Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-01
A GOOD JOB.
Burglar Charles E. Peters
Landed by Detective True.
Gold Watch Recently Stolen from
Rocklaad Man, Recovered.
Thought that One Gang OF Burglars Will Now
Be Broken Up.

Rockland. NOV. 3o-fSpeciaD.-De-
tective Ira NJ True Of Hallowell and
Deputy Sheriff Timer of Rockland,
safely landed colored individual i'm
Thomaston. Saturday night. and it is
thought that by his arrest, bold gang
of burglarously inclined law breakers
which the aforesaid colored man, one
Charles f. Peters of Warren was ar
rested, occurred near the first of Sep
TENDER last, when the residence of W.
\. FarnswOrth in Rockland was
entered, and a gold watch numbered
1879, was stolen.
Detective True took the matter up
shortly after. and for his first move
toward apprehending the offender
visited several establishments in Bos-
ton. where old gold finds a market
from those who wish to depart with
their gold trinkets. watches. etc. At
the store of Walter l. Rand. Mr.. True
ascertained that short time previous
the company had received two
watches. two chains and two charms
from one Peters in Warren, Me
Neither watch vas the one wanted
al the time, but note was made Of the
collection for future reference. A de-
scription of the timepiece wanted was
left with Rand and also at the estab-
lishment of Hood & Reynolds. with the
request that any information there
after received, he at once forwarded
to Mr.. True.
On Nov. %, Mr.. True was informed
through Chief Inspector Watts OF Bos
ton. that watch answering the pre-
vious description and number. had
been sent to Hood & Reynolds by
Peters from Warren. This was sufii
cient evidence that Peters was the
person implicated in the burglary. and
Mr.. True accordingly started for War
rem in search of his man.
ON Friday of last week he met Dep
uty Sheriff Timer of Rockland, at
Warren. and they Immediately started
for Thomaston where it was said
Peters could he found. On Saturday.
he was seen in company with another
man, and both were Swallowed until
late Saturday afternoon, when Peters
was arrested and aftcrward placed in
irons by Mr. True
When asked where he secured the
watches. chain and charms sent to Mr..
Rand in Boston. he stated that he OBJ
tanned them of a peddler, near the
inst Of September. The case Of the
watch numbered 1879 he secured
through one Phillip Ross. He was
searched and another gold watch was
found upon his person, bur he refused
to disclose anything regarding ii and
said he would say no more until he
had seen his attorney. He will he held
for he next term OF the Knox county
superior court. He is brother of
Joseph Peters. the Knox county col
Gred desperate who has twice escaped
from custody and who is stll at large.
Phillip Ross of HON Peters said he
obtained he case Of the watch. is now
held in Pennington, charged with
New Sharon.
Ross is a Well-known criminal ana
is possessed of many aliases, namely
Alfred l.. Ross, Louis Herman and
Louis Phillips. He was arrested by
Detective True in 1856. for shooting a
man in Wiscasset, and was sentenced
November 3, 1856, to six years in the
is not unlikely that he is concerned in
some of the wholesale burglaries that
have been committed in this part of
the State within a few months.