The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-20 00:00:00

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The Daring Burglary at a City Fa` xnbrokel

Yesterday a reward of £lOO was offered fc a. the captur
the burglars who broke into the permises of Mr Mull
pawnbroker, at the corner of John-street , Minories,
carried off about £5OO in money. The circa amstances el
that both the burglary and robbery of the cash were
dently well planned, and carried out with cc ,nsiderabled
beration. On Sunday morning, about 7 ,'clock, the seri
girl was coming downstairs to attend her ordinary dome
duties as usual, when on reaching the last landi:ag she
alarmed at seeing a man near the side street door,
about to go out. She immediately returned upsta.irs in or
to arouse her master and the other inmatc ts, and as she
going up she heard the door shut, as if t man had
The girl, accompanied by her mistress an ,c 1 others sleep
in the house, then proceeded downstairs, a nd. a brief eV°
nation showed that the money safe in tb.e counting 11°1
had been opened by the keys, and about £5OO in gold
silver had been abstrated.
Information of theca vent was forwarded to the Dell
bouring police station in Seething-lame, and Mr InsPe.r
Scott and Sergeant Goodeaves, of the City force, rePau
to the house and instituted an inquiry apParer
into the 'lll
of the facts. It was discovered that thew burg'
had effected an entrance through a skylight of a ellfe
on the upper part of the premises, one of the panee °
glass having been removed in order tc, open a kind of ty
dow-flap, The officers went on to tb .e roofs of Mr Anni
house and those adjoining, and footmt Irks were clearlY tre
ell
able. The thieves having succeeded in getting into the b
and being provided with a dark lantern, which was fetli
s!
in the place, they proceeded downstairs towards the log
part of the premises, where a stock of watches, gold ohell
and other property, of the value of Isom a thousand:of Pell!
was stored. On the second landin there was a
with an alarm bell, which would imgmediataly have sou
and aroused the inmates had the door been opened. I.° isltc
this difficulty the burglars climbed oven. the high 19811sht
of a kind of well-staircase and so reecho(' the lower 11,5-b
stairs. To obtain possession of the keys it would seeraL
's bedromn, w"`
they had the audacity to enter Mr Annis rise
he was asleep, and take a buuch of keys out of niolro
pocket. Ono of these keys opened a drawer in the countiti
house which contained the keys of the safe, end befo
thieves had easy access to the cash, amounting, ee
stated, to about £5OO. Of the stock of jewellery in tile;blBe'
nothing was missing, and it is conjectured. that the ro f
door fitt
were disturbed before they could possess themselves 10,
Had the servant girl had the presence of wind tof ti
waited a moment or so until the man her]. gone out ,
door and then given an alarm in the street, instJad of rd
ning back upstairs to her master, the fellow might P°s4ssx
have been caught, as there is a cabstand close Sidi
amid the stillness that prevailed at that time on a d
morning her cries would have been soon heard. Ills '1:1
however, has given such a deEcription of the von to t 1
police, as may, with other circumstances and ",..e ft: 'll
of the hat on the roof, lead to the detection of the
parties. It is supposed that the thieves—for 1, ;bee
clear that there was only one—contrived to sore' -pa
ov
selves in an uninhabited house now under repair e°1338 tl
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from that of Mr Annie, and at midnight clambered eri
roofs of the intervening houses, and so reached the ekl'
through which they effected an entry. There were flle
sons sleeping in the house of Mr Annie. The princiPale aft,
tired to rest at half-past twelve on Sunday tage
making up the accounts and the cash which had been
during the day.