A DESPERATE HIGHWAYMAN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2325, 4 June 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

A DESPERATE HIGHWAYMAN.

A sirocKtN'd fiffair took place on Saturday morning between Boxmoor Station and Hemel Hempstend. William Bailey, a mail carrier, had conveyed the nightmails to BoxinoorStiition, and was returning with the morning nv-iils to Hemel Hempstoad nbout 4 a.m.,-when,in passing over a bridge, he was struck by a man on the head and partially stunned-. Several shots''were then fired, but fortunately these lolled in the , mail bags. Bailey shouted for assistance, and his assailant ran away. On arriving at Hetnel Hempstead.about five'o'clock. Bailey informed the police, of the occurrence, Police SergeantMoloy and Constable Pearman pro ceeied to the residence of a young man, nained; George Norris, living in Chapelstreet. : The man opened the .upstairs window, upparently with a revolver in his hand, but did not fire. He closed the window, and screams and two reports of a pistol were immediately heard. The door.was burst open, ,and on the police going, upstairs they saw Norris getting out of a back window on to the roof of an outhouse. They gave chase, but failed to overtake him. His dead body was afterwards discovered in the river Gade. Norris's wife, who was found to have received two bullet wounds, was conveyed to West Herts Infirmary.