Finally His Honor acceded to the request and allowed Charles Parker to be tried alone, the other two prisoners being removed from the Court. The following jury was then em panelled Messrs A. Targnso (fore man), G. Wade, W. Ooltman, 8. W. Armstrong, J. Bowbotbsm, W. H. Fletcher, J, McCollogh, J, Tail, J. Allen, J. Vickers, T, ITalvey, W. O'Driscoll. Mr White opened the case for the prosecution, and put in a written state ment of Charles Parker,which proved the arrangement, by which the assault was committed, which was in brief that Charles Parker, objecting to the mar riage of his brother and the girl, offered to test her fidelity, while the other two should secretly observe the test. He then called

Jane Fleming Dines, the prosecutrix, who lived with her mother and her step father, William Close, at Fairlie Creek. She recapitulated the evidence given by her in the lower Coart.
