The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-11-06 00:00:00

THE ROBBERY OF £1,900 FROM A NOTTINGHAM

BOOKMAKER.

NurriNotiAll, Monday, Oct. 29.

Mr. Nichols, of this town, who had been garotted at
Newmarket and robbed of nearly I:3,000 on the pre-
vious Friday, arrived in Nottingham. A brief outline
of the affair has already appeared. partly incorrect.
Nichols, however, gives the following version of the
rubbery :--On Friday night lie went to an establish-
ment in one of the main thoroughfares of Newmsrket
where spurting men are in the habit of assembling
during the rave meetings at that town, and wrote a letter
for transmission by that evening's post to Nottingham.
Ile then left the house and proceeded to the back of the
premises, when he felt himself suddenly grasped tightly
by the neck from behind, and in such a manner as to
deprive him of all power of resistance, and, indeed, of -
capacity to give an alarm. At the same instant he maw
• little man come in front of I , and heard-a voice
say "Open his waistcoat." Ile then became
intensible, and was unconscious of anything for
moose time. On recovering be found himself lying upon
the ground with his clothes disarranged, and 011 search-
ing his pockets he discovered that he had been ribbed of
his watch and the whole of his money (with the excep-
tion of 2d.) amounting to £1,840 Is. lid. in hank notes,
gold, and silver, and a cheque on Messrs. Moore and
Itoliinson's bank for £iso. No trace whatever of the
thieves could be found. It was ascertained that two
men had, by the means of a ladder, passed over a wall
near the scene of the rubbery, and thence made their
escape through a house, one of the inmates of which
observed two fellows, one dnaised in dark clothes, the
other in light, hurry through the passage. The greatest
sympathy ass expressed tiwards the victim of this
flagrant outrage. and Mr. l'ayne, one of the leading men
of the turf, offered ill larml a subscription with the aunt
of 00 to reimburse Nichols for his loss ; several other
members of the ring also expressed their willingness to
follow this example. It is satisfactory to mild that as
far as personal injuries are concerned, the report in the
Illanclaw.ter paper is exaggerated. Nichols has austained
no material injury from the ill-treattuent he received ;
none of his ribs are broken, nor is he in any
way maimed or rendered incapable of per-
suing his ordinary avocations. His pecuniary loss will,
it it to be bored, be considerable u nder any circumatanovs.
Only one or two of the bank note* in his possession can
he identified. the numbers of the great bulk of them,
which we believe he drew from Messrs. Moore and Itobin-
sotis hank previous to his departure from Newmarket,
not beirg known. The cheque for OW will, of courae,
be unavailahle to the thieves, a. payment of it has been
stopped. It is perhaps due to Nichols to state that,
severe as bia loss has been, he is, we undenidand, quite
aide to meet all his engagetnents. His heaviest losses at
Newmarket a ~,,, mit to about 1900, principally due to
persons rtsnlent in Manchester, and this sum will be
lajl,l before Wednesday. His liabilities in Nottingham
have already been discharged. The police are on the
alert to discover the perpetrators of this daring outrage,
and we understand there is wane chance of their being
detected.