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Smith brought up her husband, who, seeing the condition of the prostrate female, assailed the monkey, and compelled him to quit Ribbed-face Baboon) which threw her down, and placing his feet upon her breast, held her pinned firmly to the ground. Retired to her bed-room, and before her husband had desisted from his supper enjoyments, some of the family was alarmed by a screamįrom her bed-room, and one of the inmates (a female) proceeding thither, was attacked on entering the door, by a Monkey (or a Smith, with his lady, resides in the apartments of Mrs. Several years ago from the office file by the then editor, and reads:Īn extraordinary burglary - attended by very singular circumstances, and perpetrated by a curious felon. The original article was copied out for me Provincial newspaper, but perhaps read some fuller account than that in the Register. This was synopsized from the Ipswich Shrewsbury Chronicle, August 22, 1834. Waller, who found in the Annual Register for 1834 a short article, “New Mode of Thieving,” telling of a robber †Ī possible factual source for Poe's story was pointed out in the London Notes and Queries, May 12, 1894, by bitch was somewhat lame.Ī similar incident follows about a horse. Than by the three others, I concluded that our. the sand was always less hollowed by one paw Idea that the bitch had very long ears: and.

to have scraped the surface of the sand beside the forepaws, gave me the

Paws informed me that the animal was a bitch with pendent dugs, who hence had puppies recently. The long shallow furrows printed on the little ridges of sand between the tracks of the I saw an animal's tracks on the sand, and I judged.

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