New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-06
Of the police and the employees Of the

Of the police and the employees Of the
steamers.
Within the last thirty days NO less than
three thousand dollars worth Of goods con-
signed to Messrs. BIT. Walshe, no Canal
street; VIC Tompkins, corner of Canal and
Magazine streets; Messrs. Wallace & Co.,
corner of Common and Magazine streets,
aud others, have been missed in the same
mysterious manner. All attempts to dis
cover the thieves were vain. On Friday,
however, person doing business at No. IS
Charities street called at the store of MIR.
Waishe and exhibited to him some samples
OF fancy articles, and urged him to pur-
chase at prices about fifty per cent cheaper
than they could be bought in New York.
MIR. Walshe was struck with the similarity
OF the articles to some he had chosen him
self in New York. and which we're in his
missing cases. On inquiry, he was informed
that they came from the auction house of
Messrs. Hoffman & Marks, on Chartres
street. The matter was placed in the hands
Of Sergeant Malone and Special ). j. Pear
son, who set to work to ferret out the
thieves. At the store Of Messrs. Hoffman &
Marks, they ascertained that they had peri
odically received within the past fortnight,
for sale at auction, cases Of goods from the
house Of Messrs. Leopold e. Oppenheim, on
Magazine street near Tolcdano, to whom
they had turned over about $1,000. A search
at this place resulted in finding quantity
of the missing merchandise and a further
search ut the house Of +. Leopold, father-in-
law of the former Leopold, revealed that
more goods were concealed in the garnet. -
All these parties were arrested. From
them the information was obtained that the
goods came from A. G. Leopold, living on
TchOupitOulas street, between st. Andrew
and Adele streets. The latter admitted
having sold the articles to Leopold, and OPP
pcnheim saying that he had purchased them
from man named Harvey, keeper Of a
grocery, corner Of Tchoupitoulas and st.
James streets. Harvey, who is said to
possess property amounting to $4,000, and
to have already been before the courts ON a
similar charge, was arrested and denied the
| charge. The goods A. C. Leopold affirms
he has bought from Harvey for $1,000. 1t
| will require an examination before the Re-
| cOrler before the whole matter is thorough
| ly sifted.
The Leopholds and Oppenheim were re-
leased on $1,000 bail by Recorder Staes. and
Harvey on his parole by Acting superin-
| tendent Robinson. The remarkable feature
| of these robberics is, that while there are
| four steamers in this line the goods are
always missed from two of them-the Dc
| Soto and the Bicnville. This strange fact
will lead to the mystery: "How are they
taken: - The officers have displayed much
tact and vigilance in arresting the accused
and bringing to light the stolen property.
| Over three thousand dollars worth Of goods
have been missed by the steamships within
the past thirty days Regular atfidayits
have been entered by Mr.. Alfred Veau. dis
charging clerk of Messrs. FOsilick & Co.
The accused were arraigned before Re-
corder Staes yesterday. and put in the plea
of not guilty. They will be examined in
few days.