The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-11-20 00:00:00

A RECEIVER-GENERAL OF STOLEN
PROPERTY.

The Jew Moses Moses was again brought up at the
Mansion House on Tuesday, and, in addition to those
casess in which he has b n committed for trial, wa.
charged with haying in his pouession lead which had
liven stolen front Woolwich Arsenal, and sonanitted.
The gra the. graphically relates the singular history of
this teas :—A member of the Ilsbrew persussion, carry•
ing on a very extensive business in the East-end of
London, had, in coneequenos of the variety of articles in
which he traded, two or more storehouses, lofts, and
sheds—places of depot and business. Though the mu-
ter of • flourishing commercial speculation, the Jew
proprietor seems , all uneeneeious of the tut, to have
fallen scene time back under the suspicion of the police;
but, as they oould bring nothing to the charge of • man
In so respectable and large away of basins-ix they were
content with placing a detective on guard merely to keep
a wary eye upon the prembet trusting to time or
accident to sive them an opportunity or a pretext for
entering the •dablishment, and in...beating for them.
selves. A prowling thief, probably acquainted with the
premises from form.r dealings titer entered one of the
Jew's detached buildings,. and carded off prnperty to
the estimated value of £l4O. In the ion sad in.
considerate haste of his bereavement, the injured
Hebrew took counsel of the police, and recounted the
whole history of hitt loss. The patient and meritorioua
officers, who had no long waited their opportunity, asked
to see the plus where the robbery bad been cominitted.
• ryquest which the owner, thinking they only want d
to examine the lock, or the opening by sada the thieves
had entered, at once eouiplied with. No sooner, how
ever, had the detectives entered than they began t•
exert:Me their eyes and hulls, and to suoh purpose tl.ac
the proprietor very quietly stood on his own premium
in the position of a culprit, the receiver of stolen props' ty,
property of such value end variety that the °Mc r forgett-
ing all shout the petty burglary, the offence and receiver.
general of stolen property, at once walked the offender
off to the Mansion House and handed him over to be dealt
with by one of the worthy Aldermen, while the detect-
tives returned with earls and waggons to remove the
impounded plunder. Hardly a week pes.te but some
marine store-keeper, or other, is indicted, fined, or
panished for buying, unquestioned, stolen goods. The
newspaper and calendar are full Id such offence.; they
teem with eases of these small offen.es and petty
reoeivert; bet it is seldom that so large and wl olmule •
culprit as this is caught with all the confirmation
about him, or so readily handed over to
justice. Nothing seems to have been too Myth
or too low, too small or too bulky, for this arch
reoeiv- r'• pasjon for bargains, Seventeen elephants'
teaks are stolen at night from a barge, and
by the morning are all snugly packed away in the Jew's
stone house. A. box of jewellery, worth LIGO, is stolen
In broad day from • town traveller's chaise, and pa
hour alter, is buried under filthy rags beside the tusks
of ivory. A surveyor's office in WelltlllinSter is robbed,
and all the owner's professional implements swept off,
and as soon as the thief's legs can carry him to White.
chapel, the theodolite. level, and chain, find • resting.
place beneath more rage; and two caepeta, stolen from
a chapel at Claptott, help to swell the Jew's store. One
of the moot extraerdinary features in the whole •ffair is
the apparent carelessness observed by the prisoner in
the hoarding of the most valuable part of his stock, and
the perfect absence of anything like system or order in
the dispoul or arrangement of his jewellery. Earrings,
brooches, rings of great value, were rolled up it bits of
dirty rag, end thrown upon the ground, or hastily
, pushed behind boxes and herrele, in the most itsdiffereot
end negligent manner. Watches, chains, and other
, costly srtieles, sure all hastily enveloped in the name
slatternly way, and thrust out of eight, between path-
, ages, or pushed indisteitninettly into • perfect wall of
rags, that roe front floor to ceiling, evincing, in the
, buyer of these stolen gone, neither rvgard nor intereet
in h,n dishonest purehues. In the eye .4 every honest
man the receiver, the man who knowingly purchases
stolen propt.rty, is a more revolting object than the
simple thief; for without suab houses of call and seen t
mute f plunder crime would be reduced to its very
minimum. Such dens of infamy, where nol only
temptation but encouragement to theft and robbery is
given, are usually buried in some obscure alley or un-
frequented court removed as for no poeoble from sight
and day-light. But this rank and wealthy offen her
carries on an totentations trade in • thronged and buoy
thoroughfare, snd, under the blind of a legitimate
busing., pursues the most demoralising of all otocuit,
Lions, that of • corrupter nueele, a decoyer to youth,
and • general shield for depravity.