The Sun. — 1830-03-30 (London, England)

HATTON.GARDEN.  Aggravated case of Rape—concluded from our Paper of yesterday.)  Thomas Drew, of Ro. 2, Skinner-street, Snow-hill, druggist, deposed, that on Thursday evening last he and two friends were sitting in the parlour of Cop-nhagenhouse. The prosecutrix and the prisoners were drinking there at the time. The conversation of the prisoners was exceedingly lewd and obscene, but the prosecutrix did not join in it, and seemed to take no notice. They left the house together about half-past seven o'clock, and one of the prisoners as they were going out called the prosecutrix his wife. In about five minutes after they were gone, witness and his friends heard the screams of a female in distress proceeding from the fields in front of the house. They threw up the window, and after the lapse of about five minutes more they distinctly heard two more screams much mere violent, and accompanied with cries of " murder !" The screams were repeated with redoubled violence, upon which the witness and his friends, guided by the waiter, went out, and proceeded in the direction whence ' the screams seemed to issue, which were by this time become much fainter. When they had got about a quarter of a mile across the fields from the house, they came up with the prisoners and the prosecutrix. Warren was then in the act of violating her, and the other two were stand ing at the distance of about twenty yards on a hedge. Witness and his friends rescued the prosecutrix, who, apparently from exhaustion, was scarcely able to stand. She could hardly speak, but sobbed violently. Her person was in a most disordered state, and her clothes hung about her in rags. She begged of them as well as she could articu late to save and protect her, and declared she had been used ill by all the three prisoners. Smith.and Myles came up, and blamed her for making so great a hubbub about nothing, and they wanted her to go away with them. Her manner appeared to be that of a person whose intellects were disordered, and she hardly knew what she said or did. Witness and his friends saw her home to her parents' house. Being fearful of an attack from the prisoners, they suffered them to go away. Mr. Metcalfe, of No. 12, Gray's-inn-square, solicitor, and Mr. Groom, the friends of the last witness, above alluded to, corroborated his evidence and identified the prisoners.  Mrs. Owen, mother of the prosecutrix, deposed that on the night in question her daughter communicated to her the nature of the violence offered by the prisoners, and complained that she was almost murdered. Witness examined her person and her clothes, and from the marks upon them, she was convinced that the offence had been perpetrated. George Dismore, police-constable, No. 93, letter G. division, deposed that he apprehended the prisoner Warren on Saturday night. The prisoner confessed the charge, and said it was the effects of drinking that brought him into the trouble.  Abraham Stanner, policeman, No. 226, G. division, apprehended Smith on Saturday night. Smith said to him, "If the woman speaks the truth, she'll hang me." The prisoners declined to say any thing in their defence, and one of them seeming to treat the matter lightly, Mr. LAING observed that he considered it his duty to tell them that they stood in an awkward situation, and that it behoved them to make the best use they could of their time. They were then removed from the bar. They stand committed for trial ; but as Mr. Dodd, the surgeon, was not present at the examination to give his evidence, they were ordered to be brought up again this day, to afford that gentleman an opportunity of stating the result of his examination of the prosecutrix.