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Some Selected Reports from The Windsor and Eton Express

29th March 1834

In out last publication we stated that a Mrs.Fair had taken a quantity of laudanum, and that the poisonous drug had been removed by means of the stomach pump. We have since been informed that Mrs.Fair did not swallow any laudanum, and consequently the paragraph in question was untrue.

The Lectureship of the Colnbrook Chapel is now vacant, in consequence of the death of the Rev.D.Lewis, of Ruislip. It must be filled by a scholar of Pembroke College, agreeable to the will of the late G.Townsend, Esq.

On the night of Monday last a poor man at Wyrardisbury, with his wife and a little boy, left their house to attend the funeral of a relative a few miles off, and on their return the next day the house was found to have been entered, and a variety of articles stolen. We understand this is the 13th time this poor man has been plundered in a similar manner.

Death of the Wild Boar

This ferocious animal which escaped from Mr.Shard's, at Hedgerley, early in December last, and which has remained at large, ranging the woods near Beaconsfield, was shot on Sunday night last. It appears that his visit to a nursery ground on Farnham Common for some acorns which had been sown was discovered, and in consequence two men armed with guns laid in wait for him, and the next time he visited the spot both guns were fired at him; the boar, on being shot, was seen to fall, but he instantly recovered himself and went away again into the woods. On Thursday, however, he was found dead in East Burnham, Bucks, about half a mile from the place where he was shot.

The Masters Grossmith, are announced to appear in their New Entertainment, at the Public Room, High-street, on Tuesday next; at the Town Hall, Maidenhead, on Wednesday; and at Henley on Thursday. Our young neighbours command success go where they may, and we think, from the interest excited, they will (if possible), meet a larger audience on Tuesday, than on the last occasion two years since.

The Murder at Epsom

At a Petty Sessions, held at Woolwich, before Messrs. Stace and Smith, a man named John Reeve was placed at the bar under the following circumstances: -
It appeared that two of the horse patrols of Greenwich had received information of two men who had attempted to rob a gentleman at Hendon, in Middlesex, and while on duty on Thursday night they apprehended the prisoner and a man named Richard Brown, on Shooter's Hill, on suspicion of being the parties in question. Brown, however, made an excuse to be liberated for a few moments, when he contrived to make his escape. In the absence of the gentleman alluded to the case could not be gone into, but a master shoemaker at Woolwich swore positively to the prisoner being one of the two men who, on Sunday evening last, stopped him in Wickham Lane, Eltham, and threatened to beat his brains out with their bludgeons unless he gave up his money. The villains were just going to carry their threat into execution as he handed them his watch and all the money he had about him, amounting only to a few shillings in silver. Upon this charge the prisoner was fully committed for trial. Previous to the examination of the prisoner various circumstances transpired which induced the magistracy and others to have a suspicion that the prisoner Reeve and his companion Brown were the two men whom the police had so long been in search of on the charge of murdering Mr.Richardson, at Banstead. One of the London constables who had been actively engaged in endeavouring to trace the murderers, was consequently sent for, and he gave it as his opinion that the prisoner answered the description given of one of the men stated to have been seen near Epsom on the day of the murder.