People v. Rae

The defendant was convicted of the crime of grand larceny, under an information filed by the district attorney charging him with that offense. What he did was this: In company with a confederate, who passed by the name of Turner, he boarded an emigrant train of the Central Pacific Bail-road Company, and engaged the prosecuting witness, who was a passenger on the train, in conversation. He represented himself to be a dealer in furs, and said he was traveling on the emigrant train because of the convenience it afforded him of stopping along the route for the transaction of his business. He…