IMPUDENT ROBBERY.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 78, 29 November 1884, Page 6

IMPUDENT ROBBERY.

A ma>" named James Keenan was bi ought up charged with committing a larceny on Friday under the following circumstances. A rcpectablo person, Bridget Western, v,ho has for some time past resided at Mercury Bay, was removing to Auckland, and she placed her furniture and fowls on board the Glenelg. llev furniture uas deposited in a boat alongside the w harf, and as she wa<* lexvingwith a friend from Ponsonby ("Mrs Quiiil m). +he prisoner -poke to her, and she a-ked him if he could tell her of a cottage to let, a^ hoi' furniture was lying in a boat by the w harf. ileaski d her to treat him and lie would find a suitable house. She pave him Is for drinks for himself and a companion, Edwards. He promised to secure a house for her and she agreed to giv«. him .V and .-he would see him the next daw On Coini; t° * no -hf lound tli.it "someone had taken her tuinituie, izood-, and fow X away in a hind cart. Her property wat« worth at lci^t i*l % 2. \A c-ton immediately went fiom m.ut to mart along Queen-street, and discovered that her furniture, bo'Ls and towl-« had been <old at auction by Me^r^ C A arbincs and Taylor. She immediately gave information to the police, and the pri.oncr wa> speedily arrested on the charge by Sergeant Kiely.