Criminal Breach of Trust: Before Mr. P. D. Shaw yesterday, Hyath Meah Saib and Hyath Musthan Saib were charged with having between the 18th March and 6th April 1882 committed the offence of criminal breach of trust, in having disposed of, or made away with 8,000 and 9,000 skins, the property of Messrs. Shaw and winch. It appears that the defendants in November 1880 applied to Messrs. Shaw and Winch for an advance of Rs. 5,000, depositing as security certain immovable property, and agreeing to ship all skins prepared by them at their tannery through Messrs. Shaw and Winch to Messrs. Willis, Rodwell & Co., complainant’s agents in London. … (continues) … The defendants are now indebted to the complainants in the sum of about Rs. 25,000. ON the 18th March 1882, Mr. Pinsent, one of the partners, in company with Mr. Willis, inspected the tannery and estimated the skins then there at from Rs. 9,000 to 10,000. Finding no skins were being sent in by defendants, Mr. Pinsent went again to the tannery on the 6th April, and found it comparatively empty, and on the 10th April took possession of the tannery, and placed his men in charge. Mr. Norton, instructed by Mr. Short, appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Robert Grant for the defense. Mr. Pinsent was cross examined at some length and the case was adjourned. It was called again today and Mr. Pinsent’s examination is not yet concluded …
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GRO0133 India: Charles Powell Tronson Pinsent: 1849 – 1904