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WGay0ea1:hbVIlt;The Rout of a Gang.For some years past the thieving done 11 about this place and adjoining towns has | cj caused considerable anxiety on the part of all to discover the perpetrators and get them in limbo. Suspicion attached to several parties but they could never be caught in the act. It remaiued for the officers of Seymour to discover and arrest some of them, which was done last week.On the night of Saturday, January 24th, Carpenter’s hardware store in that chy was broken into and robbed, and Charley Smith was on the next day or two arrested. On searching him a revolver and knife taken from the store in question were found on his person, giving him “dead away.” We understand he then confessed to the burglary, and informed on Lon Tungate, an alleged partner. It j J will be remembered that Smith came here some two or three years ago as a tramp and has lived here until recently, having latterly taken up his residence in Seymour with hie wife, known as “Ricky” Leiniuger. Numerons thefts were laid to his charge while here, but no catch could be got on him. Hearing of the arrest at a I Seymour, Mr. E. L. Parker, whose store t- j at Queensville was robbed a month or so ago, went down there and induced a search for stolen goods, at the house where lived Smith and.George and John Scra-der, also formerly suspected charaaie-s here. He was successful in his search, y I finding among other goods forty dollars’:e I worth which he identified as his. Returning to North Vernon, affidavits were sworn out before our ofjjcers, charging ir I Ricky Smith and M. ry Sawyer with re-Q-lceivmg stolen goods, and they were brought here for preliminary tr;al. The women Sawyer also lived here for a time 1 and was notorious, having at one time shot an old man from Edinburgh whose name we do not uow remember, who was uosing around her house when she didn’t want him to. Warrants are out for the two Scraders, they being wanted on van ious charges.As a result of the preliminary trial, “Ricky” was sent back to Jackson county, and Mary Sawyer was sent to our county3:tdLSl-eisn?-ua-•7reIB.n-;e,millI j%il to await the action of the Grand ir I J,,ry-
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North Vernon Plain Dealer
North Vernon, Indiana, US
Thu, Feb 05, 1880
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