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#N A THEFT CHARGEoMoigs county cffcera a ter y arrested a Aliole ‘passer cf c luredfolk- at Rutland on the charge of stealing about $3,000 in gold from aged Henry Wanzo at Rutland on or about January 10, last. So far Mr. an.l Mrs. James Bryant and their daughter, Geneva, James G. Yancey and Mi. and Mrs. E. Roten, are in jail and $1313 lias been recovered oi the $1000, which Wanzo had btu-ied under his home when ii was stolen. The Bryant j have confessed. Yancey is a West Virginian and i a nephew of Wanzo. He made love to Glt; neva Bryant, it is claimed, in order to tind wher the money was. concealed. It is said that after he secured a part of the money he quarreled with the Bryants and swore out warrants for their arrest. Then came warrants for the Rotens and Yancey and the whole bunco was jailed. At the Bryant home $190 in paper money was secured from -Mrs. Bryant and In a keg ai the Wanzo home $‘jr0 in gold wa found which it is claimed Yancey and Geneva knew about. .Mrs. Roten is a sister of Yancey and at the Roten home ah. ut $85.) was found in paper and ;,o*.* There is still a considerable sum missing us the oh! man was known to have had more than $2000 in gold alone.!Dry Lesdcr’a Home Wrecked.Yf ungstown, ()., March 5. An explosion wrecked the h me of W. H. Peterson, dry leader and one of theprincipal witnesses before the grand jury probing charges of bribery in connection with the local option election here Monday. Police said the ex plosion was caused by persons flt; ar mg the result of the investigation. No one was hurt.ITO EXHIBITiBy United Free*.lioudon. England, March 5 A request that the British government reconsider its refusal to participate inthe Panama-American Exposition thatis signed by 350 members of theHouse of Commons was presented toPrime Minister Asquith this morning, The resolution was adopted in theHouse.
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Athens Daily Messenger
Athens, Ohio, US
Thu, Mar 05, 1914
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