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CONTENTS.

Hunger and Thirst.
What will he do with it ? By Pisistratus Caxton.—Part VIII.
The Bells of Botreaux : a Legend.
Debit and Credit.
The Scottish Universities.
The Poorheali Mutiny—The Punjab.

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The First Bengal European Fusiliers in the Delhi Campaign.
Note to Article " The Company's Raj " in November No.
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Abnrglary was committed at one o'clock on the
morning of Thursday last, at Mr. Henry Beck's,
near Long Bridge toll-gate, King's Norton, near
Birmingham. For some years past Mr. Beck .has
been farm bailiff to Captain Sheldon, of the Comb,
situate about a quarter of a mile from the toll-
gate. Mr. Beck's residence was at a cottage about
100 yards from Long Bridge-gate, and stood a
little distance from the main New Bromsgrove-

road. The bailiff had given notice to leave Cap-
tain Sheldon, and on the morning of Thursday had
with him at the cottage, besides his wife, hisbrother
Thomas, a man 65 years of age. Retiring to bed
as usual, Henry Beck was awakened by a loud
noise, and heard the front door kicked violently,
and at last burst open. Jumping out of bed, and
running to the front bed-room window, Mr. Beck
saw a man standing in the turnpike-road, who im-
mediately threw a large stone at him, which came
through the window, but did not hurt him.
Alarmed at this, and hearing the footsteps of men
inside the cottage, Beck called his brother, and
directly jumped through a back window into the
garden, and ran off to the toll-gate for assistance.
His brother, Thomas Beck, seizing hold of two iron
bed-rods, and in his shirt, went to the top of the
stairs, where he saw two fellows in the act of coming
up. He at once, with manly courage, attacked the
burglars with the bars, and kept them at bay. In a

minute or two afterwards a, pistol was fired a,
him, and then a second, third, and fourth discharge
followed, at short intervals. Nothing daunted,
however, the old man plied his iron weapons with
such effect that, escaping the pistol shots by turn-
ing behind an angle of the stairs, ho forced his
assailants, two in number, to retreat. According
to his account these villains kept their head down,
so that he had no opportunity of seeing their faces.
He says that they bad their shirts over their
clothes, but Superintendent Humphries is ofjopinion
that they wore short white cotton jackets, which
navvies, &c., wear. Shortly after the two burglars
had gone, police-constable Harris, who was on duty
neat the cottage, entered, and, of course, hearing
what had taken place, set off in pursuit. However,
the officer was only in time to see the thin man in
the road, who had kept up an incessant shower of
stones, take to his heels, leap over a gate into the
fields, and in the darkness he also got off. Police-
constable Harris states that hearing the cries of
" Murder" and "Thieves" raised by Mr. Beek, he
was going there at speed, when Mr. Cooper, far-
mer, living near, who had also been aroused, spoke
to him from his bed-room window, and asked
what was the matter. This delayed Harris, who
otherwise would have arrived at the cottage whilst
the burglars were there, and Mr. Beck, the toll-
house keeper, also coming up directly after Harris,
it is reasonable to infer that two at least out of the
three might have been captured. The search
which took place disclosed the marks which
the slugs from the pistol had made on the stair-
case wall. Several slugs were found (pieces of sheet
lead cut up), and Harris also picked up a pistol
near the front door of the cottage, which appeared
to have been but recently discharged. Nearly 100
stones were also found on the bed-room floor,
thrown by the fellow in the road. We learn also
that Mr. Beck, who is reported to have saved a
little money, purchased some little time ago a
house and land for the sum of 2001. The usual
deposit, 101., was paid at the time, and by the
terms of the contract, the remainder, 1901., was to
be paid on the 24th December, the ♦ery day of this
attempted robbery. Mr. Beck says that during
the preceding week some strange woman called at
the cottage, and after talking for some time on
ordinary matters, asked, "Mr. Beck, you have to
pay your money for the house on the 24th, haven't
you I" and an answer was given the curious inquirer
in the affirmative. This clearly shows that the
gang were w€ll acquainted, no doubt, with the fact,
and it was to gain this prize that the foregoing
daring attempt was made. Old Thomas Beck
says, "Its a bad job the rogues didn't hold their
beads up, or I should have jobbed their eyes out."
No trace of the burglars has been discovered. Mr.
Superintendent Humphries and the men under his
orders have been indefatigable in their exertions to
effect this most desirable object. It will be sein
that keeping down their heads so that old Beck
could not see their features, and all wearing the
common white jackets referred to, no chance oc-
curred of securing any mark of identity as to this
desperate gang.—. Birmingham Journal,