The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1866-11-10 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

ANOTHER RAPE CASE AT BOLTON.—Bolton, where the recent outrage on a lady was perpetrated, has been the scene of a more heinous offence of the same cl-aracter. On Monday a man named Peter Howcroft, of notoriously bad character, was charged before the borough magistrates of that town with committing a rape upon Jane Wood, only 16 years of age, a factory operative, residing at Bedford, near Leigh, a few miles from Bolton. On the 26th ult., she came from Leigh to Bolton to look for work, walking about eight miles, and reached the tOwn About ten o'clock in the forenoon. She made enquiries as to employment, and at twelve at noon was going np Derby-street, leaving Bolton and going back to Leigh. She saw a number of men in the employ of the Corporation repairing the road, amongst whom was the prisoner, and they were leaving off work for dinner. The prisoner accosted the girl and said, "Have you been seeking work," and she told him she had. He then made other inquiries as to her age, where she came from, and whether she was not tired. He then said, "I dare say you are hungry, if you will come to our house I will give you something to eat." The girl accepted the proffered kindness, and she went with him along several back streets. He then asked her to wait in the street a few moments, and he would take her to his mother's Prisoner went home, got his dinner hastily, and brought out of the house some bacon and bread. In about five minutes he came back to the girl, who unsuspectingly went with him, as he said, towards his mother's house. He took her up a lane outside the town, and at a quiet place he gave her the 'oread and bacon out of his pocket, and she sat down on the grass to eat it. Whilst so engaged the villain seized hold of the girl and threw her down on the ground. She screamed and struggled as best she could, when he put his hand on her mouth and eventually committed the offence. The girl cried bitterly, and then he tried to coax her by giving her some money. She afterwards went to the police office and gave information of the occurrence. The prisoner went to his work, but finding that the thing was known he changed his clothes, shaved his moustache, and left the town, and was not apprehended until Friday last, when a policeman found him at St. Helens. He had previously- been sent to prison for an indecent assault, aud was now committed to the next Manchester assizes for trial. Patent Medicines, the largest Stock in Barrow, at E. 4.1i802,1'5, Chemist, Hindpool-road.  1:6  The German lady who committed suicide in. London on;Sunday by jumping from her bedroom window was the wife of Mr. Hermann Maurice Schwabe, a member of the stock exchange. She was deranged. It has been resolved to spend £15,000 in erecting a new wing to the Derbyshire General Infirmary. It is to be called the "Nightingale wing," in honour of the lady who has indeed been a ministering angel. The death of the Marquis of Waterford is announced. The deceased was the fourth in, heritor of the title, and had .borne it since 1859, when he succeeded his brother' the famous sportsman, who met death in the hunting field. The:Marquis, just dead,,was in his 56th year. .wri