Petersburg
Item
- Title
- Petersburg
- Source
- Daily Dispatch {VA}
- Date
- 1881-03-09
- page
- 2
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84024738/1881-03-09/ed-1/?sp=2
- Crime
- Theft
- Subject
- Theft; Multiple Thefts; Organized Group
- Race of alleged offender
- Black alleged offender
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Law enforcement involved
- Police
- Stage of the Legal System
- Crime
- Location
- In-State; Petersburg; VA
- Length of story
- 59 words
- Description
- A considerable portion of property, consisting of dry-goods, clothing, &e., seized by the police yesterday at the house of Wyatt Mason and John Mason (colored) in Chesterfield county has been identified by different parties here. These parties seemed to have had a hand in a pretty extensive system of thefts, and their arrest may lead to further interesting developments.
