Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

WILLIAM S. THOM, informs the public that JOHN POOR had no interest nor concern in the Goods which were deposited in his cellar. Whatever suspicions we might entertain on the subject, it would be hard to prove his having an interest in the property, it is—however an unfortunate circumstance for that gentleman, that in the same advertisement William Thom likens to assert that those goods were not secreted. In order that a true judgment may be formed of the credit due to this salvo we will ask—Why were the goods—packed up after dark, with the window over the door darkened by a blanket hung up behind it?—Why was a porter called up out of his bed? and why was the candle extinguished when they were taken away, and his poor little boy left, as he said, in the dark, till the whole (three loads) were carried off?—two of these loads were hauled to John Poor's cellar, and received by himself at near eleven o'clock at night. Several days elapsed before the porter employed in the business was discovered—On taking him and a Sheriff's officer to this schoolmaster's. he at first denied having any such goods in his possession, but on being informed that the porter was ready to attest that he delivered them to him, he confessed there were some goods in his cellar, but would not confess that he knew where they came from, whose they were, or any thing about them. Indeed so great was his caution, that he absolutely refused to take a receipt from the Sheriff's officer when he took them away. We shall just add, that this schoolmaster was the first person suspected by us to have the goods in his possession, as we can fully prove.

Othniel Alsop,

Joshua Lippincott.

March 25