The Sun. — 1852-07-20 (London, England)

CROWN COURT.—( Before Mr. Justice WIGHTbIAN.) Henry Healey, James Sayner, and Thomas Sentor were indicted for a rape on Charlotte Flooks, at Mirfield, on the 13th of April last. Mr. Overend and Mr. Campbell Foster prosecuted; and Mr. Hardy defended the prisoners. It appeared that the prosecutrix is the wife of a labourer on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, and lives at a cottage at Crossley, near Mirfield. She and her husband were frum the south, and had lived there about two years. On Easter Tuesday there was a tea party at a public-house called the Shepley Arms, at some little distance from Crossley, to which the prosecutrix had been invited by a Mrs. Dyson. Her husband, it appeared, forbade her to go; but unable to resist the temptation of seeing the amusements, she walked there about eight o'clock in the evening, atter the tea party, and jollied Mrs. Dyson, in a large room where a number of men and women were, dancing and singing to a fiddle, and drinking beer and gin. Here Mrs. Flooks stayed until halt-past 11 o'clock, and in the excitement of the scene, aided by the gin and beer wenth outme of which she partook, she became nearly intoxicated. She then asked a young man named Hallas, a neighbour, to see her home; but he having his sweetheart there, asked a married man named Robert Senior to go with her home, which he did. Before this it appeared she had given Robert Senior a kiss, and he had called her his wife,"o and the landlord seeing it had told him he had better go Seniorhad difficulty in getting her along. A number of Young men there (some 16 or 18), suspecting, it wool dseem, that some impropriety would ensue between Robert Senior and the prosecutrix, a lane called "The Lan,leading to some Land, followed them down the ,road at a short distance to withwith herherrad and she she was have sutchhen so conducttipstyhere. that he fields, across which was a pathway to Crossley. In this lane Robert Senior was tripped up by them, and the prosecutrix was pushed about and thrown down by the crowd of men, and, as she swore, forcibly ravished in this lane by three of these men successively—one of whom she swore was the prisoner Healey. Robert Senior, by his own account, gut separated from her, and did not see her tor half an hour. She then went over the fields followed by the crowd of men, and was knocked down twice in a field called Oates's field near her own house; and in that field ravished again successively by six of these men—the others standin, around and holding her. She screamed out " Murder!" and shouted her husband's name, and said "if she was spared she would make an example of them." A great number of witnesses were called, some of them young men who had witnessed these proceedings, and who identified the three prisoners es part of the men who ravished the prosecutrix under the circumstances mentioned. The details are too disgusting for publicatione: About an hour home their all leaving the sweetheart lianas was going , Latter having seen his sweethea her Louse, when he heard cries of a woman in distresst!: Oates's field, and heard a " din "of people. Lie weleinptand saw the prosecutrix on her hands and kr!eimee'n leaving ing to get up truth the ground, and a number 01 owl her face her- ne went up to her to assist forehead. He wiped covered with blood from a cut on her dss,isted her to her face with his pocket-handkerchief, ;assisted her alsu. rise, and Robert Senior then came P ,u,-„atnßobert Senior hat, It appeared in evidence, also, wen from committing throughout attempted to prevent tdu% fight with one man the outrages they did, and had had  [