John Trevor-Smith, defendant's brother, said that while the complainants were staying at his house, relations between them and he himself were not strained. On one or two occasions he had: had discussions with them, when he usually allowed them to have the last word. He never saw his sister wearing the jewellery in question. With regard to the gold bags, he paid $35 each for them and gave them to her. When he bought them, from a Russi they were in a very bad condition. Several of the links were missing.
Cross-examined, he said he did not know the name of the Russian from whom he obtained the bags, or that his sister, on the bags subsequently being lost, valued them at $150.
Mrs. Trevor-Smith, the mother, said she was present at the packing incident, and corroborated the statement that her daughter, Carmen Kupock and the coolies brought the boxes downstairs.
She was too busy, said witness when cross-examined, to inform the police that the gold bags belonging to her daughter and pi viously reported to them as missing, had been found in the linen cupboard.
Leopold Francis Sequeira, accountant, said he sent the bags to be renewed at Boyes Bassett Co.'s shop.
At the request of Mr. Newman, who said he wished to call evidence to prove that the value of the articles stolen was less than that alleged by the police, the Magistrate adjourned the case until next morning, defendant being released on the same bail.
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