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Bench warrant to apprehead Mrs. Frances Wakefield, agains
whom the bill for conspiracy had also been found.
Mr. COLTMAN said, that that lady' was in Court, and was ready
to plead, and enter into recognizances.
She accordingly_ appeared just behind the Counsel's bar, and
having pleaded " Not Guilty," tendered bail, which were accepted
without examination, by the prosecutor's Counsel.
The.bail were—Edward Wiltefield (her husband, and father of
the two defendants), of Reading, Berks, Esq. ; and Dr. Davis,
of Macclesfield, in'the county of Chester (her father) ;- and Daniel
Wakefield, of Harebeath, in the county of Berks, Esq., barrister-
at-law.
Mr. COLTAIAN then applied to his .Lordship to admit E. G.
Wakefield to bail.
-Mr. Justice I'AaK asked what should be the amount of the
security ?.
Mr. J. Wt Luaus observed, that the prosecutor had not thought
fit to make the least examination with respect. to the bail of Mr.
Wakefield ; but there was a great distinction to be taken between
the chief offender and a secondary party. Besides, if E. G. Wake-
field was to be at large from these Assizes to the next, there should
also be additional security to prevent him from again disturbing
' the peace of Mr. Turners family.
Mr. Justice PARK concurred in the observation, and said he
should certainly think it necessary to oblige E. G. Wakefield to
enter into securities to keep the peace towards Mr. Turner and
all his family.
The amount of the recognizances was not determined on at
seven o'clock, but it was intimated that the additional sum would
be—himself in 2,500/., and two sureties in 1,2601. each.
The personal appearance of E. G. Wakefield is not at all pre-
possessing. There. is much doggedness and inflexibility in his
cpuntenance, and none of that je ne seal poi air of gentility,
Which is said to be so irresistible in captivating the fair sex. His
brother is a little better looking man. Mrs. F. Wakefield, as far
as we could discern her features, is a pretty woman, and seemed
to be 80 years of age, " or thereabouts."
An application is expected to be made to .morrow by Mr. W.
Wakefield, on special affidavit, to put off. his trial to the next
Assizes.

TWELVE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT:
Edward Gibbon Wakefield baa been admitted to bail till the
next Assisi*, and has entered into recognizance* for his appearance
—himself in 2,0001., and the Rev. Dr. Davis, and Daniel Wake-
field, Esq. (hie uncle), in 1,2501. each. Edward Gibbon Wake-
field to keep the peace towards Mr. Turner and Ids family.

CHARGE OF RAPE.
Richard Shorroch, aged 49, was put to the bar, charged with
having violated the person of Anne Eddleston, a girl under 14
years of age, at Livetay, near Blackburn, in March last.
Mr. Cotastast stated the case to the Jury as it was detailed in
the following evidence :
Anne Eddleaton, a very small girl for her age, examined by
Mr. COLT:SIAN-4 was 14 years old on the 9th of last May; I
live with William Hindle, who is a weaver ; I have lived with
him these two years ; I was without father and mother, and he
took me to bring me up as one . of his own ; there were other
lodgers in the house ; Lucy Haggin and John Haggin lodged
there ; prisoner and his son also lived in the same house ; I slept
withLuoy Haggin • she is older than I um ; there was another
bed in the room, and in that the prisoner's son and John Haggin
slept ; John Haggin is twenty-two years of age ; I remember
being in bed on a Monday night •in March ; Lucy Haggin was
in bed also ; we were both asleep. The prisoner came to
our bed ; he put his hands into the bed.—[Here witness
described some indecent liberties which prisoner had taken
with her persen.]—lt was dark at this time ; I know
it was the prisoner, by the feel of his clothes ; awakened Lucy,
and prisoner went off to his own bed morn ; I beard' him shut
the door ; there was only one bed in his room ; Idon't know who
slept with him ; prisoner has no wife • the next clay, when they
were all awake, I told John Haggin and the rest what prisoner
had done ; can't say if I saw the prisoner on Tuesday; I saw
him on the Wedne4day Morning ; he said nothing to me about
what had passed ; he did not charge me with having told, nor
can I say whether I ever said to him or any one else that I had not
told ; I remember seeing him on the following Saturday, between
two and three o'clock in the afternoon, I was at the back barn.;
door, breaking sand ; he came up, sad took the hammer and
broke the sand ; he. went from the door, and' went to the end of
the barn : he saw somebody Coining over the field, and he said
somebody was coming with a pair of gears (for weaving) in their
hand; he found a piece of wood, which he put in the loop-bole
of the barn,. saying " See, Anne, that will do for some kindling 1
for thee." We both went into the house to take the sand in ;lie
went first and I went soon atter ;he said, Ann., •you know
where that wood is--go and fetch it." Mrs. Hindle was knead-
ing dough, and prisoner said, 44 Anne, go and fetch that wood,
it will do to put under the oven." ,1 went into the barn, but
did not find the . wood ; I went round the barn, and when I got
there prisoner was unbarring the back barn door; lie had gone a
shorter way, and was in the I.darn before me; there are two doors
to it ; when I could not find the wood,' I said, " Richard, it is
not here." He said, " Come here, there's some here ;"" I went
into the barn, and be showed me Where the wood was, under a
bull stick (a young.bull); when I wipt,i4.he shut the barn door,
and barred it; I said I cannot reach the Wood; and he reached it
to, me ; be then got hold of my head
,and neck with both his
hands, and kissed me; ftlire;,V the Weal' down ; prisoner kept
hold of me ; I said I would tall Bill (Wm. Hindle) when he came
home, if he did not leave me alone; I got away front bins,
and was making for the front door of the barn, when he caught
me by the back of my coats, and held lot' he told me to go
up on the hay, but. I refused, and said I would Bill.
He threw me down on the hay. I got up once but ke threw
me down again, and put one hand on my mouth. [Here the
witness described the commission of the offence.] When he
got up he said I must not tell, for if I never told, nobody would'
know. I said, aye, but I would tell when I went in. When on
the ground I could not call out, as he held his hand upon my
mouth. When I got into the house I saw John Haggin, and
told him Richard had been making weary work of me in the barn.
Prisoner was then coming into the house; JOhn Haggin told me
to come into the kitchen, and I went in ; pridioner followed us in.
John Haggin and I went into the weaving shop, and prisoner fol-
lowed us. He asked me for the loan of a needle and thread, to
sow a part of his dress ; Y gave him a needle; Lucy 'leggin was
weaving up stairs ; John Haggin went up stairs, and Lucy shouted
for me to come up also; prisoner followed us up and went into
his Own bed-room; I told Luoy what Richard had done to me in
the barn ; John Haggin was there at the time ; William .Hindle
came home between five and six at night, and I told him what had
happened ; he took me to the doctor at Blackburn that evening ;
my dress way shown to the doctor.
Cross-examined by Mr. Du is Das-1 slept in the same room with
Lucy and two men ; I did not scream out when prisoner came to
my, bed on the Monday night, Inn I awakened Lucv ; I can't tell
how long. I was in the barn with the prisoner; I Aid not scream
out at first, as I did not know whet he was going to do with me ;
I think that if I had screamed out, some people who lived close to
the barn could hear rne.
By the COURT... 4 don't know whether they were there at the
time; I had time to say no more than 1 did to John, when pri-
soner followed me into the house.
Lucy Haggin examined by Mr. COLTMAN..4 was twenty years
old last July; 1 lodge at Wm. Hindle's ; Ann Eddleston has slept
with me for the last eight months; my brother and prisoner'stion
slept in the same room ron the Monday night, Anne awakened
me ; she seemed frightened, and staid prisoner bad been to bed
to her; I heard a jump, as if a person had got off the bed on the
floor, and then I heard prisoner's room - door shut ; his room is
next to ours; on the following day she seemed light in her head,
and not altogether right ; on the following Saturday, between two
and three o'clock, my brother came up stairs where I was weav-
ing, and desired me to call Anne up. She came up and said
Richard Shorrock had been meddling with her in the barn. The
barn isjoined to tbt weaving shop, and that joins the house. The
Weaving makes considerable noise ; but I don't know ifthey were'
all working on that day. When she ante to- me, sire appeared'
frightened like. I don't know that Ike could have been heard if
She shrieked out.
Croes-examined by Mr. DUHDAS—I know the Rushworthi;
they live near the b/trn. On the Month). night, at the time Anne
awakened me, she did not ;cream out.
John 'leggin, the brother of last witness, corroborated her evi-
flepee, ea that of the prosecutrix. Rushworth's house is at one
end of'the barn, aud. Hindle's at tke other: He did not think that
the prosecutrix could have heen heard in either house, if she had
cried/An.
Rnsbworth saw John Haggiu and Anne Eddleston at his
house about three o'cloek on the day in question ; he heard her
00501ktin of the treatment she received from the prisoner in the
barn ; witness went with her to the barn, and she pointed out
the plies where lie threw her down ; there appeared a plue as if
er the cried put.lio 'A
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he i
prisoner's he
bdsioe nYi
atbe weaving perattin shop,
a
lain down there; if witness and others had been in
they might
imlht have
heard her
years of
age.

Crove-examinad Witness does riot not know whether the looms
in the shop were at.work ou that day.
Thomas Pollington saw the prieouer at Blackburn, on TuestleY,
the 6th of March; it was in the forenoon; a man named Kin%
was with witness and the prisoner.; the latter was rather frreh,

(Here witness repeated some observations made by the prisoner
relative to what took place on the.Monslay night.)
Cross-examined by Mr. MIND...3—He had known prisoner two
years, and had always found him a civil man.
Win. Hindle returned home from market on Saturday evening
and-inquired for the prisoner, who he found was in bed ; he sent
for hint, and told him be had a warp for him to weave ; prisoner
said a bad job had taken place while witness was away ; witness
Asked what was to do?. He said Anne charged him with having
been meddling with ber in the barn ; witness said surely you have
not ; and be said no, I have nut—she is wandering in her head ;
Anne then came up, and said he had, and burst out crying; wit-
ness took her into the next house and asked her all ahout it ; he
then took her to thecloctor's; prisoner said he wished witness's
wife and another woman to examine, the girl, but they refused ;
he then said that nothing but the examination by a doctor would
clear him.
Cross-examined by Mr. DuNDas---When lie said a bad job had
happened, he denied it ; when he wished to have the girl examin-
ed it was before witness came home ; witness never sent prisoner
word to run away; he' merely said amongst themselves that he
might run away, as it was a serious job. The prisoner was not
then handcuffed, but he never attempted to do so, but was ready
to go . before the Magistrate. Witness had known him many
years, and knew no ill of him, except that he liked Asup of drink
like many others. lie was taken up on the Saturday evening be-
fore they went to the doctor's.
Mr. John Court, a surgeon, residing at Blackburn, remembered
the prosecutrix being brought to his house on the 11th of March.
He examined her, and found she had not arrived at the age of
puberty. Witness went on to describe the state of the girl's per-
son, but lie could not swear that the injury lie perceived was
caused by the consummation of the crime charged.
The prisoner, in his defence, said he was innocent of the crime
he had never been guilty of any thing of the kind.
d
John Haggin gave the prisoner a good character. He was .
al-
ways a hard slaving man for his ell ren; he has four children,
three girls and a boy.
Mr. Justice PAR summed up the %v.
The Jury retired, and after a few minutes' consultation, returned
4 verdict of Guilty. •
The prisoner, when asked what he had to say why sentence of
death should not be passed upon him, remained silent for a short
time, and then fell on his knees and shed tears.
Mr. Justice Peat: pronounced the awful sentence of the law,
and advised the prisoner to use the short space left unto hint in
this world, to make his peace with God.
RIOTS AT BLACKBURN.

James Riding, William Sutcliffe, Richard Ray, James La-
tham, James Ormerod, James oworth, and Thomas Bolton,
were indicted for having, on the 24th of April,. 1826, at Black-
burn, in this county, with force and arms, feloniously broke open
a cotton mill belonging to Bannister; Eccles, and CO:, and destroyed
the machinery in the said mill.
Mr. STARKIE and Mr. ADDISON conducted the prosecution.
Mr. COLTMAN appeared for the prisoner Kay, but the other
prisoners had no Counsel.
John Kay--I am a constable of Blackburn; on Monday, the
24th of last April, about three o'clock in the afternoon, I was in
Darwin-street, Blackburn,. where I saw several hundred persons,
who were coming through the Market-place, towards Mr. Eccles's
factory ; some of them were armed with pikes, and others with
guns, axes, hammers, clubs, and sticks. They were walking to-
gether as a mob generally goes ; I followed them to Mr. Eccles's
factory, which they reached before me. When I got to the fac-
tory yard, there were many hundred persons in it; those who
:carried the pikes and guns stood at the doors and windows; some
'of them had their pikes standing, and others had them shouldered.
The mill was nearly full of persons ; I went into the mill, and at
the door I met some men coming out ; I stopped the first man,
but as soon as be saw me, he got back again to the crowd ; I
took the pikes, hatchets, and hammers now produced, from the
persons in the factory yard. Whilst I was there, about sixteen of
the Ist Dragoon Guards arrived, and they assisted me in disarming
the mob ; several men escaped out of the yard, because they were so
numerous that we could not keep them. Whilst I was in the yard,
I heard the breaking of windows at the back part of the mill, and
the people; who were watching in the yard, said that their com-
panions were breaking through the windows at the rear. I
went into the lower room of the factory, and I there saw all
the machinery broken and destroyed. I know the prisoner
Sutcliffe. I met him at the door of the mill, and asked bins
What he was &dug there? • Hertnade no answer, but got back as
quickly as he mold. I don't know any thing about the other
prisoners.
Crossoexamined by Mr., Ons.witpor, as Counsel for the prisoner I
Kay—'blue pepplcwrae in . she factory shout Lair an hour before
the arrival of the soLliers. I heard no breaking or 'windows, ex-
cept when the mob were escaping from the soldiers. The factory
was nearly full of 'persons.
Crosseexamined by the prisonex Sutcliffe—The power-looms
were actually broken when I saw you. 1 did not see you doing
any thing. . • ..
Rev. Richard Noble-1` am a clerprean, and a Magistrate for
this county. On the day of 'the -hot I- was in 'Darwin-street;
Blackburn, which, together *With* fields adjoining, was filled with
People. I had sixteen dragoons and a small party of infantry with
mi. We went the nearest way,to Mr. Eccles's factory, but the
crowd was so great outside the yard that I could not get in until
-the military made way. Numbers of persons, who were making
their escape_. from the factory yard, passed close by where I stood,
and some ran against me.
John Morton—l was in the: employment of Kay, the constable
of Blackburh. About three o'clock, on the 24th of April last, I
was standing at the outer gates of :the . factory, when the mob,
headed by the prisoner (Riding) came up. Ile and others of the
mob clipped their hands and then their shoulders to the gate. I
have known him for several years, and I spoke to him on that day.
They forced 'the outer gales, and I saw the prisoner. go towards.
the place where the power looms are at work. I did not see him'
go into the factory, but its half art , hour afterwards I saw hint
coming out of the back window. He sweated very hard.
Henry 'Hilton-' --I am a barber. I was at Mr. Eccles's factory'
on the 24th April last. The looms were all broken. -I saw the
prisoner (Sutcliffe) there, but I did not see him doing- any thing,
except wiping his face. He seemed to be very warm.
Cross-examined
.by the *limner Sutcliffe--When • I saw you
there the mob had not dispersed.
John Morten recalled.—l saw Sutcliffe coming out of the fee-
tori after 'the mob hid dispersed.. He was walking out.
George Colbtirn, a little boy.—:.On the 24th of April last I
was in the employment of thieprosecutins. When the snob came
I was in the factory, but I left it and went on the top of the
smithy ; I paw the prisoner Kay striking the looms with (as I
thought) a piece of iron ; when I saw him do this to the looms I
cause down from the smithy, and I saw him come out of the fac-
tory door. He swore by his Maker there was a great smudge
in the 'room, and he never would work there any more.
By the COVIIT—A op sure Kay was not in the factory until
he came with, the mob.
Cross-examined by Mr. CoLittAx--Wltett I was on the smithy
the factory windows were shut ; when Kay came out of the fac-
tory the mob was inside breaking the looms ; he went away before
the arrival of the soldiers.
Re-examined—When I saw Kay lie was in the third room ; he
used to work in the fourth room. •
Betsy Longswortls.—l was in the prosecutor's employment.
When the mob came to the factory, I saw Jamei Latham and
James Orrnerod. • Latham had a stone-breaking hammer in his
hand: I was crying, and °moo& swore a great oath, and said
he would knock me down if•rdid tint hold my noise. I. cannot
say whether Ormerod had any thing in his hall& They went
into the power-loom-mill. Lutharn is a weaver. I used to work
with him, and I have known both _prisoners about eight or nine
years. Grace Oakes was standing with me at the time. I did
not see Latham do any thing with the hammer.
Grace Oakes corroborated the testimony of the last witness as
to Latham. .
'John Kay recalled..-.. 1 apprehended the prisoner Ormerod, and
he told me he was not there at U. He said he was at, a stone
delf at the tins* of the riot. .
John Morton was recalled, and he identified Haworth as one
of the men who went into the factory yard. Howorth had in
his hand a haale stick, with a large knob on it. I after Wards
saw hint make his escape out of a back window, which the mob
had broken. ~
stories
high, called taken pronr
Anne Seed—On the lath of April, the day of the riot, I was
at Stoneyhurst, where I ,saw Thomas Bolton, with five or six
others. He said, "'We have broken 'looms at' Blackburxe and
we will break those at Low Moor before we sleep." He said, he
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window, and got out. -
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Mr. STaarse said that was, his roe.
The prisoners severally protested their, innocence, and called the
following wituessee : - . •
Thom. Etthon--I have known the prisoner Jame!! Riding fur
the last two years. Ile has been in my employ as a weaver. I
never heard any Rag against hie dbaricter.
Edmund Evans-1 hlkh known the prisoner Riding about
eight years. PO the firit three ' years I lived next door to him
I never heard any thintagitinst him,
John Karl the constable... 4 hive known the prisoner *tell*