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immediately retired. Shortly af- 

 terwards one of the clerks entered 

 the office, and observing the young 

 man in the same position, asked 

 him what was the matter? He 

 made no answer: this excited a 

 good deal of surprise; and upon 

 coming close to him, he observed 

 blood dripping from his clothes on 

 the floor, very profusely. He in- 

 stantly went in search of a surgeon. 

 It being then only six in the morn- 

 ing, he with difficulty procured 

 medical assistance ; but upon his 

 return to the office he missed 

 young Kelner. It appears, that 

 after the young man had gone in 

 search of a surgeon, he went away, 

 and nothing has since been heard 

 of him. The dripping of his blood 

 was traced into Lombard-street, 

 but there every clue for discover- 

 ing whither he had fled failed. In- 

 quiries were made for him at the 

 Virginia coffee-house, where he 

 had lodged, but there he had not 

 arrived. He had engaged lodgings 

 in Dove-court, Lombard-street, of 

 which he was to have taken pos- 

 session last night, but they had not 

 heard of hirn there. 



Some days since he had been 

 seen playing in the office with a 

 new pair of pistols, the locks and 

 barrels of which he was curious in 

 the inspection. 



The body of this poor youth was 

 afterwards found in the Thames. 



On Sunday evening, Jan. 12, 

 the shop of Mr. Pryor,' a respect- 

 able boot-maker, residing at No. 

 71, High-street, Borough, South- 

 wark, was entered by two des- 

 perate villains, though by what 

 means is not yet discovered, but 

 certainly with an intent to rob the 

 premises. While employed in 

 packing up several pair of boots in 



a large skin of leather wh'rch they 

 found in the shop, the servant went 

 down stairs to empty a vessel in the 

 cellar : on her way thither, though 

 she passed through the shop, she 

 did not observe any person; but on 

 her return she perceived two men, 

 one of them packing up boots, and 

 the other coming as from the back 

 part of the premises, to whom 

 she said, " What ! are you going 

 to take boots away to-night .? it is 

 Sunday !" thinking they were some 

 of her master's journeymen. At 

 this instant one of the villains 

 made up to her, and threatened 

 her, that if she uttered a word he 

 would instantly murder her. On 

 looking round, she discovered the 

 other to have a black crape over 

 his face, which so alarmed her, that 

 she screamed out murder 1 mur- 

 der ! several times, and ran to- 

 wards the shop door, which was 

 then open, and which in her fright 

 she shut, and thereby inclosed her- 

 self with these monsters. She 

 continued to scream, though one 

 of them had levelled a blow at her 

 head which knocked her down. 

 On her rising, and not ceasing to 

 call out murder! thieves ! &c. one 

 of the wretches seized her by her 

 hair, and with a sharp instrument 

 cut her throat right across the 

 wind-pipe. She then fell to the 

 ground, and remembered no farther 

 of what passed. 



The screams of the girl had by 

 this time alarmed the family up 

 stairs, which consisted of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Pryor, and three young men, 

 lodgers. Mrs. Pryor then went 

 down stairs, and on her reaching 

 the bottom, actually fell over her 

 wounded servant, as she lay sense- 

 less on the floor. The terror of 

 Mrs. Pryor may be better conceived 



than 



