About ten in the evening, two gentlemen in a post-chaise, coming over Blackheath, were stopped by a single man on foot, dressed in a carter's frock. One of the gentlemen, a military officer, told the fellow, in a peremptory manner, that he would not be robbed, and desired him to desist; but the villain presenting a pistol, and threatening violence, the gentleman shot him dead on the spot.
The same gentlemen had not rode above three miles farther, on their way to town, when they were attacked again by a highwayman, well mounted, near the Red House. The gentleman who killed the footpad shot directly through the blind of the chaise, and is supposed to have wounded him, as the horse upon which he rode sprung into a ditch by the road side, and was afterwards found without his rider on the road adjoining to Kent-street turnpike that leads to Rotherhithe, and a great deal of blood was traced near the ditch where the horse had plunged.
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