The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-01-07 00:00:00

POLICE.

niTTIMHALI.

Daniel Dean, who once carried on business as a master printer.
but latterly has been working as a ,oritrneymen, was brought before
Alderman C. SetiTn, yesterday; on suspicion of felony.
The complainant. Mr. John Fowler Dove, a printer in St.
John's-sqqare, the gentleman who lately tonterited the election fur
Sheriff of linntlan, stated that on Thursday he received nn intima-
tion from Ales.sre. Taylor, Green, and Idttlewnod, printers, that
they had detained a man who had been offering for sale a quantity
of type, which was believed to belong to him. Upon going to their
office he found the prisoner there. whom he recognised to have been
in his employ as a compositor live or six months ago, and upon
hewing the circumstances tinder which he had been detained from
Ale. Taylor, gave him into tweedy.
Mr..lames Taylor, of No. IJI la house between N 06.15 and 16)
in the (Hit Dailey, said a porter came to their house on Wednesday
morning. and inquired whether they purchased old metal for their
stereotyping: he replied in the affirmative, and the porter pro-
duced a paper with a blank left fur the price per pound, which he
(the witness) tilled up with the slim 4d. Shortly afterwards the
porter rime again with a load of metal open his knot, which
weighed about 931 b. and he was about to pay him for it, when It
oceureed to hint that it would be prudent to examine it first, and
epon doing an, stud finding three or tour whole pages of different
works, lie determined to make further inquiry, and told the porter
in call ag tin tOr payment on the following morning. The newness
of the type. and the discovery among it of a reindeer of quadrats t
piece of metal, the use of which produces a blank apace, such as are
at the ends of paragreplte), an article rarely condemned to the mei..
ing-pet by a ntaster-printee. increased his suepition that the pm.
perry had been stolen. When the porter celled on the following
morning he inquired who hall sent him with the metal, and he
replied a Mr. Dean, of St. John-street. slr. Taylor told hist he
WAS going that way, and it he had his address lie would call on
him. he rimier rani he would give him Sir. Dean's address
willingly; but Mr. Taylor foul better not call, because he believed
lie was then sennewhere in the neighbourhood, and he would bring
him there in half an hour. Mr. Taylor then called down all his
compoaitors to inspect the type, which was a mixture of sizes ; and
two of them (who had formerly worked at Sir. Dove's) recognised
the whole pages of tyre as parrs nt books that had been printed at
his limier, and informatioo of the circumstance wan immediately
despatched to Mr. Dew:.
ISt fore Mr. Dove arrived the prisoner Dean came, and demanded
rather angeily why the price of his old metal had not been sent by
the porter? and, in order to detain him, al r. Taylor answered hint
mildly, and in conversation with him learned that he had five or
nix cwt. of brevier. and three est. of long-primer (two descriptions
of type) re dispose of in the same way. Mr. Dove and his over-
set r 6: en arrived, end gave the prisoner into custody.
.Ir. Dove said, he suspected these pages had disappeared from
his prentiees since the prisoner haul left them ; and therefore he
had little doubt tont he had some accomplices among the great
number of men and boys now in his employ.
The prisoner declined saying anything until he bad consulted his
legal adviser, and was remanded.