ABSTRACT
At Mr. M—d’s, we met with Captain Ormesdale, (the officer of the preventives who had been at Norley Wood,) who was there on a similar errand to mine, having some prisoners with him for examination. He had made a resolute attack upon the gang in the wood, and it had been a very sharp affair, for some of his men were severely if not mortally wounded, while the desperadoes whom he had taken prisoners had suffered equally. I took considerable interest in his narrative, not only from having been engaged in concerting the plot for surprising both the parties, but also because I had little doubt that, if the Norley gang had not been cut up, the cottage-wench might have found means to bring them upon us for the rescue of her paramour Jones.
