The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-19 00:00:00

TILE GREAT SEIZURE OF STOLE'N PRO-
PERTY.-THE BURGLARS' STORES.

The recent discovery, through the vigilance of the
City detective police, of a suspected notorious fence, and
the capture of the keeper, Moses Moses, a Jew, pos-
sessing considerable wealth, have led to the most im-
portant results as to a system which appears to have
been extensively carried out in disposing of burglarious
plunder. The accused, Moses Moses, it will be recol-
lected, was committed for trial from the Mansion-house
justice-room, on Friday last, on two charges of felony,
for feloniously receiving property, knowing, it to have
been stolen ; but the police obtained a further remand,
many other cases being alleged against him, and since
then a host of persons have identified the property found
on his premises as stolen from them by burglars. The
prisoner is a man somewhat advanced in life. For
several years he resided in the neighbourhood of Houns-
ditch, his stores being in Bell-lane, Spitalfields, where
he carried on the business, as he describes on his card,
of " Government Contractor, General Agent, and Ex-
porter, &c." The stores possess many advantages now
that their purpose has been disclosed, being peculiarly
situated in a' neighbourhood filled with intricate
alleys and courts, and standing at a corner of a
gateway, with a cab-yard adjoining. Among the
immense quantity of property found in the stores,
which the •police seized at the time, suspecting it to
have been stolen, the bulk has been identified as the
produce of the following daring robberies and burglaries.
On the 15th of last December a case of jewellery of the
value of 1301., belonging to Mr. Alexander Pyke, of 16,
Hatton-garden, was stolen from a brougham while stand-
ing in the Strand. A boy, who had the care of it at the
time, and two men who enticed the boy to commit the
robbery, were convicted at a subsequent session- of the
Central Criminal Court, and sentenced to two years' im-
prisonment. None of the property was recovered,
although the officers engaged in the case circulated hand-
bills throughout the metropolis, giving an accurate list
of the property, and offering a reward of 1001. for its
recovery, but without avail, until Mr. Mitchell, the in-
spector of the City police, on examining the jewellery
found in Moses's stores, discovered among them the fol-
lowing-:—Several jewel cases, containing plated gold
bracelets, brooches, nearly 300 sets of studs, 80 lockets,
42 fine gold rings, and numerous other articles. Mr.
Pyke, on being shown the property, at once identified
the whole of it as being part of that stolen from the
brougham. On the 13th of February- the warehouse
of Mr. Samuel Hargraves; Manchester warehouseman,
of No. 15, Gresham-street, Guildhall, war burglariously
broken into; and • shawls and other property of the
value of nearly 4001. were carried off by the burglare.
A full description of the property was circulated by
the police, and a large reward was offered, but no
clue was obtained of it until it came to light among
the articles seized. The property consisted of 185
black shawls, three square black wool shawls, 19 scarlet
lama hankerchiefs, 16 green ditto, and numerous other
articles. Mr. Hargraves states, with the exception of
two pieces of cloth and seven or eight shawls the pro-
perty found comprises the whole proceeds of the bur-
glary. The other property identified was carried away
by burglars from the following places :—Mr. Rossiter's,
122, London-wall, on the 20th of last January ; Mr. T.
Self, Artillery-lane, Bermondsey ; Mr. George Mat-
thews, Market place, Bermondsey. ; Mr. Lelhond, hat
manufacturer, Southwark-bridge-road ; Mr. E. T. Jones,
Artillery-street, Bermondsey ; Messrs. Hodgson and
Rogers, of John-street West, Blackfriars ; Mr. Smith,
of Artillery-place, Horselydown ; Messrs. Cooper and
Trees, of Church-passage Blackfriars ; and several
others. From inquiries made by the police of the ac-
cused how lie became possessed of this property, he re-
plied he had advanced moneys on it, but who the parties
were who brought it to him he had not the slightest
knowledge. He kept no books or entries of these trans-
actions, and admitted to the officers that he exported
largely in these goods to America and Australia. A.
great mass of property remains at Bow-lane police sta-
tion, not identified, about which but one opinion can be
formed. Among them are 50 solid gold gentlemen's
rings, with space for crest, &c. ; a small silver-plated
waiter, with the letter R in the centre ; some plate,
with a crest coronet partly erased from it ; some black
silks, cloths, and other articles. The re-examination
of the accused is appointed for Friday next, when all
the above cases of burglary will, it is expected, be gone
into.