£5OO FUR COAT

Northern Advocate, 7 April 1927, Page 7

£SOO FUR COAT

SEQUEL TO GLASGOW THEFT

RUSSIAN JEWESS SENTENCED. A gentleman’s fur-lined coat, valued at between £SOO and £6OO, figured in a case heard before Sheriff Robertson and a jury Jin Glasgow. A young Russian Jewess I named Rose Rosenfield, who appeared in Jthe dock dressed in a fashionable fur coat, 1 pleaded not guilty to a charge of having, ! between June 30 and September 4, in a shop occupied by her at 644, Cathcart Road, Crossbill, resetted a fur-lined coat, a skunk collar, a foot muff, an opera cloak, ja fur cape, other articles of clothing, and a trunk. Witnesses stated that the goods had been stolen from a house in the Mansewood district, when the occupants were away on holiday, and the total value was (about £B3O. Among the articles was a (Russian coat, lined with fur, which the •tenant of the house had received in a present before the war. The coat was valued at between £SOO and £6OO, and was lined with fitch. The mistress of the house 'said that her husband had only worn the (coat once, because it was far too hand'some, and added that it formerly belonged to a German consul-general. Two young men, William Webster and Albert E. Clark, both at present in prison, said that they had pleaded guilty at Glasgow Sheriff Court last month to fifteen charges of theft by house-breaking, which included the theft of certain articles from the house in Mansewood. The crime was committed in June, and they remained in the house overnight. They ransacked the place, and packed the articles, including the fur garments, in a trunk, and walked out by the back door about seven o’clock in the morning. They stated that they bad sold the trunk and its .contents for ,610 to a man named Lewis, who, in the witness-box, admitted that he had been sentenced for resetting the goods. Lewis added that he and another man went to the furrier’s shop occupied by the accused, and made arrangements for the sale to Mrs. Koscnficld. The jury unanimously found the accused guilty. Sheriff Robertson, in passing sentence of three months’ imprisonment, stated that there had been too many hurularies of that type by aliens. He recommended that the accused he deported. i HIM SOX HR GIVES EVIDENCE,

_ The ■same young woman appeared later in the week at the Justiciary Buildings, in Glasgow, as a witness. She gave evidence in connection with a chanm against a Russian Role, named Archibald Eseovitch (03), of resetting a number of the same articles. Eseovitch was found guilty by a jury, and Sheriff Robertson sentenced him to three months’ imprisonment. On the motion of the Deputy I'maaator Fiscal, the accused was also recommended for deportation,