Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

A few days since as two brothers, fruiterers, were coming out of Kent with their cart very early in the morning, they met a neighbor near Eltham, who acquainted them with his just having been robbed by three men, and told them that if they went farther, they would certainly meet with the same fate. On this information, the two brothers got a hedge stake, and dividing it, went on, but were soon attacked by the three foot-pads, armed with pistols, one of whom they knocked down; the other two jumped over the hedge, and were pursued by the elder brother into a corn-field, where unluckily getting his foot entangled in the corn, he fell, and the villains then attacked him with great fury. He extricated himself, however, by his strength and courage, on which the robbers again made off, after firing a pistol at him. The brother, who was taking care of the villain in the road, crying out on hearing the shot, fearful for his safety, the pursuer returned, and having then got their prisoner in the cart, they went to a public house, whence, a little after day-light, they perceived one of the villains in the road, who was immediately secured, and the third soon after making his appearance, he was likewise taken, and they are all three fully committed to Maidstone goal. A subscription was then opened, to reward the courage of the brothers, by which about eleven pounds were immediately raised, and the conviction of the offenders will entitle them to 40l. more; a recompence due to their bravery.