Gunther v. People

Plaintiff in error was convicted in the court below of receiving a lady’s gold watch of Mary Walter, which had been stolen from her, knowing at the time that it had been stolen.

Mary Walter testified that her house in Chicago, Cook county, was entered by burglars on the night of the 14th of November, 1889, who stole therefrom her lady’s gold watch, of the value of $45, her bracelets, and some other articles of property. She reported the burglary to John O’Malley, a policeman, and gave him the numbers of the works and of the case of her watch, which she had, before the watch was stolen, written…