A Colored Countryman Robbed of Forty Dollars While Asleep
Item
- Title
- A Colored Countryman Robbed of Forty Dollars While Asleep
- Source
- Evening Star (DC)
- Date
- 1900-01-12
- page
- 5
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1900-01-12/ed-1/?sp=5&q=theft&r=0.177,0.012,0.916,0.331,0
- Crime
- Theft
- Subject
- Horse stable; theft; money; asleep
- Race of alleged offender
- White and Black
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offenders
- Race of alleged victim
- Black
- Gender of alleged victim
- Male alleged victim
- Law enforcement involved
- police
- Stage of the Legal System
- arrest
- Location
- In-state; Georgetown, DC
- Length of story
- 250
- Description
- AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN. A Colored Countryman Robbed of Forty Dollars While Asleep. Theft Occurred Last Evening in an M Street Livery Stable - Jokers Cause Excitement. Noah Lee, a colored man, came into Georgetown yesterday with his employer, Mr. Charles Viers, whose post office address is Rockville, Md., and who lives several miles outside the town on the Darnestown road. A load of hay was brought in, and the employer, after arranging for its sale, left it in charge of Lee, with instructions to unload it and receive the money, which amounted to $40. When Lee finished the work he went to a livery stable on M street to remain over night. About 11 o’clock he took the money from his pocket, counted it and placed it on the inside of his vest pocket. He elevated his feet on a desk and started to sleep, forgetting to button his vest. In the office with him were Herbert Heflin, a young white man from Loudoun county, Virginia, and William Hunter, aged twenty-one, a colored laborer. About 3 o'clock this morning Lee was awakened by a horse breaking loose in a stall, and, getting up, he found his money was gone. The two others in the office protested their innocence of the theft. About 7 o'clock this morning policeman Will Hess was informed of the robbery and he took both Heflin and Hunter into custody. They were locked up on a charge of suspicion, but the money was not found on them.
