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The Daily Dispatch: February 13, 1865., [Electronic resource], One hundred Dollars reward. (search)
for examination before the Hustings Court. The continued case of Peter V. Mervin and Hampton Allen, charged with committing a rape upon the person of Mrs. Henrietta Vance, was taken up and disposed of. Mrs. Vance's evidence was to the effect that Allen, with whom she was acquainted, came to her house on the evening of the ocMrs. Vance's evidence was to the effect that Allen, with whom she was acquainted, came to her house on the evening of the occurrence in company with Mervin, whom she did not know; that Mervin seized her and threw her upon the stairs, and there committed the outrage upon her person, holding his hand over her mouth in order to silence her cries.--Dr. Thomas Pollard testified that, upon an examination of the person of the plaintiff, he found her very much, and had evident marks of having been the victim, by force of violence, of the deed alleged to have been committed.--For the defence, a lady, whose store is under Vance's residence, stated that, although in her store at the time, she heard no evidence of a noise or struggle overhead when the affair is said to have been perpetrated