PETERSFIELD.
Agent—Miss DUPLOCK.
AN AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—On Thursday evening week, about eight o’clock as the gamekeepers of R. H. Nevill, Esq., of Dangstein, were keeping watch in Harting Coombe, they observed two notorious poachers, named William and Henry Newman, brothers, approaching the spot where they were standing, and as soon as they came up the keepers accosted them, and after a few words had passed, Petter, one of the keepers, seized William by the collar, upon which Henry made a desperate attack on the other two keepers, knocking them both down with the stock of a gun which he had in his hand, having done this he rushed to his brother’s assistance and released him from Petter’s grasp, and then both ruffians set upon the latter with murderous violence, beating him about the head in a fearful manner, one with the barrel, and the other with the stock of a gun, till he became utterly insensible, and all but lifeless, they then ran ran off and we regret to say they have not yet been captured. A reward is offered for their apprehension, and we trust they will shortly be brought to justice for the murderous assault. Petter was for some time in a very dangerous state, but we hear he is recovering. The other two were not seriously injured.
(See also 22-Jan-1859)