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London, England, 1824-12-16 00:00:00

Deniises ship, where site vitas beld'down by Four men, soil an 'in-'
strument called a spatula was introduked, and the jaws were thereby
sufhciendy distended for the witness to insert his finger, and from
the corner of the mouth he drew forth the two hank notes ; but
the sovereign not being anywhere to be found, it is presumed she
contrived to swallow it in the struggle. The empty pocket-book
was in her pocket when apprehended.—She was remanded.

M A RY- LA-130 N N E.
ExrsNarve SW/MI/LING.—Jun as the Office was being closed on
Tuesday evening, a complaint was prferred against aufvy, alias
Cooke, on a charge of swindling. The complainant was Mr. Car-
penter, livery-stable-keeper, of the Edgware-road, of whom the
defendant had contrived to obtain a horse and chaise on hire, re-
presenting them to be for the use of Mrs. Saunders, a Lady of
property, residing at No. 9. Beaumont-street. This Mrs. Saun-
ders is the same Lady who some short time hack was living in a
dashing style at Bayswater, and since at Craven-hill, under the
sounding name of Mrs. Stamp Sutton Cooke, and whose escape
from the Rules of the King's Bench Prison bream? the subject of
a trial against the Marshal in the Court of King's Bench on Tiles-
' day bit, when a verdict was obtained by the detaining creditor
for £lOO odd, being the amount of his bill for furnishing her house
let Bayswater.
The complainant was desired by Mr. llosenes, the sitting Ma-
gistrate, to call again on Thursd iy, and then restate his case.
The beneficial influence of •Puhce Reporting has been already
apparent in this case, as several persons who had been swindled by
this party, having seen the report of the examination in yesterday s
daily Papers, came forward in the course of the day, and commu-
nicated to Buckeridge, the officer, who wrested the prisoner, their
intention of appearing to-morrow, and stating their cases. Among
other persons was Mr. Weston, of Howland-street, from whom
they obtained a pedal harp of the value of forty guineas. Such-
was the state of the prisoner's pocket, that he was obliged to sub-
mit to be taken to prison linked to the misdemeanants and others
sent down from this Office on that day. On arriving at the prison
it appeared he had not even money to pay fur the accommodation
of a bed for the night.
hl A ELBOROUG 11-STREET.

The following case, possessing extraordinary interest, as well for
the atrocity of its nature as the circumstances under which it was
perpetrated, came on yesterday to be heard before Mr. Roe and
Mr. CONANT, the Magistrates at this office :—Wednesday the Bth
inst. information was given at this Office, that a rape and robbery,
attended with circumstances of great violence, had been committed
upon a young woman the night before. Schofield, an active officer,
was directed to take the necessary measures to secure the perpetra-
tor • and, as it accidentally happened, no person could have been
pitched upon so likely to attain the ends of justice as this very officer,
and by a cast& circumstance, which shall hereafter appear, he was
enabled yesterday to place before the Magistrates two men, named
Cornelius Wood and Frank Day, charged with being concerned in
the commission of the offence, and the following is a correct sum-
mary of the evidence given in support of the accusation :—lt ap-
peared, by the statement of the complainants, two young women
of respectable appearance, one named Mary Ayres, and the other
Jane Green, the latter a married woman, of very slender frame, and
far advanced in pregnancy, that on Tuesday the 7th inst. they both
proceeded from the house in which they lodge, in Cleveland-street.
Fitzroy-square, to the village of Vinchley, to inquire after a situa-
tion in service Sere for Mary Ayres, which they heard was vacant ;
they remained at Finchley until five o'clock in the afternoon, and
at that hour called at the White Lion public-house, from whence
stages start for town, to inquire if they were likely soon to meet
with one. Mr. Paris, the landlord, told them he feared not for a
considerable time ; but seeing a one-horse light cart near his door,
with a man in it, about to proceed to Landon, Mr. Paris asked
hint if he would take the two females to town? which he agreed
to do, and they accordingly got into the cart, and soon after a young
man got into the cut also, and the four then set off towards town.
—The driver proceeded at a brisk rate, keeping the young women
in familiar conversation along the road, but the other man scarcely
speaking to them at all, so that they noticed him very little until
they arrived at Highgate, when suddenly the driver turned aside
out of the public road, and directed his course towards what is
called Holloway-road, assigning as a reason for doing so, that it was
to avoid the turnpike, which satisfied the young women for some
time. After proceeding some distance along this road, the cart
stopped at a public-house, called the Cock, opposite a bye lane
which leads towards a very intricate part of the country, with which
the young women were wholly unacquainted.—At this public-house
the driver and the other man, in a very presuming tone, demanded
of the young women to treat them with something to drink ; and
although they neither liked the manner of the demand, nor the de-
lay It was likely to occasion, they consented, more through fear than
anything else, and gave the men a shilling to purchase some gin,
which they did, and drank; and immediately after which, to the
dismay and astonishment of the poor young women, the driver said
they must now get out of the cart, as he could take them no farther,
and they must make the best of their way along the opposite lane,
which the men told them would lead directly towards town. Com-
pelled thus to quit the cart, they proceeded some distance along the
lane, as directed, leaving the two men behind, one, the driver's
companion, wrapped up, as he had been the whole way, in a large
rough coat. The young women had not got above half way down
the lane, it being now quite dark, when they were overtaken by a
man in the dress of a groom, who accosted them, and said that he
bad heard the conversation that had passed between them and the
two men in the cart at the top of the lane, and that seeing the man
bad directed them in a wrong course towards town, he had followed
to put them in a right way. The young women thanked him, and
he then pointed out some lamps at a distance, which be said were
the lamps in Tottenham-court-road, and that if they would proceed
with him across two or three fields, they would, by that short cut,
be within five hundred yards of home.—The young women, de-
lighted at this intelligence, consented to accompany him, and he led
them across two fields, end into a third., where everything was as
still as death. It now occurred to Mary Ayres that they were not
proceeding in the direction to town at alt, and she intimated as
much to the man ; and at that instant, looking in his face, she dis-
covered at once, even dark as it was, that he was the same man
who had accompanied them from Finchley in the cart, and whom
they had left behind with the driver. She instantly exclaimed to
the other young woman that this was the case; but she had no
sooner done so than the ruffian knocked her down with a desperate
blow, and then threw himself upon her • being, however, a young
woman of some strength, she disengaged herself from him, and got
up, when he knocked her down again, and struck her a third blow.
The other poor young woman, in her state, terrified beyond all de-
scription, made an effort to escape up the side of a hedge, about
four feet in height, but she had uo sooner got half way up, when,
through fright and exhaustion, she fell back into a mud ditch,
and probably was only saved front suffocation and death by com-
ing upon her feet again; but she sunk in the mud up to her knees,
and was as completely held fast there as if she bad been screwed
into a vice. 'I he villainous assailant of Mary Ayres, had by this
time completely destroyed all power of resistance in her, and she
now lay bleeding and resistless, the victim of the most merciless
violence, until her brutal assailant had accomplished that act which
is now the cbief ground of accusation against hint. The only aid
die could give her unfortunate companion was that of her voice,
ani her piteous cries for help were all that disturbed the gloomy
and horrid silence that reigned around. Having effected his brutal
object, the ruffian was determined to add the crime of robbery to
that of rape; and after the completion of his first offence, he rose
from the ground, and seizing the shawl front his victim's shoulders,
and a hand-basket which lay by her side, containing, among other
things, a half sovereign, and 6s. in silver, witb which he made off.
Poor Mary Ayres made some resistance to the dragging of the

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shawl from het shoulders, and she got upon her legs with the effort :
after which the fellow deliberately cook the money out of her
basket, which latter be flung at her head, and knocked her down
again with the force of it, and there left her to her fate. Having
recovered in some degree from the barbarous treatment, they dis.
covered a cottage, the inhabitant of which, an old man, rendered
every assistance in his power to them, and proceeded with them
to London, and having met with a constable, he delivered them up
to his charge, and they were taken to their home in Cleveland-
street.—Schofield, the officer, apprehended Woods at the Plough
Tavern, Finchley, on Tuesday, and Day was taken into custody in
the course of the same day.— Woods at first denied that he was in
the cart at all ; but he afterwards admitted the fact, when he found

that Day bad confessed that he was his companion. Woods was
informed that be would be fully committed for trial on the next
examination.—Day was admitted to bail. The dress of Mary Ayres
was in a state that exhibited the strongest proof of violence. Woods
is a farmer's servant in the country ; and Day removes goods in a
cart, and resides in Duval's-lane, Holloway.

Sunday night, between the hours of six and ten, some
daring villains broke into the house of Mr. Stewart, a
coppersmith, in Cable•street, Whitechapel, and stole 29
sovereigns, a 5/. note, a quantity of jewellery, and
wearing apparel, with which they got clear off. The
villains effected an entrance at the trout door by means
of picklock keys.
Notwithstanding the humid state of the atmosphete,
the barometer has attained a higher elevation than it is scarcely ever
known to reach in the driest season.

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