Rex v. Kenneth Clay Brown; three cases for theft of items from three Japanese Canadian–owned vessels in North Galiano on 18 May 1930

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File contains crown briefs for three cases against Brown for thefts committed on 18 May 1930. He stole multiple items from Seichi Mori’s fishing boat, the S.M., then moored at Cowichan Salteries Wharf at North Galiano island. Mori identified the accused when he saw him wearing his sweater. Brown was confronted by police at his home, a shack on the beach of the Indian Reserve; Constable Otis Leslie Hall reports that, “an Indian by name Baptiste Josephe of Kuper Island was at accused premises and complained to us of the accused residing on Indian property.” Second case concerns items stolen on the same evening from the “Y.O.”, owned by Shigema Matsumura of Porlier Pass at the Moresby Saltery, where he worked as a watchman. At the proceedings for this case, Baptiste George reported that he found Brown occupying his fishing shack on 20 May. The third case concerns items stolen from the vessel of Fukumatsu Uyeyama, who also worked at the Moresby Island salteries and lived in Steveston. File also contains Brown’s criminal record, jury’s guilty verdicts for each case, and handwritten notes on the jury and proceedings.

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