Tue 13 Nov 1832
From John R Denyer
To J S Salt
London
Rains enabled vessels to carry full freights along Canal. Wilts & Berks been in very bad state as to water.
This neighbourhood has been very much agitated during the last 9 or 10 days in consequence of a most atrocious Burglary & attempt to murder committed at Tunley about a mile from Daneway the particulars I have marked in the Oxford Journal… The young man shot at had both eyes destroyed together with part of his front teeth & a great many others were lodged in his tongue, in the whole [162] shots can be distinctly counted & yet he is likely to recover, but of course totally blind … every exertion has been used to discover … offenders but up to the period I am writing without effect – a subscription has been opened to defray part of the expenses incurred to which I have taken the liberty of adding a Sovereign for the Company.
