Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-06-03
BROWN BROUGHT BACK.
The Young Mulatto Who Robbed
Judge Guthrie's Residence is
in the Mexico Jail.

Thursday night MarshalLane arrived
from st. Louis with Albert Brown,
colored, in custody. The LEDGER
has related the cause of Browns ar
rest as being for burglarizing the
residences of ]. A. Guthrie and r. @.
Calhoun some thirty days ago.
Brown has confessed his crime and
described the way in which he did it.
He says that he entered the Guthrie
home while the family were at a
party. Just as he was preparing to
search for valuab1es he heard them
entering the house. He had brought
two half bricks with him, and taking
one In each hand he stepped into a
large closet. Mr.. and Mrs. Guthrie
entered the room and prepared to re-
tire. Mrs. Guthrie removed her
cloak, and going to the closet hung it
on a nail within a few inches of the
negro's head, without discovering his
presence. Brown says he stood for
four hours in the closet, awaiting a
time when the family would be sound
asleep. At 8 O'Clock in the morning
he left the closet, and searching the
house secured a load of valuables and
got away.
To the st. Louis police Brown said
that he was making preparations to
operate extensively in west st. Louis
had he not been apprehended.
1t has not yet been decided when a
hearing will be given the negro.
OF the capture the St. Louis Repub-
Tic says:
B. Van Blarcom, who lives at 4490
Forest Park boulevard has been doing
very little but shaking hands with
himself for the last two days. This
jollification is all due to the fact that a
few days ago two private detectives
called at his house and informed him
that he had in his employ a very
shrewd negro thief.
Mr.. Van Blarcom at first fared up
and questioned the detectives right
to call Albert Brown, his swell colored
porter, a thief. The outcome of it all
was that Brown was taken in charge
by the detectives and taken back to
Audrain county, Mo-, where he was
badly wanted by John A. Guthrie, a
millionaire cattle owner.
Brown is a pleasant looking young
yellow negro and rather intelligent.
His many good qualities caught the
eye of Mr.. Guthrie, while he was
visiting in Mexico, Mo. Brown went
out to Mr.. Guthrie's home and worked
there for about six months, when he
made up his mind to migrate to st.
Louis.
About a week before he left Mr..
Guthrie woke up one morning and
found that he had been robbed. The
missing articles consisted of a gold
watch and some valuable rings. Brown
at the time did all he could to try and
ferret out the robbers, but in vain. |
MI. Guthrie had faith in the young
negro and never suspected him of
stealing, but later he found out differ
emit.
When Brown departed from Mexico !
he had in his possession a splendid
recommendation from Mr.. Guthrie to |
the effect that he was an honest, up
Industrious young fellow.
Armed with this letter he called at Mr..
Van Blarcom's fashionable home on
Forest Park boulevard, and his pre-
possessing appearance at once secured
a situation.
After Brown left Mexico Mr.. Guth-
rie commenced to think and grew sus-
picious and finally he became con-
WINGED that his trusted coachman had
. hand in the disappearance of the
valuable jewelry. The Thiel Detec-
tive Agency took up the cast for Mr..
Guthrie with the result above stated. |
The jewelry was found in a pawn
shop on Morgan street, where Brown
had pawned it.
But for the prompt work of the de-
tectives the smooth young man would
probably have worked long enough at
the Van Blarcom residence to corral
everything in sight and depart, but he
didn't, therefore Mr.. Van Blarcom's
glee.
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