The Trial and Conviction of John Church: The Preacher of the Surrey Tabernacle, Borough Road, at the Surrey Assizes, at Croydon, on Saturday, the 16th of August, 1817, for an Assault With Intent to Commit an Unnatural Crime. — John Shaqi
The Trial and Conviction of John Church: The Preacher of the Surrey Tabernacle, Borough Road, at the Surrey Assizes, at Croydon, on Saturday, the 16th of August, 1817, for an Assault With Intent to Commit an Unnatural Crime.Anonymous
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The Trial and Conviction of John Church: The Preacher of the Surrey Tabernacle, Borough Road, at the Surrey Assizes, at Croydon, on Saturday, the 16th of August, 1817, for an Assault With Intent to Commit an Unnatural Crime.
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Church, J. (John), approximately 1780-approximately 1825 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Sodomy) -- England
Did you not look at the door of Mr. Church and that of your
mistress?—Yes; but we did not open them.
I suppose therefore they were both of them shut?—Yes.
Did you find any door open?—No.
You looked at all the doors in the house and found them all shut?—Yes;
the servant’s door was on the jar.
You mean the maid servant’s door?—Yes.
The other doors of the house were all shut?—All the other doors were
shut.
And after you and he searched the house all over, you went to bed and he
went back to the pottery?—No; he stopped while I put on the remainder of
my clothes, and I went back with him to the pottery, after having locked
the door.
You went with him to the pottery?—Yes.
And you say that you told West this story directly?—Yes, I told him that
Mr. Church came down into my room and behaved in a very indecent manner.
You told him, I take for granted, that Church had been there, and laid
hold of your private parts?—Yes.
You told him that Mr. Church had laid hold of your private parts?—Yes.
How came that to be a reason for you and be searching the house for
thieves?—I did not search the house for thieves in particular; but to
search if any body was in any of the rooms.
But I asked you before whether you did not search the house for thieves;
and you answered “Yes.”—Are you right or wrong in that?—I asked you
before whether you and he did not search the house for thieves, and you
told me that you did?—We searched the house: we looked all over it, to
see if there was any body in any of the rooms.
And therefore I asked you expressly whether you and he did not search the
house for thieves? and did you not say expressly that you and he had
searched the house for thieves?—We searched the house; but not for
thieves in particular.
Then you did not think of thieves?—I did not think of thieves, because I
knew who it was.
You did not go into the maid servant’s room?—No, we looked in.
You did not go in?—No; we found the door open, and looked in.
They were, of course, in bed?—Yes; one was my sister.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH.—Did the two maids sleep in that room?—Yes, my Lord;
one is my sister.
Mr. GURNEY.—The door being ajar, you pushed it in a little, and you saw
they were abed?—Yes.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH.—Did you speak to them?—No.
_Re-examined by_ Mr. BOLLARD.
You say you did not search the house for thieves?—No; not for thieves.
Because you knew who the person was?—Yes.
Was the reason of your searching the house because you wished to be quite
right before you made the accusation against Mr. Church?—Yes.
And you found that there was no other man in the house?—We found there
was no other man in the house but Mr. Church.
Was there any door or window open at which any other man could have come
in?—No.
Now this light from the terrace, did that strike through the fan-light or
window over the door?—Yes.
Does it give a pretty fair light to the hall?—Yes; it shews a little
light up the stairs.
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