The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-06 00:00:00

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THE DISCOVERY OP
CITYSTOLEN GOODS IN THE

Yesterday at the Mansion-house, Moses Moses,
the marine store dealer, was brought up before Mr. Alder-
man Finnic, who sat for the Lord Mayor, c
with
being in unlawful possession of large quantities of valuable
goods, well knowing the same to have been stolen.
Mr. Wontner appeared for the prosecution ; and Mr.
Lewis, sen., attended on the part of the prisoner.
Thefirst part of theproceedings yesterdayoonsistedolthe
reeding over the depositions of the witnesses in the ones
in which the evidence had been completed at the previous
examinations of the prisoner, and which have alread7
been reported. These cases included the charge of felont-
ously receiving 17 elephant's tusks, valuethe pro-
rerty of Messrs. Joyce and Sons well knowing the same
to have been stolen. The next" • was that of feloniously
receiving, with a guilty knowledge a dumpy level, value
10/., stolen from the chambers of gr. Lewis, civil engineer,
in Great Queen-street, Westminster • the third was that
of receiving jewellery, stolen from the town traveller of
Messrs. Farraday and Davey, of Hatton-garden, wholesale
jewellers ; and the fourth was that of receiving two carpets
of the value of 111., stolen from the Congregational Church,
situate in Dalston-lane, Lower Clapton.
The prisoner, after the usual caution separately given in
each case, was asked if he had anything to say in answer
to the charge, and he replied in a firm tone that he was
not guilty.
The witnesses were respectively bound over to prose-
cute, and the prisoner was fully committed for trial
at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court.
John Blake was then placed at the bar alongside Moses
Moses, and was charged with stealing, on the 15th of
August last, two military saddles, bridles, girths, and
accoutrements, value 401., and also with stealing a solid
leather portmanteau, containing books, oils, scents, soaps,
perfumery, fr.c., the property of Messrs. Smith, Elder, and
Company, of Gi, Cornhill ' • and MosesiMoses was charged
with feloniously receiving the same, well knowing them to
have been stolen.
Mr. Wontner recapitulated the facts of the case as
supplied in the report of the first examination of the pri-
soner Blake, onMonday previous, a week ago. The prisoner
was a carman in the service of the firm of Scudder and
Co., master carmen, Bishop/gate-street, and on the 15th
August he was sent by his employers with a horse and
van to convey certain cases of goods from the
premises of the prosecutors, Messrs. Smith, Elder,
and Co. to the docks for ehipment to Bombay,
Shanghs4 and other foreign pcarts. Some of these
cases were delivered by him in due course, the same day,
but four cases he withheld until the following day, the
theory of the prosecution being that they were kept back
for the purpose of being opened and plundered. That this
was the true solution of the delay was pretty clearly 'shown
by the fact that two valuable military saddles and equip-
menus intended for Captain Bradford, at Bombay, and a
sewleatherportmantesu and its contents, were abstracted,
and these were found by the detective officers in their
search of the warehouse of the prisoner Motes, on the
114th October last. The portmanteau and saddles were
discovered concealed under heaps of raga, and the identity
of the latter was proved by the fureman of the maker,
Messrs. AN-hippy and Steggall, the eminent West-end
saddlers, ; and the portmanteau was identified by Mr.
Loughgate, jun. of Throgmorton-street, as having
been constructed by that firm for • gentle-
man named Eugene Webb, resident at Shanghai',
whose name, engraved on a brass plate, was attached to
the portmanteau. When found the portmanteau had
been forcibly opened, the contents abstracted, and the
name-plate wrenched off. This name-plate was rubes-
quently found in a bag containing metals, discovered in
the parlour of the prisoner Moses's residence, in Gravel
lane, Houndsditch.
These facts were established by the detective officers
Moss, Brown, and Obee, and formal proof having been
given of the delivery of the cases to the prisoner Blake,
and their transit through the hands of the different
wharfingers and idled men ,at the docks, which occupied a
considerable time ; it was shown by the testimony of Mr.
Harris, one of the firm by whom the prisoner Blake was
employed, that Blake, when interrogated on the subject
of the delay and loss, absented himself from his employ-
ment, and was not seen again until he was apprehended
by Detective-officer Samuel Obee.
The prisoner Blake, when called upon for his defence,
contented himself by saying that be was innooent of the
matter and that he knew nothing of the caeca' indeed it
was impossible that he should when be had been in the
habit of taking goods to the docks four or five days a week.
The prisoner Moses repeatedtbat he was not guilty.
Mr. Alderman Finnis expressed his intention to commit
the prisoners for trial on this charge, but as the deposit.
tient' were not completed, the prisoners would be further
remanded to Tuesday (this day week).
When the prisoners are again brought, up three other
distinct charges will be opened against them, including
one respecting a valuable electro-plated dinner service
found on the premises of the prisoner Moses.
The justice-room was again densely crowded throughout
the day.