Cranbrook Police Court: 0050.0294
THE JUSTICE SHOP – An Italian Who Claimed to Have Been Rolled at
Monday Constable Hawes, of the mounted Police, stationed at Palmer’sBar, brought in four prisoners – Frenchmen – on suspicion of having rolled an Italian named Bernadino Dominico.
An examination was held Monday forenoon in the office of Justice Hutchison before Inspector of Mounted Police Saunders, and was entitled The Queen vs. Norris et al. The plaintiff was possessed of a lamentable ignorance of the English language and a strong smell. His evidence was given through an interpreter, and was positive only as to one of the suspects – a camp barber. He stated that he had been at the hotel the preceding morning and bought refreshments for himself to the amount of 50 cents but strenuously denied having “called up the house” as the prisoners averred, which unfortunate misunderstanding left the $5 bill he coughed up in much the same condition as the Cristobel Colon after meeting the
The defense set up the claim that the plaintiff was intoxicated and not in any condition to remember any one, or anything that might have occurred at the time the alleged robbery occurred. One of the quartet – all are engaged on the grade – was certainly never intended by nature or education for a common laborer, as the skill and tact with which he conducted in behalf of the defense a cross-examination of the witnesses would have been creditable to any barrister, and showed that he was no stranger to courts and court proceedings.
The proofs being insufficient to convict the inspector dismissed the case.
0050.0294: Cranbrook Police CourtItalian who claimed to have been rolled at Palmer Bar, out of luck in the courts. Medium: Newspaper - Text
Date:
August 11, 1898
Pages: 1
Publisher: Cranbrook Herald
Collection: Columbia Basin Institute (0050)
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