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ADJOURNED SURREY SESSIONS, JULY 23.

John Morris, a carpenter, employed by the St. Ka-
tbirine Dock Company, was indicted for assaulting
John Riches, an Officer belonging to the Southwark
Court of Requests, in the execution of his duty.
The prosecutor bad three summonses to serve on
some fellow labourers of the prisoner, who, on his en-
tering the yard where they were employed, in Trinity-
street, Rotherhitbe, asked him if either of them were
for him ; and being answered in the negative, snatched
the summonses out of his hand.—With great difficulty
be (the prosecutor) regained possession of the docu-
ments, after being struck by the prisoner, who followed
hint into an adjoining yard, and asked if he wanted
any more of it; and, though warned of the penalty he
was incurring, repeated his blows, seised the prosecutor
by the collar, and rent his coat to sbreds.
The cake was fully proved, and the Jury found the
prisoner Guilty.
The Chairman (Mr. HEDGER) told him he had been
guilty of an offence for which the law at all times, •but
more particularly as it stood at present, regarding
offences against theperson, had provided severe punish-
Meat. Officers must be protected in the lawful exercise
of tbeit duty ; and the sentence of the Court was, that
be be kept to bard labour in the gaol of Guildford for
one month.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
t•': WORCESTER. ALT 22.
Crown Side---Before Mr. Justice Gmiguis.
.lo4it Cheese, aged 3.3, was indicted for assaulting and
ravishing Ann Ridley, on the evening of the 14th of
May last.
Ann Ridley, a plain-looking girl. with an impedi-
ment in her speech, stated that she was sixteen years of
age; that she lived at Stourbridge, in this county, and
worked at a carpet manufactory at Kidderminster. She
slept at her aunt's at Stourbridge, and was in the con-
stant habit of going from Stout bridge to Kiddermin-
ster in the trim fling and returning in the evening. The
distance is about four miles. On the evening of the
144 of May, she was returning as usual about half-
past seven o'clock in the evening, from Kidderminster,
and was within a mile of Stourbridge, when she met the
prisoner driiing a flock of sheep. He asked her what
hour it was, and she told him. He then pulled out a
shilling and off red it to her, if she would go into a field
with him. As soon as he made that offer, she ran off'
towards her home, up the hill ; but when she had got
about a quarter of a mile, she fell over a heap of stones,
and the prisoner coming up, immediately seized her
and dragged' her across the turnpike-rhad down a lane ;
rind after tattling her some distance, threw her down
and accomplished his purpose. The prisoner covered
her mouth with his hand. and placed her hands behind
her back, so that she was unable to offer any resistance,
rind she was too weak and faint to do so from the
iia,
he had dragged her down Orb lane. When he
suffered her to rise, she walked down the lane before
him, and saw two non and a woman driving some
carts. Sbe told them what had occurred, and painted
out the prisoner as the man who had ill-used her ;
ut after seizing the prisoner and talking to him, they
let him go again. On the next morning, at four
edock, she went and informed the constable of what
bad happened, that the prisoner might be taken up.
Cross-examined—The place whei e this transaction
ocearred is called Bullock's-hole; it was quite light

when the prisoner attacked her; she came down the
lane before the prisoner after the perpetration of the
offence, and told the people she met immediately of
what had occurred; she had never been intimate with

any one before.
Miss Harriet Perry said she was walking near the
lane described by the prosecutrix, with a child, on the
evening of the 14th May, and recollected seeing the
prosecutrix running away from a man dressed in a
smock-flock; she saw her fall on a heap of stones, and
the man in the smock4rock took her up round the wait
and carried her down the lane. He was carrying her
down the lane when the witness met a man of the name
of Tudor, who, seeing the witness was much frightened,
accompanied ber to her own house, which was a short
distance off. When the prosecutrit fell on the stones
the witness heard her scream •4 Murder!" While
looking after the prosectitrix down the lane, she saw her
walk a few steps, but the man with the smock-frock
was holding a stick over her head.
By Mr. Justice GitaaLaz—The witness was so fright.
ened herself, that she did not think of interfering with
Tudor to protect the prosecutrix.
John Tudor, and Mary Tudor, his mother, confirmed
in several material points the testimony already given.'
Mr.KetirickWatson, a surgeon of Stourbridge,said he
had examined Ann Ridley on the 17th. He then de-
tailed the injuries she had received, which be ascribed
to the ill-treatment she had received from the prisoner.
William Turner, the constable who apprehended the
prisoner, stated that the prisoner in the most disgusting
terms admitted that he had been guilty of the offence.
The prisoner, on being called on for his defence, said
the prosecutrix had sworn falsely. He said he had first
offered her sixpence, and then a shilling► which she
accepted, and then went willingly up the lane before
him. He also accused tier of baviag acted in the most
abandoned manner.

Mr. Justice GASZLEE having summed up,
The Jury brought in a •erdict of Guilty, but recom-
mended the prisoner to mercy.
The Foreman being unable to explain to the Learned
Judge the reasons which induced such a recommenda-
tion, the Jury again retired, and after some further con-
sultation sent a written communication to his Lordship,
recommending the prisoner to mercy, because they be-
lieved the prisoner was not aware of the punishment
that awaited the commission of such a crime.
Mr. Justice tiAnimas then addressed the prisoner at
some length, and in language feeling and impressive,
warned him to prepare, by prayer and penitence. for
the fate which inevitably awaited him. He had been

convicted upon the clearest evidence, of nne of the most
daring offences of this kind the Learned Judge had ever
heard of, and it was his painful duty to sentence him
to be taken to the place from whence he came, and
from thence to the place of execution.
The prisoner throughout the trial, and up to the an•
nouncement of his LA., displayed an indifference not
the result of stupidity or recklessness, so much as of an
utter ignorance of the nature of the situation in which
he was placed. Even to the last he looked around upon
the busy scene which the Court presented with an in-
terested curiosity ; and when he was removed horn the
bar, he took up his hat with the ease and alacrity of a
man relieved from the performance of an irksome for-

mality.
John Pound, aged 51, was indicted for assaulting
Ann Downes, a child under the age of nine years, with
intent to commit a rape. It appeared from the evidence
that the prisoner, who is a carpenter by trade, resided
near the cottage where the parents of the child lived.
Having become acquainted with the child while she'
was looking at him at work, he requested she might be
allowed to go and sweep his cottage. as he was an ne-'
married man. Soon alter he took advantage of the op-
portunity thus afforded, and abused the child. The
circumstances of the case are of a nature too gross for
detail.—Several witnesses gave the prisoner a good,
character. They stated they had known him for 20
years. The Jury having found the prisoner badly,
Mr. Justice GAUL= sentenced the prisoner to be
confined in the House of Cot rection for eighteen months,
and kept to had labour.

SALISBURY, JIILY
Rickard Jourden stood indicted for having, on the
sth instant. at Melksham, in this county, assaulted Jane
Coles, with intent, &c.
From the evidence of the prosecutriz and her father, it
appeared that on the night in question the prosectitriz was
standing in the streets of Melksbam about half past nine
o'clock,waiting for her father,when the prisoner came up
and made some indelicate proposals to her, which she re.
jected.The prisoner finding her determined in her refusal,
seized her w ith one arm about the waist, and placed
his hand upon her mouth. In this position he forced her
into the fields near the town. She, howeter (though a
very small woman), struggled so violently that she ulti.
mately defeated the efforts of the prisoner, although her
clothes were all torn to pieces in the resistance. She
admitted in cross-examination, that in going from the'
town to the fields they passed by several houses. (No-
body was produced from these hou•es to depose that
they had htaYd the prosecutrix cry out.) The father of
the prosecutriz admitted that another man had been
taken up and held to bail for an assault of the same na-
ture, committed upon the prosecutriz on the same night.
Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE summed up the evidence to
the Jury. who acquitted the prisoner of the assault with
intent, &c. and found him Guilty of a common assault.
He was sentenced to two months imprisoment in the
county gaol.
NORFOLK CIRCUIT—BEDFORD, JILT 43.
Before Mr. Justice Housora.

Samuel Jepps and William Cobb, both 20 years of
age, were capitally indicted tor assaulting James Bass,
on the King's highway. putting him in fear, and steal-
ing f. um his person a bat, a knife, and a stick, his
ptorerty.
The pro..ecutor stated, chat on the evening of the 6th
of May last, he was walking near Gravenhurst. in this
county, and met three men ; the prisoners he believed
to be two of them. The prisoner Cobb stopped him
and asked him fur a shilling ; he replied that he had not
got one; Cobb said be knew better, and seized his stick
and snuck him on the head with it. Another of the
thieves struck him also with his fist, and the third
drugged. him down a lane, and took a knife out of his
pocket and his hat off his head. While he was being
dragged down the lane, he slipped his purse out of his
smallclothes pocket into the inside of the smallclothes,
and saved his money. He saw the prisoners in com-
pany together the same nigl.t, and they were secured.
On the person of Cobb, the knife which had been taken
, from him was found.
The Jury found both the prisoners Guilty—Death.
William Holland, alias Allen, was indicted for stealing
two ewe sheep and two lamb!, the property of a farmer
named Thomas Davis, at Luton, in this county.
It was prt.ved by the evidence of several witnesses,
and by the confession of the prisoner before a Magis-
trate, that, on the 6th May last, the prisoner and one
Stephen Cooper (.vho has absconded) went to the prose-
cut•l's field and drove away the ewes and lambs in
question rand that they met one Jones, alkalir id sheep;

on,the high road, si few ailed distance from the prose.'
cutoes, and areal to sell them to him for two potlucds.
twelve shillings. Jones paid them two pounds, which
they divided between them, and agreed to pay the re-
maining twelve shillings on the following day,
at the
Swan public house, at Dunstable. The prisoner went
at the time appointed to receive the twelve shillings, but
in the interim Jones having ascertained that the sheep
were stolen, the prisoner was taken into cu tody.
The Jury, without troubling his Lordship to sum up
the case, f iund the prisoner Guilty—Death.
Ridard Ketapson, aged 50 years, was indicted for
stealing a sheep, the property of John Tatnam ; and in
a second count he was charged with killing the sheep,
with intent to steal the carcase.

The prosecutor keeps a farm at Chaulton, in this
county. On the night of the 28th t f March, a sheep
seas lost out of his flock, and the skin and feet were
found in one of the fields adjoining, the next morning ;
and from the appearances on the ground, it was evident
the sheep had been killed in the field, and the carcase
carried off. The prisoner having been seen, about tie
title of the robbery, lurking about the prosecutor's field,
suspicion fell upon him; and the prosecutor went to
Great Barfird, where the prisoner lived in the Poor-
home, and on meeting the prisoner in the street, ob-
served that his round frock was bloody. In the pri-
soner's lodgings were found the head, pluck, and carcase
of a sheep, whi:h, on being fitted to the skin found in
the field, coriesponded in every part.—The prisoner
made no defence, and the Jury found him Guilty. Sen-
tence of Death was recorded a4ainst him.
Edward Southorne, aged 20 years, was capitally in-
dicted for stealing, on the night of the Ist of June, a
brown gelding horn a field at Misterton, in Leicester-
shire, the ptope►ty of Mr. John Lee, of Lutterworth,
farmer. The gelding was plated in the field in ques-
tion on the night of the let of June, with three other
horses. The field is by the road side ;on the following
morning the gelding was missing.
Mr. Gilbert, the proprietor of the Swan Inn, at Dun-
stable, in this county, said, that on Monday, the 2cl of
June, he saw the prisoner at his stables with a stranger.
The prisoner had a brown gelding in his possession, aid
the stranger agreed to purchase the gelding of the pri-
soner for seven pounds ; that sum appeared to be about
half the value of the horse, and witness told the prisoner
that as he had not asked the value fur the horse, he be.
lined that he had not come by it honestly, and he should
take him into custody ; the horse was in a jaded condition.
The distance from Misterton to Dunstable is about 50
miles. The prisoner was taken before Mr.Ashfield, a Ma-
gistrate at Leighton Buzzard, and he was set at liberty
on his own recognizance, to appear on the following
Tuesday. He was apprehended two days afterwards,
between Fenny Stratford and Stoney Stratford, and he
Men said he bought the horse of one Smith, of North-
ampton. Or. the following day he said he was hired
by a man to take the horse to Paddington, and that
what he told the Magistrate on his examination was all
false. He was again taken before the Magistrate, and
the gelding was identified to be the prosecutor's.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and the prose-
cutor recommended him to mercy. bebteace of Death
was recorded.