SOLOMON AND HENRY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 197, 19 August 1907, Page 5

SOLOMON AND HENRY.

CHARGE AND COUNTER CHARGE.

Solomon and Henry Eloustein, a pair of brothers whose peculiar fraternal sentiments some little time back ebullitioned on the point of open hostilities, made their respective bows at the Police Court again this morning. Henry accused Solomon of stealing a bag ot jeweller's tools from the room of Henry, the wrongfully annexed articles being oi the value of £40. Solomon, on his part, charged his father's elder son, the aforementioned Henry, with appropriating to himself a certain poruon belonging to Solomon, item: One medal pressing machine; item: Two dies, the value thereof being £20. The prosecutions were of a three-cornered variety, each brother conducting the prosecution in a general way for himself, with Chief-detective Marsack to straighten out the somewhat tangled intervals.

Henry got his blow in first, and appeared in the role of prior complainant. Tne facts, he remarked, were simple. He, Henry, had left a bag of tools in his bedroom on Tuesday night, and when he went to search for them on Sunday morning, they had vanished. He was not living in the same room as his brother. How could he, when only in July last he himself was arrested in Queenstreet for threatening to shoot the other?

It appeared that the purloiner of the tools -was not known until a letter was received from Solomon, notifying the other of their whereabouts; it was a kind of sortie into the enemy's territory, and the return of the plunder was only to follow the surrender of property claimed by the marauder.

Solomon berc explained that he lent the pressing machine to his brother, but about that time a considerable rift appeared in the lute, and Henry, who was described by Solomon as being very vindictive, refused to return the property. Threats took place, revolvers were brandished, and the peace of the Police Court terminated the war for the time being.

His Worship suggested that the present business should be referred to arbitration, and, after a consultation between the powers, an adjournment was made with that admirable object. On the return, however, matters were declared to be still somewhat hopelessly mixed, as while Solomon was willing to make the exchange of property, Henry showed a strong and abiding desire to stick to the machine. In this position the dispute was hung up till to-morrow morning.