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Highwayman Attack and Multiple Murders Reported in London
A London report describes a highway robbery attempt on a chairmaker named Lee on Dyer Street and Highgate with the assailant fatally shooting him. Coroner’s Inquest returns Wilful Murder verdict. Also noted are suicides, robberies by servants, and a long confession detailing a burglary and murder plot near Snow Hill.
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Dyer-street
St. Giles’s
Highgate
Howard
Kentish Town
Lee
Corbet
New Church
Strand
Westminster
Gower-Wall
Boikelign
Whey
Tate
Rochester
Barend Reynolds
Lincoln
Diane
Thomas Hallam
Aed Ingang
Morderd
Aix
Wright
Chaife
Sarah Malcolm
Snow-Hill
Puurp-Court
Bridgwater
Will
Gibbs
Alexanders
Ankard
Buss
Bread-Street
Newgate
Peter Buck
Roger Johnson
Johnson
Aid
Mooney
Gankag Thar
Kerroll
Neon South
South Sa
Bank Isn
Bank
Iliidis
Equivalene Ag
York
Royal Exchange Assurance
London Assuranceé
Englife Copper di Bis
Welett
Badia Dro
Ditta
Dicco