On Thursday the 12th curt. M’Levie, criminal officer, apprehended in one of our streets a person well known to the police as James Gillon, and a lad in his company, who called himself James Watson. Both were dressed in new suits of clothes; and M’Levie, believing the clothing to have been purchased with “ill-gotten gear,” conveyed the lads to the Police Office, where they were detained. On the following Saturday Mr Moxey, having learned that a robbery of £50 had been committed on the preceding Tuesday at Aberdeen upon the person of the cashier to the Aberdeen, Leith, and Clyde Shipping Company by two lads answering the description of Gillon and Watson, instantly corresponded with the police authorities of that place, which resulted in the transmission of those parties to Aberdeen, and we understand they have been identified as having been in that town on the day of the theft, and that they had quitted Aberdeen in the evening in a post chaise, proceeding to Stonehaven. M’Levie, who had occasion to go to the Aberdeen Circuit, after the apprehension of Gillon and his companion, returned home by Dundee, where he suspected the lads had purchased their new clothing; and he there succeeded in recovering their cast-off clothing, and on procuring evidence that on the evening succeeding the theft, Gillon and Watson had purchased in Dundee their new suits, in payment of which they tendered eight sovereigns. We understand that £10 of the stolen money consisted of sovereigns, and the balance of two five-pound notes, twenty one-pound notes, and some silver money.—Courant.

Aberdeen Journal  Wednesday,  Sept. 25, 1850