State v. Burns

The prosecuting witness is a deaf-mute twenty-four ■years old, and the defendant a youth of twenty-one summers. According to her story, she had met Burns some five years prior to her alleged seduction, and in June, 1896. In December of that .year he was twice in the restaurant where she was working, and ■on on© of these occasions she claims he asked her if he could .go with her to her room, and said that if she would let him have what he wanted he would marry her; that she consented, and they had sexual intercourse. Prior to that time he had never waited on her, nor was evidence offered…