A highwayman having committed several robberies on the Highgate road, the north stages, to protect their passengers, have employed a guard to attend them till day-light, when they generally think themselves safe; but this day two thief takers, in hopes of entrapping the highwayman, and apprehending him for the sake of the reward, set out early in the morning in a post-chaise, like travellers, upon the same road, with a view of being attacked by the highwayman at the usual place.
When they had got to the bottom of Highgate-hill, they pass'd one of the stages already mentioned, and observing the guard riding towards the coach with fire-arms, concluded him to be the highwayman of whom they were in pursuit, and firing a blunderbuss at him, shattered his arm in a terrible manner, and killed a servant who rode upon the top of the stage.
Information of this affair being given to a proper magistrate, warrants were issued out for apprehending the thief takers, one of whom is already committed to Newgate, and the other is said to have absconded.
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