CHARGE OF CRIMINAL ASSAULT.

At Cleator Moor Police Court on Friday, Shapurji BHABAHA, M. D., Cleator Moor, was charged with indecently assaulting Mary DALEY, 15 years of age, daughter of Patrick DALEY, miner, Park-side, Frizington, on the 3rd March last. Mr. ATTER prosecuted and Mr. WEBSTER appeared for the defendant. The Court House was cleared, but the public crowded outside.

Mary DALEY, the prosecutrix, said that she had been working at Mr. AINSWORTH's mills for some seven or eight months. The defendant is an assistant to Dr. EATON, Cleator Moor. About two months ago, in consequence of a complaint from which she was suffering, she was examined by the defendant, who gave her some medicine in a bottle. The bottle had been emptied on the 3rd instant, the day on which the offence was been (?) committed, and she went to Dr. EATON's surgery for the purpose of consulting the defendant. She saw the defendant and said she had come to get the bottle renewed. Two men were waiting to see him in an adjoining building, and he told her to go out and take a walk until he had got them served.

After she came back, he placed her on a chair and, having previously bolted the door and drawn the curtains of the glass part of the door, committed the offence with which he was charged. She succeeded in unbolting the door and getting out. Her clothes were disordered. She complained to her mother of what had been done. The defendant afterwards drove to the house and a "fratch" took place between the mother and him.

Evidence having been given as to the state the girl was in when she left the defendant's surgery, and as to her complaining of the assault.

Mr. WEBSTER addressed the Bench for the defendant. He said the defendant had been in this country for five or six years. He was a native of India, a Parsee, and was of good family, who held a position in the land from which he came. In the year 1872 or 1873 he was converted to Christianity, disregarding his family claims for conscience sake; and he came to this country intending to be educated for the Church. He took the degree M. D. at the University of Glasgow. He had also been licensed in Divinity by the Free Church of Scotland.

On the 3rd March, when the girl came to the surgery, he had forgotten that he had prescribed for her previously and he asked the nature of her complaint. She said Irregularity. He thought it was a case of pregnancy and examined her as medical gentlemen generally do in such cases. The girl did not cry for assistance, otherwise she would have been heard.

Evidence having been called as to the good character which the defendant had borne, and in support of the statement with regard to the course usually observed by doctors when their advice is asked under certain circumstances by females, the Bench committed the defendant to take his trial at the ensuing Quarter Sessions at Carlisle. The defendant was admitted to bail, himself in £100, and one surety of £100. Dr. EATON became bail.

On leaving the Court house, the defendant was hissed. He was accompanied by a number of gentlemen, and about a half dozen policemen to the residence of Dr. EATON.

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