The Sun.
London, England, 1819-11-02 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

EXTENSIVE 1101311F,11N IN THE HOUSE oF LONG-
MAN ANO (A). OF PATENNOSTER ROW.
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MANEWN-(bust:.—Funs tnt n, named Brookes.
Broome, Stewart, and Harrison, wcic Vol:0)c wo
by 11Arri50n, the -Mitcsbaltn4n, charged tvi;b be.v.
jug robbed the house of AI SSTs. Longman, Hurst,
end Co. of a gren number of vain:tide books.---
Mt. 11,-Irmer attended for the prosectiti,,n.

Mr. Brown, a paltrier in the firm, stated, that he had re-
ceived information sin Saturday week that there had !seen
three men watching about the premises, nho were of very
suspicious appearance. Upon taking stuck it W;N found tl,at
a deficiency hail taken place of neatly 40 copies of Ti;,!, [3
John.son'.4 Dictionary, each of which copies was estimates
I I guineas. The firm ascertained, after sonic inquiry, that
several copies of that work had been sold at a very reduced •
price to Booksellers in different parts of the town. Horse
copies were traced to Brookes, who said he received them
fruits Broome, and that Stewart and Harrison were in the bu-
sine.s.

Mrs. Popjoy, who lives opposite to Messrs. Longman and
Co.'s warehouse in Shoe-lane, said, that on the nimning of
Saturday week, before seven o'clock, she obsered a man
walking about the door of the warehouse in a soaoicious man-
ner. Soon afterwards she two aneri come out of the war e-
house loaded with something attic!) seemed like paper. She
was not near enough to identify their r6sons.
John Smith, a rocking-horse-maker, who works for tho
nett door neighbour of Mr. Longman, said, that no the Sa-
turday as he was going lo his work, at abort 10 minutes be-
fore severs, he :net Brookes eoinimg out of Longman's ware-
house with a large green bag, out of which the ends of ri-ains
of paper protruded. Witness particularly noticed the person
of Brookes, as that person ran alainst him. Several yards
before Brookes a man went along loaded as Bro• lies was.—
Witness thought the circumstance very suspicious. as the
warehouse was not usually open at so early an hour. He went
sow' after, accompanied by another man to the warehouse,
found that the door was open, arid that nobody was within.
Ile gave information of the circumstance to the firm.
Thomas Hunisni In, clerk to the firm, said that part of his
duty was to keep the stock of Todd's Johnson. Stewart, tlot
prisoner, had been p tter to the house several years, 11111 was
discharged in September. The warehouse was not•u•oally
open before right or nine o'clock in the morning. The sock
which had been stolen was an Edition of Di'. Johnso,'s Dic-
tiunfrry, edited by Todd, and was published in eleveit puts
at a guinea each part, or eleven guineas the whole set it
Ile had taken the stock at mid.ununer, and in conaerprenco
of the information received front the list winless, be look
stock again on the Saturday morning. He four d that there
were 33 complete sets missing, together with five sets, of
which nine parts were wanting to complete them. Fifteen
sets of the work that had been stolen were without the en-
graving of the head of the ituthor. Close to the outer door.
which was found open, there were found two sets of the work
tied up ready.
Nlr. Bade, bookseller, of Castle-street, near the Mews-gate,
said, that Brookes came to him and said he had some c•adi.3
of Tudd's Johnson for sale, which he wished to dispose of for
some pet sun who wanted looney, and whose !lame he did not
like to mention. lie added, that lie had sold several copies
of the same work to different booksellers, whose names he
stated. Witness bought eight copies, for which he paid bin
on an arerage five goin eal and a half each.
Mr. Charles Baldwin, bookseller, of '2l, Ness-gate-street,
said he had some plates of the head of Johnson, engraved by
Clause!, and that Brookes purchased two of them.
Mr. J. Dowding. of No. 82, Newgate-street, bookseller, also
purchased four copies of the work from Brookes, in osie of
which the plate wt the head of Johnson, which had been sold
by Mr. Baldwin, was fixed. work had been advertised
with the head of Johnson, and those stolen copies which bast
not the head were incomplete.
Mr. Carlisle, the bookseller of Holborn bought four copies
froui Brookes for 231.

Cornelius Brown, of Duke-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, pur-
chased two copies from Brookes, at the rate of 61. each, and
also two copies of Robinson's Scripture Characters. There
were some sheets imperfect, which Brookes changed for him,
The latter was a work of'which several copies had beta
missed.

Harrison the Marsha',man said, that he went to Brookes's
house, to apprehend him, in consequence of informationre -
ecired immediately before that the booksellers inPaternoster-
row bad beets robbed. [;pots being taken, Brookes, after soma
hesitation, answered to the Nlarshalusittes question, as lir
where he had got the Johnson's Dictionaries he had been sell-
ing, that hr had got them honestly. -The Marshalman told hips
the books, had been stoles' the day before, and Brookes then
told hisu he had gut them from Broome. The Marshalman
asked whether any body else was concerned, upon which
Bresokes said, witness knew all about it as well as he did, and
that Harrison and Stewart were its it. Witness went accom-
panied by Forrester and two servants-of the firm to the house
of Broome who kept the sign of the Goat in Cloth-fair, where
they fotudStewart and Harrison; the latter of whom .sped
Wrist: be was challenged that he was as innocent as the child
untan prisoners were remanded.

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