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From the Carlisle Journal / Saturday 22 Jul 1815 - Yorkshire Assizes
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Guilty—Death.—George WHITE, aged 50, of Snainton; Mark BRAMAH, aged 21, of Sheffield, tailor; Benj. HORNIBLOWER, aged 17, of Tinsley Park, near Rotherham—for rapes committed on children under 10 years of age. John HOGGARD, aged 23, for stealing and killing a sheep at Scampston. Joseph DILWORTH, of Ovendon, for stealing money from a dwelling-house at that place.
To be transported for seven years.—Elijah CHATHAM, charged with stealing a piece of woollen cord at Rastwick.
To be imprisoned 18 months.—Peter ADAMS, late of Edinburhg [sic], charged with stealing two silk handkerchiefs at Whitby.
To be imprisoned 12 months.—James HAMILTON, charged with stealing a great coat at Lockton. Henry PONSONBY, of Southwark, mariner, charged with robbing his master's house at Huntington, and a house at Claxton. Matthew SPENCER, of Liversedge, and Richard MORTON, of Heckmondwicke, clothiers, charged with stealing wool.
To be imprisoned 6 months.—Mary WARING, of York, for bigamy.
Fined 1s.—John BOUDLING, of Ecclesfield, for manslaughter.
Six persons were acquitted.
In passing sentence on the three prisoners convicted of violating the persons of female children under ten years of age, Baron RICKARDS observed, that no language, at least none he could now command, was sufficient to describe the enormity of the offence of which they had been convicted, upon evidence which could leave no doubt in the minds of those who heard it;—that it was justly punished by the law with death, and if it had not, it would have been the wish of every man possessing the least spark of humanity, that it should; for it was unmanly, and worse than the conduct of the most savage beasts, instead of protecting, as men were intended by Providence to do, the female sex, to plunge innocent children of that sex into misery for life, to destroy their chastity, and root out from their minds every moral and religious principle.—His Lordship also observed, that if there was such an idea, as for the first time he had heard there was, that such a violation would tend to cure a disease some of the prisoners had brought upon themselves by their own vices, it was utterly false, and in the opinion of the surgeons who had been examined, could not diminish, but would grossly increase the effects of that disorder.
Reproduced with kind permission of British Newspaper Archives
YORKSHIRE ASSIZES.
Guilty—Death.—George WHITE, aged 50, of Snainton; Mark BRAMAH, aged 21, of Sheffield, tailor; Benj. HORNIBLOWER, aged 17, of Tinsley Park, near Rotherham—for rapes committed on children under 10 years of age. John HOGGARD, aged 23, for stealing and killing a sheep at Scampston. Joseph DILWORTH, of Ovendon, for stealing money from a dwelling-house at that place.
To be transported for seven years.—Elijah CHATHAM, charged with stealing a piece of woollen cord at Rastwick.
To be imprisoned 18 months.—Peter ADAMS, late of Edinburhg [sic], charged with stealing two silk handkerchiefs at Whitby.
To be imprisoned 12 months.—James HAMILTON, charged with stealing a great coat at Lockton. Henry PONSONBY, of Southwark, mariner, charged with robbing his master's house at Huntington, and a house at Claxton. Matthew SPENCER, of Liversedge, and Richard MORTON, of Heckmondwicke, clothiers, charged with stealing wool.
To be imprisoned 6 months.—Mary WARING, of York, for bigamy.
Fined 1s.—John BOUDLING, of Ecclesfield, for manslaughter.
Six persons were acquitted.
In passing sentence on the three prisoners convicted of violating the persons of female children under ten years of age, Baron RICKARDS observed, that no language, at least none he could now command, was sufficient to describe the enormity of the offence of which they had been convicted, upon evidence which could leave no doubt in the minds of those who heard it;—that it was justly punished by the law with death, and if it had not, it would have been the wish of every man possessing the least spark of humanity, that it should; for it was unmanly, and worse than the conduct of the most savage beasts, instead of protecting, as men were intended by Providence to do, the female sex, to plunge innocent children of that sex into misery for life, to destroy their chastity, and root out from their minds every moral and religious principle.—His Lordship also observed, that if there was such an idea, as for the first time he had heard there was, that such a violation would tend to cure a disease some of the prisoners had brought upon themselves by their own vices, it was utterly false, and in the opinion of the surgeons who had been examined, could not diminish, but would grossly increase the effects of that disorder.
Reproduced with kind permission of British Newspaper Archives