The Saratoga

The libel in this case was filed to recover $23,600, the value of a quantity of Spanish gold coin shipped, on the twenty-seventh day of May, 1880, on board the steam-ship Saratoga, and consigned to Havana, but which was not delivered there because stolen from the steamer, as the evidence shows, before she left New York. The coin was in bags contained in a wooden box, which was strapped with iron, and was about 18 inches long, 12 wide, and 8 deep. It was received on board the steamer, as she lay at her wharf, about 1 o’clock in the afternoon, some three hours only before she sailed. It was…