POLICE COURT.
. « Friday, September 22. (Before J. C. Crawford, Esq., 8.M.) LARCENY. Arthur Honry Holmes was brought up on remand, charged with stealing a carpet bag containing clothes and other things, valued at £6. Paul Hoskina said ho was at the present time staying in Wellington. On the 18th inetawt ho was staying at the Nelson Alehouse, and was there between 9 and 11 o'clock on that evening. He owned a carpet bag, containing sundry articles, which he described, j (The bag and articles were produced and identiGed,) He saw them last on Tuesday evening, at about 9 o'clock, in the commercial room of the Nolson Alehouse. Ho saw the prisoner at about 11 o'clock i» the Nelson Alehouse. Jacob Frankol said ho was a storekeeper. On Tuesday evening, at about half-past nine, the prisoner wont into his shop and offered ; him a woman's dress for sale. He bought it j 'for ss. He asked prisoner if it was his own, and he replied, "do you think I wear soon dresses. It is my wife's." He hung it up at the door for sale. The next day Constable Ready went lo him and asked for it. Prisoner gave his name to him ae Captain Wilson, of the Shamrock. The dress produced h6 identified as the one ho bought.
. — — — — — > Sergennt Ready said from information he received on Tuesday evening last, he learned that Eome clothes and a carpet bng had been stolen from the Nelson Alehouse. He arrested the prisoner at about a quarter past eleven the same evening, on the Queen's wharf. Prisoner had the carpet bag produced under his arm. The next day he saw a lady's dress hanging in Mr Frankel's shop, and he took possession of it. When he took prisoner into custody, he said the carpet bag was his. The prisoner, on being asked what he had to say, said he waa being swindled out of his property, "He had £17,000 left him by hi* father. The prisoner was committed for trial at the next sittings of the Supreme Court.
POLICE COURT.
Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3301, 23 September 1871, Page 2
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