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BURGLAR CAPTURED.Cherokee Advertiser.]As our readers were informed in our List issue a burglar on the night of the 16th inst. entered the .storeof Capt* Mi 11 saps, J, W. Coker, itnd J. H; How el. The thief was Captured linear what is known as the Petty Gap, and was brought to this place by Mess. JiYo. Ilale and B. T; Haynes. Warrants wcrd sworn out against him by persons here, and a preliminary examination was Ract before Esq. Bradford,’ and the prisoner was bound over to answer to the charge of burglary at our next Circuit Court, in the sum of one thousand dollars in default of which he was committed.' After his commitment to jail, gen ' tic men arrived from Oxford and Munford and identified the mm, and property in his possession as stolen from Oxford on the night oftjie 12th inst. A gentleman from Munforu also found three heavy silver watches in possossioli of the iburgiar which were stolen from the store of Mr. Street in Munford on the 10th; Mr. Roberson, of Oxfordidentified goods found on the burglar as taken from his store. Theburglar at time of his capture had a considerable sum of money on his person. Greenback and silver am’ounting to some §?250.The burglar is one of the most daring and expert in his profession. It Is believed he has accomplices. For years ho has plied his trade as burglar and petty thief from,South Carolina back through* Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. He is the,same individual that robbed a store at Greensport and Gadsdena year or so ago. One of his ac-complices, a Ga. burglar, is; now inAlbany penitentiary. He gives his name as James WilliamTT, though 'James Roberson is his real name. Ho has been married four times •and has'four wives now living; the story told by him that lie has awife and two* children BcarIngham is untrue. In the burglary at Oxford an iron safe was broken inland rifled of its contents a-mounting to some $B00.ft is hopbd that our citizens willlend their assistance to the peopleof Oxford and Munford who wererobbed by the vifbans hi recover-they have' lost.cj
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Jacksonville Republican
Jacksonville, Alabama, US
Thu, May 01, 1879
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