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1799
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The Times, 1 March 1799.
Shots fired during an attempted highway robbery on Wandsworth Common
The Times, 1 March 1799, p.3.
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Last Sunday night as Mr. LUKIN, of Long-acre, was returning to town over Wandsworth Common, he was stopped by two highwaymen, and on refusing to deliver his money, one of the highwaymen discharged a pistol at him, but it missed. Mr. L. then discharged a pistol at the robbers, on which they rode off.
[Source: The Times, 1 March 1799, p.3.
[James Grant, in his novel Second to None, A Military Romance (1864), includes a comparable scene, but with added love interest. The story is set during the Napoleonic War. His military hero, crossing Wandsworth Common on horseback, hears a woman's scream and saves her from a highwayman.]