The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1886-06-05 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

OUTRAGE ON YOUNG LADIES. A young MD named Frederick George Fuller, of Sloane-street, Chelsea, has been charged at Greenwich police-court with assaulting Evelyn Clara Hooper, aged 16, and Florence Ethel Jones, 14; further, with attempting to indecently assault the elder girl, and stealing from her the sum of El 18e. Mr. Juieg, solicitrox. of Lee, father of the younger pa, oonducted the prosecution. Mice Hooper, who said she resided at Eversfield, Grove.park, Lees stated that on the previous evening she and Miss Jones, while out for • walls, entered an empty house in Grove-park to look over it, Shortly afterwards the prisoner, whom they had passed on the road came in, milked what they were doing, and stated that he was clerk to Mr. Pound, the owner of the house, and they would have to go through the house with him to see whether they had done any damage. They went up-xeire, and when it the top prisoner said he had orders from 14x. Pound to detain anyone he found there, and be meant to lock them in :separate roomb while he went for Mr. Pound. Witness then let him lock her in • sort of cupboard on his promising to take Miss Jones with him to Mr. Pound. She then heard the prisoner dragging Miss Jones downstairs, and then . followed the sound of etrogrling and sexeszning, and seine glass was meshed. The prisoner then came to her and said her friend had gene for Mr. Pound. He ' tied her wrists with some string, and began palling her about. She broke the string and tried to escape, but the prisoner prevented her, and then took his shoe lace out and tied her hands behind her. She screamed f, help, whereupon prisoner took her silk handkerchief and tied it-over her month, threatening to murder her if she did not hold her noire. He then flung her down, knelt on her chest, and pet a hand over her mouth, with the other taking hold of bee dress, but she then managed to break the lace and freed hes lands. She succeeded in getting on her feet. and then aeked the prisoner if it was inanely he wanted. He asked her how mach she had got. She gave him her • purse, which conained some gold and silver. Hearing a noise ontaids, the prisoner said he would let hew go if she kissed him which she refused to do. He took bold of live and kissed her and she then ran downstairs, and on finding all the doors locked broke • window with her hands. Prisoner then let Miss Jones out and ran out of the house. Miss Jones gave evidence showing that the prisoner treated her very oraelly, pulling some of her hair out, putting his hand over her mouth to stifle her cries, and knocking her head against the wall in the struggle. He leftlher with her hands tied locked in a closet, and said be MA going to Mr. Pound. She heard the straggle with Miss Hooper in the room overhead. Alfred Pearce potman at the Bering Hotel, said he met the young girl. about 50 yards from the house. They were in • very exhausted state; the elder one was bleeding freaky from the hand, and the younger one had kw hands tied together. The prisoner, it appeared, was punned by a labouring men named Brooker and caught after • mile's chase. Inspector Phillips said there was another sharge against the prisoner of • more anima nature. The magistrate remanded the prisoner, and reconamsmded that the prosecution 'Amid be undertaken by the Treasury.  The Cricklade magistrates have senteneed Joseph Robbins 50, labourer, of Somerfotd Keynes, to six months' Lard labour for a bentsl assault on his wife, whom he placed on the fire. Previous to the present wank it was stated that he had thrown a bucket of but water over her, scalding her chest and Nam In extenuation the prisoner pled that be had been drinking gin by the hall-pint.  A doctor hitched his horse on Adams avenue while he made a call at a Woodward avenue drug store. As he was concluding his errand there a boy about nine years old came in and said "Doctor, your horse is awfully skewed of lire crackers," "Well, I don't know." "Oh, I,m sure of iC" "How can you tell?" "Why, I threw one under his feet, and he broke the strap and ran away:"