The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-02-24
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10. Monday evening Maj. !. W,Aiteh'
all, Deputy Sheriff, left for Warrington,
D. II sSsrcb Of a mulRtto Variously des-
ignatsd as Albsrtius alias Albertius Wood
alias All. GOOdlpg alias Al. Clayton, whom
bs wanted 10 answer a charge Of burglar.
Zinc ths residence Of Mrs. Mary Woods,
near Elm Grove, at various times, but
more particularly last Friday night, Ar.
irving at Washington the. Msjor soon
learned that his man was In that town,
and during the next morning he arrested
him in a iewelry shop, which he had en-.
tered for the purpose Of disposing OF q
silver watch. The prisoner was then
locked up in the Washington Jail until the
departure Of the Hempheld train, late in
the evening, when he was brought to this
city and placed In jail.
At the Sheriff's Office yesterday after.
noon o reporter found Q colered man
named Morris Langan, who gave the fol-
lowing description Of Interpretations OF the
prisoner: "This is the fourth time that he
has broken into the house. You see he
was raised by the Goodlug and Woods
family and was thoroughly acquainted
with all the ins and outs Of the house and
grounds, A large and very fierce dog Ia
always on the premises, but the dog never
disturbed AL. as he was raised with him,
The Friday night before last Christmas
while / was out, the back door was left
open for me, and AL knowing this slipped
In and stole q number OF srtiCles. Then
on two other OCCASIONS he made visits Ia
the house and took valuables therefrom
Last Friday night he stole o gold open
face watch belonging to Mr.. Gooding, q
dead brother Of Mrs. Woods, a purse and
"a 80 belonging to Cecilia Ferguson, the
hired girl; q pair Of nine dollar boots, Q
seven-shoOting revolver, box Of cart
ridges, a jeley cake and other things, He
also took a pair Of socks belonging to me
and left an old pair OF his In their place
He got out Of the house by going out OF q
window Ia the second story, upon the
roof Of the porch, and thence on to the
ground by climbing down o tree. The
frat time he broke into the house he stole
silver watch that ] had bought from Mr.
Turner in this CITY,"
At $50 O'Clock q preliminary hearing
was given the accused at the Justices Of
flee. The only two witnesses examined
were Measrs. Langan and Major Mitchell
The Testimony OF the frat witness did MOI
differ from his narrative TO our reporter
Major Mitchell testified that he hat
been apprised OF the burglary, and II
consequence OF information received hat
gone 10 Washington, Pa, alter him. hi
had seen the datkey enter 3 jewelry store
and following, arrested him. He at onCl
searched him, and found the revolver, {
purse, in which was s. 25, an old sock,
pair Of mits, and silver watch, all o
which he had taken charge Of. The Msjo
asked him what had become OF the golt
watch. This had been taken, A. said, b,
a colored man who was with him, Ton
Hill by name. The silver watch, he said
had always belonged to him, but 1t wa
found QUIT he had obtained II 10 ex
change for the gold watch and the money
found upon him, In addition. =.
To Prosecutor Jordan, the prisoner sale
that he had come down from Washington
last Friday, on freight train, and got Of
at Triadelphia, whence he had gone W
into the hills and stayed until alter darl
and then come down 10 the pike.
Morris targan identified the boots werr
by the prisoner as his Langan's and also
the pants he wore as belonging to jim
Cooper, who formerly lived with Samue
Laugblin, Of bis country residence. Las
September Mr.. Laughlin's house wal
broken into and q gun and quantity o.
clothing belonging to Cooper, stolen. The
gun was sold 10 August Heimberger, oil
Roney's Point, and the clothing worn out
by the prisoner,
on this last charge he will have q hear
ing tomorrow. II Is expected that an
other charge will be preferred against The
prisoner, 90 he some months ago tried 70
shoot Joe TOgans, an employe at Wagner't
stables In this city.
The boots and pants were taken of
Clayton by Tailor Daily and other clothing
furnished him.
The accused Ia a dark yellow man,
whose mother was negro and whose
father an Irishman. He is q very surly,
morose looking fellow, and has the reputa.
ton OF talking very little. At the all yes
terlay he pretended not to understand
the questions put to hlp, and came the
foolish" dodge very well.
ANOTHER. rosr PULLED.
Early yesterday morning it was difCov.
cred that The store OF Mr.. E. Z. Post, at
Elm Grove, had been robbed during the
night preceding. Upon examination 1t
was found that an entrance had been oh.
tanned by boring OF the lock Of the front
door and walking in, without further
trouble. Mr.. Post soon arrived at the
store and made an examination OF his
effects, when he found that Eve dollars
had been taken from the drawer, guam.
tity oil tobacco valued at thirty.hvs dol.
lars, a lot OF silverware and other articles,
amounting In all TO about seventy We dol.
lars. The store Is in the Elm Grove Town
Hall, which Ia directly upon the National
road, and persons and vehicles pass every
few minutes, so 1t Is very clear that the
robbers were we'll acquainted with the
premises, although there is no clue 10
them.