11/30 Along Ludgate skirting St.Paul's, he was soon in Cheapside. By this time Sally Salisbury was nearly exhausted, and in St.Paul's Churchyard she jumped into a hackney coach and shaking her purse at the driver bade him join in the pursuit. The Poultry, the Royal Exchange were left behind, but the coach--with Sally inside continually calling upon the driver to go faster, at the same time promising him any reward he liked to ask--gradually drew upon the fugitive. The latter was close to the road leading to London Bridge, and turning, he fired his second barrel at the horse and the animal stumbled and fell. She sprang from the now useless coach and called upon the crowd to follow her. |