The Sun.
London, England, 1807-09-26 00:00:00

POLICE.

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GLTILDIIALL.-Jo4ri Anders-On, who had for three
years, till within the hist three -.months; !Ned as
servant with Mr. Ctutis, :rather-fatlor, 'in Wells...
street, Cripplegate, brought before Mr. Alder.:
tnan LEA; the Sitting 'f.,i-Ligistrate, charged m:ith.4ltaVL.
intr rot beit Mr. -Curtis, while iti hisemplOyment-,-
ot considerable (loan-Mies al skins, boOklegs' &c:
Joseph Howse, shoe-maker, Wter-Janc,Cliektp-
side, said, that a Man- had.repe'atedly caPed:.at his
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shop, offering him- tbr sale softie, boot 'legs', and
Other articles in the leather line, stating that he re-
ceived them from a brother in the cOuntrY., Mr.
Howse, .however, ngver, had.aby transaaion's with
hint till TneSday laSt, when be breught hiin "some
skins, which the -Witness tigreed to purchase. Thty
;nap, who said his name WAS Adains, immediately
appeared in a-:ltairry,ito he gone, statitig:fhaf there was
a person waitit% tor hitatO receive -the Money. Mr.
Howse was surtriseid at this infortnatinn,' the price
being trifling, not exceeding 'four poUnds, and 01'6
man having forinerly stated that the property had
been sent to hint by a brother who resided in the
country. He paid the man the,sum agreed on,,,but
.his suspicion being a wtikened, be was resolved to
have it saiisfied.
_I-le accordingly folloWed n the ma
intuit pubn„ v; hit her he went; and where, he
observed
the Prisoper and his brothr,
both of whom lie (Mr. 'HoWse) had k,),:yAln as being
in the employin ...tit of Mr, Curti. This eiroutli-
:tance rather confirmed-than reinoved.hiS
He accordingly went, accompanied by a frier-:d, to
Mr. Curtis, and acquainted him With what had tOp-
petted, requesting him to go along the Witness,
and look at the skins he had purchased. Air.: Curtis
did so,: and could swear to part Of 'them being his
property, having his private mark upon Went.- •
The Alderthati, asked if Adams was in custody.

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The Officer answered, that he could not be found,
but that he Was well knOwn to be a general receiver
of stoien goods.
The Alderman, 'said, might be very true, and'
it might be a:suspicions f.-aure in the case, that the
Prisoner was, seen so yeeei tiy afterwards in his corn-
' parry; but, at the saiiie tone, he
_could not receive'
u
what had been done' by Adams, neonneeled as :it
was by any subsequent conversation do "the stibjeCt
between him and the Prisoner, 'as evidence of the
Prisoner'ii guilt.. If, in consequence, of, the infor-
mation so
.linparted to Mr. corti4,- any discovery
had been made
,Which brought guilt' Lorne to the
Prisoner per-;onaity, that he could l!ear.
Mr. Curtiti that in conse:luence of What he
had learned from Mr. Howse, lie inni;ediatoy, had
the Prisoner apprehended, ' and, 'on .se'archin
.hia
lodgings, several durileatt',.; found of articles
pledged with varioits pawnbrt.i:ers, which, on ‘'iew-
ing them, the witne:ss was able to swear to a; 164
property. Thu,' amounted in the whoie to. tweive4
dozen pair .4 boot7-legs..
Ti:vo PaWnbrokers appeared, and pro,lilsed a part
of the property, to the Prosecute,- re. • •
It was stated, however, that pawn.:
broker, Skintier-street; could- nor attend that tf:'Y
and • that a Mr. Watson; pawnurol;er,
street,' had poSitively- either,to •sileW
goods, onto attend berme the Magistrate.
The worthy Aidekman said, he should soob,shew
the last nathed'person that L. 111U.il attend, wid pro-
duce the goods also. accordingly-ordtred a'war-
rant 16 be against him, tne i'risonerto be re-
committed, .and the paytjes to 'attend again to:-
morrow. • - • a

liam Anderson, brother to the former Pri•
sotecr, who.at, the time of his fippreheysion was in
the employmentuf Mr.,Curtis, into:which be had
gone about three Mehths.ago, when his brother left
it, was . next. brought to the bar.. He had ~been
taken into custody in, consequence of Mr.' Howse
having seen hire in company with Adams and ;his
brother immediately., alter his (Mr. Howse's). pur-
chase of the skins from Adams. Neither on his
persolt, however, nor in his apartmont, when
svarcifed, was any t hint; lOund w nich, could go to
criminate •lnin. 11,s waslur had him taiZen into
custody -Only_ on the supposition that some of the
property had been taken during .the peripd be bad
been in his service. He had not missed any. pro-
perty during that, time,, though he had repeatedly
done so white his brother liVed with him.

Mr. BatlinSon, a very respe6table Gentleman, in
Cloak-lane, Dowgate7hill, with whom the Prisoner,
Wm. Anderson, had lived as a servant previous to his.
going into the employment of Mr. Curtis, gave the.
Prisoner a most excellent charader, and added; that.
within the last:six clays he had applied to him, in-
quiring if there was no likelihood of Mr. Curtis and
bicbruther making matters up, so that he might be
able to return to Air. llattinson's service. _

• Mr. Curtis concurred in hearing testimony, froth
What he had latnerty :seen .of the Prisoner, to his
good 'cifarafter.
The worthy Alderman, on this evidence, ordered
the Prisoner to be discharged, after Cautioning him,
however' e tnight continue poor, to kt.:p honest;
and as the most likely means of 'preserving that cha-
,
rafter, to beware whatoCompany he. kept.,
PUBLIC-OkFrev., ATTON.GARDEN:YeSIerday
a Mrs. Engle Jielii. was charged with robbing her
lodgings. She resided. in the house of a Me. litem.
phries; 'An ironmonger, whivsuspeeted that he had.
been robbed, not o,nly of goods, but Wearing apparel.
lie accordingly procured an Officer, and: searched
the Prisoner, and tonic! upon her duplicates le the
.nurnhdr of forty ! Most or them, npou.kitarching .
Lit the pawribrakers, were discovered to have:been
given for linen, clothes, Ste. and ironmongery Ware,
which he identified Co be his property. The PriSonor.:,
and her mother had lived in his mouse for some
time. The former had not been inarried'rnoreihan
hix weeks. The rvum from which the ironmongery
goods were stolen 'was adjoiningsthe Prisoner*4 apart-;
thent, and bad been plundered of trifling thins to
the amount of 151. otid upwards: She was *remanded
for the present.

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