At a late hour on Friday night, a watchman was going his round, when, on trying a warehouse in which there was much valuable property, to see whether it was safe, he heard the little prisoner cry.

The persons who had the care of the warehouse were roused, and he was taken out.

In his fright he acknowledged that a man had taken him from his mother, and induced him, upon a promise of reward, to steal into the warehouse; upon a concerted signal, he was to act as directed by the fellow on the outside; but becoming terrified at being confined so long in the dark, he had cried out and discovered himself.

His mother came forward, and received a good character as the wife of a hard-working man.

The Lord Mayor gave her son up to her, with an injunction to act carefully and strictly with him.