ROBBERY FROM THE ANCHOR STEAM PACKET OFFICES.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 313, 7 January 1879, Page 2

ROBBERY FROM THE ANCHOR STEAM PACKET OFFICES.

» NOTES TO VALUE OF £265 STOLEN. An impudent robbery from the offices of the Anchor Line of Steamers, on Custom-house Quay, was committed last night, when bank notes to the value of £265 were carried off by the thief or thieves It appears that, yesterday afternoon, Mr. Brind, the purser of the s.s. Murray, brought into the office a sum of £-265 in bank notes, which he had received on various accounts during the round trip of the steamer, and for which he is accountable to various persons. Mr. Briod requested Mr. Clouston, who was in charga of the office in tbe absence of Mr. Deacon, the local agent, to lock up tbe money in the office safe. Mr. ! Clouston promised to do so, and instructed the clerk accordingly. The notes were wrapped up in a piece of white paper, one of tbe steamer shipping forms, and during the office hours were placed on the top of the safe, by the side of the cash-box, where tho roll remaiaed until the office was closed, shortly before six o'clock. At that time it was supposed to have been put into the safe with the cash-twx. The safe was locked up, and eVery-

body left the office, the door of which, however, was not locked, while it was also easily accessible by the window, which was unfastened. Mr. Clouston and bis clerk returned to the office at 8 p.m., and remained afc-wor&nntil 10, when they left, closing for the night. This morning on opening the safe no sign of the money was visible, and then the clerk suddenly recollected that he had forgotten to put tbt roll of notes into tbe Bafe when he shut up tbe cashbox, its appearance with the white paper round being so much like other parcels lying about that it did not attract his attention or prompt his memory. At any rate the money was gone, and there could be no reasonable doubt that it had been stolen, especially as many people were in and out of the office during tbe day, and could have seen the money lying there, while no one could have found the smallest difficult}* in effecting an entrance and abstracting the notes either between 6 and 8 p.m. or after 10 p.m. Mr. Brind is a heavy sufferer by the loss, which, it is to be feared, he will have to make good to the owners of the money. The affair has been placed in the hands of the police, but as the numbers of the notes are not known, serious difficulty is apprehended In tracing 1 (he robbers.