Charged With Stealing Horses
Item
- Title
- Charged With Stealing Horses
- Source
- Montgomery County Sentinel (MD)
- Date
- 7/22/10
- page
- 3
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83016209/1910-07-22/ed-1/?sp=3&q=stealing&r=0.244,0.865,0.352,0.21,0
- Crime
- Theft
- Subject
- Stealing
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offenders
- Stage of the Legal System
- Arrested in PA
- Location
- Out of state, Chambersburg PA
- Length of story
- 208
- Description
-
Charged With Stealing Horses,
Benjamin Flynn, alias Wm. Hackett, is
in jail here charged with stealing a horse
from his brother, Thomas Flynn, a farmer
of Cedar Grove. The young man admits
taking the horse and has also stated to
Sheriff Viett that he is wanted in Virginia
for two similar offenses.
Flynn came to this county from Virginia
several weeks ago and worked for farmers
in the Cedar Grove neighborhood lie dis
appeared several days ago, und about the
same time Thomas Flynn discovered that
u valuable horse was missing. Sheriff Vielt
learned that a man answering Flynn's de
scriptinn had been arrested at Chamljers
burg, Pa., on suspicion of being a horse
thief. Sheriff Vietl went to the Pennsylvania town and soon obtained from the
prisoner the information that he was the
man who had stolen the horse from the
well-known Cedar Grove farmer.
Flynn, it is said, attempted in dispose of
tile horse in Waynesboro, Pa..hula number
of horses have hern stolon in that section
recently and no one would buy. He left in
the direction of Chambersburg und when
be reached there lie was placed under ar
rest, the Chambersburg officers having been
notified by telephone of the suspicions of
the Waynesboro people.
