The Sun. — 1838-07-23 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION AND HIGHWAY ROBBERY AT KENSINGTON.  On Saturday appeared some particulars of a daring robbery committed on a lady named Auterac, residing at Kensington. Miss Auterac having given a description of her assailant, extra policemen were in consequence placed in the neighbourhood, for the purpose of securing the villain, should he again attempt a similar outrage ; when nothing was heard of him until Saturday afternoon, when, as a gentleman of the name of Senior, residing at No. 2, Norland-place, Notting-hill, accompanied by his son and daughter, two children about eight and ten years of age, was proceeding up the line whir° Mis ; Auterac was attacked, he was stopped by a fellow answering the description given, who stepping up to Mr. Senior, and presenting two pistols to his breast demand " his money or his life." Mr. Senior seeing no immediate assistance near, and fearing his children might, if the ruffian fired receive the charge intended for him, with great presence of mind pushed them from him, and at the same instant his murderous assailant snapped both the pistols at him. That in his right hreal fortunately missed fire, but the one in his left hand was discharged, Mr. Senior receiving the contents in his right side near the groin M-.:Seniar, although feelleg himself woundee, with great determination seized the villain by the throat, and, though he mode a ma_t desperate resistance, succeeded in keeping fast h&c' of him until a man named Coe, a gardener in the service of the Duke of Bedford, at Campdeabill, followed by a servant in the establishment of Sir John Frazer, arrived to his assistance, when his assailant was with great difficulty secured and conveyed toward, Kensington, meeting with polio e constable White, T. 119, he was given into charge. On reach'ng the station-house, and being brought before Inspector Black, he behaved with the greatest impudence and effrontery, first saying his name was John Brown, and then saying they might enter it in the chargesheet as " Jack Turpin" if they pleased ; and when questioned as to his residence he said that they might put down that he had none, or that he lived a hundred miles off. On searching him there were found on him the two pistols, one of which was loaded up to the muzzel, a bag containing fifteen bullets, a phial, and two papers of power. a duplicate for a silk handkerchief, and a weapon of a most murderous description, about two feet long, with a knob of formidable dimensions at one end, and a string to Lsten round the wrist at the other. Previous to his being locked up Miss Auterac was brought to the.station-house by Pummell, the Kensington beadle, when she immediately identified him as the person by whom she was stopped on Wednesday, and he was in consequence detained on both charges. At seven o'clock on Saturday he was before F. P. Barlow, Esq., the sitting magistrate at Kensington, the magistrate a room being crowded to excess, and the outside of the house surroundei by hundreds of persons, when the whole of the witnesses not being in attendace, after a short preliminary investigation, he was remanded for further examination till this day. Mr. Senior has, we understand, been but slightly injured, the purse in his pocket turning off the shot with which the pistol was loaded, several of which,. however, penetrated his left hand while attempting to turn the muzzle of the weapon up wards.