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TM«vI*fc SmUfMMMf.A case of uncommon interest was before Justice Jones yesterday, which drew quite an audience of interestedspectator*. Hiram Kimberly and Jos.A Warthan, from the vicinity of Mt. Savage, were arraigned before the Justice, charged witii numerous robberies committed in the county recently. It will Im; remembered that a number of robtteries perjietmted in and near Ml. Savage, created such uneasiness tluit a reward was offered for the apprehension of the guilty iwrties This led to the arrest of Hiram Kimberly and Joseph Wartime, the parties who were brought !efore the squire yesterday morning. Kimtnirly was first arraigned for the robbery of a pocket-book from Simon Blubaugh, of Ml. Savage, eon tabling the sum of #111.55. Mr. Blubaugh deacrilxd the manner in which his house: wa« entered, ami the character and amount of money that was stolen from him by some party on the night of the 22d or morning of the 23d of July, 1870. He said that he slept unusually sound and he believed that he was chloroformed, and that had it not been for Urn ojs*n condition of his dwelling at the time be lx lieved he would have been sleeping at this time.Mr. John S. Craigen, druggist, was the next witness. tie testified that some time ago Kimberly came to his establishment and purchased an ounce oflcldoroform, which lie said he (Kim-lx*rly) intended to use to detect a party who had been robbing his spring-house of the milk therein kept; that he intended putting the chloroform in a jar of milk, and, taking out all the other ars, leave tthe chloroformed jar as a dc-©ctivc agent to discover the nocturnal thief.Mr. Craigen stated, however, before he left the stand, that the chloroform, placed in an open room, as described by Mr. liluliaugh, could not possibly have affected him to the extent of producing the extraordinary stupor which Mr. B. thought occasioned undue sorn-nulency on the night and morning preceding the roberry. At the conclusion of Mr. Craigen’s testimony, Joseph Warthan was called and sworn He testified that on the night of the 22d of July last, himself. Kimberly and a man named Samuel Porter, went to Blu-Ixiugh’s liouse, and that Kimberly poisoned the dogs, after which they made considerable noise knocking on the palings to ascertain whether the dogs had been really killed or not. They then made a forcible entrance into the bouse through a window and secured the jxxketlxxik of Mr. liluliaugh. Witness further testified tliat he afterwards divided the money between Kimlxjrly and Porter, keeping the lion’s share himself. To use his own words, he kept one-half of the amount and divided the other half between Kimberly and Porter The witnesses for Kimberly were Kimberly’s wife and an elderly couple named Cage, who were the father-in-law and mother-in-law of the accused (Kimlx rly.) These witnesses testified that, to the lx*3t of their Ixdief,the prisoner was in his bed from a little after 10 o’clrak at night until 5 o’clockin the morning.After the testimony in this case hail been taken, Kimberly was charged with the following separate offences, in all of which Warthan gave testimony and acknowledged his complicity with full and remarkable precision and detail;With entering and robbing the liouw of Henry T. Weld, of Ml Savage, 1 within 00 days last, with the robbery of a lot of tools, the property of O. P. Jewett, of Barrel Is vilh with the robbery of the braise of Michael Murray, of Mt. Savage, on the 16th of June last; with the roblx*ry of the house of James Mattingly, on Wills creek, since the 16th of June Iasi, with the robbery of the store of Turner A lAshley at Flintstone on the 12th day of July last.At the conclusion of the examination the Justice held Kimberly for court in the sum of #500 for the first ease and #100 each *n the other cases above mentioned Warthan was held for court in the sum of #500 in the first ease, there lx*ing no evidence against him in the others save his own statements The i*arties were committed Mr. Joseph Cahill apix-ared f«»r Wartliau and Mr. Goo. Stnenner for Kimberly -PertuuaU
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Cumberland Times
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Tue, Aug 19, 1879
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