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London, England, 1815-07-18 00:00:00

CHEI.M3FORD, JULY 14.

John elan, a considerable rope manufacturer, at
Barking, in Essex, was indicted for felonioudi ra-
vishing Anne Pearson, on the 24th day of March
last. This case lasted several hours, and excited con-
siderable interest among the inhabitants of the neigh-
bour hood of Barking.
Anne Pearson, the prosecutrix, stated, that she was
of the age of 16 last Christmas. In March last she
lived servant with the ptisoner, who was a rope-
maker at Barking, in Esse.t. On the 24th day of
March'her master, his wise, and the servant-boy, went
nut to go to London, but the prisoner returned in about
half an hour, it was aGoto six o'clock ; he asked her
if the kettle boiled, and told her to get the tea-things
there was no person in the house but thrmselvel
having placed the tea-things, he.desired her to go up
stairs and fetch his pocket-book from his breeches
Pocket; she went, but did not find it ; she called
down stairs to say. it was not there; he again called
up to look into his waistcoat pocket; she did, it WAS
not there; she toldbim sot and he desired her to
look into his jacket pocket, it was not there; she then
heard him coming up stairs,. and she, having a sus.
picion of his intention to take improper.liberues with
her, shut the door, and locieclit ; he knocked at the
door and desired her to open it ; the refused, unless
he would go down stairs ; he said, if.'she did not
open the door, he would break it open, atidlirg, what
the hell do you think I want with you !Abe then
opened the door; he immediately caught her.round
the Waist, and threw her upon the 'bed ; ,slie gin up
once, and had reached the docie;• but he again caught
her, and accomplished his purpose; he then went;
down stairs, and she followed in about IWe mintitesi
he walked about the room whistling ; she left -the
house in less than half an hour, end went to her,
mother's ; on het way she met a young friend, who
asked her what she was crying about? She said 'her
master had behaved rudely to her; she laid leg
mother the same, but did not then tell her the whole.
Her friend came in shortly afterward., and she told
her the particulars, desiring that she would tell her
mother, as she did not like to do it herself. In the
evening, when she went to bed, she disclosed the whole
to her mother, who (on the Monday), this being
Good Friday, sent for Mr. Desormeaux, the doctor.
She was subjected to a very severe eross-exaptina-
tion by the COMMON SERJEANT. She said she could
not have been heard to cry out; she could not get to.
the window ; she denied having any loose conversa-
tion with a milkman on that same day; she knew a
Mr. Smith, a doctor, at Barking, but she never ap-
plied to him for any medicines, or had ever spoken to
him ; she said she had carried a waistcoat of her
master's to the mangler's after this had happened,
and explained that when she went away. She took
a bundle of her dirty clothes with her; amongst,
them, by mistake, was a waistcoat of her mister's,
which discovering the same evening, she took it im-
mediately t© the washerwoman's; but denied that
she had any girl with her, or went in a giggling
laughing manner.
Her mother, M. Desormeaux, and Caroline Wal-
ker, were called, who confirmed her u to her imme-
diate disclosure of the facts, except that Mr. Deser.
!watts said, that in stating the mode of perpetration,

the had described it differently with respect to eon-.
fining her hands.
The prisoner being called upon for his defence,
said he left it to his Counsel. They called. witnesses
to :hew a contradiction in parts of her testimony.
The washerwoman's girl said, t!.at when she had
brought the waistcoat, she had another girl with her,
and that she came in a laughing manner, as though
nothing had happened.
But the principal witness was Richard. &lee;
,Smith, who described himself as a surgeon and apo.
dietary, now residing at Ilford, then at Barking. He
said the girl came to his house about ten o'clock in
the night of the Ist of April. When he opened the
door, he supposed she had come about the venereal,
and he asked her if k was sn t She said no; but
some young men had been playing tricks with her,
and she wanted some physic. A woman was .with
her, wrapped in a re.t cloak. He told her to come
in the morning. He was sure it was her, as he kn
her and her family. Upon cross examination, lie
proved a most ignorant man, so much so, that he
spelt dropsy, dropte, and fistula,ferkr/e. He insisted,
however, that he was a regular bred medical man,
and had 200'ienereal patients from Barking alone,
and produced Mertificate, which, upon examination,
proved to be a certificate written by himself. .
The girl.was confronted with hins,:and most so-
lemnly denied ever having spoken to-him.
He named also the mother's brother as his pa-
tient: He happened to be in Court, and denied the
fact." The witness said, “ if not him, he had had his
wife under his care."

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His Lordship expressed great indignation •at the
conduct of this witness.
The foreman of the prisoner *IA .cilled to ptcrie
conversation between the girl ataii-mllltinan on the
day of the transaction, whieh'ifie He said
two other persons heard it, but thertiere not present.
The Learned Judge having detailed all the evi.
dence on both sides, the Jury, after a very short deli.
beration, found the prisoner—Guilty.
His Lordship immediately pronounced sentence
of death upon him, and intimated that he should leave
him to suffer the penalty of the law.