Theopha Brown
Item
- Title
- Theopha Brown
- Source
- Montgomery County Sentinel (MD)
- Date
- 7/17/03
- page
- 3
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83016209/1903-07-17/ed-1/?sp=3&q=stealing
- Crime
- Theft
- Subject
- Stealing
- Race of alleged offender
- Black
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Gender of alleged victim
- Male alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- Arrested and put in jail then moved to Ellicot City
- Location
- In state, Sandy Spring MD
- Length of story
- 219
- Description
-
Theopha Brown, an 18 year old colored
boy, whose home is near Spencerville, this
county, was brought to Rockville last Fri
day afternoon and lodged iu jail on the
charge of horse stealing. He was arrested
at Sandy Spring on Friday morning. At
the time he was taken into custody it was
not known that a horse had been stolen,
but the animal Brown was driving was
iu such a condition that suspicions were
aroused and a warrant was sworn out. The
horse was bleeding and exhausted Deputy
Sheriff Carr was notified of the arrest and
went at once to Bandy Spring and discovered that the prisoner was also wanted op
on the charge of robbing a tenant house on
the farm of Mr Caleb Stabler, near Spencer
ville, the officer having the warrant In his
pocket at the time. The boy admitted that
he took the animal about 2 o'clock Friday
morning near Fulton, Howard county. The
tM>y united that he caught the horse in a
public road and that he went to a nearby
barn and secured the harness and got the
cart from a building on the same farm. The
horse was taken from the farm of A B.
Marlow and the vehicle from 11. H Small
wood. Brown has been taken to Ellicott
City.
