Commonwealth v. Anderson

The defendant was indicted for having in his possession burglar’s tools “ adapted and designed for cutting through, forcing and breaking open buildings, rooms, vaults, safes and other depositories, in order to steal therefrom such money and other property as might be found therein, . . . knowing said machines, tools and implements to be adapted and designed for the purpose aforesaid, and intending to use and employ them therefor.”

There was evidence that between two and three o’clock on the morning of February 17, 1921, the defendant with three men were in an automobile in West Newton, owned *184an…