Albert Cataldo receives stolen property belonging to George W. Rainess

The defendant [Cataldo]

The defendant [Cataldo] “did knowingly have in his possession” a quantity of jewelry and watches stolen from the deponent’s Madison Avenue premises some three months earlier, which he had on display at his East 116th Street jewelry store. Upon being questioned by a detective, the defendant claimed that he had purchased the watches “from a man known as Pete, in front of the Jewelers Exchange on the Bowery,” while the rest he purchased from an unknown man.