Show BRUTAL ASSAULT AND ROBBERY on sa satur ur day night last sep about 12 an assault as bajit and robbery robbe 1 ry were committed upon a stranger named charles mccarty mccartlin McCart yin in the public street under the cloudless cloud lesa jesa light of the high midnight moon it appears that mccarty was drinking with a number of men in a low fiddling grog shop the new world after paying his treat he left the house and was followed by one man who urged him to stay but suspecting danger he said be he would go to his big lodging as lie he dreaded another of the numbers coming after him another did come out when mccarty walked across the street followed by about six men on discovering that they followed he put confidence in his heels and ran but whether his head was too light by the potations rotations ions he had imbibed his big pr pursuers ers running and firing pistols at him overtook him bit him a blow on the heat head cau caught I 1 lit him by ohp throat and felled him one lof of the tte miscreants then rifled his hib pocket ex trading he says about on attaining their nefarious design they fled died je leaving virag him prostrate the robbery was so speedily accomplished that a policeman who followed rapidly suspecting something wrong on scein seeing them cross th the street estreet was on only ly in time to assist the poor fellow on his bis way to his lodgings and capture two of the number and put them in the lockup lock up in watching batchin for the rest he was suddenly attacked by a number of men among whom were some of the robbers the gang led by john IV miller and with cocked revolvers threatened to shoot the policeman it if he would not deliver up one of the prisoners taken by him remonstrance was in vain the policeman was forced to yield and gave up the prisoner required one still remaining main maln ma ining irig next day mccar y complained under oath a writ was issued and put into the hands of marshal alexander mcrae who arrested john IV miller and henry E phelps charged cb arged with assault and robbery henry spear is ia the name of the prisoner whom the policeman succeeded in retaining on monday the prisoners were taken before jeter clinton estr 1 J P and witnesses examined when ay they vere were held to answer and allowed to give bail bad in the sum of each or in default tobe to be committed CITIZEN |