LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Item
- Title
- LOCAL AND PERSONAL
- Source
- Montogermy County Sentinel (MD)
- Date
- 2/10/00
- page
- 3
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83016209/1900-02-10/ed-1/?sp=3&q=theft&r=0.131,0.054,0.236,0.141,0
- Crime
- Theft
- Subject
- Theft
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Stage of the Legal System
- Arrestedcommitted to jail
- Location
- In state, Boyds
- Length of story
- 113
- Description
-
A dispatch from Boyds, this county, dated
the sth instant, gives the following: “J. T.
Gibson, a traveling watch and clock repair
er, was arrested at Boyds this afternoon on
the charge of the theft of a watch belonging
to Mrs. Tyson, living near Rockville. After
his commitment to jail Sheriff Arthur Williams received a message that the same party
was wanted in Virginia on the same charge.
It is said the man has been operating for six
months throughout Montgomery county,
the Eastern Shore of Maryland and the vicinity of Goresville, Va. He would call at
the houses of his victims, secure watches
aud take them to different cities and pawn
them.”
