The Statesman.
London, England, 1806-07-24 00:00:00

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‘ 1 TiTimes' Thitiiiirf iris* Wilted for ravishing Eli.
ilobeth• Lincoln, at friaoday, the 96 June last.
' MT. PQOLET stated to the Jury, that this was
the most serious ea* which had come before them
during the present Assizes, inasmuch as it was not
only of itself a most heavy offence, but there were
also ciredaistances of peculiar aggravation in the
conduct of the prisoner. The prosecutrix, he said,
was shoot the age of so years, -and. having been left
without parents, she was brought up at she charge
of the parish, and' at the time of the commission of
this offence, resided in the poor-house, at Bishop,
Stortford. The prisoner was her near relation, her
first coatis, and resided in the same parish. It
mould appear by the evidence, that this at of his
was not codtmitted either in the insensibility of
intoxication, or by the sudden explosion of the
passim., created by unsought opportunity, as was
sometimes the case; but he coldly and syste.
matically planned the deed which he afterwards
carried lame execution. The girl being in the
poor-house, on the 9th of June, the prisoner
sent for her to the Cherry 'free public.bonse,
in Stortford, and told her he had got her a
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place, as kitchen-maid, at Squire Heath's, at
stead. The girl said she must go home ap ;
leave to go them. He accordingly a .
her to the poorhouse; and told the same story se
Mrs. Serjeantr die Mistress of the house. M.
Serjeant obseived, that she thought the girl wade'
harldly suit the place, as abe had not been at serviee,
lie replied, that she would do very well, for hot.
aunt worked there. and would intuit her. MIS.
Serjeant agreed to let her go on trial, and if she was
not approved of, the prisoner undertook to bring
her sate back again. They then set off together to
Stanstead, about seven in the evening : their way'
lay across some fields, and on the skirts of a woo 4
called Eight Acres Wood.—When they approached'
the wood, the prisoner began to take indecent H.
betties, which she resisted. He immediately seised
her by the arm, and dragged her into the woods
he there threw her down ; she struggled mad,
screamed until her strength was exhausted, arm
which he effefted his. purpose. He kept her in the
weed for two hours, and compelled her to submit
herself to his puree a second time ; which being
done, he left her alone. She wandered about the
wood the whole night, until day.light enabled her
to find her way out. She then saw some men at
work in a field, who dire led her to a neighbour.
leg cottage, in which a relation of her's lived, to
whom she related the treatment which she had re.
Mirk% and the next day the prisoner was appre.
blended.
Elizabeth- Lincoln, the prosecutrix, proved the
&Os is Mr. Pooxse had; stated them. She was
a round-faced country girl, and appeared greatly
distressed on giving her evidme.
Mrs. Sesjemmtio the Miatkeipi. of the workhouse,
proved that tba.prisostr wimp ana tachid the prose.
cutrix in she ittwintar that hadheen stated ; and that
When. she came .oak the aces oar& she subbed bit-
terly, and said Thosnyeen.had !limed her.
Elizabeth nape, gthe women to whose cottage
abe went thetweatatoraiogosaid, that when she came
there, she told ber that 'Chomps= had ruined her ;
she sobbed a groat deal, and bad her legs scratched,
and torn by the bumbles.
The Learned Judge told the. jury, that if they
believed the
.proaecutrix, they must lad the pri.
sower guilty .—Verdift—Gailo.
Uwe Clarks was indifted for stealing a bay geld.
htg,valtie four pounds, the property of D. Francis.
Mr.
_lessor stated the circumstances of the case as
follows:
The prosecutor, Francis, was a poor country.
man, who could neither read noe write. On the
1 silt of May last, Hertford fair.day, he carried
his pasty to market, which he agreed to sell to the
prisoner for 41. The prisoner gave him a note,
which he sold hint was a 61. Deptford Bank
Note. The prosecutor gave him a sl. note in
change. This note the prosecutor paid away to
another countryman, as ignorant as himself; but'
the next perms to whom it was tendered, discovered!
it was a Mere imitation of a Bank note s aid, in!
fat, it was a note, on the fate ofit, purporting lobe,'
" Debtors' Bank. I promise to pay hearer ive- 1
Mtfor Attorney, Plaintiff, and Defendant. T.
s." The countryman finding how he had been
tkpad, went is search of the prisoner, and met his
lo IL ingiland.road. He stopped him, and insisted
Mt having- a good note ; but the prisoner swore lit
iiVald three of she woe sort of notetaway on*
• day i thsvha took them for good ones, sod/10
withld not chimp them for any body. . .!
Vibe pita*, at his defence, said, he itsolt
motes theme'sasa day from a person who said he camel
frost Ishibrd, ihd he believed he was either a parsanot
liwyet, or a ddeor, fur he had a hand a:'del
• icy lady's. He added, he could not read hivaseKi
if they were bad notes, he had - himself been.
imposed 'upon.
SevAai witneisei ivere called, who pre him a
good eharaftes, as a dealer in horses, in a small
wa, and confirmed Itis statement that he could
neither read nor write. The Jury found him Glalp,.
1 Rkhard White was Cony ifted of uttering a bad
shillineknowing it to be a counterfeit ; he having
been before cony ifted at the Middlesex Sessions ot
'a similar offence reliden the last capital.
Susan Jones, landlady of the Fox and Grapes
Olic.house, at Ware; stated, that the prisoner, on
a Bth of March, tendered her the bad shilling in
pition. As he was suspefted of 'uttering counter.
s silver, she sent for a coastabk, and fie was
searched ; concealed under his clothes two large par.
eels of bad shillings were found, the shillings were
parted with a small Otte of paper between each.
The Jury found him Gallo,.
The above three poisoners, together with Timm
Bony, for sheep-stealing, and ).ire &lab, for steal.
ing in a dwelling.house, were put to the bar, and
received sentence 6f-Death. Of these, the Learned
Judge told the sheep staler, and Thompson, for the
rape, that they bite Oat exped to receive mercy.
On the Civil Siae Milting mistrial was done.
The Court finished early, anfite Assizes concluded.

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At out,Assizea,(the business of which commenced
on Wednesday last), there were only ten prisoners
for trial; none of whom were capitally convicted.
Ralert Andrews, for stealing goods from the w
of Messrs. Brown, Brice, and Marshall ; and ip7rg7,,,
/.err Rorbiss4a, fir a felony. in the shop of Herurgl
Doughty, at Portsea,were sentenced to be transport-
ed seven years. 7itewas Gm, for assaulting Major
Angus Fraser, was fined 6s. Ad. /Wert WaloW
was discharged; and Putrid Comagy, 71Nrwas We*
3.4 a Matthew, Omar Mortbruor, jai Maraitwo
and Sarah Blown, arraigned for differed offences,
were severally squirted.
At the Nui Priam, twenty-one causes were enter.
ed for trial, seven of which were tried by Special
Juries.
The King (on the prosecution of George Losell.
Esq.) v. Geo. Wilkins.—The prosecutor lives at
Rookley House, in the parish of Crawley, and is a
Magistrate of the county. The defendant is a far-
mer at King's &seaborne, and one of the overseers
of the poor of the parish. On the ad of September
last, the prosecutor being out with his gun, beard
repeated cries, and violent blows given. Oa riding
up to the place whence they mended, be found
the defendant beating a little boy about eleven years
old, fot having saued sane pigs to get into a
kid. The prosecutor empostulated with the cia,
fendant en the severity of the emetic" which woo
returned by the latter with great abase, sad an at-
tempt co ride ever the onapesurtor, who,' in cone.
quence, indicted the defendant at- she last Assizes.
The bill being found; flikindiOniest was removed
into the Court of King's Bench, sod &lOW by the
Court to be tried at the Assizes, and was sow sub-
mitted to the decision of a Special Jury, who
head the defendant pill; of a common assault only.
Morgan v. Turner—was an action for the ob-
aeration of light, by huilding a wall against the
plaintiff's windows. On an objection to the form
of the action, the plaintiff was smernitel.
Rex v. Eldredge and another—was an information
by the Attorney-General, far obstrufling an Officer
of the Excise. • The defendant was found gsly.
Elmore dv. Heath--was an action to recover gol.
the peke of a horse sold to the defendant, and.
warranted sound and quiet : he proved, however,
to be unsound and vicious, and the Jury gave the
plaintiff his whole demand.
A cause wherein Messrs. Heath and San, brewers,
were plaintiffs, and Dennis Reid, Esq. defendant,
was chiefly renuirkable for the defence set up, and
the defendant being his own advocate. After three
years credit, the Defendant resisted the demand of
payment for beer sold and delivered to him by the
plaintiff, en the allegation that the beer was not
brewed with malt and hopeibut with pernicious in.
gredierits. To substantia trial case, he brought for-
ward the plaintiff's brewer, who had been in their
service go yeses, and °the:oatmeal:a, who proved
to the satisfielfan of the Celt% ehtz the plaintiff
never used any Other ingredients then malt and hops
in their beet. The jusle,ot course, gave a verdift,
fur the plaintiff. • teu.-T'r.
Hart v. Solomon—Was ,an action between two
Jews, residing at Portsea ; wherein the plaintiff
sought to recover 131. res. the value of germs
watches sold to the defendant which he pleaded hati
been returned. The
sprawl fe;Nekter the plaintiff foe
his whole demand.
The King v. Thonlarlogidrisod the King er.
James Payne—were isdiflonalsagainat the deka&
ants for having Aral notes ifs ate* possessioolm-
longiog to his Majesty. The first wait of foe
want of Jurors to snake up a Special jury; oa the
second, the record was withdrawn.
The King v. Bull and Another, was celled ea
this morning, but went of olus.for want of Jesuits
There being no espial cooviation, this is sowed
a Maks Ansa . and the Sheriff, according acts&
toot, paid Ave pineal (celled glove-mostly) to the
Ogren of the Court.
The General Quarter Sessions of the Peace wete
held hew on Teesdarlast, when J jalwarif goo.
rifled of stealing a watch from Thomas Swart, of
Alrerstoke ; and Elbrakth Mile, for stealing wear.
ing apparel from Robert Boswell, of Gosport were
ordered to be imprisaled six months each. ;Mac
&wow, for a theft' at Otterhook, to be (Weld
one month. The esker tsideolis fee oliMit of
less enormity. ...et ••-avek iv" st•

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SURREY SESSIONS, JULY •3.
Moat lIRIZANT 011$LOW.

Part dada was iniiited fora felony.
John Towner is a lath vender, and said, as be was
-• the Borough from London Bridge, be felt
pull at 5u pocket : be perceived the
aim Thstreroive Casts be
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by the collar, the book Mu rttorned him, and the
prisoner was takes to Union Hall, where his person
was recognized hr Leckie, .ooflingbourn, and other
Officers, as having been committed as a reputed
thief several times.—Gagry sf Mew.
iThe Learned CIIAIRIMAA and the Bench had a
ftsieft recolleflion of his perms, and the former
wised sentence of transportation for seven years
ern him.
joie Loath, alias Elias Harris, was charged
with being a person of evil time, and a reputed
thief. He was taken by Collingbourn the Officer in
the Westminster Road, for pocking the pocket of.
a Lieutenant in the Navy of kis pocket book ; the
property was recovered, and the Prisoner seat- to
the Comity Gaol.
The Court idjedged him ro be imprisoned for the
term of sr months, to be computed fainkelms date
of his convidiest, typtli of iffy. •- -
3.k0 liardri, a Hibernian, was charged, by Wil.
Ham Collingbourn, for assaulting him.—He proved
the assault to have been committed on him in the
execution of his duty as an officer, but he had hu-
inanely laid the laidiElaneet for a simple Assault;
only, of which he was found 4s.
jean &alas, Libor Nadal, and Maar Pd.
lard, three lamplighters it Vauxhall Gardens, were
inditied for embesaling the oil entrusted to these
to make rase, of. We have, a former paper,'
stated seven Of Ata being taken into custody br

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