The Sun.
London, England, 1829-05-14 00:00:00

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ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE.

On Tuesday the following atrocious outrage was
committed on a lady named Jennings, the wife of a
naval officer, residing at 19, Prior-place, Wulworth.
Mr. Jennings had occasion to leave home on the
morning above-mentioned for the purpose of going
to the west end of the town on particular business,
and returned about four o'clock, at which time he
found Mrs. Jennings labouring under an alarming
illness in consequence of a most gross and outrageous
attack made upon her during his absersee.—She
has since sufficiently recovered to be enabled to
give the particulars relative to the outrage. She
states that between one and two o'clock she sent the
serrant girl on an errand, and that shortly after she
went out, a fellow in the garb of a gentleman, dressed
in a brown frock coat and black velvet waistcoat,
with sandy-coloured whiskers meeting at the chin,
knocked at the door, and inquired if Mr. Jennings
was at home. Mrs. Jennings, who was the only
person in the house at the time, replied that he Was
not, upon which the stranger inquired if it way
• likely he would return in an hour; and being an-
swered that Mr. Jennings would be at home be-
tween three and four o'clock, the fellow requested
to speak to Mrs. Jennings, and walked into the
front parlour, without any invitation. Mrs Jennings
believed him to be some person who wanted her
husband on business, followed him into the room,
upon which he walked towards Mrs. Jennings's
portrait, which was hanging np, and commenced ex-
tolling it as a great likeness. Having stood some
time viewing the picture, he turned to Mrs. Jen-
nings and made her a most infamous offer, saying,
that if she yielded to his wishes then, he would
give her a sum of money. Mrs. Jenning; was so
thunderstruck at the conduct of the fellow, that
she had scarcely the power of tittering a word
from alarm and terror; she, however, desired
him to quit the house, and Nvaq proceeding to-
wards the door, when he seized her by the arms,
exclaiming that if she did not yield to his wishes by
fair means, he was determined on accomplishing his
purpose by forte. Mrs. Jennings struggled to get
away from her brutal assailant, who being a power-
ful man, got his hand twisted in her hair, and
dragged her from the front into the back parlour.
There the ruffian was proceeding to the Rio;t gross
acts of indecency towards Mrs. Jennings, when she
at the moment, rendered resolute by the daring con-
duct of the monster, seized A sharp-pointed fruit-
knife, with which she stabbed him in the throat • and
arm. Feeling himself wounded, he left his hob! of
Mrs. Jennings, and, snatching her pocket handker-
chief, ran into the passage, and after several are
tempts euceeeded in opening the street door, and
ran out. His last words were, " have revenge;
I'll lay wait for and murder you." 'Mrs. Jennings,
completely exhausted in consequence of her struggles
with such an adversary, had not the power of fol.
lowing him into the street and givieg the alarm, but
fell senseless on the floor, and was found in that con-
dition by the servant girl, who returned in about
ten minutes after the °image was perperrated on
her mistress. There were spots of blood along the
passage to the door, and it is imagined that the
ruffien who committed the above unparalleled out-
rage has been severely wounded. Mrs. Jennings,
who is pregnant, was extremely ill the whole of
yesterday, and confined to her bed: owing to the
fright occasioned by the attack. Information of the
outrage, together with a description of the offender,
was given at Uniorehall yesterday. His height is
about five feet seven inches.

It is rumoured that the new Equity Judge-
ship has been offered to Air, Rai.