Some history on Manchester in the county of Lancashire

Lancashire | Manchester

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"Thomas Ellis, 34, [could read and write imperfectly,] stood charged with having assaulted and ravished Mary Anne Wade, his step-daughter, 15 years-old, at Manchester. It was stated that the prisoner had been committed to the New Bailey for a previous attempt on the same girl. His Lordship observed that the law attached to the offence a certain penalty, which he had no power to alter, and sentenced the prisoner to transportation for life."
"Charge Of Rape"
Liverpool Standard And General Commercial Advertiser
April 1st 1845 Page 3

"At the Manchester City Police Court, yesterday, before Mr. F. J. Headlam, a man named James Irving was charged with indecently assaulting a little girl in Byrom Street, Manchester. The evidence showed that on the previous day the girl was sent for a pint of beer, and was accompanied by her sister. On her return she met the prisoner, who took her down a passage, and there committed the assault complained of. Her sister went to her assistance, and the prisoner then pulled her further down the passage. The Bench reduced the charge to one of common assault, and sentenced the prisoner to one month's hard labour."
"Alleged Indecent Assault"
Empire News & The Umpire : January 17th 1886 Page 5

"At the Salford Borough Police Court this morning, before Mr. J. Makinson [stipendiary] and other magistrates, a respectably-dressed, middle-aged man, named Robert Chadwick, who resides in Bradford Road, Manchester, was charged on remand with having committed an indecent assault on a young lady, named Ellen Rogers, of Cornbrook Street, Manchester, in a train on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. Mr. Hockin prosecuted on behalf of the railway company, and Mr. Cobbett defended. Mr. Davey watched the proceedings on behalf of the prosecutrix, who stated that on Sunday she travelled by the 7.15 p.m. train from Blackpool to Manchester. Prisoner entered the carriage, at Adlington, and on its arrival at Moses Gate a number of ladies who were in the compartment left it. Prisoner then commenced caressing witness's child. He afterwards sat opposite to her [witness], and placing his hand in her lap took hold of her hand and squeezed it. She was alarmed, and calling him a "beastly man" moved away from him. Not wishing him to see that she was alarmed, she afterwards asked him to close the window. He continued to talk to her, but she was too excited to remember what he said. As the train was easing up at Pendleton Station she resolved to change her carriage, and jumped on to the seat in order to remove her luggage from the rack. It was then that the assault was committed. The train was on the point of stopping and she left the carriage and complained to a porter. Prisoner was arrested and taken to a police station in Manchester, where she told him that if he would apologise she would not proceed against him. He refused to apologise. Mr. Hockin : - I believe you have been through the ceremony of marriage with a gentleman but were afterwards informed that it was not legal? Witness : - Yes. - And he was the father of both your children? Witness : - Yes. - lnspector Magee said that when prisoner was charged he said that the story was a pack of lies; He had only spoken to her when she asked him to close the window. He now pleaded not guilty and was committed to the sessions, bail being allowed."
"The Alleged Indecent Assault In A Railway Carriage"
Manchester Evening News : July 30th 1890 Page 2