The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-02-26
Brooklyn City News,

EXTENSIVE RonBERY OF FLOUR THE U. s. STORE
HOUSES on TIE ATLANTIC DocKsARREsT THE SUPPOSED
GUILTY PARTIES About two months since, Sergeant
Ccnhlin Smith and officer John Matthew'S of the First
district Brooklyn police obtair ed information of parties
who had purchased Hour At price considerably below
the marke. value and believing such sales to be not
altogether the square, instituted inquiries as to where
1t had been obtained. After considerable trouble they
at length discovered that il had bsen brought from the
government stores the Atlantic Dock. The officers
then set themselves about watch ng the of
the parties there employed, and found that
bers OF empty barrels had been taken to the stores
carts and other eonveyances, ana fun barrels taken
away. The officers followed the vehicles on number Of
occasions and the -four delivered sundry private
houses about the city which appeared to be suaicest
evidence their judgment that employees we're not
honest they ought to be- In OF these
discoveries they communicated portion of the facts
above detailed, TO Mr. Reditd, the Collector OF the port
who al authorized the officers 10 ferret out the
whole affair, which they at proceeded to do. la
Their subsequent operations they discovered that barrels
we've talen from store the dock to another and
IN the space Of half hrcequrters of an hour a full
barrel would be relied out aud taken to another
store and deposited just inside where IL would remain
for short time, and then suddenly isappear. The
officer this seyers times but could not account for
It; and after watching for several days saw they
thought a favorable opportunity to take survey OF
the docf, but found their vi.w ostrn ,ed by several
heaps OF railroad iron Next day (on Friday lalt they
chanS ed their POSITION AZ ii O'Clock a observed
cart loaded with twenty five empty lour barrels
stop a. store ana unload, and then haul oil two
hundred yar6s distant where the horse unharness
&c and placed under shed. the driver then returned
and remained cut II sight until r. NJ when the horse
was rtbaEss ed and driven UP 10 store No. g. outside
az tho dock, and loaded with full bartels which
driven OIL followed by two laborers. The officers kept
Their eyes the cart until it stopped 10 fr Of
Matthew Murphy's house in Arny street, near Willow
where they up and ooa the driver, william Kelly
alias Grassy Kelly into custody, and taking possession
Of the -four conveyed il and the prisoner the First
district station house. The two laeorers subse-
quently arrested by the officers. They say that
Murphy npoyed them TO take the -four ana three
barrels Mt his house aud sod barrel each OF them
for eight dollars, credit. The odcers subsc-
hume, Patrick Mgin and Robert Farrell, who,
with ky, all taken before United State sMarshal
Hyer in New YORK, Saturday, and committed to the
Tornts in default Of So CO., bail EACH to await examna
ton II IL confidently stated by the officers (wAo
deserving Of great credit for their and in
duEty in this matter that the nyestg will show
hat upwards Of 900 worth Of -four has bseo stoan
from the stores the Atlantic Dock during
the past season.
TINS RAuRoAp ACCIDENT IN ATLANTIC STREET The faa,
Abraham Breukel, who shocsingy mapgicd on
saturday by being by the cars OF the Long
flano Railroad cd in the City Hos pal about ocock
the evening. He fifteen years OF age a native
of Rotterdam, and employed q cabin boy the ship
Holland, lying al pier North rver. Coroner Reddny
held inquest yesterday, and verdict OF accidental
death was rendered by the jury.
srpDEs nvlrt-Mrs Elizabeth Emmans, residing at
1Oi High street, While returning from visit Saturday
evening, was taken suddenly III, aud being taken into
the drug store on the corner Of Myrtle avenue and
Bridge street, died before remedies could DO applied
She was y years Of age. The Of death was ds
ease of the heart.