People v. Travato

Defendant has been convicted after a trial of burglary in the third degree, and of grand larceny in the first degree, in connection with the theft of fifteen sewing *385machines taken from the Wonderknit Factory on South Fourteenth Street, in the Village of Lindenhurst, Suffolk County, Long Island. He has also been convicted of having burglar’s tools in his possession. These exploits were conducted with an accomplice, according to the indictment, named Henry Fanning, who pleaded guilty and exonerated defendant if his testimony is to be believed.

The evidence against defendant was mainly…