Robbed.
Item
- Title
- Robbed.
- 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=theft&r=0.187,0.81,0.345,0.206,0
- Crime
- Theft
- Subject
- Theft
- Race of alleged offender
- Black and White
- Gender of alleged offender
- Two male alleged offenders
- Race of alleged victim
- Black
- Gender of alleged victim
- Male alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- Two men arrested on charged of suspicion, awaiting trial.
- Location
- Out of state, Georgetown
- Length of story
- 240
- Description
-
Robbed.— The Georgetown correspond
ent of the Washington Star, under date of
12th instant, gives the following:
Noah Lee, a colored man, came into
Georgetown yesterday with bis employer,
Mr. Charles Veirs, whose post office address
is Kockville, 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 onload it and receive the money, which
amounted to S4O. When Lee finished the
work he went to a livery stable on M street
to remain overnight. About 11 o’clock ho
took the money from his pocket, counted it
and placed it In bis inside 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 Hef
lin, a young white man from Loudoun
county, Va., 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, get
ting 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 Wll Hess was informed
of the robbery and he took both Iletiin and
Hunter into custody. They were locked
up oo a charge of suspicion, but the money
was not found on them.
- Site pages
- Out of State Crimes
