Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1840-03-06

Was in my rooms, and about to poke
His hand into my breecbes pocket,
Near my bed
/ felt rather queer,
For the blade shed by my ear"
Into my head
Obstructng "sight and sound;
But did my best OH.
To put every muscle at rest" ....
To see what was going arouad.
At length saw, as in mist"
A mans brawny fist, f'
Apparently within an ace
Ofmy face,
And the man himself stand
within reach OF my hand ~
My first thought was how to escape
Out of the scrape =
SO, though closely beset,
! raised the bed clothes on my hands and feet
And threw them complete
Ly over the robber like a net :"
He being caught
My neat thought
Was to seize my walking stick.
And leave the room
SO, hurrying quick,
Without dreaming Of meeting more,
To my horror and surprise,
Another robber met my eyes,
Guarding the street door.
w ishng to avoid collision,
With this man."
lcontinued on or rather ran,
Down the next stairway to the basement"
And here oh, horror another thief
Stood forth in bold relief,
Resting himself against the easement. ...
Thus put to my trumps, found,
must stand my ground,
Aud hght-for as to running away, Is
To fight another day,
II was clearly out of the oue ation. I'll.
And why
Because way was left,
By which might fly
My weapon was a spear Of steel"
About five inches long,
Set in the end of a cane,
Der which silver ferule screwd TO conceal
The dirk-except when used the same.
So, pushing my weapon with deadly AIM"
no longer quailed,
But dartins forward, fairly impaled
The wretch upon its point,
before he was aware,
And being transfxed through the shoulder boiat
We hung pinoned" on it, in the air.
But though fairly caught,
The blood thirsty villain fought
Like desperation
So that once more my fears,
Sent the blood by my ears,
Till my brain was in state
Contamination
In this condition,
A man approached from behind
And threw his light,
So as to get sight
Ofour position.
But quick as thought,
| changed places and brought
My back against the wall,
SO that might not fall;
And In def lfa~.
SO keeping one hand on
My spcsr-with the other
feteh'd stroke at random,
And brought the brother
Rohber sprswling at his feet
Seizing my chance,
| thought best to advance
Backv ards into my Office door,
But blow brought me to the floor,
And staggering twelve feet or nor-,
l fell over my office chair,
Accidentally standing there.
On rising, the internal danny
Around the body seized me,
And, like a giaut, squeezed me.
Into something like an Egyptian mumay,
Though had grown pretty bold.
And had the under-hold
II did no, much avail me-
For fell under my an tagonist,
While the man, with the brawny fist
Come up behind TO assail me-
So with miEhty grasp,
Around his body clasp,
" Pressing him closely, to my chest and fscs,-
so that he would find IT hard work
To- stab me, with his de,ilsh dirk,
While holding him in such a close cabrsoe.
am stabbed" he said,
And thea all was hush'd;-
But the warm blood gushd
In a torrent over my head
stopping my mouth and nose,
And elotting my gray hair.
SO turning ny head aside,
I let the blood glide,
While we both lay wallo~.ne in me psdane lAvsi
lie grew very weak IN eminute or -
Then opening my yes,
And attempting To rise.
Ig0t another internal blow
Over the stomaeh-whioh.
As I've since lcsrn'd,
Put AN end 10 this battle royd
30 FAR s was concernedi
found my self solus
On waking
And shaking
And sick, az II had taken
An slopathie bolus,
The cold Precipitation
Run down my skin,
While free vomiting
Restored my circulation
With difficulty up stsirs crcpt,
And rung the ben
For strange 10 tell,
The servants through The whole ARRAY, he'd s'epsi
When daylight came upon the battle Aoos,
The blood was found
To be scattered around
A distance Of fflecn feet or more,
II seemed a. If the blood,
In vide, Devastating food,
Had s~ep, my Office through
Carrying of papers and pills,
Bows, letters, and bills,
And staining every thing that in vsev,
In puddle Of blood lay knife
Used Ia the deadly strife,
With my gray hairs sticking 10 the hsfn
Ose RIB was cut nearly through,
One arm hacked almost IN two,
While looked like o. soaked In bloody bsAhi
My nisht dress, when dry,
Could stand better than -
While my grey hairs VIZ, no, grey, but rsx
While tn bloc N a stream,
Could be tr e. on To Greene,
And through Huston ard Fourth, where he heds
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