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

GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA.

The traffic receipts on this company's lines, my
eluding those of the Montreal and Champlain and
BuffAlo and Lake Huron Railways, amounted for
the week ending the Ist inst., on 1,335 miles, to
£24,544; and for the corresponding week of last
year, on the same mileage, to £23,352, showing an
increase of £1,192,

Yesterday a reward of £lOO was offered for the capture
the burglars who broke into the permises of Mr Annis'
pawnbroker, at the corner of John-street, Minoriea,
carried off about £5OO in money. The circumstances sh(
that both the burglary and robbery of the cash were el
dently well planned, and carried out with considerable de
beration. On Sunday morning, about 7 o'clock, the serve
girl was coming downstairs to attend her ordinary doinesl
duties as usual, when on reaching the last landing eh° 7/
alarmed at seeing a man near the side street door, apparent
about to go out. She immediately returned upstairs in ord
to arouse her master and the other inmates, and as shelf
going up she heard the door shut, as if the man had lei
The girl, accompanied by her mistress and others sleepit
in the house, then proceeded downstairs, and a brief esara
nation showed that the money safe in the counting how
had been opened by the keys, and about £5OO in gold at
silver had been abstracted.
Information of the event was forwarded to the neigl
bouring police station in Seething-lane, and Mr Inspect(
Scott and Sergeant Goodeaves, of the City force, reps' of
to the house and instituted an inquiry into the wilt!
of the facts. It was discovered that the burgle(
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had effected an entrance through a skylight of a Ware hf•tt
on the upper part of the premise,, one of the pane° °. •
glass having been removed in order to open a kind of ViLt,
dow-flap, The officers went on to the roofs of Mr Annie
house and those adjoining, and footmarks were clearly trace
able. The thieves having succeeded in getting into the bone(
f
and beivg provided with a dark lantern, which was
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in the place, they proceeded downstairs towards the lo
part of the premises, where a stock of watches, gold obailld
and other property, of the value of some thousand:of
was stored. On the second landing there was a door Oa;
with an alarm bell, which would immediately have soonii
and aroused the inmates had the door been opened. To 0°
this difficulty the burglars climbed over the high beniatell
of a kind of well-staircase and so reached the lower fligilh.tei
stairs. To obtain possession of the keys it would seem tmir,
they had the audacity to enter Mr Annis's bedroora, where
he was asleep, and take a buuch of keys out of his tr°lls,—o.
pocket. One of these keys opened a drawer in the 0110411" e
house which contained the keys of the safe, and he: tit
thieves had easy access to the cash, amounting, at %-ibree
stated, to about .aOO. Of the stock of jewellery in tmehlaera
nothing was missing, and it is conjectured that the re-feit
were disturbed before they could possess themselves ":
Had the servant girl had the presence of mind 0 bat;
waited a moment or so until the man hed gone on- of
—.
door and then given an alarm in the street, instead of
ning back upstairs to her master, the fellow might poseill
have been caught, as there is a cabstand close bYI
amid the stillness that prevailed at that time on a Sliusj
morning her cries would have been soon heard. TllB g i
the
however, to
owever, has given such a description of the non
police, as may, with other circumstances and the Pin„diiiing.
of the hat on the roof, lead to the detection of the of
parties. It is supposed that the thieves—for it is
he 1"
clear that there was only one—contrived to secrei; tta*
doore
selves in an uninhabited houSe now under repair some
from that of Mr Annis, and at midnight clambered over the,4
rats of the intervening houses, and so reached the elrYlig;
through which they effected an entry. There were five Per:
sons sleeping in the house of Mr Annis. The princiPahslt:
tired to rest at half-past twelve on Sunday morning' a.--f
making up the accounts and the cash which bad been takell
during the day.