The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-04 00:00:00

DARING BURGLARY.

A daring outrage, and similar to that recently committed at
Boxhill, which excited so much alarm throughout the whole
county of Sussex, was perpetrated on Monday last at the resi-
dence of a farmer named Bayman, residing near Tring, on the
borders of Herts, in the county of Bucks. Mr. Bayman and
his family retired to rest at their usual hour, and about one
o'clock on the Tuesday morning, they were alarmed by a noise
as of some person being in the house, and immediately after-
wards, three men with their faces blackened rushed into Mr.
Batman's bed-room. He jumped out of bed, when the first
man, who had a lighted candle in one hand, aed a pistol in the
other, presented the pistol at him, and threatened to blow his
brains out if he did not be quiet and give up his money, and
they then forced him on the tied, and with the most dreadful
oaths, declared they would murder him if he did not give them
money. Mr. Bayman, finding resistance to- be hopeless, gave
the villains ten sovereigns and some silver, and one
of them stood guard over him while the two others
proceeded to the bed-room of Miss Bayman, the
daughter of Mr. Keyman, of whom they demanded
money, and upon her telling them she had not got
any, they used most horrible imprecations, and broke open
every box and drawer in the room, in the expectation of find-
ing some money. The ruffians then proceeded to the lower
part of the premises, and for nearly two hours they were em-
ployed in ransacking the house, and when they had packed up
a quantity of valuable pt operty, consisting of wearing apparel,
silver spoons, watches, &e., they again went to the bedroom
of Mr. Bayman, and one of the men produced his gun, which
he had brought from the lower part of the house, and loaded it
in his presence, and told him that they would fire it off
as a signal when they had left the premises. And
they told him that if he went down stairs, or gave
any alarm before the morning they would return and murder
him. The villains then decamped ; but .Mr. Bayman and the
family were so alarmed at their threats that they did not go
down stairs until daylight, when they found every drawer and
cupboard had been forced open, and a quantity of valuable
property abstracted. Mr. Bayman then gave information of
what had occurred, and Ashby, the constable, of Tring, im-
mediately made inquiries in the neighbourhood, and having
ascertained that three men, each tarrying a large bundle, hid
been seen going in a direction from the neighbourhood where
the robbery had been committed to Chesham, he obtained the
assistance of anther constable, and proceeded in pursuit, and
upon going into a public-house near Aston Clinton, they
found three men answering the description of the thieves,
and they took them into custody,and found nearly seven pounds
in gold and silver, and several articles of the stolen property
in their possession. The next day they were taken before Sir
John King, a Magistrate for the county of Bucks, when they
gave their names David and George Allice, and John Reeve,
but the latter is well known by the soubriquet of " Gipsy
Jack." the above facts were then given in evidence, and Jr.
Bayman also stated, that although the men's faces were black-
ened and otherwise disguised, he had a good opportunity of
observing their features, and he-swore positively they were the
parties who had acted as he described, and he likewise identi-
fied the articles found in their possession as being part of the
ste.len property. After a long investigation, the prisoners,
who merely denied the charge, were fully committed to take
their trial.

* ERICSSON'S PROPELLER.—Steamer Clarion
is off. She started yesterday, at one o'clock, for Hsvannab.
This is her first trip to any distance at sea. If she answers
expectation in going hence to Havannah and back. several
of our packet-ships will have the Ericsson propellers Bp-
plied to them. They will then be on a par with the Eng
steamers. She went down the bay against a six-knot
breeze at the rate of seven knots an hour. About twenty
passengers have gone in her. .New York Morning Herald,
April 15.
INQUEST.—An inquest was held by Mr. W.
Carter, the Coroner for the Eastern Division of Surrey, at the
Kingston Union House, on Friday evening, on the body of a
man named Thomas who II as poisoned under the fol-
lowing circumstances :—ltsappearcd from the evidence of se-
veral witnesses that the deceased was a labouring man, and re-
sided at East Moulsey, but having been out of work for some
time he was reduced to great distress, and one evening last
week he applied to 'he landlady of the Castle public-house at
Aloulsey to give him a night's lodging, but from his dirty ap-
pearance she declined to do so. He then asked for a small
quantity of gin, which was given to him, and he went to the
back of the house for the purpose of getting some water to mix
with it, and a:he passed through the kitchen he observed some
pieces of bread and butter on a plate, and it is supposed that the
poorman, being hungry, took up the breadandbutter and ate it.
71'his bread and butter it appears was covered with arsenic.
for the purpose of destroying rats, and the moment it was
missed inquiry was made, and it was then ascertained that. the
deceased had eaten it. Information was immediately given to
the parish authorities of what had occurred, and the poor man.
who by this time was in a most dreadful state, was removed to
the workhouse, where every assistance was rendered him by
the medical gentleman of the union bui without avail, and the
poor creature expired very soon after his admission to the
workhouse. The Jury, after hearing all the evidence, returned
a verdict that the deceased died through eating bread and
butter that had been covered with arsenic, for the purpose of
killing rats, and at the same time expressed in very strong
terms their sense of the impropriety of allowing such a thing
to be left about in so careless a manner. _

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Betvrcen the hours of six and seven, on the
afternoon of Wednesday last, Carnarvon was visited by
a severe storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied by a
heavy shower of rain. After seven the thunder subsided,
hut the sky still continued to gleam with remote and vivid
lightning, and the rain fell in torrents until towards eight
o'cicck, when it cleared up, and the atmosphere became
deliciously fresh and cool—the morning having been
somewhat sultry, although there bad been a copious fall of
rain during the three cr four preceding days. During the
entire evening there were indications cf distant storms in
everal points of the compass—the sky sending forth ie
most intense flashes in very opposite directions,
unaccom-
panied by any report whatever. A little after midnight,
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however, the inhabitants were aroused by
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