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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    1» c and fold by W. Egelfham, at the corner of Ivy- lane in Pater-nofter-row, there is contained an advertifement in the faid order particularly fpeci- fied, and to the effeCt herein before fet forth. And the preparing and printing the faid adver- tifements relating to a profecution for felony de¬ pending before this court, and endeavouring un¬ der the fame to obtain donations for carrying on fuch profecution, being a contempt of this court, and having a manifeft tendency to the perverfion of public juftice, it is therefore ordered by this court, that the printer of the faid papers do per- fonally attend this court to-morrow morning at ten o’clock, to {hew caufe why he (hould not be proceeded againft for the aforefaid contempt and mifdemeanor. By the Court. On Thurfday morning the 21ft day of this in- ftant April, the faid Wells Egelfham, the printer of the faid papers, in obedience to the faid order, appeared here in court, and being publicly exa¬ mined, owned that he was the printer of the daily paper called the Public Advertifer,and had print¬ ed the faid advertisements herein before fet forth in the faid Public Advertifer of Monday andTuef- day laft, and exprefled great forrow for what he had fo done, and alledged in excufe for the fame, that he had done it thro’ inadvertence, and figni- fted to the court his readinefs todifcover thofe who had drawn him in to print and publifh the fame, and having produced to the court the original draught of the advertifements brought to him to be inferted in the faid daily papers, and alledging that he had made enquiry at thehoufeof the faid John Frip, whom he well knew, to find out who was the author of the faid advertifements, and that he underftood upon fuchenquiry one Terence Shortney, in Chapel-ftreet, Weftminfter, the huf- ba*d of the woman mentioned in the faid adver¬ tifements, was the author thereof, and had brought the fame to the faid W. Egelfham to be printed, the court took the matter fo offered by him into consideration, and in regard the trial, to which the faid advertifements related, was appointed to come on in this court on Saturday the 23d day of this inftant April, directed the faid Mr. Egelfham to attend here again that day at ten o’clock in the forenoon, and afterwards made an order to the effect following. 3 ] London and Middlefex. At the General Seflions of Gaol Delivery of Newgate, holden for the City of London and County of Middlefex, at Juftice-Hall, in the Old- Bailey, on Thurfday the 21ft Day of April, 17 57, before the Right Hon. Marfhe Dickinfon, Efq; Mayor of the City of London ; the Right Hon. WilliamLord Mansfield,Chief J uftice of the Court of King’s-Bench; Sir Edward Clive, Knt. one of the Juftices of the Court of Common-Pleas; the Hon. Heneage Legge, Efq; one of the Baronsnof the Exchequer; and others his Majefty’s Juftices of Gaol Delivery for the faid City and County of Middlefex. It is ordered by this court, that John Frip and Terence Shortney do personally attend this court on Saturday next, at 1 o o’clock in the forenoon, to anfwer all fuch matters and things as {hall then and there be objected againft them, for a certain con¬ tempt and mifdemeanor, in caufing an advertife¬ ment to be inferted in the Public Advertifer of Monday the 18th, andTuefday the 19th of April, for the railing of public donations for the carrying on of a profecution depending before this court for felony; and for endeavouring to create public prejudice againft the perfon charged in fuch ad¬ vertifements as the offender, and who was to be tried in this court on an indictment found againft him, to the manifeft perverfion of public juftice. By the Court. The court on Saturday morning the faid 23d day of April, 1757, proceeded to the trial of James Morris, the perfon charged in the faid 'advertife¬ ments as the aggreftor, and who was indi&ed by the name of 3|tlttI£Cr 9^0gent, otherwife gioljn, otherwife3)ofCpl3,otherwife called Capt. £@0?n$> for that he, on the 15th day of June, 1756, aftaulted Mary the wife of Terence Short¬ ney, and by force and againft her will feloniouhy committed a rape on, and had carnal knowledge of, her body. Mary Shortney being fworn depcfed,Tha.t on the loth of June, in the year 1756, {he had been to Clifford-ftreet, to wait upon a very good friend of her hufband’s and hers, to folicit his favour on her hufband’s behalf, where fne met with great difap- pointment, and in coming back from thence fhe fat herfelf down as much diftrefied, in one of the chairs in the Green-park, to reft herfelf. Mr.Mor-