The Sun. — 1841-05-04 (London, England)

DARING BURGLARY.  A daring outrage, and similar to that recently committed at Boxhill, which excited so much alarm throughout the whole county of Sussex, was perpetrated on Monday last at the residence of a farmer named Bayman, residing near Tring, on the borders of Herts, in the county of Bucks. Mr. Bayman and his family retired to rest at their usual hour, and about one o'clock on the Tuesday morning, they were alarmed by a noise as of some person being in the house, and immediately afterwards, three men with their faces blackened rushed into Mr. Batman's bed-room. He jumped out of bed, when the first man, who had a lighted candle in one hand, aed a pistol in the other, presented the pistol at him, and threatened to blow his brains out if he did not be quiet and give up his money, and they then forced him on the tied, and with the most dreadful oaths, declared they would murder him if he did not give them money. Mr. Bayman, finding resistance to- be hopeless, gave the villains ten sovereigns and some silver, and one of them stood guard over him while the two others proceeded to the bed-room of Miss Bayman, the daughter of Mr. Keyman, of whom they demanded money, and upon her telling them she had not got any, they used most horrible imprecations, and broke open every box and drawer in the room, in the expectation of finding some money. The ruffians then proceeded to the lower part of the premises, and for nearly two hours they were employed in ransacking the house, and when they had packed up a quantity of valuable pt operty, consisting of wearing apparel, silver spoons, watches, &e., they again went to the bedroom of Mr. Bayman, and one of the men produced his gun, which he had brought from the lower part of the house, and loaded it in his presence, and told him that they would fire it off as a signal when they had left the premises. And they told him that if he went down stairs, or gave any alarm before the morning they would return and murder him. The villains then decamped ; but .Mr. Bayman and the family were so alarmed at their threats that they did not go down stairs until daylight, when they found every drawer and cupboard had been forced open, and a quantity of valuable property abstracted. Mr. Bayman then gave information of what had occurred, and Ashby, the constable, of Tring, immediately made inquiries in the neighbourhood, and having ascertained that three men, each tarrying a large bundle, hid been seen going in a direction from the neighbourhood where the robbery had been committed to Chesham, he obtained the assistance of anther constable, and proceeded in pursuit, and upon going into a public-house near Aston Clinton, they found three men answering the description of the thieves, and they took them into custody,and found nearly seven pounds in gold and silver, and several articles of the stolen property in their possession. The next day they were taken before Sir John King, a Magistrate for the county of Bucks, when they gave their names David and George Allice, and John Reeve, but the latter is well known by the soubriquet of " Gipsy Jack." the above facts were then given in evidence, and Jr. Bayman also stated, that although the men's faces were blackened and otherwise disguised, he had a good opportunity of observing their features, and he-swore positively they were the parties who had acted as he described, and he likewise identified the articles found in their possession as being part of the ste.len property. After a long investigation, the prisoners, who merely denied the charge, were fully committed to take their trial.  *