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London, England, 1820-05-30 00:00:00

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• The•defen• dant did not appear. He had pleated a
ahem plea of judgMent recovered, and had moved
for a Special Jury, to delay the plaintiff as much as
-possible. •
The Jury immediately found their verdict for the
plaintiff.
The Cater Junteu:—The plaintiff has plenty of
law, but I belieye he will get nothing else.
Mr. Carsenau, informed his Lordship, that this
was whet was termed shaunting—a species of swind-
ling mated of by Mr. Colquhoun, in his Police of
the Metropolis, and enumerated with ring-dropping,
and other modes of bubbling the unwary of this
great Metropolis.
MAY te.
KINII V. HANNAH WHITEHORN.
This was an indictment under circumstances which
excited considerable interest.
It will be recollected, that some time in August
last, Captain Mills, of Smith-street, Chelsea, was
charged by his servant, a girl nailed Whitehorn, with
having committed a rape upset her person. Captain
Mills was tried before Mr. Baron GRAHAM, at the
Old Bailey, in the month of September, and acquit-
ted ; and he now, in his turn, became the assailant,
and indicted hissci-deverseprosecutrix for perjury.
Mr. ScaeLerr, in addressing the Jury on the part
of the plaintiff, adverted to the extreme difficulty of
establishing perjury in general, and the still greater
difficulty in baking out such a charge in a case like
theprestint. The Learned Counsel then entered into
a copious detail of the circumstances of the case, froth
which it appeitred, titat Captain Mills, who had. for-
merly-served in the Army, and was a man infirm in
health and retired in habits, though of competentfor-
tune,- came, in the beginning of the year Ibl9, to re-
side at Chelsel, and, in the month of July, wanting a
temporary servant, engaged the defendant, upon the
recommendation of a person 'of the name of Price.—
Upon the 28th of July the girl entered the service of
the' plaintiff, who immediately perceived that she
was in bad, health ; and, from some cause or other,
extremely offensive in her person. After enduring that
which was extremely unpleasant to him for about
sixteen days, he found it impossible to keep his new
servant any longer ; and accordingly sent for her mo-
ther, paid her her wages, and, as he imagined, got
rid of her. The day upon which this dischatte took
place was Friday ; a an that evening Capt. Mills
went to Vauxhall, from whence returning about five
o'clock on Saturday morning, he found a letter from
Mr. Price, stating, that Hannah Whitehorn had pre
ferred a charge of rape against him : much asto-
nished, he, before he went to bed, wrote to Mr. Price,
who resided at Charing-cross, alleging the falsehood
of the accusation,- and promising to come to town
immediately. On the Monday morning, accordingly,
Captain Mills did call upon Mr. Price, who then said
that Hannah Whitehorn had not onlyaccused him of
violence to her person, but also with hiving commu-
nicated to her a certain complaint; upon which he
immediately caused himself to be attended by
.Mr.
• Astley Cooper and Mr. Brodie, who were -satisfied
that, for the latter part of the charge, there could
not, by possibility, be any foundation. The plaintiff
then returned to the house of Mr. Price, end sent for
the girl's mother; the mother came, attended by a
constable; the plaintiff was carried before a Magis-
trate, and the girl, being produced, made a deposi-
tion against him. The result was, that Capt. Mills
was, in the first instance, committed to prison ; next,
upon the affidavits of some medical men as to the
second part of the charge, admitted to bail ; and, in
conclusion, tried at the Old Bailey, "and acquitted.—
Mr. &arlett then proceeded to advert to portions of
the evidence given by H. Whitehorn upon the trial.
Mr. William Oliver, short-hand writer, proved the
motes which he had taken at the trial.
The assignment of perjury was upon the fate*.
ing points : That the defendant bad sworn, first, that,
atter the alleged injury, she had continued in the
house of the plaintiff from the 29th July to the 19th
August ; second, that she had not any opportunity
to inform. her mother of what had passed ; and, third,
that the illness of which she complained was not oc-
casioned by a certain disoider specified.
Captain Mills was then called. This gentleman
stated, that the defendant cairn to live with hita
upon the 2fith of July—she was merely a temporary
servant until he should arrange his establishment;
as soon as she entered his employ he was disgusted
with her -extreme dirtiness; and, on the 13th August,
he sent her away. While she continued in his ser-
vice he never offered the *Matfett liberty to her. He
went oat constantly—dined out every day, and that
during his absence she might have gone out at her
pleasure. He did repeatedly tend her of errands.
Upon cross-examinatiOn he admitted that a girl
named Sarah billy had come to Rye with him on
the tame evening with the defendant, but had , -
so little pleased with her new place, that she
left it the next morning ; that, 'in the course of five
months, he had had eight 'women servants ; and that
two of them had lodged a complaint against him at
the 'Polite-office, Ctueen4quare, which was corn-'
founded upon his paying ki to each of the parties;
that complaint was not of the tame 'nature as the
charge of Hannah Whitehorn,
Catherine Vigor was washerwoman to Capt. Mills,
and saw Hannah Whitehorn at his .house between
the 29th of July and the 13th of August; she made
no complaint to witness of any. ill-treatment hiving
been offered to her.
Louisa Hodges, a child apparently not More than
eleven years of age, said that she had lived as ser-
vant with Captain Mills ; she went to him four days
before Hannah Whitehorn left him. _ Captain Mills
was out during the greater part of two days, and
she and Hannah Whitehorn were left together.
-Hannah Whitehorn herself went out four times
during his absence, but did not stay long. Remem-
bered that Hannah WhitehOrn Complained of illness
on the third day that she (witness) was in the house,
and wrote to her mother ; next day she went away.
Mr. Brodie, Surgeon, saw the defendant in August
last, after she bad accused Captain Mills. Mr. Roe
and Mr. Pinchard, two ether Surgeons, saw her also.
Witness thought, from the symptoms which he per.
, ceived, that the defendant was most severely allicted
with the malady which she had denied in her evi-
possible that those
deuce %Too the trial. It Was