STOLEN PROPERTY IN LONDON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 202, 4 July 1879, Page 3

STOLEN PROPERTY IN LONDON.

There is at present at the Bethnal-G reen Police Station one of the most extraordinary collections of stolen, goods over scan in the metropolis. The goods are laid out in the library smd irsurve room, ami consist of articles of ;,:imist every conceivable description of portable property. There are gold and silver watches, gold bracelets, lockets, chains and guards, rings set with precious stones, silver spews, forks, and fruit knives, and a (luiiiitityj of good electroplated ware, cigar-cases, meerschaum pipes, small fancy therrWmoters, mantel ornaments, of a super*!' kind, opera glasses, purses, books photo-lenses, and albvms, a largo family 15iblc,H|retty silver snuff-box, a Crimean medaliaml three boxes, each containing a dozen silver thimbles. On the mantel piece, are some lialf-a-dozcu clocks, and arouml* the room are scattered coats, jackets, capes, shawls, rolls of flannel, cloth,' And linen, and about 50 or (10 pairs of new boots, and a large number of umbrellas. Piled against the walls were some sixty or seventy work-boxes, cases of claret, champagne, and brandy, railway, and carriage rugs, and a host of oilier things too numerous to mention. The whole lot when seized, filled three large vans. They were seized by the police at a house in Thomas street, Commercial Road the propriteor of which had been for the last 12 years suspected to he a receiver of stolen property. A lew days since, however, two men were apprehended on a charge of burglary, and one of them referred the police to this individual for a character. Inspector Wildley thereupon went to the house, and the proprietor gave the man in question an excellent character. From what he saw, Mr Wildley was induced to ask for a search-warrant, the result of which was that the whole of the property referred io was discovered there. .Already articles relating to no less than thirty-two cases of burglary or house-breaking have been identilied, and fresh identifications are occurring daily. Seventeen years ago the man in whose possession they were found was a poor laboring man. He now owns it is said, some thirty houses in the district where he has been residing.