Convicted of Theft
Item
- Title
- Convicted of Theft
- Source
- Evening Star (DC)
- Date
- 1900-01-10
- page
- 9
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1900-01-10/ed-1/?sp=9&q=theft&r=0.322,1.065,0.662,0.239,0
- Crime
- Theft
- Subject
- department store, theft; skirt, butcher store, sausage, freight yard, iron
- Race of alleged offender
- Black
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offenders
- Gender of alleged victim
- Male alleged victims
- Law enforcement involved
- police
- Stage of the Legal System
- sentencing
- Location
- In-state; DC
- Length of story
- 182
- Description
- CONVICTED OF THEFT. Three Defendant Pay the Penalty of Wrongdoing. Walter Brown, a colored porter, was arrested yesterday by Detectives Lacy and Herndon on a charge of stealing a skirt from Samuel Friedlander's store, where he was employed. The case was heard in the Police Court today and the defendant denied that he committed the theft. Judge Kimball held him guilty and imposed a penalty of $20 or sixty days. George Taylor, also colored, was in Judge Kimball's court also for alleged theft. Policeman Seibert arrested him for the theft of five pounds of sausage from Hiram Gordon's stand in the market. The prisoner was fined $5, with the privilege of spending fifteen days in jail. Joseph Burrell, colored, admitted that he was dealing in junk in an illegal way when he was arrested. He was coming out of the Baltimore and Ohio freight yard with a bag of Iron on his back when an officer deprived him of his liberty. A plea of guilty to a charge of theft was entered and a penalty of $10 or one month was imposed.
