N.B. If articles, similar to those above described, are offered to sale or discovered in the custody of any person of suspicious appearance, it is intreated that the goods may be stopped, and the person or persons in whose custody they are found secured, till notice is sent as above; for which a handsome reward will be given, besides all charges paid.
Sheriff Clerk’s Office, Edinburgh, March 12. 1788.
Two Hundred Pounds
of Reward.
Whereas William Brodie, a considerable House-Carpenter and Burgess of the City of Edinburgh, has been charged with being concerned in breaking into the General Excise Office for Scotland, and stealing from the Cashier’s office there a sum of money—and as the said William Brodie has either made his escape from Edinburgh, or is still concealed about that place—a Reward of One Hundred and Fifty Pounds Sterling is hereby offered to any person who will produce him alive at the Sheriff Clerk’s Office, Edinburgh, or will secure him, so as he may be brought there within a month from this date; and Fifty Pounds Sterling more, payable upon his conviction, by William Scott, procurator-fiscal for the shire of Edinburgh.
William Scott.
Description.
William Brodie is about five feet four inches—is about forty-eight years of age, but looks rather younger than he is—broad at the shoulders, and very small over the loins—has dark brown full eyes, with large black eye-brows—under the right eye there is the scar of a cut, which is still a little sore at the point of the eye next the nose, and a cast with his eye that gives him somewhat the look of a Jew—a sallow complexion—a particular motion with his mouth and lips when he speaks, which he does full and slow, his mouth being commonly open at the time, and his tongue doubling up, as it were, shows itself towards the roof of his mouth—black hair, twisted, turned up, and tied behind, coming far down upon each cheek, and the whiskers very sandy at the end; high topped in the front, and frizzed at the side—high smooth forehead—has a particular air in his walk, takes long steps, strikes the ground first with his heel, bending both feet inwards before he moves them, again—usually wears a stick under hand, and moves in a proud swaggering sort of style—his legs small above the ancle, large ancle bones and a large foot, high brawns, small at the knees, which bend when he walks, as if through weakness—Was dressed in a black coat, vest, breeches, and stockings, a striped duffle great coat, and silver shoe-buckles.
APPENDIX IX.
Narrative of the Facts respecting the Breaking into the Shop at the Head of Bridge Street, belonging to John and Andrew Bruce, Merchants in Edinburgh, on the night betwixt the 24th and 25th December, 1786.