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than described. Notwithstanding 

 her fright, however, she got up 

 stairs ; but it was not a matter easy 

 to determine in the minds of those 

 above, who should venture down 

 to attack, what they supposed a 

 banditti of murderers. Mr. Pryor 

 and his lodgers then went down, 

 and found the servant as we have 

 before described, the shop door 

 being wide open, and, we are sorry 

 to say, that the perpetrators of this 

 horrid crime escaped, leaving be- 

 hind them the skin of leather, tied 

 up, full of new boots and shoes. 

 Medical aid was instantly sent for, 

 and the wound on the neck was 

 pronounced not mortal. What 

 adds to the daring atrocity of this 

 act is, that it was committed so 

 early as between eight and nine 

 o'clock ; and the premises of Mr. 

 Pryor are as public as any situation 

 can be, being situated in the High- 

 street of Southwark, not many 

 yards from the Town-hall, which 

 is as great a thoroughfare as the 

 Strand or Fleet-street. 



Nottingham,Jan. 13. — Thelatest 

 accounts which we have received 

 represent the hopes which were 

 entertained of seeing a speedy end 

 to the outrages in that neighbour- 

 hood as being again disapjiointed. 

 Last week frame-breaking- and 

 burning increased, but only one 

 burglary had been heard of. The 

 gang in Derbyshire, it was believ- 

 ed, was nearly broken up. On the 

 2nd instant, an idle wretch, who 

 had excited suspicion by a sudden 

 transition from rags and poverty to 

 well dressed plenty, was arrested 

 at Heanor, in that county : and we 

 understand, from information he 

 has given, that two other des- 

 peradoes were takerv at a public- 

 house in Loscoe, last Wednesday, 



and conveyed in chains to Derby 

 gaol; one of whom, a celebrated 

 pedestrian, and well known as a 

 deserter, had long been the terror 

 of the neighbourhood for miles 

 around. A stack, containing twenty 

 tons of valuable hay, was set fire 

 to at Mansfield on Sunday evening ; 

 the flames of which drew a part of 

 a congregation from the raethodist 

 chapel in that place, during divine 

 service. On Wednesday evening, 

 a large wooden hovel, containing a 

 quantity of straw, the property of 

 Mrs. Daykin, ofBagthorpe, was set 

 fire to at Basford, the whole of 

 which was consumed. The frame- 

 breaking at Basford, on Friday 

 night, had created considerable 

 sensation. An elderly woman, the 

 wife of a person who held seven of 

 these frames, has sworn to several 

 persons as being concerned in the 

 outrage (two of whom are com- 

 mitted), on which account, such 

 was the indignation excited against 

 her among some of the stocking-' 

 makers of Basford, that it was 

 judged expedient to remove the 

 family with their furniture, esort- 

 ed by the military, to Nottingham, 

 as a place of refuge, lest they 

 should fall a sacrifice to the ven- 

 geance of the rioters. 



10. A most important disco- 

 very has been made within these 

 two days, which removes every 

 shadow of doubt respecting the 

 guilt of the late suicide Williams. 

 It was proved before the magis- 

 trates of Shad well office, that three 

 weeks before the murder of Mr. 

 Williamson and his family, Wil- 

 liams had been seen to have a long 

 French knife with an ivory handle. 

 That knife could never be found iii 

 Williams's trunk, or amongst any 

 of the clothes he left behind him, 



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