 Having been paid to deliver a message, Mary Neal claimed she was bundled into a brothel and there assaulted throughout the night by Luttrell.The keeper of the house, Maria Llewellyn, was charged in a case marked by accusations of witness tampering, the death in prison of Amy's mother and new-born baby sister and by the insinuation that Amy was already working as a prostitute.The affair became a "cause célèbre" with the public intervention of Archibald Hamilton Rowan (later United Irishman).