CITY POLICE COURT.
Saturday, September 27. (Before His Worship the Mayor and J. Brown, Esq., J.P.)
Burglary and Larceny. —William Barnard, on remand, was charged with having, on the night of the 17th inst., broken into the shop of Messrs M‘Donald and Dohring, butchers, George street, and stolen one cashbox containing money and other documents. As on the former occasion, Sub-Inspector Mallard conducted the prosecution, and Mr Stout defended. '• he f Bowing .additional evi lence was given Detective Farrell deposed : I was present on the IS Hi inst., when the accu-cd was searched. On a small table in the but occupied by accused and two others 1 found a handkerchief, which he claimed as his property. It was bloodstained, ami he nr>dc a remark that he had cut his hand the previous day. I subsequently accompanied Constable O’Brien and Mr Asher to a bean of c ! ay in Scott’s yard. I took charge of the imprints, while an expert—Mr Neale’s foreman —was sent for. I was pre e ent when the footprints and boots were compared, and they tallied exactly in every respect. The boots and handkerchief produced are those to which I have already referred.—Robert Barnett Ingram, salesman to Mr W. H. Noale, bootmaker, George street: 1 was asked, on the 18th inst., by Mr M ‘Donald, to examine some footprints in Scott’s yard. When I arrived there I was shown a pair of boots, which I examined. I was also shown two footprints, and told to examine them very carefully, which I did. I found the boots and prints to correspond exactly. By Mr Stout: I noticed before measuring that the nails agreed ; and on doing so that they corresponded in length and breadth as well as in the nails. The prints were two or three feet deep in the clay, and the impressions heavier than the other foot-marks. —William Thomas : 1 am a bootmaker, residing in Great King street. I know the accused, and made a pair of elastic-side boots for him about the end of May or the beginning of June. The boots now produced are those I for him. I compared them with the imprints on the. 23rd inst. The imprints on the clay are something similar to I the hoots. By Mr Stout: 1 have made a number of boots similar to these, and nailed in the same way.—At this stage of the pro ceedings Mr Asher was called, and his Worship said if he could not prove anything towards the prisoner’s guilt, it would be useless to call him and waste the time of the Bench ; nothing having been proved against the prisoner up to that time. —Sub -inspector Mallard said that Mr Asher had heard a statement made by prisoner after the first trial, and he would be the last witness called to-day. Of course it was needless for him to remind the Bench that in cases like the present one it was very difficult to trace stolen propery.—His Worship said the Bench would hear what Mr Asher had to say,— John Asher : I am a residing in the Octagon. Accused was in my employ up to Thursday last. I remember Constable O’Brien taking the accused into the room in which he used to sleep. While there accused said. “ 1 ought to have got bail, but I don’t mind being in gaol. You have get all you will got, and I’ll be out next week.” O’Brien remarked, “ How do you know what we have got ? ” Prisoner replied, “ I am innocent, and you will get no more from me." He was the srnallgoodsman, and worked in the sausage-house. In the room in which he worked there are two copper furnaces, nine inches square. By Mr .Stout: They would be large enough to burn a cash-box. To the Bench : During the time prisoner had been in his employ he had proved himself as good, and as honest a servant as one could wish.—Sub-Inspector Mallard asked for a further remand, but the Bench thought it unnecessary, and ordered the prisoner’s discharge.
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Evening Star, Issue 3309, 27 September 1873, Page 2
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676CITY POLICE COURT. Evening Star, Issue 3309, 27 September 1873, Page 2
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