Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-11-25
LOCAL MATTERS.

lt-r4TEER i'ROBABHTTIES.-Fo this
a-sstcning and unsettled weather
and Thursday; possibly occasional
sishty warmer Thursday; easteriy
becoming southcriy
T.r ROBBERY OF Mr.. FRENCH's
The discovery of some of the
IVY stolen from Mr.. r. w.
show window on the night of
.0stant in the city Jail natural
s.f.c considerable sensation yes
- The search of the jail aud the
'5nments in the case were de-
-s- Ia Yesterdays GAZETTE. AZ
Unstable Webs,er (who had come
.ass,s> on OF the facts) and officer
E..,i.5u leh in the afternoon after be-
TO find the pen which had
bv the constable in Harry
E room, The missing article was
r bg putty Sergeant Braxton
elaer with single gold pen
udow sill where they had
ed. This fact showed that
b. aent instituted by the au-
-r5 81. 4s correct and that Constable
md Officer Ferguson were on
~ 9y scent. William Arlington
7r 6ha Henderson were arrested
IN The evening on suspicion of
ts connected with the robbery. This
.,,-o..s they were brought before the
7Iayar when Mrs. Richard Burnett tes-
lhet on the 10Th day OF this month
iaen came to her house and
.1,+ gold Sha do.
~ tne pen saying it was made by
hyse. todd. had y pearl handle and
Vs tne telescope pattern (the same
.o.s- rs those found by the Deputy
,r snl and recognized by Mr.. French
Bur. 3fthe stolen property AIRING
81. aud Henderson volunteered no
er4-eneui and TAG case was continued.
There are all sorts OF sprmises atloat
..g ra4aE the matter, some believing
sa supposed to be DE confined in jail
c,.o.sete3 The robbery while others
a.aj with more probability, that
ra. robbery was committed by outsiders
WHO .eok The stuff to the Jail and turn
over to some of the inmates.
The .act that Two of the stolen per s
g-rr Uuj in Harry Candler's posses
..4a has led some TO believe that be
committed the robbery, as it is reported
he was out of ]ai! al night about the
time The robbery was committed. Be.
sides The last man seen hanging around
Nr French'5 premises on the night OF
be robbery was a tail individual, IN
every way answering to Gamblers de
...r,1riou The robbery. it will be re-
rner9ered VAS committed about eleven
.O'c.ecl while the wind was blowing q
yale and the weather was piercingly
ao.l. As a consequence the streets
we're deserted. To-day City Ser
seout William II. Smith and Deputy
sergeant Braxton Smith found the
bulk Of the stolen property in Gamblers
house IN the county where it had
been secreted, and it was developed
shat William Arlington carried tAe
olunder to the Jail and turned it over
20 Gambler. The goods were in port
able packages. The history of the
recovery OF the goods is as follows
Gambler. who had told the deputy SER
geant where the two pens could be
found in the Jail, volunteered to show
where the bulk OF the plunueT had
Been placed, and the Sergeant applied
10 Judge Chichester for permission to
cake the prisoner from the jail to his
mouse in the county. The sergeant
and his deputy went with the prisoner
10 the house formerly occupied by the
Gambler, when the latter produced ten
razols, twenty penknives, three razor
auops spd SIX gold pens, ali of which
had been stolen from Mr.. French. The
Goods were taken in charged by tie
sergeant aud deputy and brought to
his city. Gambler says Arlington and
Henderson came to the Jail on Thurs
day and that the former gave him the
gold pens found IN his room. Before
Arlington left he handed him several
small packages and told him to keep
them for him. Gambler, upon being
liberated from Jail on Friday, went to
his house in the county, which he had
heard had been looted. While there
ne left the bundles where they had
been found.