Glasgow Courier. — 1853-11-17 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

DESPERATE BURGLAR! AND THREA+ENED MURDER AT PECKHAM. A most determined burglary, accompanied with great violence to a young woman, was perpetrated on the night of Sunday last in the private residence of Thomas Young, Esq., No. 2, South Street, Peckham, and it is to be regretted that property valued at some hundred pounds sterling was carried clean off, and one of the female domestics bound hand and foot, and forced headways into a cupboard. From careful inquiries made by the police, by order of the commissioners, it appears that Mr. Young and his family left their residence on Sunday iiight for the purpose of attending Divine service in the church, leaving one of the female servants in charge of the establishment. Shortly after the family had left a very gentlemanly-dressed man knocked at the door of the house, which being opened by the maid, he inquired whether Mr. Young was within. He was answered in the negative, when the man pushed her on one side, and said that he would go inside and write a letter for her master. Haring some doubts of the man's honesty, she asked himn whether it would not be better to call again when her master came home. She had, however, barely uttered the question when the fellow grasped her round the throat with such firmnesa as almost to strangle her. Ile then carried her into the parlour, saying, at the time, that if she said one word to arouse the neighbours he would cut her throat. The fellow next let in two men, who bound the poor girl hand and foot, and having, under threats of murdering her, made her tell where her master's property was deposited, they succeeded in taking away, amongst other articles, the following : —One silver oblong waiter with beardee Ind figured handles, t wo small silver octogou waiters, ce old-fashioned silver mugs; one do., with three rings round the top, with this inscription, ' Mary Juliet Eliza Fisher, the gift Of her grandmother on her birthday, 14th June, 1853;' two silver teapots, one w ith griffin's head; one large silver cruet.f rame ;one fish.slice, 1 dozen large silver forks, I dozen small ditto, I dozen silver table-spoons, 1 dozen dessert ditto plain but fiddle pattern six table-spoons, one salad fork, one sugar lifter, flour sauce-ladles, one soup ditto, several silver spoons of various sizes, four salt spoons, one mustard ditto, three knife-rests, one ditto cheese-scoop, one ditto sugar-tongs, three ditto labels for port, sherry, and rum, two ditto fluted decanter-stands; one silver snuff-box, with inscription, 'Presented to Mr. Than. Young by his Friends;' several old guineas of the reign of George 111., two 7s pieces, several crowns and half-crowns, one old-fashioned single-ease gold watch, one old silver ditto a small easla-box containing about 1,40 in gold and benlemotes; Sm. On the conclusion of Divine sell ice Mr. Young and his family returned to the residence, bat found that, in spite of repeatedly knocking at the door, they were unable to get in. therefore borrowed a ladder, and sueceeded in getting into the house by means of one of the upper windows, when they found the servant who had been left in charge of the property tied in the manner previously described, and the goods in the house in terrible confusion. Mr. Young at once gave information of the occurrence to the police, and in a very brief period Mr. Superintendent Lund, and Inspectors Silver, Coward, and Emmerson, were engaged in making, inquiries throughout the neighbourhood, but nothing likely to lead to the apprehension of the burglars could, up to six o'clock on Tuesday evening, be learned. The female left in charge of the premises can only describe one man as being rather tall, genteelly dressed in black, with white handkerchief, as if to represent a dissenting minister. His whiskers were likewise black, and rather bushy.  edge thr