Select proceedings at the Old-Bailey ... Containing the trials at large of I. Captain Morris, for a rape on the body of Mary Shortney. II. Miss Hannah Philips, a young lady, for shop-lifting. III. William Adams, for defrauding His Majesty / [James Morris].

  • Morris, James.
Date:
1757
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Credit: Select proceedings at the Old-Bailey ... Containing the trials at large of I. Captain Morris, for a rape on the body of Mary Shortney. II. Miss Hannah Philips, a young lady, for shop-lifting. III. William Adams, for defrauding His Majesty / [James Morris]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [8] Anfwer. Upon my word I can’t pofitively fay how many times. I faw him two or three times. I't was three times, and he propofed every time .what he would do, and beg’d*that I would not di¬ vulge any thing. Q. What were the favours he had done you? Anfwer. He gave me a moidore, and like wife went to the duke of Grafton to fpeak in the be¬ half of my hufband, as he told me, and found my hufband upon the lift for a meflenger, and recom¬ mended him alfo to the duke. Qj. When did you make the firft difcovery of this to a magiftrate ? Anfwer; It was in September. Ch Where? Anfwer. At Hicks’s-Hall, where the indict¬ ment was found againft the prifoner, and I had a warrant granted on it afterwards againft him. Q. Was there no propofal ever made from you or your hufband to the prifoner, to make it up ? Anfwer. No, never, no fuch thing. Q; G ive an account of all the times you was with him. Anfwer. I was with him on the ioth of June, the 15th, and I believe three times afterwards. Q^from prifoner. W hat time of the day was I with you at Marybone? Anfwer. I met you at five in the evening in the Park, and we were at Marybone between fix and feven, on the 15th. Q. from prifoner. How long did weftay there? Anfwer. That I can't pofitively fay • I was in too great a confufion to obferve the time. I had no watch or clock. In what room were you there ? Anfwer. In a one pair of ftairs room back¬ wards out into the garden. Q. • Who did you fee going up-ftairs into the room ? Anfwer. I faw nobody but a fervant that fqxv’d us there. When we got into the room I faw a woman, but nobody but a fervant came nigh me. Q. How many chairs was this injury done to you on? Anfwer• I don’t know, neither can I fay in what manner they were placed. Qi What was'you doing at the time he placed the chairs ? Anfwer. I was gafping for breath. I did not fee hnn take the chairs, for my back was to¬ wards him. Q. Did you, at that time, when you found the door faft and flew to the window, make any out¬ cry in order for afiiftance? Anfwer. 1 call’d out, knock’d feveral times with my heel, and lamented and cried, but nobody came. I cried very much, that they might have heard me the whole houfe over. Q. Who was the reckoning paid to ? Anfwer. Nobody came into the room to re¬ ceive the reckoning. Q. Who paid the reckoning ? Anfwer. I don’t know. Qi Who did you fee in the houfe ? Anfwer. I faw nobody but a girl at going out. Cb How old might fhe appear to be ? Anfwer. She was a woman grown. She can fwear fhe faw me there, but I can’t find her. Qi Did you make any complaints of the in¬ jury you had received, to any there? Anfwer. No. Qi Did you to the coachman ? Anfwer. No. Qi Whether or no you have made it a cuftom to follicit people in the Park about charity? Anfwer. No, I never did. Q. Did not you afk the prifoner for charity ? Anfuer. No. Q. from prifoner. Give an account of the in¬ jury you received ; you are a married woman, and can very well do it. * , Council for the prifoner. In what fituation did you find him ? Anfwer. I found him in my body. Qi Did you perceive any thing come from him ? Anfwer. I found him difeharge nature in my body. Qi How long ago is it that you had notice of his furrendering, and taking his trial at this fef- fions ? Anfwer. Laft Thurfday was fe’nnight. Qi Where is the girl you fay you faw at Mary¬ bone ? Anfwer. She is gone to another place, and they will not inform me where. Terence Shortney, the hufband of the faid Mary Shortney, being fwern faid, That all the nine letters, as were produced, were every one of them originally wrote by him before he knew any thing of the fa£l, with which the prifoner now ftands