Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-28
Charged That They Stole
Iwenty-DolIar Gold Piece.
TOOK PURSE OFF SHELF
Ryiand Joynes oe,A Money While
Delivering Groceries at Iiouse and
After Having Piece Changed Ne
'swhscks up With His Partner.

While delivering some groceries at
the home of A. L. Sheffner, Eli
Thirty sixth street. last night, Ryland
Joyncs, the year-old son OF
Ryland n. Joynes, a contractor OF 239
Twenty ninth street. took purse
containing $50 gold piece and four
pennies from shelf IN the dining
room OF the house and, after having
the gold piece changed, gave half OF
the money TO his partner, Elmer Jones,
a sixteen year-old boy. who lives at
229 Forty second street. and who was
driving the grocery wagon for G..
Rcsso. Huntington avenue grocer.
Sometime after the theft was com
mitted. the boys were arrested by
Patrolman Shelton at Huntington
avenue and Thirty seventh street
and locked up at the station house on
charges CT larceny. All OF the money
was recovered by the police. Joynes
had his portion of the spoils-a ten
dollar note-hid in his shoe and had
the two pennies in his pocket. The
Jones' boy had ten-dollar note and
the two pennies in MS pocket
Makes Clear Breast OF II.
Following his arrest, the Joynes
boy made a clean breast of the at
fair. He said that he was helping
Elmer Jones to denver some groceries
and when he took the stuff to Mr..
Sheffner's home he noticed. as he
passed through the dining room, that
a purse was laying on a shelf beside
clock. Two children were play
ing in the room. He went back to
the kitchen and look tlc groceries out
of the basket and. ON returning
through the dining room on his way
out of the house he took the pocket
book.
After getting into the wagon he
told Elmer Jones that he had found
q purse and the boys opened it. find
ing the gold piece and four pennies.
The pennies were divided on the spot
and Joynes put the gold piece in his
pocket. throwing the purse into q
vacant field near Huntington avenue
and Thirty-first street The boys
continued iewn the street and on ar
irving at w. o. Heath's store the
Ioynes boy had the gold piece
changed. receiving two ten-doIiar
notes for IL He tucked one into his
shoe and gave Elmer jones the other
one
Theft Quickly Discovered.
The theft was discovered soon after
the boy left the house and the police
were notified. shortly after the notice
reached the STATEN house. the patrol
Wagon was called to North End to
haul q drunk to the lookup. When
the wagon was returning, Wagon
Driver Smith saw the boys driving
in the grocery wagon and told
Patrolman Shelton, VINO was on the
patrol wagon, that they were wanted
for larceny. Otficer Shelton arrested
them and took them 20 the station
house.
The Jones told the police that
Ioynes had promised 10 divide with
him what he get" He said that
bis partner told him that he had
found the pocket book on Forty third
street and that he had no IDEA that
The money was stolen until he was
arrested by the officer
According to the police this is the
second time that Ryland Joynes has
been in the tolls. he having been ar
rested several years ago In connec-
ton with the robbery of the Rosen-
baum Hardware Company.