Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-01-23
A Bride and Groom Arrested.

A Bride and Groom Arrested.
CHARGED WITH THE ROBBERY OF $500,
THE PROPERTY OF THE wOMAN's UN~
CLE-THEIR FLIGHT AND CAPTURE
AND THE DISCOVERY OF MONEY Sc
GREETED IN THE BRIDES HAIR-A
SENSATION IN CAROLINE COUNTY.
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.l
BOWLING GREEN, VA, Jan. II. 1883.
The parties that have been suspected
of the recent robbery of $500 in our
county were arrested yesterday evening
just as they were about to take the train
for the North. Detectives Wren and
Knox q few days ago went into Mr..
who was robbed, to try to detect the
guilty parties but they had to return
to your city without finding out any.
thing definite about the robbers. 1t
seems, though, they strongly suspected
q Mr.. Lynch. Indeed, they wentto his
house and tried to find out something
that might implicate him. To use their
own expression, they tried to "bul1doze"
Lynch, but In vain. All their efforts
failed to bring out any positive evidence
against him.
Yesterday evening ocr town sergeant
saw Lynch and his wife pass through
the village going towards the depot, and
he at once telegraphed this to Detective
Wren, who sent return telegram to
arrest them. AS soon as the prelimina-
ries for arrest were arranged, Sheriff
Coghill and Sergeant Trewoller started
post-haste for the depot which they
reached, just twenty minutes before
train-time. and arrested Mr.. and Mrs.
Lynch. They returned to Bowling
Green with the prisoners. and carried
them to the Lawn Hotel, where Mrs.
Lynch still is, and where, Lynch re-
NAMED until late this afternoon, when
he was taken to Jail.
They both stoutly deny their guilt
When they were asked what important
business made them both leave home
and travel such distance to the depot,
in such weather and over such roads,
Lynch quickly produced q postal card
from his mother, telling him Of her sick
ness and urging him to come at once to
Baltimore, her home. The sheriff then
asked them II they had any money with
them. and they told him that they had
not. The sheriff then again asked
Lynch If either he or his wife had any
think well before he answered, and to
be positive. Again he denied that either
he or his wife had any money with
them. Mrs. Lynch was then strictly
searched. When the women that were
appointed to search her had about fin.
ished they said that there was no money
about Mrs. Lynch's person. "Now,
then, you see.n said she, "for yourselves,
am glad you searched me ~ Just then,
however, one of the women began to
examine her hair, which was somewhat
suspicious, when she drew back, insist.
Ing on their not taking her hair down,
and assuring them that nothing was in
1t. The women persisted, however. and
took down her hair, and found in it $3.50
All this time Mr.. Lynch was in an
other room, strictly guarded, ;and knew
nothing Of what was going on. He
seemed to be in fine spirits; and, for
most of the night. played dominoes with
those that guarded him. When told,
however, that money had been found in
his wife's hair, his whole countenance
and manner at once changed, though he
said he had put the money there for
safe-keeping, as, once when he was
coming from Baltimore, he was robbed
of his money. Lynch and his wife have
not been allowed to see each other since
early last night. He has been growing
more and more respondent all day, and
when the sheriff took him to Jail this
afternoon he wept.
The case will be brought before Mag
istrate Broaddus Friday.
Lynch is about twenty-five years of
age.a tall, genteel, and gentlemanly-
looking man. His wife is about eigh-
teen, with kindly and somewhat pref.
ty face. They had been married about
one month. She 10 the niece of the gem
tleman that was robbed.
The evidence Is entirely circumstan-
tial, but is said to be of the most conclu-
sive character. Our people have little
doubt of the guilt of Lynch and his
wife. .lADGER.
LATER.-The money was stolen from
Mr.. James Wright.
The sheriff Of the county and Mr.,
TrewalIa by diligent search found bur-
led in bottle two rolls of money
amounting to 1910. and in another place
they found the next day cigar bog
with an old bag in it which contained
$l39 in coin. The sheriff deserves great
credit for the manner in which he con.
Quoted the search which was ultimately
successful in finding the stolen money.
The prisoner, Mr.. Lynch, will be tried
at the next term of the court. His wife
has gone to the home of her father.in-
law in baltimore. She is guilty as an
accessory after the fact. and, we pre-
sumo, will be tried as such.