The Alexandria Herald

Highway Robbery and attempt to commit Murder.

On Sunday forenoon, a laborer going from New-York to Newark, fell in company with three men, who appeared from their dress and language to be foreigners, travelling the same way. When they came to that part of the causeway, a little the other side of Hackensack, which is bordered on each side by a thicket, they suddenly stopped and demanded his money. Finding resistance vain, he gave them all he had, being about seven dollars. They demanded whether he was armed, and being answered in the negative, proceeded to search his pockets, to which he also submitted, and from which they took a small knife, and also the hat off his head. Having proceeded thus far without molestation they then assaulted him and made an attempt to cut his throat, but at this he discovered signs of the most decided disapprobation, and a scuffle ensued, during which they succeeded partially in drawing the knife across his throat, and would undoubtedly have finished with murder, but a traveller at this instant appeared on horseback, at sight of whom the villains immediately took flight in the swamp. The wounded man with the traveller repaired to a house within the distance of about a mile, where they found a resolute young man, who as soon as he learnt the story, armed himself with a pistol, and alone and on foot pursued the route the footpads had taken; he soon had the good fortune to come in sight of one of them himself, who attempted to escape, but he clapped the pistol to his head, ordered him to stop, and taking out a handkerchief and binding his arms behind him he drove him before him back to the house. The hue and cry being given the people came from Newark and entering directly on the pursuit of the other two, they apprehended them both. They were all carried to Bergen, where after undergoing an examination they were committed to jail.

Evening Post.