Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

BALTIMORE, February 10.

About eleven o'clock the evening before last, a gang of thieves were discovered to be in the store of Mr. Marsh, in Howard street. Notwithstanding the strictest search was made for them, it seems they were so old in iniquity, as to elude the vigilance of their pursuers, all except one (about 12 years old and not so great an adept at the business) who was apprehended and made to inform of the rest. They were four in number, all French West India negroes, and belonged to one man; none of them appeared to be older than 19. It is supposed they skulked in and concealed themselves in the evening; and had they been able to have cleared themselves with their booty, might have preferred that mode, during the existence of parole, to plundering. They had nearly broken open a desk, before discovered. This should make people examine their houses well before they commit themselves to sleep.