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RAPE AND RowslNY.—yenGo Dravidd was hfulia.
ed for a rape on the perfon Mary Mailers, on the
sfith of September lad, at tl* with of Chart, next
Sutton Vailance, in this county.
This was a mod arrociotis cafe, for the prifoner
had not only violated the perfon of the profecutrix,
but had elf° robbed her of the (mall quantity of mo-
ney the had about her.
Mary Mailers, the proreeetriv, a young girl about
so, depofed, that the lived fervent with a Mr.
Gcr.rge Fowles, in the with of Sutton Valiance,
its ar Coxheath. On Sunday, tile tGth of September
!att. the left her matter's houfe at a little atter four
ii. she afternoon, with an intent of going to her fa-
il:W., lot Leeds, which was dittant about two
nries : the had not got above a quarter of a mile,
when the Fanner, who appeared to be a foldier,
came up to her, and told her the mud go with bim
—the wilted where ? He replied, where he pleated.—
He bad no cap, nor any collar on; and he athed her
if the had teen his cap? She faid the had rot; and
without laying any more to her, he immediately
threw her down; the directly faid, he was welcome
to her money, if he would not whore her, and the
gave him her purfe. Upon this he let her get up
again, and he looked in the purfe, which contained
only four thillings. He eked, if the knew what it
was a:clock ? She told him near fix. She knew it
was not fo late as that, but the hoped that he would
be obliged to go away immediately, in order to be
in time for parade, if the told him it was near the
time at which the knew the camp paraded. He then
tithed her, if the would meet him again at (even
o'clock ? which the promifial to do. Rill hoping to get
from him. I-le then made her fwear, that the would
.he d—d 2f The did not meet him at the time, and
the complied with this oath. After a thou pause,
during which time the was in very great terror, he
again declared that there was not enough in the
purfe to fatisff him, and he would have his will of
her. She dropped a Milling out of her purfe, and
as he was (looping to take it up, the attempted to
run away, but he overtook her, and caught her by
the flirts of her gown; he dragged her back to the
fame place, and raid. "Now, ti—n you I I wilt Me
you ten times worfe." He threw her down again,
and knelt upon her bread. She (creamed as loud as
he could; but he (wore he would do for her if the
*as nut quiet. He then took her bonnet off her head,
and threw it into the field ; and his bayonet being in
his way, he drew it out, and threw it on his left
fide, as he was keeping her down. The bayonet
wounded hos. in the foot : the druggled until the was
quite exhautled, bat be fucceeded in perpetrating bi.
intention. When ke had gratified his pathan, he raid
to her. " Now, you ! I have had my will of
you; you may go were you Pleat." She got her
bonnet, and was goin,qAway, 'then he again caught
ber by the arm, and &lid the !tumid (wear, before the
went, that the would t 'ot go to any houfe, nor tell
any not what had pal :d between them. She pru-
mired the would not. He then left her, and fire
made the bell of her way to the Plough public-boufe,
which was abont a quan'er of a mile ditlant the
patted two other houfes befi )re the got there, but the
people were at church ; the met two women, and the
told them what had happen ed to her ; the related at
the Plough how the had beet abufed—and they knew
the Pildicr from her defcripti on of his paha.
In coifs-examination, flit laid the Prifoner bad
made her promife to meet . him again, and !hewed
her a mark withinfide his bat id by which the might
know him: the alfo admitted that the had had a child
by a mailer with whom the ft Imerly lived.
Arn Farrance, the daeglit er of the perfon who
kept the Plough public home, dercribed the manner
in which the profecutrit came into. the bottle imme-
diately after the event ; her fi ice and arms were
bloody, and her cloaths torn at id dilhevelled :—lhe
alto appeared much bruifed—a nd the witnefs gave
her a glafs of brandy to recover her fpirits the ant-
ed if they had teen a foldier pafa without a cap, and
defcribed the prifoner. The pt ironer had not left
their houfe hing before that time.
William Town, the apprenticu at the Plough, cor-
roborated the other witneffes, at to her coming to
their hours ; he afterwards wet .t part of the way
home with her to her father's, is ut meeting another
man, who offered to go with her,,, he returned home.
The prifoner and Tome of his ..:..omrades bad been
drinking in their houfe that aftdl noon, and•rome of
the other foldiers had taken his:!cap from him. In
the courfe of die evening the il‘rifoner returned to
the houfe for his cap, and was detained. A; fiat
he denied having teen any youalg woman at ail that
afternoon. •
Richard Masters, the father)iof the girl, proved
that the made an immediate complaint to him, in
coofcquence of which he went to the Plough to en-
deavour to dircover the prifoner, but he found that
he was already in cuttody.
Mrs. Fowle, the miltrefs of the profeentrix, and
Mary Bowling, both beard a (cream at the time the
girl defcribed ; but as there were a number of dd.-
orderly women with the foldiers, they did not par-
ticularly attend to it—the latter witnefs defcribed
the field where it happened, as a very (dive) lonely
place.
I he prifoner, being called upon for his defence,
fad lie met the girl, and propofed to her to go afide
with him, to which the readily contented, and that
what enfued was perfectly with her own content.
The Jury found him Guilty. He is a young man,
aged twenty-fix, a private in the Weft Yen k Militia.
the profeentrix was a good looking tall girl.
HIGHWAY NOSSARY.

George Kennedy, iciehard Berton, and Martin Moody,
three toldiers of the guards were indiaed for affault-
in, wounding, and robbing George John Piercy
Leith, on the 14th of November laft.
Mr. GAIROW detailed the circumitances of the pro-
fecutor, as they were afterwards fubilantiated in evi-
dence, which was as follows :
Mr. Leith faid he lived at Walaser, and on the
14th of November 1011, he was returning,from
ich market to his own home—it was about (even
in the evening, and a fine moon light night. When
he got to that part of the road which is 'tailed
Monitions Downs, where the road leads to Follney
Cholk.pit, he obferved three foldiers before him ---
tile had a fcerlet jacket, and a large club Rick; ;he
other two were in a foraging drefs. As bit caws up,'