Year: 1868

| w d0LESALE ROBBERY AT FARMVILLE.-
| About eighteen months ago a young man


named Wrigley was employed by the editor
of the Farmville Journal as compositoi :.
! The Office of the journal was over the dry
goods and grocery store of Messrs. Rice &


Porter, the latter of whom had an interest
| in the Journal. Wrigley slept in the print
ing Office over the store. A short time after


his engagement in the Office he aroused the


town sergeant and proprietors Of the store
| with the alarm that the store had been broken
open, and that he, hearing the noise, opened
| the Office window and threw the mallet at one
of three negroes who were about entering the


window, but before he got dewn stairs the


negroes made their escape. His supposed
services raised him 80 much in the estima-
ton of his employers that at his own sug-
gestion from that night he slept in the


store. During the whole period from that
time to the present numerous articles were
continually being missed by one or the other
suspicion against Wrigley. It was noticed,
however, that he shortly afterwards as


sumed q more respectable appearance, and
getting flush Of money, became the associate
of quite number of the boys about town.


He also made the acquaintance of q
young lady-whose name we will not mem
tion-of quite. a respectable family, to
whom he was to.have' been married on yes


terday evening, the license having been


procured and all necessary arrangements


having been made, including the renting
and furnishing of house in, the town. On


Saturday last, one of the firm wishing a
coat of peculiar kind, of which he sup


posed he had several in stock, not finding
one in proper place, he inquired of his
partner if he had sold them all. This in
quiry revealed the fact that none Of that
description of coat had been sold by either
of the firm. A search was instituted, and on
Sunday morning Mr.. Porter saw one of the
identical coats upon the back Of an old citi-
zen of the county. Upon inquiry, this gen.
tleman readily stated that he had bought it
from Wrigley, and had other clothing at
home which he had also bought from the
same party. Wrigley was called upon, and
with many penitential tears confessed his
guilt. A warrant was applied for for his
arrest, but before it could be procured the
bird had flown. Subsequent search re-
vealed the fact that every article in the
house which he had furnished belonged
to the stock of Messrs. Rice Il Porter
that he had two trunks closely packed with
saleable goods, and that q large quantity of
clothing had been disposed Of by him in
and around the town. About $3.50 worth
has been already recovered, and it is ex-
pected that much more will yet come to
hand. His manner of conducting the sales
was by representing that his father, living
in New Orleans, and who was very wealthy,
had sent him the garment, and that it
did not suit him, being either too large
or too small. There is no doubt now
but that the alarm of burglary was no
thing more than scheme Of his own
concocted for the purpose of ingra-
tiating himself into the favor of the firm
in order to cover his prospective villainies.
1t is also believed, from facts brought to
light, that his intention was (after marry
ing the young lady referred toy to take in q
number of boarders, and after amassing
as much money as possible by feeding them
on his ill-gotten gains, to leave the deceived
young wife. We can only congratulate the


young lady on the fact that his character
was developed the Sunday before instead of
the Sunday after her proposed union with


him, -..t.