The record-union., 1896-10-21
The Date Set by the Court Being
November Second.
The Bail Furnished at the Last Hear.
ing Renewed and the Prisoners
Again Set at Liberty-An Effort
to be Made to Postpone the Trial,
in Order That Important Witnesses
for Defendants May Have an Oppor-
tunity to Appear and Testify.


were remanded last Tuesday under
charge of stealing a number of valuable
furs and various other articles, who
were released upon furnishing bail in
the sum Of f40, 900 for their appearance
in court to-day, were again arraigned
in the Great Marlborouh-street court
this morning, and committed for trial
at the Clerkenwell sessions, their case
coming up on November I'd. The bail
that was furnished at the last hearing
was renewed, and the prisoners were set
at liberty pending their trial.
AS was the case upon the occasion of
last Tuesdays hearing, the courtroom
was crowded with friends of the de-
PENDANTS, curiosity seekers, etc. Be
fore the proceedings were opened Hon.
j. r. Roosevelt, First Secretary of the
United States Embassy, had an inter-
view with Mr.. Castle in an anteroonl.
Mrs. Castle wore a light-cOlored dress.
She looked somewhat pale when she
entered the courtroom, but did not dis
play anything like the nervous agita-
ton which she so plainly showed at
their last appearance in court.
One of the Saleswomen employed in
the establishment of Gustav Ellis, fur
dealer of Regent street, was called to
the witness stand, and testified to the
loss by her employer on October 1st of
the sable muff, which was subsequently
found in the rooms of the prisoners at
the Hotel Cecil. The witness said that
on the date mentioned Mrs. Castle, with
her son, came to Ellis store and was
shown two chinchilla skins which she
n daci,.a fH bnr f1In
where Mrs. Castle stood was a case con-
tanning a sable muff When, after a
short absence in another part of the
store the witness returned TO where
Mrs Castle was awaiting her, the lat
ter maue an excuse for leaving the
building, promising to return in half an
hour. Shortly after her departure the
muff was missed from the case. The
door of the case was not closed as
usual. The next time the witness saw
the muff was after it had been removed
to the police station from the prison
ers' room The witness fully identified
the muff as the missing one.
Andrew Swertzel, another fur dealer,
testified to Mrs. Castle visiting his es-
tablishment on the last of September.
She came in alone, said the witness, but
was followed in short time by her SON
and husband, each of whom entered the
store separately. While Mrs. Castle
and the proprietor We're talking with
each other, Mr.. Castle looked at some
furs at some distance from where they
stood, but Mr.. Swertzel would not say
that he touched any Of them. The
party soon afterward left the shop. Mrs.
Castle remaining a few minutes after
her husband and son had gone.
The next day Mrs. Castle called at
the store in the morning, and was
shown some chinchilla skins which she
wanted to have matched. She Inquired
regarding cape, the price of which was
t43. but declined to pay that amount
for it, offering t3 less. Her son came
in while she was there, and they de-
Parted together.
Witness did not miss anything at the
time of Mrs. Castles visit, and did not
know he had been robbed until he iden-
tilted some of the articles from the room
in the hotel in which the prisoners lived
The articles We're in that part of the
show room in which Mr.. Castle stood
upon the occasion of Mrs Castles first
visit to his establishment.
Other furriers identified the property
found in the possession of the prisoners
as belonging to them, and a plated toast
rack and cream jug bearing the stamp
Hotel Cecil was identified by the
manager of that hotel
After the circumstances attending the
arrest Of the prisoners had been testi-
fed to by detectives, the prosecution
rested. The prisoners We're then COM
mitted for trial at the Clerkenwell ses-
sion.
Charles Matthews, counsel for the
defense, asked that the defendants be
committed for trial in the Central Grim
inal Court. Old Bailey, instead of the or
dinary sessions. His grounds for MAX
ing this request he said, were that the
anxiety of the friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
Castle in San Francisco that they
should receive the benefit of all avail
able testimony in their favor was very
great, and the committal Of the prison
ers for trial in the Old Bailey Court
would allow him to come to England,
bringing with them medical evidence of
the mental responsibility of Mrs. Cas-
tie.
Magistrate Newton said that he was
unable to comply with the request, as
he was acting under directions to send
all cases of shop-lifiIng to the ses-
sions.
Mr.. Matthews then said he had no
doubt that he would be able to obtain an
adjournment of the case from the
Clerkenwell session, in order that the
witnesses from America could be pres
ent.
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