People v. Gold

The defendant was indicted by a grand jury of the county of New York on two counts. The first count of the indictment charged that the defendant, in the county of New York, on or about September 2, 1932, did feloniously, and with force and arms, steal, take and carry away, against the form of the statute in such case made and provided and against the peace of the People of the State of New York and their dignity, one rare book, known as “ Al Aaraaf,” by Edgar Allen Poe, of the value of $3,000, the goods, chattels and property of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden…