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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
189
"An
attempt
was
this
morning
made
to
murder
or
seriously
to
maim
Bradley,
the
Lombard
Street
letter-carrier,
with
a
view
of
obtaining
possession
of
the
letters
for
his
district.
He
was
passing
through
Mitre
Court,
a
narrow
passage
between
Wood
Street
and
Milk
Street,
when
the
gate
of
the
Court
was
closed
and
locked
behind
him
with
a
skeleton
key
by,
it
is
believed,
three
men,
who
followed
him
a
few
yards
farther
on
in
the
passage.
On
Bradley
getting
to
a
wider
part
of
the
Court,
one
of
them
felled
him
to
the
ground
by
a
heavy
blow
from
a
life-preserver;
he
attempted
to
rise,
but
was
again
knocked
down
in
a
similar
manner.
He
then
felt
that
they
tried
to
force
from
him
his
letter-bags,
but
fortunately
the
mouths
of
them
were,
for
security,
twisted
round
his
arm.
They
continued
their
blows;
but
Bradley
retained
sufficient
consciousness
to
call
out
'Murder!'
so
as
to
be
heard
by
some
of
the
porters
in
the
adjoining
warehouses,
who
ran
to
see
what
was
the
matter,
but
unluckily
the
villains
escaped.
Poor
Bradley
is
most
seriously
injured--so
much
so
that
he
may
be
considered
in
some
danger."
An
idea
of
the
amount
of
property
the
thieves
would
have
obtained
had
Bradley
not
held
the
bags
tightly
(even
under
such
circumstances),
may
be
formed
from
the
fact
that
he
had
in
his
possession
thirty-seven
registered
letters
containing
property,
besides
all
the
other
letters
for
Messrs
Overend,
Gurney,
&
Co.,
Robarts,
Curtis,
&
Co.,
Glynn
&
Co.,
the
London
and
County
Bank,
as
well
as
those
for
thirty-four
other
houses
in
Lombard
Street.
It
was
believed
at
the
time
that
the
value
of
the
property
in
Bradley's
possession
amounted
to
hundreds
of
thousands
of
pounds.
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