Recovery of goods unlawfully pawned, etc

(1) If any goods are stolen or unlawfully obtained from any person, or being lawfully obtained, are unlawfully deposited, pawned, pledged, sold or exchanged, and information is laid before a magistrate that such goods are in the possession of any broker, dealer in marine stores or other dealer in second-hand property, or of any person who has advanced any money upon the security of such goods within any town, it shall be lawful for the magistrate to issue a summons or warrant for the appearance before the court of such broker, dealer or other person and for the production of the goods, and to order such goods to be delivered up to the owner thereof, either without any payment or upon payment of such sum and at such time as the magistrate thinks fit. (2) Every broker, dealer or other person who, (a) being so ordered refuses or neglects to give up such goods; or (b) disposes of, or makes away with, any of such goods, after notice that they were stolen or unlawfully obtained as aforesaid, 63 shall forfeit to the owner thereof the full value of the goods to be determined by the magistrate. (3) No order of a magistrate under this section shall bar the right of any broker, dealer or other person to recover possession of such goods from the person into whose possession they may come by virtue of such order, by action brought within the two months next after the order was made.