A native cargo-boat owner was charged with stealing forty-five piculs of coal, portion of a cargo which he was entrusted to take from the Naval Yard to H.B.M.'s corvette Charybdis.
The evidence was to the effect that the accused's boat, with others, was engaged on the 27th ultimo, to convey coal from the Naval Yard to the Charybdis, and during the night it was alleged the accused took his boat the south gate of the city, and sold forty-five piculs of the coals for 22,000 cash.
The charge was clearly proved, and accused was sentenced to receive 200 blows and to be imprisoned for six month:
The buyer of the coal was then charged with feloniously receiving them, and he was remanded.
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