Star.
London, England, 1826-10-30 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Saturday, a person of fashionable appearance, of the name of
Browne, was brought before Mr. CoNANTi the Magistrate at this
office, under a warrant, ch.frged with assaultinglting a lick girl, namdd
Catherine Garnet, With intent to violate her person.
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It appeared bj the evidence of this child, who is only 13 years of
age, that she had been hutted by another little girl, of about der
own age, into a brothel, in Little Lean street, Soho, kept by a,
woman of abandoned character, when she was introduced to the
' accused, wire at the time had four other little girls, of several ages,.
in the room with him. They had a bottle of wine, and after
drinking a glass of it s►e became quite sick, and in that state was
pot to bed, and remained insensible until the nest morning, when
the found the attempts that had been made upon her person. The
prisoner "cane again that day, and threw her by force upon a bed,
while two other girls held her doles), with their hands on her mouth
to stop her cries, and two others held a candle on each side. She
resisted the prisoner with -an her strength until she fainted away,.
and became insensible; but when she recovered she found herselt
in great pain, and went home and told her mother bow she had
been est& The accused on each occasion, it was said, left a sove-
reign, to be divided amongst the girls.
Elizabeth 'Williams, aged 13 ; Mary Anne Smith, aged 15 ; Mary'
Anne Swain. aged 13; also stilted that they knew the prisoner fur
a long time as a frequenter of this house. They had all beenl
treated, it was stated, by the accused much in the same way he bad.
used the girl Gainey, but it was with. their own consent. He
came to the house at all hours to meet little girls of their age.
In reply to the'charge, the accused, who is a very fine -looking
man, abourforty-five years of age, said, that it was very true he,
had been a frequenter of the house in question, and had met all
these girls there, but then it was with their own consent, including•
Gainey.
Mr. Cowan. said, that the girl had sworn that it was against•
her consent thatlhe •received,tbe 'shameful treatment spoken of,
and be intrit'find bail for the assault on her, himself in seWO, and
two sureties in £l5O each.

la the canteen( the day the ball was entestd into, and he was
discharged, and deuce away in Isis gig, which waited for bias at
the 016ie &Or.

QUEEN-SQUARE.
Richard Daggel, of Whitechapel, *as brought to this once,
charged by William Gridshy, the watchman of the New Chelsea
Burial Ground, with abstracting two dead bodies from their inter-
ment: He deposed that on the preceding night (Friday), about
seven o'clock, when he was going hia rounds, he observed two men
in the grounds, dragging something heavy, un which be called to
them, but they gave him no answer. Witness took up hia blunder-
buss, and instautly fired, but his piece hung fire, and seeing that
they were attempting to get away, he threw down the blunderbuss,
and ran towards them, accompanied by his dog, which, at once
scented the depredator. The dog caught the flap of the prisoner's
coat, which enabled the witness to collar him. Dugget's coin.
panion escaped. Witness soon diieuvered a sack, which on feeling
it, he found contained something heavy. Witness gave an alarm.
upon which tour own came from the workhouse, and conveyed
the sack upon a wheelbarrow to the bonehouie, where it was
found to contain two bodies.

William Tonskins, an inmate of the workhouse, deposed that
about seven o'clock he W 75 passing the gate of the burying ground,
when the watchman was coining out, holding the prisuoer, and
asked witness to go and look at the bottom of the ground, where
there was a sick containing something heavy; he accordingly
found a sack (now produced), which had two dead bodies in it,
which ware taken to the bouehouse.

Dugget, in his defence, said he had become acquainted with
Gridsby last summer, when be agreed to let hint (Doggy) have the
bodies at 10s. each ; hat they went into two public houses, where
they came to an agreement, and drank three or four quarts of por-
ter. Gridsby toad him at le time that one Murphy must be kept
away, as he would only have dealings with one p itty. Since then,
however, he believed that Murphy had offered more than him,
and that was the real cause of his now bring interrupted and seised
by Gridsby.
The prisoner entered lino its own recognizance for his Opens.
ance at the Sessions.

MARY•LA•BONNE.
A number of coffee-shop keepers living in the parish of Mary-la-
bonne, were fined 20s. and costs, for having their houses open
before the time allowed by law, en informations filed against them
by the notorious Johnson.
The defendants for the most part pleaded ignorance of the hour
at which they were permitted to commence business ; and for their
future guidance, Mr. Homo., the Magistrate, informed them that
the Act of Parliament strictly prohibited the opening of these shops
before four o'clock in the morning between Lady-day and Michael-
mas, and from Miehaelnus to Lady-day before six o'clock, under a
penalty of not less than 20s. nor exceeding 101.

James Sellivan, a boy about six years old, the child of an Irish
labourer, living in Terk.court, Mary-la-tonne, was driven over in
East.street, within a few yards of his home, on Wednesday evening.
by a man named Kirkman, a dealer of marine stores, in Camden-
town, and so seriously injured about the body, neck and head, that
he ed the following day in Middlesex Hospital. An inquest has
since sat upon the body, and returned a verdict of « Accidental
Death ;" but on the application of the father of the child, before
the inquest was taken, Kirkman was apprehended, and Mr.
GRIFFITH the Justice, in investigating the case on Saturday last,
I decided that there was sorb culpable misconduct in the manner in
which Kirkman was driving his cart at the time, that he committed
hint for further eumination oa a charge of manslaughter.
WORSH I P-SPR KET.
Saturday, Snood Giilei, head porter at the Bull Tnn, AlJgate,
appeared before Mr. Twirroao, the Sitting Magistrate, ai.d stated
what appeared to be a case of great hardship.
A person named French, proprietor of one of the Maidon (Rues)
coaches, was convicted upon the information of John Myers, under

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