The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-21

LONDON, Oct. 2O.-Mr. and Mrs.
Walter NJ. Castle of San Francisco,
who were remanded last Tuesday on
charge of stealing number of valua-
BILE furs and various other articles, and
released upon furnishing bail in the
sum of 100000 for their appearance in
court today, were again arraisned in
the Great Marlborough-street police
court this morning, and committed for
trial at the Clerkenwell sessions, their
case coming up on Nov. 2. The ball
that was furnished at the last hear
ing was renewed, and the prisoners
were set at liberty pending their trial.
AS was thee case upon the occasion of
last Tuesdays hearing the court room
was crowded with friends of the de-
PENDANTS, curiosity seekers, etc Be
fore the proceed ings were opened Hon.
]. r. Roosevelt, first secretary of the
United States embassy, had an inter
view with Mr.. Castle in an ante-room.
Mrs. Castle wore a ught-colored dress.
She looked somewhat pale when she
entered the court room, but did not
display anything like the nervous agl-
tation which she so plainly showed at
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 Oct. l 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,
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two cfinchilla skins, which she desired
to have matched. Close to where Mrs.
Castle stood was a case containing a
sable muff. When, after a short. alb
sence in another part of the store, the
witness returned to where Mrs. Castle
was awaiting her, the latter made an
excuse for leaving the building, prom
Using to return in a half 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 witness saw the muff was
after it had been removed from the
prisoners rooms to the police station.
Witness positively identified the muff
as the one which was missing from
the store after Mrs. Castles visit.
Andrew Swertzell 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
were talking with each other, Mr.. Cas-
tie looked at some furS at some dis
lance from where they stood, but Mr..
SwertZel would not say that he touched
any of them. The party soon after
wards left the shop, Mrs. Castle re-
naming a few minutes after her hus-
band 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
a cape, the price of which was 945,
but declined to pay that amount for it.
Offering 23 less. Her son came in
While she was there, and thew 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 identified some of the
articles taken from the rooms in the
hotel in which the prisoners lived. The
articles were in that part of the show
room in which Mr.. Castle stood upon
the occasion of Mrs. Castles first visit
to his establishment.
OTHER IDENTIFICATIONS.
Other furriers identified the property
found in the possession of the prison
ers as belonging to them, and plated
toast rack and cream jug bearing the
stamp. Hotel Cecil" were identified
by the manager of that hotel.
After the circumstances attending Il
arrest of the prisoners had been ties IL
fled to by detectives, the prosecution
rested.
Magistrate Newton then committed
the prisoners for trial at the Clerken-
well sessions.
Mr. Charles Matthews, counsel for
the defense, asked that the defendants
be committed for trial in the Central
criminal court. Old Bailey, instead of
the ordinary sessions. His grounds for
making this request, he said, were that
the anxiety of the friends of the Cas-
ties in San Francisco that they should
receive the benefits of all available
testimony in their favor was very great,
and the committal of the prisoners for
trial in the Old Bailey court would al
low them time to come to England
bringing with them evidence of the
mental responsibility of Mrs. Castle.
Magistrate I-ewton said that he was
unable to comply with the request, as
he was acting under directions to send
all cases of shoplifting to the sessions.
Mr.. Matthews then said he had no
doubt that he would be able to obtain
an adjournment of the case from the
Clerkenwell session court in order to
enable witnesses from America to be
present at the trial.
The prisoners pleaded not guilty and
reserved their line of defense.
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