Star.
London, England, 1826-08-08 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Josses Newton, one of the Messengers employed at Apothecaries'
Hall, was charged with stealing 61he. of opium from the Company's
stores. Frederick Leffler, who has the charge of the store-cellars,
stated, that be usuaUy leaves the keys in a drawer by the side of
the Accomptant's deals, when he goes home to his meals ; and upon
his return front dinner, on Saturday In! he observed the prisoner
hanging up a key, and manoeuvring to slip another into the drawer
before nwationed, but he saw the witness was watchinchins, and
therefore quitted the room, without effecting his purpose. The
witness immediately examined the drawers and Inland the key of
the Rosentisi Oil Cellar; he overtook the primer at be sons Wean,
the premises, and insisted that he should some beck and be searched.
After some resistance this was accomplished ; when the 61b. of
opium was found upon his person, and also the misting key. On
examining the stock in the cellar, to which the key gave him ad.
mission, a deficiency of upwards of 26Ibs. or *pions was dkcovered,
—Remanded.
BOW-STREET.

An investigation of an extraordinary nature occupied the &tie*.
tion of the Magistrates during the whole of yesterday. Mr. Her-
m Pace, of Middle.row, Holborn, bookseller ; Mr. Deer, of Clare
market, corn dealer; and Mr. Ahrt Deer, his battler, were iespee.
lively charged. by a girl named Mary Rooker, withdorcibly
ladog her person. The two trobeamed individuals wave brought
by Duke, on a warrant, to answer the charge; but the third was
absent, it was said, In the country.
The prosecetrix appeared to be about 1Q or 11 years of age, of
pale complexion, and not at all well-looking—intleed, she May be
said to be what is called " very plain." She was attended by her
mother, and, when exandued, gave her evidence with great appear-
ance ofartiessnew and modesty of demeanour.
Her statement, as far as it can be detailed in our column* was
as follows:—About three months age, she went to live in the
family of Me and Mrs. Deer, in Clare Market, as maid of all
work. Mr. Price, the second defendant, was married to Mrs.
Deer's sister, and has In the habit of visiting at the house, and
sometimes mopping there for a day or so. On last Sunday three
weeks, Mr. and Mrs. Deer went out of town for the day, and In
the morning Mr. Price came to Clare Market to take care of the
house. He and the prosecutrix were alone in the house about
noon, when be same into thellitchen, which Is a back room on the
Int floor, land after some indifferent conversation, asked her a
question of an indelicate nature, which she did not understand,
and she told bias so. He then began to take indecent liberties
with bet, and at length threw her on the floor, and did as be pleased
with her. When he first threw her down, she resisted all she
avoid, and threatened to call out ' murder; but he held his band
Open her throat, so al to prevent her front screaming. and ever..
powered her. The shop and house were shut up at this time, She
afterwards cried, sod said she would tell people of it, but he said
she would be a fool Wake did, for that nobody would believe her.
When bermaster and mistress were from boss on a Sunday, she
always dined at Mr. Duncontbes, Mrs. Deer's .father's home in
is . Holborn, when Mr. Prim and his wife lived, and
Mr. Price, on the occasion in question, was also going there, and
he told her to go tine way and he would go another, and she did so. 1
On the following day, she described to her mistress, Mrs. Deer,
what Mr. Price had done to her,. and she told her to bold her
toots*. and that she ought to be ashamed to mention such a thing
to expose the family. She then told the people (named Herbert)
at the public-house next door to Mr. Deer's, and they also told her
mistress of it, and received nearly the same answer. On the
Sunday when she went to Mr. Duncombes, site mentioned
partly what had happened to the servant girl there, but did not
state that Mr. Price had completed his purpose, and the ser-
vant girl, together with Mr. John Deer, the third defendant
in the present charge. who also heard her, " made all the fun
of her that they could," and said they would expose her to all the
house. On the Thursday following. her muter followed her into
a room upstairs, and used her in a similar manner, and she did not.
cry tout' because she thought it was of no use, at she had only been
laughed at, and made all manner of fun of when she complained
before of Mr. Price's threatening, but she resisted with all hen
strength. The room in which the outrage was committed was
next to a workshop, in which was a bell communicating with the
lower part of the house, sod that bell rang during the time Mr.
Deer was assailing her, and she beard Mr. Price call out from
below. " What! nobody In the shop r Mr. Deer upon hearing
this, stepped into the shop, walked heavily on the floor, and cane*
out • 0 yes. I am here."
The charge spinet Mr John Deer was, that of forcibly violating
the person of the prosecetrix, and violently beating her about the
face when she resisted.

The presecutrig added. that she was very ill on the Sunday
afternona, after the outrage by Mr. Price, and that she had been
in bad.bealth ever since.
There could be no doubt, from her appearance, that she was,
from some cause or other, In an 11l state of health.

Her mother, a decent looking woman, who said she was the
mother of eighteen children, stated that she called at Mr. Deer's
on Wednesday last, to see her daughter, upon which occasion
Mrs. Deer spoke very 111 of her daughter, and complained of her
want of cleanliness. Witness went up to her daughter to complain
of her conduct, and the latter then told her she bad been ill treated
by Mr. Deer and his brother, describing their treatment nearly as
she had now done. She said she was ill, and witness Round upon
examination that she was in a dreadful state of health. She told
Mee. Deer of what her daughter bad stated, and she said that she
had heard of Mr. Jobe Deer's conduct, and was ashamed of it.
In defence it was alleged, that the charge was made for the pee.
pose °restarting money, and Mr. Price called wknossa to prove
that on the Sunday upon which she charged the rape to have been
committed by blot, he was at the house of his father.in.law, Mr.
Duncombe, during the whole of the day.
The prosecutrix, on being minutely examined by Mr. Haste,
varied occasionally in some portions of her statement, and so. it
is proper to state, did the witnesses in support of the alibi. Mr.
Duncombe's female servant admitted, that the prosecutrie told her
of something that Mr. Price had done to her on one Sunday when
she came to dinner.

Mrs. Deer, the mistress of the prosecutrix, a remarkably fine
woman, far advanced in pregnancy, was examined, and denied that
the girl had told her of the alleged conduct of Mr. Price, on the
day after it was said to have taken place. Speaking in reference to
the charge against her husband, the witness, turning towards the
prosecotrix, and with a look of ineffable scorn and contempt, ex.
claimed, "a pretty object of attraction for my husband, truly !"
Mr. Haza.s, after a most patient investigation of the whole cir-
cumstances, which occupied him until five o'clock in the afternoon;
said, be felt himself authorized to exercise the discretion which a
late Act of Parliament had vested in him, to take bail for the future
appearance of the accused parties, and he. should therefore order
them to give sureties in the amount of CtiO each, to appear at the
next Sessions, leaving the accusers to adopt what course they should,
in their own j'tdgtuent, deem most proper.
Messrs. Deer and Price immediately found bail.
WOnSHrP.STREET.

ilf/ney, II years of age, was committcd, tharged with in•lucing
a ebild, 5 years of ago, to steal from his mottor a spoon and hand-
kerchief, for which he rewarded him with thrta pellet halfpenny

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Yesterday Arthur itter4o4, adl Flatelanna, with Onassis; wise
,charged by Michael Daly, a wily, athletic. nallimy-lookingynentan,
Man. He stated that on Sunday night be was "on duty," in* saw
the prisoner, who was then freakish, "lolling on a lamp-post and
reeconsoilering a house," and on coming up he ordered hilts so balk
on, when the prisoner " took np his hat and it him in stselina".••-
ata:ther stated in defence, that be lodged fa the !amuse he via{ loolMg
at, and could not get in ; he, however, could not, as irosibd aid
not, deny being drunk, and washed is. alkd ellsohatesie
Seeds Bennet, a welLd reseed, aosple.loaskits., 14 fat, fair, sod fort*"
sort of personage, was charged by a bitchinan with being &seta
and wheeling her wedded lord mad muter, Idiot het. on Sun-
day night in the street. She waddled into the dock With an 'air of
perfect complaceneyond seemed op better terms with herself than
her "better half," who was brought in, and Owed beside-bet; and
said that he was very sorry tot bee conduct. Mrs: aentset, time-
Mr, did not seem sorry at all, and when she was told that the was
fined Si. and her husband is. she drew oat the family purse, paid
for herself, and left her relenting spouse In the dock (who was forced
to get change), with an air which convinced all present that "the
pay mare was the better horse."

Late on Saturday evening, as the Magistrate Was about to quit
the oMcs, a very respectable-lookkg man, named Asses asskistart,
was brought to the office, upon a warrant, charged with despe-
rately assaulting one Mr. Joseph Coda, a brewer and bust re-
taller, at No. 11, Bell.street, Alary-la-honne.
Mr. Coates stated, that the defendant and kis family vaulter the
house at the rear of that in which he (Mr. Coates) makes and re-
tails beer. On Friday night, about nine o'clock, he (Mr. Coates)
had occasion to take a walk to call ulon a customer in Onege-
street, Grosvenor-square ; and it so happened, that before he went
out on this excursion, he saw that Mr. Robinson was well and safe
at home, clad in his usual drew. which he bad worn all day;
having arrived at his customer's house in George-street, he. air.
Coates, chanced to mite the wife of Mr. Robinson, who requested
him to escort ber as far as the house of a Mrs. aslop, in Sundt
Audley-street, which request, as a man of politeness and gall:atty,
hi could not refuse; they had not, however, proceeded many yawls,
when a person having all the appearance in polut of form. but not
at all In point of dress, of Mr. Robinson, suddenly suade his stand
before them, and without saying one word, began to belabour hint.
(Mr. Coates,) over the head, with all his might, with a tremendous
bludgeon, the operation of which not only cut through his hat, but
nearly so through his head. Raying performed this exploit. Mr.
Robinson—for he was the man—ran off at full speed, and gat
home in time to put on his own clothes again before he could be
caught, and he (Mr. Coates) bad no doubt but Mr. Robiason had
watched him all the way from home.
Mr. Robinson, in answer to the charge, did not at all mimic the
muter, but candidly acknowledged that he had disguised himself;
that he had watched Mr. Costes, and that be was the person who
pee Mr. Coates a pretty good knock on the head when he caught
him with his wife • but then, said Mr. Robinson, is them a man
living, of any feeling, who could have done less? I was A happy
man with my wife and children until Mr. Coates seduced the one,
and left the others, six young creatures, without a mother to protects
them. Mr. Robinson then went on to state, with tears in hie eye.,
and his eldest child. a little girl about twelve years d age. by his
side, that this Coates bad induced Mut. Robinson to quit her home
a week ago, haying first seduced heti and was in the habit of visi:-
lag her ever since, and suspecting that he was going to meet bee
that night, he, Me. Robinson. watched him, and caught themtoge-
ther. when his feelings overcame his judgment.
The Magistrate, making exery allowance fir Mr. Robitsson's
feelings, must hold him to bail, and it being then too late to procure
any. Mr. Robinson was locked up all Sunday, and bailed yesterday.