Three Wandsworth Men Committed for Highway Robbery
Yesterday one Fielder, a Butcher, Goswell, a Baker, and Rowler, a Gardener, all of Wandsworth, were committed to the New Jail in Southwark, by Justice Pettywood, of Putney, for robbing the Rev. Dr. Baker of St. Michael's Corn-hill, and Minister of Barnes in Surrey, of thirty Guineas and a Gold Watch, in the Manner following: They tied their Horses to a Gate and robbed as Foot-pads; but upon their Return the Horses had broke loose, which gave the Doctor's Man an Opportunity of alarming the Country People, who immediately pursued and easily took them before they could recover their Horses. In their Flight they flung away the thirty Guineas and the Gold Watch; but being perceived the Booty was regained by the Pursuers. It is said they had been at a Cock-Match and lost their Money, which put them upon this desperate Way of recruiting.