ROBBERY
John Bassett, who had a crowd of witnesses to prove that his honesty was almost miraculous, and that his character was a holy hash of all the Christian virtues, and who stood through it all, in the prisoners' dock, stunned to learn it for the first time in his life, no doubt, was ordered to appear before the County Court and answer to a charge of highway robbery, committed lately on Pacific street, when he knocked a man down and took twenty-six dollars away from him. We have seen many a nice lot of witnesses in the Police Court, but those for the defence in this case could about discount the best of them in the matter of clean, straight .forward swearing to doubtful propositions.
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