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22nd July 1837



On Monday as Colonel Milman was driving his carriage down Castle Hill, one of the horses suddenly fell down; fortunately , however, the carriage was not overturned, and the Colonel and his family , who were with him, escaped unhurt, though much alarmed.




Maidenhead, July 21

On Friday night, as John Wise [?], a labouring man, was on his way from Putney to Newbury, he was attacked by three or four men in Boyn Hill-lane , near this town, violently assaulted and robbed of �2 15s, a bundle, and a great coat, and left bleeding on the ground. Information was given to Mr.D.Sexton, constable of Maidenhead, who on the following day apprehended one of the villains, a rail-road man, of the name of Oliver Silcox. He has been examined before the magistrates of the borough, and fully committed for trial at the next assizes.

On Monday last, between ten and eleven at night, a young man of the name of Sellwood, from Boyn-hill, (in the employ of Mr.J.Benbow, of Highway farm), was attacked close to his own residence by three men, one of them putting his hand upon the poor man's mouth, the other two pulling him into a house adjoining that in which he lived, where they threatened his life, otherwise used him in a shameful manner, and robbed him of his purse, containing six or seven shillings, they then dragged him into the garden , and threw him over a five-barred gate into the road. Two of the villains have since been apprehended by the above named active constable, sworn to by Sellwood, and fully committed to take their trial at the next assizes.