Robbery

On the 27th of January the house of Thomas Brown, of Flint River Township, in this County, was entered by some unknown person a little after dark, when the family was at supper and robbed of sixty dollars – two twenty and one five dollar treasury notes, thee dollars on State of Iowa, four dollars and eighty five cents in gold coin, and the remainder in silver.  The box that contained the money was found a few rods from the house, robbed of its contents excepting papers.  The track was a stocking foot track 11 inches long and very wide; no track outside of the lot.  The family had not been out of the room more than five minutes at a time after dark.  The first thing discovered was the clothing scattered over the floor out of a trunk that was in the room.  The thief must have been an old hand at the business, for the night was dark and raining.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 1, 1862, p. 1