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(aeroiee.Mr. Justice Cioreet -.1. y'''.--- 11:,ax,*t 7,
Thomas Oslaorn, 21, briellayk-T, 7. as ha: 4 ..14,:w !th 1. si.
having, on the 14th ~-:f May last, e. meet;, ,1 a r ,pe
upon Ann Gibson at Se-lei-field, and John Jame-
son was chargial with 4iding and abet iu in the
same offence.
Mr. Price and Mr.', Few ler , prose o n ted ; Mr.
Davison defended OSh irk), ,and 'Mr. Cam Well Fes-
ter,..„„
Jenars)it.
Mr. Prize acid till p:•os.ecu'r:x in this case was,
at the time the offence Wa.s_ coa-iinitted, 1:11 a visit
to her aunt at Seigefield. On the 13th of May
she left the service of a pc- son with why •n). site had
been living at Darliugtou, and before entering upon
the service of another person by whom she had been
engaged she intended spending a day or two with
her aunt. On the 11th she left Sedgeliell to go to
Elwick for the purpose of seeing her brother who
was in service there. She llid to go across a num-
bertis),noaoe ttdthrough which there is a public foot-
e path,
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further on she met the other prisoner, Jameson,
who asked her if she had met a man dressed in
white clothes on tho road. She told him she had,
and he then passed on. On arriving at El wick the
prosecutrix went to see her brother, who nave her
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a halfcrown piece and a sixpence. She afterwards
went to the house of a person named Fur by, where
she had dinner, and left there between 5 and 6
o'clock in the evening. In the meantime the pri-
soners
at the bar had been at Furby's house, and .
made inquiries about a young woman in black
clothes. The prosecutrix was dressed in black on
that day. A young man at Furby's house told the
prisoner Osborn that her name was Gibson, and
that she had gone to Elwick to see her brother.
Osborn said he had a slight acquaintance with the
young woman. The prosecutrix proceeded a little
distance on the road home, when she Met both
the risoners at the bar. Osborn said, "Well,
Miss Gibson, you have not been long seeing your
brother." Having no acquaintance with themen pro-
se.cutrix said nothing in reply, but walked on. She
Iproeeede on about the distance of two fields, when
on turnip, round she saw the-two men coming after
her. Sh set off and ran away, pursued by the
prisoners, who overtook her at a stile about 140
yards from the nearest house. Osborn then seized
her and threw her down. The other prisoner also
got hold of her, and held her until Osborn took the
half-crown and sixpence from het' pocket. Osborn, • ._
on obtaining the money, said, " She's only got 382'
After that Osborn proceeded to violate her person,
the other prisoner holding her down, and placing
his hand over her mouth while his companion
effected his purpose. Osborn afterwards struck the
prosecutrix a severe blow on the mouth for shouting
out " Murder," from the effects of which the blood
flowed freely. Osborn then said, " I shell see you
again, and I'll give you back your balfcrown." The
prisoners then left her. The prosecutrix then re-
turned
to Furby's, but finding a strange woman in
the house, she made no complaint of the outrage
which had been committed upon her pe.s..n,b,it she
stated to them that she had b..ve assaulted ;ind
robbed. She then went to Se_ig: filil, w: ere she
saw a woman named Jane Rosa, ta wlFini she made
a complaint of what had ',al:et' place. In cnse- •
quence of that complaint, information was g'ven to
the police, who took the prosecutrix to Mr. Rod-
dock's surgery. Mr. Ruddock was trot at home
at the time. The girl, however, was examined
by Jane Ross, who found marks of vi- deuce
upon her person, and observed that her bonnet was
almost torn to pieces. At 11 o'clock the semi night
prosecutrix was seen by Mr. Ruddock, and she
then exhibited traces of recent violation, but no .
other marks of violence on her pet son. On the
evening of the 231 of August the prosecutrix
was in the streets at Middlesbro' when some
person tapped her on the shoulder, and, showing
her a halfcrown, said, "Do you remember that ?''
Prosecutrix observed that it was the , prisoner
Osborn, and she replied, " Yes, and I'll make you
remember it too." She then went into the house
of her uncle, who lived near, and gave informa-
tion which led to the prisoner being taken into cus-
tody. On the way to Durham gaol they passed a -
man who was working at a building, when the pri-
soner
said, "Do you remember that Wednesday ?
I'm taken up on account of that job." This obser-
vation
led to the apprehension of the prisoner
Jameson. -

The prosecutrix, Mr. Furby, Mr. Ross, and Mr.
Ruddock, the surgeon, were next examined, and
deposed to the facts as narrated in the counsel's
opening, but the girl, on cross-examination, gave a
rather confused statement of the locality in which
the offence was committed, and admitted that she
did not struggle very violently. When appre-
hended Osborn said he did not know the girl, and
denied his name, but on his road from the Stockton
police-station to the railway station be observed to
Jameson, who was working in a cellar at the end
of John-street, " This is for that job ; you'd re-
collect I" He then asked the policeman, "If you
knew the other man, would you take him ?" and
the officer said he would, and Osborn said,- " Yon's
the man I spoke to." The policeman baring de-
posited his charge at the railway station, returned
to the cellar and apprehended Jameson, who said,
without being charged with the crime, " I did not
do the offence ;" and subsequently, "I was half a
field off when the offence was committed. I told
him the consequenceS. I said, Tom, you know
the consequences, and must be a scoundrel ;' but
when he rau I ran."
The jury, after a short consideration, kund both
prisoners guilty.
Osborn (tapping Jameson on the shoulder) said
—lf my Lord Judge convicts this man ho convicts
an innocent man.
His Lordship sentenced the prisoners each to 20
years' penal servitn.e.
This case occupied nearly all day.

FREIGHT OF STU-M.—lt appears free a Parliamentary
return issued on Saturday that 5,174/. was txpended by
the Treasury on the freight of speiie sent abroad in
1850-7.
A letter from Marseilles of the 17th iast. states that a
new steam boat, called the Pausilippe, has just been
launched at the Cietat, for the company of the
Messageries Imperia'es. This vessel is to sail between
Marseilles, tha coast of Italy, Naples, and Malta. She
is built on a new p'an, so as to afford the greatest
possible accolemoiation to travellers. There are 80
beds so placed that passengers suffering from sea-
sickness may repose themselves without difficulty. Her
engines are of 300-horse power, and she has made 14
knots an hour.
ROYAL BRITISH BANK.—PROCICEDINGS Or THE
ASSIdNEES.—The task of the assignees of the late Royal
Briti-h Bank to carry out the canipromim3 proposed some
months since, and for which the act of Parliament of the
last session was intended to give increased facilities, is
by no means an easy or a pleasant one. Two or three
of the trade assignees meet almost daily for the purpose
of examining and cross-examining those of the share-
holders who are willing td contribute towards the fund
required to carry out the arrangement. The pr,mess of
examination is a searching one. All the secrets of trades
and professions are disclosed, the nature of marriage
settlements is inquired into, the present position, future
prospects, and the existing liabilities are explained ; and
Ithese terrible judges, from whom there is no appeal,
decide whether the sum offered to be paid in each case
is such as the means of the party would warrant them
in accepting. One or two instances have occurred in
which the shareholders who have offered to pay four or
five hundred pounds have been found to be clearly cap-
able of paying as many thousands—in some cases legal
proceedings have been commenced, and in others a corn- .
promise has been entertained. Negotiations for the sale
of the Welch mining property have been going on for
some time. The works have been carried on by the
assignee, and a slight profit has resulted from the work.
ing. Some offers for the purchase of the property have
been made through Mr. Wyld, whose knowledge of
mining affairs his been of great service to the creditors of
the company in connection with the valuation and
management of the mines and works. The prices offered,
and the terms of payment, have varied considerably.
The property will, there is no doubt, reartse between
scanty and thirty thousand pounds.
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