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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



employed by Miss Langley ; the 

 second party consisting of ten, 

 and the third containing nine 

 men, were in tlie service of 

 Lord Ducie and Colonel Berkeley. 

 Some time after they had separat- 

 ed, the attention of the last-men- 

 tioned body was attracted by the 

 report of two guns, when they 

 immediately made for the spot 

 ■whence the sound seemed to pro- 

 ceed. As they approached it, a 

 shot was fired at them, without 

 any previous notice, but did no 

 injury : but on coming nearer, 

 another discharge took place, 

 -which unfortunately killed the 

 deceased on the instant, a portion 

 of the charge having penetrated 

 the heart. Inunediatcly after- 

 wards, a succession of shots were 

 fired, which severely wounded 

 the following persons : — Barge 

 and — Davies in the head and 

 eyes ; Raymond Hensburgh, John 



King, and — Berry, in the 



legs ; and another, whose name, 

 we believe, is Pinnell, in the 

 thigh. The noise of the firing 

 soon brought up the second party, 

 or perhaps more murder might 

 have been committed, and, in a 

 little time, Miss Langley's men 

 likewise arrived, wheu they com- 

 menced a pursuit, but although 

 they got a sight of the ^^llains, 

 who were sixteen or eighteen in 

 number, they could not get suffi- 

 ciently near to secure any one of 

 them. The deceased had been in 

 the service of Colonel Berkeley 

 upwards of five years. The Jury 

 returned a verdict of — Wilful 

 murder against some persons un- 

 known. Vickery, from Bow- 

 street, arrived at Colonel Berke- 

 ley's on Monday night, to assist in 



discovering the villains and biing- 

 ing them to justice. The wound- 

 ed men are all considered out of 

 danger. 



Furtlier particulars. — On Feb. 

 1st were committed to Gloucester 

 gaol, John Penny, late of the 

 parish of Hill, in Gloucestershire, 

 charged on the oaths of John 

 King and others, with the wilful 

 nauder of one Wm. Ingram, in 

 the night of the 18th idt. within 

 a certain close situate in the said 

 parish of Hill ; and John Allen, 

 AV'm. Penny, Thomas Collins, 

 Daniel Long, John Reeves, John 

 Burley, James Jenkins, Thomas 

 IMorgan, James Roach, and Wm. 

 Greenaway, all late of the said 

 parish of Hill, seveivilly charged 

 with having feloniously been pre- 

 sent at the said murder. Green- 

 away and Binley were afterwards 

 admitted King's evidence. The 

 whole of the prisoners are young 

 men of decent aj)i)earance. 



The crimes imputed to the 

 above prisoneis are substantiated 

 by the confession of two of their 

 associates, wl>o have been admit- 

 ted evidence for the crown. It 

 ajjpeared that these desjjerate ma- 

 rauders assembled at the house of 

 John Allen, one of the prisoners, 

 on the evening of the 18th ult. 

 with the avowed intention of de- 

 stroying game on the adjoining 

 manors, but prepared for a more 

 diabolical purpose ; in proof of 

 which it need only be stated, that 

 the whole gang, amounting in 

 number to sixteen, had their faces 

 blacked at his house, and wei^ 

 separately sworn not to betray 

 each other before they sallied 

 forth, about eleven o'clock at 

 night, eight of them armed with 



loaded 



