| Transcribed by Norma Knotts Shaffer from
microfilm of the Calhoun Chronicle dated 8/11/1908.
Burglary at Chestnut Grove
Last Monday night someone broke into the store of F.S. Wilson's and
stole goods amounting to about $50.00 and went from there to the store
and Post Office and got about $1.98 in stamps and money and about $2 from
the money drawer in the store. As soon as convenient Mr. Wilson and
Jackson secured the service of Mel Taylor and his blood hound and they
took the track and followed them into Ritchie county but the hounds had
to give up the trail Tuesday evening on account of rain but Mr. Taylor
kept up the pursuit and caught one Asa Hickman on Devil Hole creek 8
miles this side of Cairo, who confessed to being one of the men who did
the theft. He said there was a man by the name of Jones who was the
leader of the affair and that he had gone to Clarksburg. Mr. Taylor
immediately started after him and we think ere this week ends that they
will both be in the custody of our sheriff.
LATER-- The man who was captured was taken to Parkersburg to answer
in Federal court. | 
