As Mr. Scott, carpenter at Mile-End, was returning home, he was met by three villains, who remembering, that about a twelvemonth ago, on their attempting to break open his house, he had fired at them, resolved to dispatch him; for which purpose one of them let off a pistol, the ball of which struck his arm, and shattered the bone in a most terrible manner.
On his falling to the ground with the agony, they fled with precipitation, thinking he was killed; but though, by that means, his life was saved for the present, he did not long survive the amputation of his arm.
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