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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1856
Abstracts 3108 - 3114
ROBBERIES & ASSAULTS (Cont'd)
3108 - L Dec. 15: 1/4 - Francis Di llinger, Martin Kuttears, and John
Wentsal were fined $5 and costs each on Dec. 13 for assault and battery.
3109 - L Dec. 16: 1/4 - W. P. Hall, a "professional hitch thief," was fined
ten dollars and costs yesterday and sent to jail for ten days for robbery.
3110 - L Dec. 25: 1/4 - James Finnerty was discharged yesterday of a charge
of assault and battery. (1)
Railroads
3111 - L Nov. 26: 1/4 - Robert Curd, Negro, was arrested yesterday on the
charge of robbing the ticket office of the Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati
railroad of $1400 - $1500. Curd told prison keeper McArthur
where the money was hid and stated that Phillip Box, an Englishman,
was with him. Box was arrested and the money found. (3)
3113 - L Dec. 1: 1/4 - From the testimony heard before Judge Abbey in the
trial of Curd and Box, charged with robbing the ticket office of the
Columbus railroad, we learn that Box had worked at the house of the agent.
He secured the key and gave it to Curd, who opened the ticket office and
took $1,100 - 1200. (8)
3114 L Dec. 1:3/2 - Curd and Box were held to bail in the sum of
$2,000 each on Nov. 29 on charges of robbing the railroad ticket office
(1)
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