Advertisements Relating to Certain of the Robberies Committed by Deacon Brodie.
(From the Edinburgh Evening Courant.)
1786.
On Friday evening last (the 12th August) the lock of the outer door of the compting-house of Johnston and Smith, bankers in the Exchange, was opened by some wicked persons, as supposed by a counterfeit key, and eight hundred pounds Sterling stolen out of their drawers, in the following bank notes, viz:—
| Of the Royal, and Bank of Scotland | £194: | 9: | 0 |
| British Linen Company | 362: | 2: | 0 |
| Dumfries | 126: | 0: | 0 |
| Glasgow Notes | 64: | 10: | 0 |
| General Bank of Perth | 32: | 0: | 0 |
| Dundee Notes (Jobson’s) - | 40: | 0: | 0 |
| Several small Notes and Silver | 11: | 1: | 0 |
| £830: | 2: | 0 |
It is entreated that every honest person will give the Magistrates of Edinburgh, or Johnston and Smith, notice of any circumstances that may fall under their observation for discovering the offenders; and farther, the said Johnston and Smith will give the informer a reward of Five Pounds Sterling for every hundred pounds sterling that shall be recovered in consequence of such information. As some smith may very innocently have made a key from an impression of clay or wax, such smith giving information, as above, so as the person who got the key may be discovered, shall be handsomely rewarded.
By Order of the Honourable the Magistrates of Edinburgh.
Whereas, on Sunday night last, the 14th inst. there was laid down or dropped at the door of the Council Chamber of this City, the sum of two hundred and twenty-five pounds sterling in bank notes, wrapped in a piece of grey paper, which was found by Robert Burton, a porter, and immediately after delivered by him to one of the Magistrates: This is to give notice, that the above sum is now sealed up, and in the hands of the City Clerks, and will be delivered to any person who shall prove the property thereof, with deduction of a reasonable allowance to the porter who found it.