People v. Ferrise

Defendant, was a motorman on a street *473railway in Detroit. A car upon which he was working was found with an open fare box. He was first charged, it seems, with larceny and arrested, but later he was: charged with and held to trial for a violation of section 15334, 3 Comp. Laws 1915:

“Every person who shall knowingly have in his possession, any engine, machine, tool or implement, adapted and designed for cutting through, forcing or breaking open any building, room, vault, safe or other depository, in order to steal therefrom any money or other property, knowing the same to be adapted and…