JUIN 23 Jahn Eilem, n considerable rope manufacturer, at Barking in Essex, wsss indicted fur , elonionsly ravishing Anne Pearson, on the 124th day o f M rch cnse lusted several hours, and excited considers i.,ftrest atusx,g the inhabitants of the neighbourlmod of Harking. Cenwoon. who conducted ,the case of the prosecuton, stated, that this was a ease of twist serious import to 111,e prisoner, as it touched berth his lite and character; %vas a respectable tradesman, a married ',cot, and tha accuser 'sass is servant at the time of the fact tilled Led. Voit be did net mention these circumstances as miters to prejudice the •tds of the Jury. for he held it unfit in a criminal proecution, to ad a single ob•ereation to the passions. They would confine them m the consideration of the simple fact charged upon the priionet s at dcnvA. e, er No. was he guilty of that tact. if, upon entisidemion, ti l e) , should think .1 ty, they souls! say so; and his Lordship, Mho ss , ls the voice of th;Jsw, would pronounce that judeenieut which, the I le: had decreed as the penalty for the otfence. The facts airy hod hest hear from herself, and he had not the least doubt they would Bice them the attention they merited, and conic to the proper eons clasion• Ance Pearson, the proseentlix, stated, that she was of the age of 14 Jut Christmas. In Mirch last she lived servant with the prisoder, elm was n rope maker at Barking, in Essex. On the 24th day of March her master, his wife, and the servant bey went out to go to London, hilt the prisoner returned in about half an hour, it was about sis o'clock ; he asted her if the kettle boiled ; and told her to get the tea things; there was no person in the house bikt themselves ; having placed the ten things, he desired her to go up stairs and fetch his pceket•hook from his breeches pocket ; she went, but did not find it ; she called down stairs to say it was not there; he again called .up tp lopli into his waistcoat pocket ; she did. it was tot there; she told him so, sad he desired her to look into his jacket pocket, it was not there; she then heard him scow-lag up stairs, and she, having a suspicion a his intention to take improper liberties with her, shut the door and locked ke knocked At the ,door and desired her to ripen it ; she refused, un esit be would go dowA stairs ; he said it she did not open the door, lie would break it open, ridding, what the hhell do you think I want with you ! she thin opened the door ; he imke,diately caught her round the' waist, and dnew her upon the bed ; she gut up DYW, and h :d reached (lie door, but he again caught her and accomplished his purpose; he 114 en went down stairs, and she followed in about two minutes; he walked about the mum whistliee; she left the hence in leis than hell an hour. and went to her mother's; on her way she met a young friend, seho asked .her what she was crying aboet ? She said her master had behaved rude to her ; she told her mother the same, but did not then tc:l her the whole. Her friend came in shortly afterwards, and she toed her the particulars, de,iring that she would tell her mother, as she did not like ;o .do it herself. In the evening whop she went to bed, she dinlosed the whale to her mother ; who (on the aio.n.day), this being, 6,)0cl Friday, sent for tAIr. Desormeaux, the Doctor. She was subjected to a .very severe cross-examination by the CPst mos( Sent EA NT. She said she could not have been heard to cry out ; sine could not get to the window ; she denied hewing had any loose miversation with a miikman on that same day ; she knew a Mr. S-nith. a Doctor, ut Barking, hot she bad never applierl to him for and medicines, or had ever spoken to him: she said she had c irtied a waistcoat of her master's to the mangler's alter tkis had happened, and explained it by stating, that when she went away she took a kundld of her dirty clothes with her, amongst thorn, by mistake, was a waistcoat of her master's, which, discovering the same evening, she took it im rre,dattly to the washerwoman's; but she denied that ,she had any girl with her, or went in a gigging laughing manner. Het Mother—Ur. Desormeacx and Caroline Walker were called, ter n confirmed -her statement as to her immediate disclosure of the Buts, except that Mr. p,sormeaux said, that in stating the mode of perpetrators, she bad described it differently with respect to confining lii r hands. 1 he pri.oner being called cn fcr biy de(^nce. said he left it to dos Thee called witnesses to 'hew a contradiction in parts of her IP $t ;he washerwomin'a girl said, that,wile” she brought the waistcoat, she had another lir) with t'ei, and that she came in a laughing manner, as though nothini , had happened ; hut the principal wituess was Piclood Laker Sioith, who described himself v. a surgeon and apothe cary, riw, tesidi, uat Ilford, then at 13arkirg. lie said the girl came ICI hi , house about tun &chick id the night of the I,t of April. When h e opened the door, he supposed she held come about theyenercal, and he asked her if it was o. She said no ; hot some Sound; nunn had been trias with tier, ond she "Tapia sortie rhystc. 4 was ~':,+. • Il~(` "~ 'IQ4I PROVINCIALS. F.0,'4 ASSIZES. CHELMSFVRI), FRIDAY, JuLy 14. 47f TIM NATIONAL REGISTER. with her, wrapped in a ltd cloak. Ile told her to pinta in the morning, jle was sure it was her, ai he knew her and her faintly.--flpon cross: examination, he proved a iito.t ignorant WWI, sD 4.1P1al au, that h 8 spelt Dropsy Divorce, and fiittilafesterly. He insisted however, that he was a regular bred Jurdical Mall, and hind aetterul patients ep.vi it,itking alone, and prgduced a certificate, which, upon epsiiiipption. proved to be a certificate written by biunieJf. The girl was confronted with tutu, and most solemnly CiPnicri rFel having spoken to him. Ile named also the mottles brother as his patient. Lie happope4 4,9 be in Court, and denied the tact. The witneso sttjd, If out glum Alp hid had his wife tinder his care." ills Lordship expressed great indignation at the conduct pi thjg witness. . _ Ti►e foreman of the prisoner was called to prose a conversation bp_ twee}► the girl And a milkman on the day of the transaction, whirl► 115 deiced. 11,c said two oilier persons heard it, but they weps uut pre : sell% The Noble and Learned Judge having detailed all the pridence (19 both aid, s, the Jury, after a very 311urt deliberation, knead tje prisons er— Guilty ilk Lordship immediately pronounced sentence of death up.lu bid and inqupited thin be should leave him to suffer the peuaJty ui Lb! )43,4 KENT ASSIZES. tinsToNE, Jct.) , !O.—Charles Rose was indicted for the yaij ful murder of gobert Clarion. py throwing him overboord trorn ~jrave'end boat, in the Galleon* reach, on the Pat of 41 011 T. Sparrow, the master of the Gravesend boat, said, Ihat )(e stoner came on board the host ns a passenger, and the deceased wee also a passenger. They left Gray.esplui P little after loth , night, on the last day of Vehrilary. The twisoner and the derease4 did not seem to be acquaintances. Soon after they gator pn hoard. they went below, wheal flit company began singing. The liteease4 was a little hunkped•back man, and 1, sort of sparring emoted the: twe,en him and the prisoner. He thought it was at first a joke, The little man was very good humoured, and bore the prisoner's taunts upon his person without any ill tcpper ; hart Rang sem,' lively songs for the c.ompar.y. The prisoner told liim several filltr4l9 hold his tongue, and threatened that he would pot him op the Are., throw 11;in overboard, Sic. When they arrived aI b ahoe's Amu* • I the prisoner and the deceased walked fury and as far as the running tackle, when the prisoner gave the deceased a whirl, and a boa ty, lug on the drels. he struck it, and fell overbOasl. rfhe prisoner is,o s mediately said " he is gone overboard,* to whirl, the witness replica', /t yes, yon rascal, No you have done it." All the persona in the vessel camp Tumid the prisoner, ,and &A) be ought to by I.OW jut* custody, Ware Spankhurst, a waterman, who was at the brim, slid, the p 4: seiner and Mc ,degeased eatne on board at ravesend as pasiiengekli, that they drank a bottle of porter together, hat nobody seeme4 drunk. They went down below, when they began singing ; the little fellow sang several comic songs, and }etas in very good ha n som. prisoner did not seem in such good Ininiour, but he :,bused tl,e link man la great deal, mid said he was a Birmingham niao, ntastat of otitis i and ends of men. The tittle man replied, that articles of great velae were packed in a small compass; that ill weeds grew apace, ah.c, Before that the prisoner had proposed to the deceased to jump over, board for a wager. * The witc.e.,s, thinking it a jpke , said, " Bet him. any Lord ; jump with him for a glass aaf gin, and give him the first jienp.'"rhey then went down below. When the vessel inrive4 at Galleon's IZeaclt, the little man came up and helped the weilse4s to haul the main sheet aft. The prisoner and the deceased theta ' walked forwards; the prisoner hail hold of the deceased, and when they were opposite to the mooing tackle. gave him a whirl, and the deceased went overboard. lit fell into the watt; abort foot feet from the side of the vessel. It was impossible to sase him. Eldwell, a pilot gave the same account of the qua. red helOW deck, and stated that the prisoner, att , oioot Other things, said to the deceased "you shall never reach Woolwich; I will throw yon overboard info; l yoi get there." lie was asleep whin the accident happened, hut was awaked by tire bustle. The pi isonei fell (fowl his J.:lmeg, and said lie did not do it. and bow d they wool(' torgite h,m. The vvitnesa, however, when they wised at Ilittek, wal!, I ailed the police boat, and delivered him into custody, The body was found on the I lth of Apr il. Several witrw,ses whin gave the piislailtr a rem' charact-r for humanity. They stated hint to be a journey suau Ores. CIICA maker At Gras esend: The Learned Judge, m slimming up to the Jury, said, they would consider whether the pr'soner intended to throw the deceased over. Pu4;:.l, it! t% hid! C.Olll it 1401)J tic nitirdes i giltetleer jt was meroly a MIN I. 4. .•.