An Impartial RELATION OF THE Seizing and Apprehending
Several High-Way-Men, In
Fleet-Street, &c. on
Friday the Second of this Instant
March, 1694.
With an Account of the Manner of their Apprehension, their Names, Trades, late Places of Abode, and their Commitment to
Newgate.
Licensed according to Order.
⟨3. March 1693/4.⟩
COnsidering the many Robberies committed on the Road, it is not at all to be wonder'd at, that so many Highway-men are taken and every Sessions Condemn'd to condign Punishment. Upon Ware-Road (for this Twelve-month) there has been great Robbing, many Passengers depriv'd of great Booties; no Inns having any Remarkable Intelligence, suffitient to make any Observation, or to take any Cognizance of them, as they past the Roads, till a Country Gentleman's Servant, seeing his Master Robb'd of a considerable Prize, (being over-powered by number) happened, some few Days after, (as he was Journying to London, upon his Masters Occasions) to overtake these same Highway-Men; and Remembring their Faces, began and continued a familiar Conversation with them upon the Road, till they came to London, the fittest Place for the Apprehending of unlawful Livers, whose Resolutions are generally desperate.
He being willing to wait a convenient Opportunity, for the Seizing his former Adversaries, Dog'd two to Temple-Bar, where he took them with a Constable; and, after great Resistance, carryed them before a Magistrate, who Committed them to Newgate, attended with great Crowds of People. The one, whose Name is Glover, being a Plumber in Fetter-Lane: the other his Man, whose Name is Terram.
These two after they were taken into Custody (desirous of the Company of their third Associate) confessed his Name to be Bowel, and that he Lodged in Black-Friers, where he was immediately taken, by Persons dispatched in order for his Apprehension; who accordingly was committed to Newgate.