The National Republican And Ohio Political Register

New-York, January 22.

Daring Outrage.—One of the most daring attempts to commit robbery we ever heard of, was made last night, and in a manner that will admonish our community to be on their guard. About 7 o'clock in the evening, three men who were clad in a respectable manner, called at the store of Messrs. P. & J. S. Crary, (the windows of which were closed) and asked a young man named Henry Munsell, aged 17 years, the only one of the clerks then in, if he could direct them to the store of Mr. Mulligan. The young man gave them a direct answer, but they loitered in the store, and excited his suspicions that they were robbers. They however went off, and he thought no more of the circumstance at the time.

But about 9 o'clock, hearing a bold knock and supposing it to be from a fellow clerk who lodges in the store with him, Munsell readily opened the door, when the same three men presented themselves, one of whom seized him by the collar and pressed in. The young man fortunately succeeded in shutting the door and bolting it in time to exclude the other two, at the same time scuffling and fighting with the one who had entered, whom he finally succeeded in throwing or by accident tripping to the floor, but had great difficulty in keeping him there—and all the time crying for assistance. While in this situation, the robber got out from one of his pockets a pistol, telling the young man to release him or he would blow out his brains, and immediately attempted so to do—but the pistol missed fire. The robber then grew desperate and drew from his side a knife nearly two feet long, with which he succeeded in obliging young Munsell to let him go, the robber himself unbolting the door and walking off—his companions having previously abandoned the place after attempting to press in the door.

Munsell is but of the middle stature for his age—the robber he states was a tall man apparently about 25. It is almost incredible that he should have been thus able to resist the villain, and escape any serious wound. In the scuffle his coat was torn to pieces. It is not improbable that he owes his life to his remarkably spirited conduct—had the three robbers entered the store their first act would no doubt have been to silence him.

The abovementioned store is at the corner of Pearl and Pine streets, one of the most public situations in the city—and it was a moonlight evening.—Mercantile Advertiser.