The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-08-24 00:00:00

THE STATEBUAN

jSSISBS.

GTE, ON TUT ITIOSECUTION 01 ELM VINSON,
AGAINST R. BIRTIATT, TOR a RAPE.
Mr. Moons stated to the Jury, that this prose.
cotton was of the deepest importance
wa
to the Petstic
end the l'ri eeeee . The offence charged sof a ca-
pitol Witte, and it therefore bollooted the Jury to
address their best 'titration to the facts. It would
appear that or the 31st of May the Prisoner met the
Prosecetris about seven in the evening, as ai was
Morning from eyeing a female friend putt of her
wily home. Ile accosted her, asking her if she would
take • walk ; and after some further conversation,
offered her mosey if she would go with him; she
said she would net; he said she must, and laying
hold of bee, forced her to a hay-stock at some dis-
tance, sod atter ineffectual resistance on her pert,
completed his purpose. It world appear that on the
Protecatris going home, she mad* a compleint t
her sister of the outrage committed by the Prisoner • ;
?but he was, In eoneequence, apprehended end com-
mitted for trial. Ile shoold be enabled. to establish
, these facts, and unless the Jury could discover any
well-founded reasons to discredit the witnesses be
should call, he feared they .06141 feel it their ditty
to themselves end the Public to find • verdict of
guilty against the Prisoner.
F.lizsbeth Minsnn called em between 18 and
19 years old. I hate been of service till lately ; I
now lies at my brother's.in.lsw. On Sunday, late
in May. I went to accompany a female friend to.
wards her home. It was about sit or seven o'clock
in the evening; she had been with we from two nr
three o'clock ; l took her about half • Olaf. On
Wareing beck I met, at Frencles.bridge, the Poi-
soner ; he asked me where I was going ; I said home.
lie said I hail butter take a walk with him. I re-
fused. Ile offered me half.a.crow• if I would go
with him. I said I would sot. He said I should ;
he took me mind the waist, and pushed me before
him ; he sometimes pushed, and sometimes carried
we. Ile carried me through a gateway at the end el
the first field. Ile thee posited end carried me across
another field to a hay-stack. I mode every resist-
ance. I tried to get away. When be
got me to the
Asy-stack he took me in his arms, and threw me over
the rails. 1 ran to the other side of the bay-stack,
and tried to get sway by getting over the
rails; befit, I could do it, the Prisoner caught
we again ; he pulled me nese to • rick ; there
was a cut in the rick ' • he kept we 'Oast the
rick with one hand, and pushed soma bay from off
the est. Ile then thr w
eme down : I cried out, end
begged him to let me alone. I did all I could to re-
sistbet he bad his minutely.me. She then de.
scribed the, violence very I told my bro.
ther.in-law as soros as I got home, that the Prisoner
had used we very ill, bat I did set tell him the par-
florists. I told my sister the same. Two days at-
terwords I told my sister ell the participles'. I did
not know the Poisoner easctly : I knew his person,
rot his some. My brother.iu-law, cub whom I
lived, knows Prisoner Ter" well. I told my sister
what I have now told the Gert.
Crossorsomined by Mr. C. F. WILLIAIO.—This
was on • Suadayi Yes, Sir.—You bad therefore
your best Sebboth-day clothes on ? Yee,
as
it very dirty at the gateway where the
inertPrsor took
yea In his arms and carried you ? Yes, re--
Whets he had settled yea over the space that was
dirty, he put you down win? Yee. ote the
gateway to the Isap asstack wit Wel or pea
bill ?
Not touch of a Mill.—Pretty steep, was it not ?
Someihisog of a bill, not much.—How did doe Pri-
soner get you op the bill? lie imbed me, and ear.
tied me.—lint it was a (porter of a mile from lb.
bridge to the hay-stark, ass it not ? Yes, Sir.—The
treater part up bill? No; not the greeter pert.—
When you arrived at the hay-stack, or hay-stall, yes
sty the Prisoner threw you over ? Yes, be did.
Were yea so lucky as to light open year feet ? Yes,
Sir.—Did you, when ever, Foe to get away ? Yes,
I did.—Then you were not mach net of breath by
getting up the bill with the Prisoner ? I ran to the
rolls and tried to get over, bat the Pri sssss caught
me before I could.—You say the Prisoner took some
bay from a cot ia aloe rick ; describe to the Jury
about the length of the cot of hay ; describe it by
the distance of one of your hands from the other.
(The •itness separated her hands to show the length
of the hey.)—llow thick was the hay which the Poi.
sewer took hem the cut? (The witness described
by her bands.)—Yeew were, eso doehtoner was , dreadfully
alarmed at this time, hen the Pris shoot
to offer you violence? Yes, I wet.—Then bow did
you find lime and attention to observe so nicely the
length mod thickness of the bay which the Prisoner
removed to throw you down on I The witness sp.
peered colleted, sod made no slower. I think you
said, you begged the Poisoner to let you alone;
what were the words? Were they, " let we alone,
u good for nothing man ?" Yes. (•1 laugh )
Did you observe soy marks in the Prisoner's face,
alter what you say be did to sots? No.—Theo you
did not h scratc or bort bins ? No.—The Prisoner
peontleed yore half.a.etows ? Yes.—Bet he did not
give it you ? No.—Theo be was a base man ? I
would not take the half-crown.
Mr. WlLLtatas.—Did pro go tire nest morning to
e. attorney? Yes, I did.—For what purpose; was
'lt to send the Prisoner • Isvoyer's letter?
lied the Primmer tore and injured your clothes?
Yes —Did you see the 'Moroi ? No; I saw the
clerk.—On what terms did you tell the elesk you
would settle the business? The clerk asked me, I
Mid I could not settle Wiriness, bat that my brother-
lo-law, if agreeable, would. You did not perhaps
tell the lawyer whet sou hate told here to-day ? No.
—Only to send the Prisoner a lawyer's letter i Yes.
—As you dud not bear malice, perhaps you did *Pat-
wards metre money Item the Prisoner's 0.14 to
make the twiner up? The Prisoner's wife r 5...• In
me soul pressed me, and I dill.— (hope easy ouJ
friendly terms; you took 31., did you ~,i? Ye'.
'rho Juoca here interposed and old, oh:o,w
suspicions might be entertained as to the contlect Si
the Prisoner, and no doebt he hal used the
young woman very ill, yet in a case so penal, and
under the fects now elicited by the Counsel for
the Friamer, it would be a departure from the jest
caution eaercisyd iu such ca,es to Fetish this comae
to proceed farther.
The Prisoner was ther,fcre acquitted.