The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-21 00:00:00

ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY

Hum, Weaieresteay.—Since Monday the greatest excite-
ment has prevailed iu this town, owing to the commiseion of
two of the most extensive burglaries, at the premises of the
principal jewellers of the town, that have occurred in this
di-trict for a number of years. The amount of property
plundered, chiefly in jewellery, is several thousaeds, and
from the secret and successful manner the burglaries have
been committed, they could only be performed by adroit
crecksmen, probably some of tke well-known London swell
mobsmen that are now folleevirae the judges on the northern
and other circuits of assize. The 7 were both accomplished
on Sunday, and according to the particular: furnished by the
police, it appears that the first was diecovered ar about
eleven o'clock at night, at the shop of Mr. Isaac Daniel,
jeweller and watch manufacturer, Queen-street. It seems
that Mr. Daniel, shortly before the above hour, had occasion
to go to the Minerva Hotel, and in the course of a quarter of
an hour returned and found the premises apparently in the
same secure state as when he left. Oil entering, however. he
noticed a large dug, which he kept in the house, lying on the
floor dying, and near the poor beast some pieces of liver lay,
which had been cut open, had poison deposited in them ,and
then sewed together. A large piece of one of these poisoned
bits appeared to have been eaten by the dog, which succeeded
in quieting the animal and allowed the robbers to pursue their
task undisturbed. They must have used the utmost expedition
as they could only have been on the premises from five to
ten m'nutes. A costly case of gold watches, which Mr.
Daniel kept under his bed, was carried away bs the thieves,
and the other valuable portion of the stock they selected
from the window and the glass-cabs in the shop. They
then decamped. absolutely locking the I, eke of the shop.
door, by which they entered and left Mr. Deniers loss is
said to amount to between 1,5001. and 2,0001. A list of
the stolen property has been sent to all the police autho-
rities in the country. It comprises 70 or 80 gold and silver
watches, 30 guards and chains, a large number of wedding-
rings, diamond and other pins, silver spoons and forks, a
double-backed gold watch (maker's name. " Lewis Wolf,
Liverpool"), 30 gold pencil-casee, a gold enamelled-dial
watch (" Rues and Shipham, Hull"), a gold-dial skeleton
lever watch ("Thomas Larard, Hull ). pearls, diamonds, and
every description of jewellery, not the least trace of which has
been discovered. The second took place in the same street on
the premises of Mr. Gardener, and there is every likelihood of
it having be: n committed by the same parties, and nearly
at the same time. The proprietor was in the habit of sleep.
ing on the premises, but. unfortunately he did not do so on
Sunday night. The door was fastened. with two patent pad-
locks and a lock in the door. All these the thieves had
most cleverly unlocked, and after plundering the interior,
relocked them as if nothing had occurred. On Mr. Gar•
dener opening his shop on Monday morning, hie suspicions
were aroused on finding that the key would not enter the
lock of an iron safe, trebly locked, which held the most
valuable portion of his stock. A locksmith WIS then s 1-1 t
for, who picked the locks, and the contents of the safe were
discovered to be stolen. The following is a brief list of the
property stolen :—Gold watches—No. 7,287, 7,221, 7,573,
7,119, 11,367, 33,773, 4,256, 11,718, 41,545, 2,455, 8,270,
236, 77,221, 16,829, 13,959, 23,312, 4,824 ; silver watches
6,441, 74,962, 2.111. 6,416, 1,118. 400. 6.805, 871, 1,693. 63,3
1,807, 1,739, 16,590, 115, 1,074, 3,461, 246, 8,620, 31,905
8,962, and ten or twelve secoad-hand ones ; other gold and
silver watches, numbers not ascertained, gold chains end
guards, diamond pins and ringlets, gold bracelets, gold end
silver plate of all Irseriptiene, 100 oz. of eid -11 :•
go;d arta 'liver
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police authorities have used the utmost activity iu tracing