The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-12-14
RICHMOND. VA, MONDAY MORNING, !.

TRE lRoE STOLEN FRoM.As SNYDER & Co.
Mr.. Kelly sENTENcED no Police-Jus.
ttce- White on Saturday morning went into
the examination :of James Giles and Charles
aailego, young coiored men, who are
charged With stealing about ton of pig.
ir6n, the property of Mesars. Asa Snyder &
Co., and Mr. Michael Kelly, junk dealer
charged With having In bis possession about
one thousand pounds of the same, Gallego
drives q wagon on the streets for Mr.. Staude.
Giles was one oil fThe laborers employed some
months ago in storing the iron. in house on
the south side Of the, river, nearly opposite
the Sugar Refinery. He brought The
iron to this city, pretending he had
fished 1t from the river, and employed
Gallego to haul it to the Junk. dealers.
Ten pieces were carried to Mr. Michael Rel
ly's and eleven to another junk-dealer's.
The latter was arrested, but gave such suffi-
eient proof of his innocence as to cause the
Police Justice to honorably discharge him at
once. There was no doubt at all of the guilt
of Giles, and not Q great deal of the guilt of
Gallego. but their cases were postponed un-
til Tuesday in order. to allow witnesses to as
certain whether or not the house from which
the iron was stelen was broken open to get
it out. In that event the charge will be a
much graver one than the one now standing
against Giles. 9, y ~
All the evidence Sathe case ofsMr. Kelly
was heard. 1t was sho wn that GalIego and
Giles brought ten bars of iron to Mr.. Kelly
about half.past. O'Clock in the evening. It
was weighed in the front room of Mr..
Kelly's establishment, and piled up by Moses
Gibbs (colored) in corner between the
scales and the wall.
When Sergeant Pleasants, Of the police,
and Mr.. Warner Moore, of Snyder & Co.,
went there the following morning to search
for the stolen property, they asked Mr..
Kelly if he had bought lot of pig.iron such
as Mr.. Moore then and there described. Nr.
Kelly said he did not recollect having pur-
chased such lot. Moses Gibbs was called
by Mr.. Kelly and asked if be recollected such
a purchase. Moses replied that he did not re-
collect it. Two or three minutes later Po-
lieeman Matthews came in with Giles and
Gallego, who had been arrested. Ser
geant Peasants asked Mr.. Kelly if
he recognized "that boy" (GIles). The
answer was that he did, and that he now re-
membered having purchased lot Of iron
from him. for which he paid FIVE dollars and
some cents. One OF the accused then point
ed out tue place where the iron had been
put. 1t was concealed from view by bags OF
rags, which were lying upon it: Mr. Kelly
promptly offered TO give it up.
The defence proved and argued that Mr..
Kelly dealt largely in iron that he bought
from forty or fifty persons every cay; that
there was nothing strange in his not remeT-
bering the lot in question:; that the iron
was piled up within fifteen or sixteen feet of
the main entrance, and had it been his in
tention to hide it there were several other
places about the premises he would have
preferred for the purpose.
Mr.. Stywater, an employe of Dir. Kelly,
testified positively that he placed the bags on
the iron, not to hide it, but to get the bags
temporarily out of the way, us they came in
after the iron and near dark.
Police-Justice White said that he would
have to find Mr.. Kelly guilty, though he re-
GREETED to do so. That the fact that he
bought large quantity of iron from an i'm
pecunious negro and paid only about one
fifth its value; that Mr.. Kelly did not re.
member having made the purchase when
asked by Mr.. Moore and Sergeant Pleasants,
and that the iron was concealed, make evil
dence sufficient according to law to warrant
conviction.
MIR. Kelly was sentenced to four months
in Jail. Mr.. Kelly appealed
to the Hastings Court for a trial by jury.
Polce.Justice White granted the appeal, aud
bail was allowed and given in the sum of
5000, with Messrs. Robert kerse and John
II. Molair as sureties.