Confessed Stealing Chickens
Item
- Title
- Confessed Stealing Chickens
- Source
- Montgomery County Sentinel (MD)
- Date
- 1/20/00
- page
- 3
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83016209/1900-01-20/ed-1/?sp=3&q=stealing&r=-0.04,0.617,0.859,0.513,0
- Crime
- Theft
- Subject
- Stealing
- Race of alleged offender
- Black
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Stage of the Legal System
- Arrested, in jail awaiting trial
- Location
- In state, Montgomery County
- Length of story
- 126
- Description
-
Confessed Stealing Chickens.—lt is
expected that the arrest of William Jones,
alias Feter Jackson, a nineteen-year old
negro, by Foliceman Stuerrnan on Tuesday,
will aid the Maryland authorities in clear
ing up the mystery surrounding the opera
tions of a gang of chicken thieves that has
lieen operating in Montgomery county since
last November.
Jones made a partial confession to steal
ing some of the missing fowls. He told the
police that he and another negro boy stele
four chickens one night, bat were chased so
closely that they dropped the birds. Deputy
Sheriff Jones left with the prisoner about 4
o’clock yesterday afternoon, and will charge
the youth with robbing the chicken coops
of Dr. Mackall, of Montgomery county,
Md —Wash Post of Wednesday.
