People v. Howes

The respondent was convicted of the larceny of $000 from the safe of one J. Max Davis, in the village of Fenton.

Davis kept a jewelry store, in which he had a large burglar-proof safe, so called. He was village treasurer, and kept the village moneys, then amounting to about a thousand dollars, as claimed by him, in this safe. The claim of the prosecutor was that respondent entered this store on Saturday night, February 16, 1889, and either unlocked the safe, or found it left inadvertently unlocked, and stole the money.

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