Detective Tomlinson Concludes a Hot Trail at Newport News
Item
- Title
- Detective Tomlinson Concludes a Hot Trail at Newport News
- Source
- Richmond Dispatch {VA}
- Date
- 1900-01-12
- page
- 10
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85038614/1900-01-12/ed-1/?sp=10
- Crime
- Theft
- Subject
- Theft; Asleep Victim; Large Quantity of Money
- Race of alleged offender
- Black alleged offenders
- Gender of alleged offender
- Female alleged offenders
- Gender of alleged victim
- Male alleged victim
- Law enforcement involved
- Detective
- Stage of the Legal System
- Arrest
- Location
- In-State; Newport News; VA
- Length of story
- 176 words
- Description
- Mary Lizzie Noris and Emma Johnson, colored women, are under arrest, charged with the theft of a large sum of money from Mr. Arthur Hankins, of this city, on the night on January 6th. It is believed that Lizzie Norris, who was a servant in the house, extracted the money, which amounted to between $400 and $500 from under the pillow of Mr. Hankins’s bed. He placed it there before retiring, and missed it the next morning. Suspicion naturally pointed to the Norris woman. The facts were reported to the police, and Detective Tomlinson took charge of the case personally. He found that Lizzie and Emma, her companion, had been spending money freely, after the ??? Wednesday morning the women, to avoid the detective, whom they learned was on their trail, went to Newport News. They were arrested their shortly after they alighted on a description furnished by Detective Tomlinson, who went down yesterday morning and returned in the afternoon with the prisoners. It is believed that sufficient evidence has been obtained to secure a conviction.
