The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-24 00:00:00

-4 BURGLAR SHOT BY A CLERGYMAN.

A most daring burglary was perpetrated between one
and two o'clock on Saturday morning, at the residence of
7e II". Nodder, of Marsh Green, Ashover, about
!111 miles from Chesterfield. The house stands by itself
1° a .'eluded place about half a mile from the village
Mrs. Nodder slept in a room in front of the hall, and
about seven weeks old, slept in a cot in Mrs. Nodder's
rVul, and it awoke between one and two o'clock.
bile Mrs. Nodder was attending to it she heard a noise.
a minute afterwards she heard the noise again, and
went to the window and drew the blind a little on one
ihlv
e, when she saw the figure of a man outside close to
(1,. Oast She was in her night dress, and immediately
the cot with back, put on her slippers, lifted the baby out of
one hand, and rushed me, of the room,
B!vnittiner the door after her and holding it in her hand.
bile doing this, six of the lower panes of glass and the
centre frame work were smashed, and two men
}catered the room, by means of a ladder. Mrs. Nodder
?Id the door until she was overpowered, when
.11M rushed into a passage on the s atrs and locked
14,1 e door, leaving the burglars fastened in the room.
heY were provided, however, with a " jemmy'' or small
-rs"vbar, and with this instrument they broke the panels
et the door and unlocked it, and rushed into the passage
erumu-icating with the bedrooms. The first room
t Y entered was that occupied by a lady named Miss
)„('
'e°le:sr, who was so alarmed that she lifted up the lower
,
of the window and jumped out into the yard, a
three-quarters
of fourteen feet, in her nightgown. She ran for
of a mile into the village, to the rectory
:Ilse. After escaping from her room, Mrs. Nodder
ent into that occupied by her husband, and called our,
sci.ll,3Pa, papa, there's thieves, and they'll murder us."
Nodder
had locked the bedroom door after her, and Mr.
elldder jumped out of bed and armed himself with apair
°` large horse pistols, which were loaded, on the top of
ellcuPboard. The burglars outside called out, " Now, lads,
!Jaw lads, come on, they're here !" Mr. Nodder, who was
klthe room, called out, "If you enter here, I'll shoot you."
eel* burglars took no heed, bat prized the door open, and
iue uf them entered the room with a black mask on his
lac,,,a,and a black gown on his body. He bad a candle in
byelt hand, which he held down to the lower part of his
eu,Y. M Nodder, who was greatly alarmed, said to her
and, " Oh, my dear, give them what they want, or
b era murder us." Mr. Nodder stepped about. three yards
ba%.l, and said to the man, " I'll give you what you want," and
alelPreal one of the pistols at him, and the shot entered his
4nuomen. The burglars now male a precipitate retreat.
daa the man ran the shot fell from his clothes. They
radius
into a bedroom and jumped through a window,
alight
the glass and frame work with them. They had to
„Ight la the yard, which was about 14 feet from the
;)1111. Mr. Nodder rung the alarm bell immediately,
a le" brought about a dozen persons to the piece, and,
tit eard' was immediately instituted for the wounded
also given to Mr. Holmes
litilLi;e.rinteitiVernalt letoin°;tabwleasof the district, and also to Mr.
Radford, superintendent of the Chesterfield borough
1,13;"ce both of whom made a minute investigation of the
tfeeeeilliseu• The burglar who had been shot left traces of
of blool in the direction in which he had ran, and the marks
and pieces of flesh on the window through
of liee" they had leaped, left no doubt that both or one
bi,.`411 was severely cut. A large yard dog which was
dr`ned loose at nights made no alarm, it having been
flower garden,
were traced from the hall across the
Mr. `ver garden, and in the direction which they had run, by
Redford, Mr. Milnes, a county magistrate, who resides
art' and Mr. Nodder himself, and in a field about 200
418 distant, Mr. Rudford found a mask and a dress
fo,l°ll bad been used as a disguise, and three others were
fear during the morning, clearly showing that, at least,
lies Persons were engaged in the burglary. Miss Heeley
froB/uin a Precarious state. She is suffering severely
an injury in the spine and great nervous excitement,
we e c have obtained a clue to the burglars, which
hope will lead to their detection A butcher, who
0e
1,8 travelling from Wirksworth to Chesterfield market,
wasl°°k a man at Kelstede, near Ashdover, whose leg
the bandaged up and much swollen, and who lay by
ha road Side just within a gate. The man, whose
lids were Jeer, asked for a ride to Chesterfield, and
gave ve the driver a shilling to take him. He was assisted in
hef,:eslrt. '
he had First lie said he had been ro
figh ht for
and secondly
t been engaged in a prize for £5O. On
whitarrival at Chesterfield the man was put down at the
findand eeell°rBe, where he had his boots and clotlrs cleaned,
he was conveyed to the Chesterfield station in the
tl-."49, and took a ticket for Derby. From what
a °Nation has been gleaned thcro reason to boliovo that
burglars belong to a Nottingham gang.