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irextensive plunder,AND HBCSUVTNO OF STOIYETNT ftOOlrt- ! M ansell-streetMl18, a respectable-looking Harris, harness- biafikmgIX,*-e-oftoliei « * ' ^ wuuuvuviova ?nuv twa^aclerk, was charged with stealing, and David and Joseph Alexander, brothers, residing, the one in Brick-lane, White-eredi-tiag'ete*deemIvv-»itIdY~%ftIPle0\ i witness by the name of Cameron. A cask, containing 30 ^ j doyen boxes of each size, was accordingly forwarded to Birmingham ; and in a short time after, witness, calling at the Whitechapel Plt;*t office, received an order for £3, which was ^ cashed in the name of Cameron. Witness then wrote back ^ I to David, be believed, to the Post-office, Nottingham, where• Vfc#» f? ft ».•* -tk t n - V» A1__... l * IVih3*^ the last. Was writtim to agaiicsifit■dlen-ridi-a»ev caak. Saw David at the Black Horse public-house after his v j retura from Nottingham, where he sent six dozen and ^ j **evera) parcels to the V aggon and Horses public-house, as also one to the Green Man, and two parcels to the house of a Mrs. Smith, near the warehouse, For these packets he used to get 10s each—sometimes from one brother and sometimes from the other. After that another cask was sent ^ (be thought ) to Reading, and for this he received £l At ' j the commencement of these transactions he once gave David an invoice foT the purpose of being shown where the articles were offered for sale,—Mr. Wontner, for the prose-l“ j cution, called several witnesses from the Post-office, Piek-ie I public-houses, and other places alluded to, to^ show the veracity of Manchee’s statement; and the three d were committed for tria!, Manch^e fcr stealing, and the others for receiving the property knowing it to hare been stolen. Mancbee's committal, however, was a tnpre formality to secure his attendance as a witness at the trialdr- i _ }Ml,uplers, were cnargea with receiving from 600 to 700 boxes of blacking. The loss was at first estimated at £75, hat a subsequent taking of stack showed a deficiency of nearly £600.Al anchee, who was 'suffertxl tlt;o tnm approver, said he wasseven years in Mr. Hams's employ, and had known the be , Alexanders, who dealt there for sponge, between three and m j four years. He occasionally met them in Ailie-street, as he be - went to his meals. They sometimes drank together. On id j one occasion witness asked llavid Alexander for a loan of a little money, hut he said he had none, having spent it all in the purchase of sponge, but that if witness could get some out., be (David) would sell it and let him have the money. Witness said he could not. David then asked him if be could not get something else out—some corapo. meaning the varnish; to which he replied he conki, but should not like. David told witness that a few dcvens would set him all right, and that his brother would call in the evening, when, if the j things were ready, witness should have the money next day. n,; Joseph did come in the evening, and witness gave him a ■d | parcel containing three dozen small boxes and three dozen nt ! large, the former being 4s Gd and the latter 6s per dozen, d. [ ” ituess next saw David in Ailie-street, who complained of ae the smallness of the quantity, and said that if he had move the money would be forthcoming, and that he would send his brother round t-o see if there were any ready. Joseph did come accordingly, and got another parcel containing a d. i similar quantity. Next d\ he saw loth brothers in Ailie-’ street, when Iavid asked why he did not send a larger quantity, urging him to send a cask full to Joseph, who gave him his address at Jubilee-place m writing. Witness sent a ca-k containing ‘20 dozen of each size next day to that ad-bt j dress, but did not enter it in the delivery-book. Saw David the same evening, who told him that Joseph had sent it at once by rail to Biimir.gham, and that be was going down br the cheap train to dispose of it, when the money should be directly remitted to witnesa. In a few days after he got a I message to meet them at the Green Man, but on going out e- be siw them in the street, and followed them to Iialfmoon-yv [ passage, where David pulled out a pocket-book and gare him ,k I tve sovereigns, asking him why he had not sent more compo, as be (IVrid) could have disposed of 100 gross. He th^n urged witness to send some more to the Birmingham Railway station, address*-d to T. Simpson, and an ordt-r on the \ W hitechapel Post-office should be forwarded, addressed to i „uejAd'arrof£ondigancin lt;anc par tha are thethi;onsm;thrqmopegulc ‘ RAILWAY TKIAXiS.—CONVICTIONS FOEarecoilOnatofwiiCOTlisltrntb
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London Bell New Weekly Messenger
London, Middlesex, GB
Sun, Apr 03, 1853
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