The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-06 00:00:00

GROSS OUTRAGE.

A most violent attempt at robbery has recently been
made on the Forest, but which proved unsuccessful,
in consequence of the courage displayed by a female.
The appended are the particulars, as we have learnt
them. Last Friday evening, between six and seven
o'clock, a man dressed in a blue smockfrock,
with his face blackened, and having on a " billy-
cock" cap, called at a lone house at the top of the
Larkdale, on the Forest, occupied by a mechanic
named Bowers, and asked permission to light bis pipe.
The only persons in the house at the time were Mrs.
Bowers and her child, eleven months old. The fellow
was very inquisitive; after asking a number of ques-
tions, such as " Was Mr. Bowers likely to return soon ;
was the dog in the house P" &c., he retired. Upon
learning these particulars, Bowers told his wife in future
to lock herself in the house on those evenings on which
he was absent. She subsequently did so. On the
next (last) Monday night, about a quarter-past eight,
as Mrs. Bowers alas sitting with her infant at her
breast, the house door was suddenly forced open, al-
though it had been locked, and a men rushed in who
was dressed in a similar manner to the one previously
described, except having a striped worsted cravat tied
round his head, in place of the " billycock," and with
his face again blackened. The woman immediately put
her child down and grappled the fellow, who struck
her a severe blow on the head with a heavy stave ;
notwithstanding this, she still stuck to him, and had
nearly overthrown him, when an accomplice entered
the house, and taking up the infant, threw it on to the
Forest. The mother left the dastardly plunderers,
and ran to the assistance of her child. Immediately
the first man found himself at liberty, he went up
stairs, where he ransacked the drawers and boxes; as
soon as the poor woman had recovered her child, she
returned to the house, and had the door closed upon
her by the accomplice. Fearing the approach of the
husband, or the alarm of the adjacent cottagers, the
man upstairs quickly descended to the house-place,
and rejoined his companion at the door ; they both
then ran away together, down the Larkdale. When
they had arrived about half-way down, they met a
man and a boy, when they turned off through the
fields, in the direction of the cemetery, and escaped.
They were in so great a hurry to avoid detection,
that they decamped without taking away anything of
value, and leaving in the house the bludgeon with
which the poor woman was struck. We believe the
fellows have hitherto eluded detection.—Nottingharn
Review.

MIRACULOUS Escarz.—On Saturday night last
a worthy ploughman, residing in Inchinnan parish, Ren-
frowshire, while wending his way homeward with a
" wee drap in his e'i," by some chance or other lay down
on the road, and fell fast asleep. A cart belonging to a
neighbouring farmer, attended by a servant man, hap-
pened to come up shortly afterwards. The night being
dark, the man saw nothing on the road, but was suddenly-
startled by a crash under one of the wheels, followed by
a loud roar. The horse being stopped, the driver
alighted, and to his great horror discovered a human
being apparently under one of the wheels. Be imme-
diately bawled lustily for help, but none appearing, he
proceeded to a neighbouring house, and having alarmed
the inmates, described all the horrors of the case. Lights
being procured, the party repaired to the spot, expecting
to see nothing but the remains of a mutilated human
being, when, to their astonishment, they discovered
their old neighbour apparently in perfect health and
pod spirits. The wheel of the cart had passed over his
hat, crushing it in two within half an inch of his head.
It may.truly be said of this man that he was " within an
inch of his life."—Glaa§mo journal.