The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-01 00:00:00

BURGLARY' AT HIGH WYCOMBE.

- • - We scarcely remember haying air Opportunity
of recording a burglary:and robllery ,attended
with such aggravated .circumstances as 'the one
we are about to detail. Between eleven_ and
twelve o'clock in the morning of'Thursday se'n-
night, Mir. William Mit, who oeCuin.,..e.d a cot-
tage on Mount Pleasant, on the West Vlr.y.etnnbe
road, a short distance from: the town of High
Wycombe, was alarmed by hearing the footStepif
of some one under his bed-rooni window. Up-
On this he left the-bed and 'throw up the win-
dow, and looked out, but could see no one ;
having returned to his bed, .in a few •minutes
afterwards he was alarmed in a similar manner,
and again opened his window, but found no one ;
and, after listening for some. time;
.he again shut,
his window and returned to bek where lie .had
not lain many minutes 'before. lie' was a,„lraitt
alarmed ; and on opening his lierd-reriam:window
a third time he discovered ,Itnan endeavouring
to conceal himself from his vieV;tinder a sort of
pent house over the front door of the house.
frinittay then called out to. his wife for pistols_
(whie4.ll4..hael not), and threatened to shoot;
but, on returning to the windoWylle 'found the
fellow bad fled; and after waiting for some
time he fastened his hed-rooni door, and retired
to bed. On coming down stairs next morning,
he discovered that his parlour window under his
bed room had been wrenched open, and the bolt
plate nearly torn from its hold. It, is appre-
hended the villains were afraid 'that morning to
persevere any more in their attempts,. but were
determined to adopt a different course, by taking
advantage of the absence Of Mr.' May. This
plan, on the eve of the follo-.ving day, , soon after
ten 'o'clock, they *carried into effect,: by. encritig
(with the assistance of a ladder) at the window
of the bed room in which two of . his children
were sleeping ; and from off the bed in that-room
they took, for the purpose of Packing, a rug
which partly covered the children. They then
entered Mr: May's bed-rboni, , and there ran-
sacked the drawers and, elosetS, .Pliindering them
of nearly every thing, leaying his faniily almost,
and in some articles quite; destitute of a change.
Mrs. May being engaged
.down stairs ironing,
and one of her children ,Making a noiSe, while
another was endeavouring to pacify,,it, was pre-
vented hearing villains,'eVen while' they must
have been busily engaged in, stripping the ad-
joining room. Mrs.. May tdOk. up one of her
children and put. it in the
,same bed with the
other two, without perceiving that the rug
had been taken. off. their bed, and on•ber way
down stairs she' observed her candle nearly
blown out, and thinking her Aildien might
have opened the window in the course of the.
evening, which had happened before she returned
up stairs, and in attempting to shut the "stair-
foot door, it blew open against her,'npon which
she ran up stairs again, and on entering` her
bed-room found a fellow abdut-lea.ving the room
at the window (which .was' hen open) with a
bundle and a counterpane which. he, had taken
.off her bed. She instantly put her candle down,
and seized hold of the counterpane and. tore:it
from the man ; and as the villain was descend-
ing a ladder against the window, 'Mrs. May took
up a bludgeon lying by her'bedside, and levelled
several blows at him, but could .not reach him.
While thus engaged she obserVed another fellow
at the foot of the ladder, and alarmed the neigh-
bourhood by her screams, .on which the villains
fled, taking with them their ladder' and nearly
all their plunder, having in. their flight dropped
only the bundle tied up in- the rug taken off the
children's bed, .and a few•trifling articles which
were afterwards picked up in the neighbourhood.
Every exertion has been used: to apprehend'the

offenders (three it is supposed in number); hut
as yet no clue whatever has heeii discovered,.--
Bucks chronicle. -

FoRFAlt.—On Sunday last, DAVID SAL-
MOND, at Letham of Dunnichen, who for some time past
has laboured under mental derangement, put a period to
his existence by suspending himself from a' tree, by t
worsted cravat.— Caledonian Mercury.
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SUSPECTED CHILD MURDER.—On:,Tues-
lay last some boys employed' at Mr. Tonn's 'cotton
,pposite the Breomielaw, observed a white naphin lyiug
upon the uncovered mould on the newly formed quay. On
ifting it up, it was found firmly attr.chted 'to something be-
neath ground; and this circumstance exciting the curiosity
if the boys,. they, in endeavouring to 011 it up, brought
,long with it the body of a young chill. It hnd on a small
printed frock.:— Glasgow Free Press. •