[Illustration:  JOSEPH BLAKE ATTEMPTING THE LIFE OF JONATHAN WILD

(From the Newgate Calendar)]

In short, their two benefactors furnished then with things to the amount of two hundred pounds, accompanied them themselves on board the vessel, and recommended them to the captain with as much earnestness as if they had been near relations.  Coming in this light into the abroad, they were received with great hospitality, and treated with much kindness and respect; and in fine, after remaining here about a year, Jenny married a gentleman of as good fortune as any in the country, and her sister, not long after, had the same luck.  Jenny did not indeed survive it long, but Alice outlived her first husband, and marrying a second, returned into England where she is still living in as much respect and esteem as any gentlewoman in the county where she inhabits.

An Account of the horrid murder of MR. WIDDINGTON DARBY, committed in his chambers in the Temple, on the 11th of April, 1727, for which one HENRY FISHER was apprehended and committed to Newgate, from whence he escaped.

The deceased Mr. Darby was a young gentleman who made an extraordinary good appearance in the world.  He generally wore fine rings, rich snuff boxes, and an extraordinary gold watch about him.  These things possibly tempted a needy person of his acquaintance to be guilty of that barbarous murder which was committed upon him.  He lived in the chambers belonging to Sir George Cook’s office in the Temple.  His servant lived in another place, and went home every night.  It happened the night before, or rather in that wherein he was murdered, that Mr. Darby had a good deal of company with him, who supping late, they did not go away until eleven o’clock, when Mr. Darby’s servant also retired to his lodgings.  The next morning, being Tuesday, about nine o’clock, Mr. Darby was found dead in the said office, his skull penetrated with a pistol ball, his ear and hand cut, his rings, watch and other valuables taken away, besides his escritoire broken open, and his money and linen taken from thence.

The next day the coroner’s inquest sat thereon, but being able to make no discovery of the murder, they thought fit to adjourn sine die, as soon as the coroner had made an order for the interment of his corpse which was done accordingly in a vault in the church of St. Andrew’s, Holborn.

Some time passed before any light was got into this affair.  At length, Mr. Moody, who had been upon the coroner’s inquest who had sat on the body of Mr. Darby, received information that one Fisher, who had been in very bad circumstances, and as an acquaintance had been relieved under him by the deceased Mr. Darby, was all on a sudden, since the committing of that murder, observed to have a great deal of money.  He had paid some debts which had been troublesome to him and was observed to have some valuable things about him which had never been seen before.  These