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TEX TENSIVE PLUNDER,AND RECEIVING OF 8TOT.F.N G-OOlt- ! M ansell-streetm18, a respectable-looking Harris, harness-blackingx,e-e-oftoieeridilia?•et*nBeDvitIdi « , ' ^ wu uuvu ovi * an v imuclerk, was charged with stealing, and David and Joseph Alexander brothers, residing, the one in Brick-lane, White-cnanel, and the other at J ubilee-place, Bethnal-green, sponge-f u78,uTere ®haf^d with receiving from 600 to 700 boxes of blacking. The loss was at first estimated at £75, but asubsequent taking of stack allowed a deficiency of nearly £600.Ai anchee, who was suffered to turn approver, said he wasseven tears in Mr. Hams's employ, and had known theie | Alexanders, who dealt there for sponge, between three and m j four years. He occasionally met them in Ailie-street, as he ae ; went to bis meals. They sometimes drank together. Onid j one occasion witness asked llavid Alexander for a loan of ahUle money, but 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 could, but should not like. David told witness that a few dozens would set him all right, and that his brother would call in the evening, when, if the s- 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 it j large, the former being 4s 6d and the latter 6s per dozen, d. « ituess next saw David in Ailie-street, who complained of je the smallness of the quantity, and said that if he had move the money would be forthcoming, and that be would send his brother round to see if there were any ready. Joseph did come accordingly, and got another parcel containing a d. i similar quantity. Next dt he saw loth brothers in Ailie-street, when'David 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 in writing. Witness sent a ca-k containing 20 dozen of each size next day to that adit 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 bv the cheap train to dispose of it, when the money should be directly remitted to witness. In a few days after he got a I message to meet them at the Green Man, but on going out e*. he siw them in the street, and followed them to Iialfmoon-,t [ passage, where David pulled out a pocket-book and gave him k \ five 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 Hail-way station, addressed to T. Simpson, and an order on the Whitechapel Post-office should be forwarded, addressed to ^ , witness by the name of Cameron. A cask, containing 30 ^ j doron boxes of eacb size, was accordingly forwarded to Birmingham ; and in a short time after, witness, calling at the Whitechapel P«*t office, received an order for £3, which was , cashed in the same of Cameron. Witness then wrote back j | to David, be believed, to the Post-office, Nottingham, where - v»„ «ft-.ni-anis ^nt a cask containing the same quantity asWas written to again, but did not send another cask. Saw David at the Black Horse public-house after his return from Nottingham, where he sent six dozen and several parcels to the \\ aggon and Horses public-bouse, 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 1 Os 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 art icles were offered for sale,—Mr. Wontner, for the prosecution, called several witnesses from the Post-office, Pick-ford s, the public-houses, and other places alluded to, to show the veracity of Manchee’s statement; and the three were committed for trial, Manch*e fcr stealing, and the others for receiving the property knowing it to have been stolen. M anchee’s committal, however, was a mere formality to secure his attendance as a witness at the trialieEr.w ^ the lasv*isitdi,iel-i-aendaQ! RAILWAY TRIALS.—CONVICTIONS FOR
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London Bell New Weekly Messenger
London, Middlesex, GB
Sun, Apr 03, 1853
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