March 12th 1870. Novel Case of Abduction. At the Tipperary Petty Sessions, on the 4th inst., a man named Timothy Donovan, residing at Cullen, was charged with attempting to abduct or carry away by main force a young woman of prepossessing appearance, named Catherine Humphries, Kilkoran, on the evening of Sunday, the 26th ult. A man named Kendal O'Brien was charged with aiding and abetting in the commission of the offence, but the name of the third party, for whom the "prize" was intended, did not turn up during the trial. The evidence of the young woman was to the effect that on the day in question, on coming out of a neighbouring house, after her parents, from whose tender care she was well-nigh being rudely snatched away and going to miss. Donovan, the principal defendant, accosted her on the road, and immediately afterwards took her up in his arms, and attempted to carry her away with force. A short distance up the road she observed a covered car, and Kendal O'Brien beside it on a bay steed of presumably swift qualities. Not wishing to have her hand and heart, and further--what was thought to be the real cause of obtaining for her such rough attention--her fortune disposed of in this summary manner, she screamed out in a way that only young women under such circumstances will scream, and soon gave her Lothario (by proxy) to understand that he had caught a Tartar. During the scuffle that ensued she boxed his ears soundly, and she used a key which she held in her hand with such effect on her assailant's head and face that after a time he was glad to relinquish his rash project and beat a hasty retreat. The Bench on hearing the evidence, sentenced Donovan to one month in prison. The case against O'Brien was dismissed.