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Hagerstown, Md., Jan. 16.—A wom an, giving her name as Mrs. George White, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was ar rested by Chief Fridinger yesterday aternoon at 4 o'clock as she stepped from the Baltimore Express at the Western Maryland depot. A tele hone message from the chief of police at Cumberland was received about noon and asked that the woman be apprehended. Early yesterday morning, according to the story told by Mrs. White, she and her husband entered a boarding house at Cumberland and stole quite a lot of jewelry. When searched a handsome gold necklace and gold pin set with two pearls were found in her possession. Her husband, she said, secured two watches and two rings and possibly some more. The woman is being held in jail awaiting the arrival of the Cumber land authorities. Thief~* Potice Eisenhauer went to Hagerstown to bring Mrs. White back to Cumberland and is expected to arrived late this afternoon. The man reported to be her husband is at the police station here and they will be given a hearing Monday. They are charged with robbing the home of Mrs. Bertha Norris, 170 Maryland avenue. It is said that Mr. and Mrs. White claiming to be maga zine agents applied at the Norris home several days ago for a furn ished room which they wished to oc cupy while soliciting in this city. The loot said to have been stolen consisted of two gold watches, seven rings, two watch jobs, a child’s sav ings bank containing a small amount of money, and a lavalliere. The police went to a local pawn broker, where they found one watch that had been pawned for $6, and a ring that had been pawned for $1. At another pawnbroker’s they found five rings that had been pawned for $3.
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Cumberland Press
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Sat, Jan 16, 1915
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