Gardner's solicitors. She would swear that she did
not ask Caroline Booth to come forward and give
evidence at the trial for Mr. Gardner. She went
to Dr. Godfrey's house two or three times after the
indecent conduct she had described. Her aunt
went into Dr. Godfrey's service after the doctor had
acted hi the way described to her.
Sarah Marshall, mother of the last witness,
deposed that she was attended by Dr. Godfrey
in her confinement, in February, 1858, and she
used to send her daughter for medicine. About
the time of her confinement she observed a great
change in her daughter's conduct towards Dr.
Godfrey, and she appeared to avoid hith. A day or
two after she was confined Dr. Godfrey gave her a
smelling-bottle for her daughter, and about the
same she gave witness two shillings and said that
the doctor had given them to her. In consequence
of the manner in which her daughter behaved to
Dr. Godfrey she asked her s3me questions upon the
subject, and she then made a communication to her.
Cross-examined—When Dr. Godfrey gave her
the smelling-bottle he said it was his birthday, and
he wished her daughter to have the bottle in re-
membrance of the day.
Lydia Owchin deposed that in August,lBs7, she
was a patient of Dr. Godfrev's' and afterwards went
into his service at his request, and she did not see
Mrs. Godfrey until afterwards. She remained in
his service 12 weeks. Another girl, named Anne
Harwood, was also in his service. Dr. Godfrey fre-
quently went into the kitchen, and he tried to kiss
her, and on one occasion when he did so she slapped
hiA face. (A laugh.) She also used to smother him
with water to avoid the kissing. He used to chase
her round the kitchen table. (A laugh.) He did
this several times, and once he said that if he could
not have what he wanted by fair means he would
by foul, and that he would put something on his
finger that would send her off in a few minutes,
and she would not
know what had been
aondes:
her. Anne Harwood left the house while Dr. God-
frey and his wife were out, and when they came
home the doctor asked why she had left,
an
told him he knew the reason. Upon one occasion
the doctor behaved in a very indecent manner to
her in the kitchen, and the next day she wrote to
her aunt and communicated what had taken place.
Her aunt came on the following day, and she wished
to go away with her then, but at the request of
Mrs. Godfrey, as she had no servant, she consented'
to stay till the following Monday, and then left.
Cross-examined-Dr.- Godfrey did not attempt
to kiss her until she had been six or seven weeks
in 'his service. Witness was not hired as a
regular servant, but merely to oblige Dr. Godfrey,
and she was to have £1 a month. She had for-
merly been in the service of a relative of Mrs. God-
frey. She had no warning to leave Dr. Godfrey's
service. Witness did not know Mr. Gardner, and
she never saw Mrs. Marshall until the present
trial.
Sarah Cooper deposed that the last witness was
her niece, and she corroborated the statement made
by her relative to her having written to her com-
plaining of the conduct of Dr. Godfrey towards
her. Witness went to the doctor's house, and was
about to take her niece away immediately, but
Mrs. Godfrey requested her to allow her to remain
for a day or two, as she would be without a servant
'altogether if she did so.
Cross-examined—She made a complaint of Dr.
Godfrey's conduct to Mrs. Godfrey, but she would