The National Register.
London, England, 1820-02-27 00:00:00

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llsattirn OUTRAGE. AND RoliDEßY.—Ort Monday
ileury Dawkins and Matthew Cooper were brought to
the office. and underwent so examination, charged with
a must daring rubbery at the house of Mr. William
7..34.5ew, a stationer, of No. 17, Portm;al-street, Lincoln's-
.r-inn-fields. It appeared from tire sta. ement of Mr.
Drew, before the s g ni. gisuuc, J E Currant, E•q.,
that on Saturday evening, at half-past eight o'clock he
kit his house to go to his brother-in-law's in Holborn,
to pay some money ;he had been there but a very
short time when he received a message that he must
retorts home instantly, as his house had been attacked
and robbed, and ilia wife extremely ill treated. lie lost
no Wire in returning home, when he Wood his house
surrounded by 30 or 40 persons, and his wife in bed, in
consequence of the wounds and bruises which she had
received during his absence, which had not been half
an hour. The particulars of the attack upon her, per-
son, and oldie rubbery, lie learnt to be as follows :-1 hat
soon after he left home a 11i811 came into the shop and
purchased a sheet of paper ; another followed him mid
purchased some wafers ; she thought their appear:Awe
suspicions; hut, after they were gone, considered her
suspicions groundless, and sent her apprentice-boy out
to purchase some riband. As soon as he had gone out,
she heard a person entering the shop, whom she con-
sidered to be the boy returtnag; but she soon perceived
the person to be much taller. She left the parkins., and
the can, instead of appearing like a customer, ap-
proached towards her, and presented something in his
hand which she believed to be a pistol, and swore if she
yoke a word, or made any noise or resistance, he would
blow her brains out. Notwithstanding this horrible
threat, she could not help screamistg, when :he fellow
struck her violently on her face, forehead and temples,
with the instrument which she considered to lie a pistol,
which knocked her down, and as she Was filling he
struck her on the head, and afterwards beat her on her
back, awl other parts of her body, its a nio,t shot king
and inhuman manner, especially under the circum-
stances of her being pregnant. %Vhile the villain was
wounding. and ill-treating Mrs. D-ew, two of bit com-
parions entered the shop, and stole the till and its Coll-
MIAS ; also a tin cash box, captaining six 51. and three
11. Bank of England notes, besides the lease of the
house, and many valuable papers. Mr. Drew hastened
in pursuit of the robbers, being persuaded he saw the
three villains, as he left his own house, loitering about
the shop of Mr. Clarke, the luw.hookseller, which is
Lot a few
wow
front his house; but, knowing that Mr.
Clarke was then publishing some works, he considered
the men to be journeymen printers who were waiting to
be paid; but lie happened to look at their persons so
much, that he had no doubt but that he should know
them again; he went therefore to die above office, and
Jeffery*, one of the ;nitride, accompanied him in
pursuit of the robbers. They proceeded to the
Coach and Horses public-house in Charles street,
Drury Lire, where Jeiferys took Mr. Drew into a room
where there were thirty or forty men playing at cards
and dice; he pointed out the prisoner Cooper as one
of the persons who was loitering about Mr. Clarke's
shop.window when he left his house, and in conse-
income Jellerys called to him to come out, but several
of the men near him said ha should not come out,
and told Jefferys to go arid fetch some more of
his b—y gang before lie should surrender. Finding
it in vain to take Cooper by force against such an assem-
blage of desperate 011ar3CICIS, they withdrew from the
room with a view to procure more assistance, when
they were followed by sineral of the gang into the
street, where they, Wor.! attacked by them, but es-
caped on account of Jeffery's drawing his cutlass and
defending them. After procuring officers to assist them,
they returned. to the house, when they found that the
prisoner Cooper and must of the men had departed. It
was thins aoout half-past ten o'clock, and they went
from the Coach and Horses to the Suit public house, in
Annytilow.street, DrteryAme, where they found about
sweaty men assembled m a room, and among them Ms.
lkaw recognised the prisaner Dawkins as One of the
men who was near hits house on his leaving it, and
.loitering about Mr. Clarke's shop-window. They Me-
cerded iii securing him, and, on taking kith to Mr.
Drew's hotise, and into Mrs. Drew's bed-room, site
idottilied 11411 as the Mall who presented the instrument
to her head, and swore lie would blow her Lulus out,
and ill treated her. Two other suspected men were
taken to her, hut she declared that she had no recollec•
non of their persons. On Monday morning Mr. Drew
Ole the prisoner whose presort he knew before,
awl had him seemed. Mrs. Drew was unable, f
the wounds and bruises wtiicii she rteelVeil, to attend
the exalillitstiOn can monday, bus it was hoped site would
recite. r, and he able to aorotl at the next examination.
'rimy were both rt•uruidcd a Astute day.

Extroordine,y Ca.m—Sunday night a potatoe
clamp, in a field belonging to Mr. John Lambert,
a farmer residing at Barking, in Essex, was robbed
of a quantity of potatoes. The robbery being dis-
covered the thieves were •traced a considerable
distance in the snow, and at length five men were
s:ert going along heavily laden, limit- of whom 'car-
ried each a sack and the fifth a dead man on his
Lack, The thieves finning that they were disco-
vered unloaded themselves and ran off; all effectetl
their escape except the one who earned the dead
man ; he was taken into custody and his load
picked up. On being examined befbre a Magistrate
at Ifoneter4 he stated that he and his accomplices
were Irisnmen, and resided at Irish-row in the
Boutfonl-road ; that the num whom he carried had
died on their way home in consequence, he believed,
• of the great fatigue he underwent during the night.
woe. umutaitted to Chelmsford Gaol.