The Staffordshire and Potteries Examiner. — 1881-01-22 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGES AT LEEDS.  • ,  Two extraordinary outrages are reported to have been committed at Leeds, and there is reason to believe both were perpetrated by the same men. Last Sunday evening, Mr. Saynor, master plasterer, of Kellam Street, and his wife went to church, leaving their daughter, aged twenty, in the house. Soon after they had gone two Men called and asked if Mr. Saynor was in. On receiving a reply that he was not, but that he would shortly return, they left, saying they would call again. Between half-past seven and a quarter to eight they again presented themselves, and asked if Mr. Saynor had come in. Bliss Saynor again replied that he had not, but that he would not be long. Miss Saynor then shut the door and went down stairs to fetch some firewood. When she got back she was alarmed to find the two men standing in the room. The shorter of the two said, "The old - isn't in," and Miss Saynor cried out "For God's sake don't touch me," and made her way to the door. Immediately upon this the smaller man hit her with some instrument a violent blow on the back of the head, and she fell down senseless. When Mr. and Mrs. Saynor returned from church they found their daughter lying as though dead on the floor, with the firewood scattered about her. On regaining consciousness, she told her parents what had happeued. The discovery was ' then made that an attempt had been made to cut Miss Saynor's throat. On the left hand side are five or six deep scratches, evidently caused by a knife or some murderous weapon. The girl . must have lost her life had it not been for the fact that she put round her throat a shawl, because of the chilliness of the night. This shawl, which was twice folded around the neck, is cut clean through, and is stained with blood. The men, after the attack on Miss Saynor, proceeded upstairs, and from under the pillows of Mr. Saynor's bed, abstracted a cash-box containing two £5 notes and the indentures of two apprentices. They do not appear to have had either the inclination or time to search for more valuables, for the notes and the indentures are the only things missing. The men wore soft felt hats, and one of them appeared to have a false beard. On the following morning, about seven o'clock, Mr. Greaves, pawnbroker of Dundas Street, was coming from his private house to his shop, when he was set upon close to the shop by two men, one of whom struck him violently on the head with a bludgeon, causing a terrible wound, while an. unsuccessful attempt was made by both to rob him of a considerable amount of money he had in his possession. The robbers were interrupted, and made away, taking with them only a basket containing provisions. Mr. Greaves was so badly injured that he had to be conveyed home in a cab. A boy named Townsend is employed in the shop, and the fellows had previously enquired of him where Mr. Greaves lived, which way he came, and whether jewellery was pledged in the shop. They spoke to him just before the outrage on Monday morning, and so frightened him that he ran away.  The Oldham miners strike is at an end; the employers having granted an advance of 2d. in the Is.  The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council assembled on Tuesday, for the first time since the death of the late Sir James Colvile. The Rugby Colony in Tennessee, which has been claiming much attention of late, is about to have a newspaper, the Bugbyan, that will let the world koow at least once a month what is being done there. Messrs. Catling and Maim, auctioneers, of Cambridge, again announce the sale of the contents of Wimpole Hall, the seat of Lord Hardwick°. The sale, which is fixed for the 26th inst., wiU extend over eleven days.  A telegram from Cairo to a German paper announces the unearthing, near Saggarah, to the north of the site of Memphis, of two pyramids of the sixth dynasty, the inner walls covered with several thousand inscriptions. . _ _