PECULIAR CASE OF ROBBERY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6999, 23 April 1884, Page 5

PECULIAR CASE OF ROBBERY.

.[BY TKLKOIUPH.-i-TEESS ASSDOIATOON.] 7 " -Chbistohuboh, Tuesday. . Yesterday, Francis "'Joku .Ormondy,, was committed for - trial -on a charge'of robbing bis employers, M. Harris and Son, of goods ' to'thevalue in aggregate of about : £2oo.- The' esse was rather peculiar." Themaa: wis a salesman, and takingad vantage o£ tha ; place being closed on Saturday (Messrs. Harris are 'Jews), went in "arid took any parcels of • small goods he could . lay his hands on, ,sncli' as pipes, a miscrosoope, plated,knives and. forks, and fancy I goods innumerable. ; ; The. [ evidence of Mr. Harris was that Ormoridy. had confessed he had carried on this praqtioe many month's, being induced' to 'continue it by a man named Marks BoU, j It. used to bo a subject of congratulation that 'in Christchurch there was no sach thing as a " fence" iwhere thieves - could - get-rid'"of stolen pro-; It came , out ra :i evidence."tKai' ■when Ormondy :bad . made up. . the';, parcel, on s'ome'Saturday he took this to 8011, and i jwhatever the_paokage contained- Marks gave' :him £1 for.it, and this wont on till goods 'amounting to about £30 in value had accuImulated in Marks' house, wbe"ra J thay- were ;found by the detectives,'.and the majority identified by Messrs. Harris as theirs, while'at the same time'.they were- sure-thSt'Marks,'; "had not bougtit goods fri'm' thoii.;. In' 'fairness to Marks Soil, who w&ato•daycom- ; 'mitted for trittl on a charge of receiving stolen p/operty,,ifc should be atated^that. hoj had,' about 'li 'montlib ago "teen,' dealing'"; with. 'Harris and Sonej and the. caso would bo I'rather weakened' by. the -fact that Uehry -Harris, .who kept of thb' firia' atid Uook nn activo part in the sale of goods, Baid. be *;ould not toll what had been - sold to iMarks. ' , •