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Show Tlio Housebreukor. Tlio vxnuiinutiou ul Aaron Kors-terg Kors-terg for stealing the jcwilry from a number of iiorsunc, came otV yesterday yester-day nit. moon. Mra. iKSauhe, tho old lady from whom ho had tiUn $2.H0 in silver, a gold watch and a pair of show, was the first Wilms, She Identities) the article, and wo re 'hat ou Friday afternoon, about 4 o'clock, alio sw Foraberg coming out of the back window of lier house rtiid that he ran past her. Hhe ulenulifd hiui, purtially, aud thoiiglitit was the deleudant, and hud iwvi-r neon him be lot e or after, exeepling in the court room. scAr Hardy, a clerk in Day A Co.'b elore, testified lo having sold tho shoes to Mrs, DeSaules ou Wednesday, which he ideulitied & thmo in the couit. Ollicer V. G. Phillips testified us to the diecovrry of the articles. Mrs. Wilfjrd Woo.1-rutl, Woo.1-rutl, Mrs. B. S . Beatie, Mte. M. M. Uichards, Mrs. Mary J. Tanner, Miss i Auuie Richards, Mrs- Mariah Wilcox Wil-cox and Mr, James Toms wero sworn, and wilh the except i n of Mrs. Tanner Tan-ner ami Mrs. Wilcox, ttio witucaji-a all ideuiiutd tho jewtlry as beloniug to tbeni, and that it hud been iljleu at diil'erent t.tius. Mrs. Wilcox testifud that she had seen Forsburg at Mrs. Kicbards' reaideuce, and bad obtai; td a full face view o( uiui, irom which she was in a condition to swear that be was tho man she had seen. Other witnesses teeiitud that they had seen a suspicious acting character dressed like Forsberg, hanginf around Mrs. Richards' premises oj (Saturday afieruoou, from which it ii prttly conclusito that the right man has been louud. There are live charges against him, a'l for the samo cla-s of oflenses, but prelerred by different persons. The examination was coo-tinued coo-tinued until 10 o'clock this moruiu. It is said, as a fact, that during his servitude in the penitentiary, tho conduct of Forsberg woj of the moat exemplary charanl-r, Ld that ho was trustworthy iu every respect. In view of this and a desire lo preserve for him his franchise richt. ol which be wculd have been deprived had he worked out the lull term of his penalty, he was pardoued two weeks be lore the expiration ot his Urui. The idea is enVrtained that stoalmg is a mama with him, and t k.ia. ih's propensity pro-pensity etinds souicwual id extenuation extenua-tion of the comnii-uion of the ofleniSi. However, like ail kleptomaniacs, tha best thing that can be done for him is to place him where he will be unable un-able to gratily his pjsiioo. |