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The citizens of Mineral Point have for some time been awakened to the fact that quite a number of petty thefts were being committed, but no one in particular was suspicioned. Finally, on the night of Oct. 12, 48can8of fruit were stolen, besides dour lard, butter and many other little articles. On the same night the out-house of Rob* Render was robbed of butter, milk, meat and tinware. This was more than the citizens could well put up with, and a vigilance comwittee|was organized Saturday, forthe purpose of finding a clue to the missing articles. Suspicion rested on John Deal, Ed. Deal and Charles Deal; but upon searching, none of the missing property was found on the premises, and all hopes of finding anything was given up. A sou of George Walter had been out with his gun, and in passing the house of Ed. Deal, he found part of the missing property in the w’oods, and at once proceeded to inform Mr. Furney. Furney repaired to the scene and found part of the missing fruit, besides thirteen pocket knives, two# razors, a new basket and sack. The basket wrs indenti-fied as one belonging to the Deal family. A search warrant was immediately procured, and Sunday morning constables Simetz, Barkheimer and Koontz, with about fifty of the citizens, started on the search, and found the broken crock which containedthe lard stolen from Furney, two pocket knives stolen from Rice, the Hardware dealer, two razors, and a new vest belong, ingto a peddler named Kernfield. A search was made in the coal bank in which theDeals were working, and about forty pounds of Arbuckle’s coffee found bnried in thesack in an old part of the bank. Also a strainer belonging to Render, one belonging to Russell, a bucket anil some knives belonging to John Farber; about twenty feet of leather belting belonging to Lech-ners saw-mill and a great many other articles, all proven to belong to parties that it had been stolen from, except the coffee. The three Deals were immediately arrestedand nad a hearing before Justice Tracyy and were bound over to court. The old man w*as released on bail. The search continued Monday and Tuesday, and about forty pounds more coffee were found in the bank. The search was extended andsome pocket knives found hid in the house of John Boils, a brother-in-law of the Deals. Monday the two young men were taken to jail in New Philadelphia, where they will await the action of the Grand Jury at the next sitting of court. We earnestly hope they will get full justice, and the citizens will wait on them with a writtennotice to git up and git” if they ever put in an appearance after trial. The search
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Canal Dover Dover Weekly Argus
Canal Dover, Ohio, US
Thu, Oct 19, 1882
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