Norfolk Virginian, March 23, 1890

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Moral -- Property crime

Onancock.

The five negroes indicted March 10th by a special grand jury, in Northampton county, for having entered and robbed and set fire last month to the large storehouse at Read's wharf, Northampton county, occupied and owned by Messrs. George H. Reed & Co., a full account of which was given at the time to the readers of THE VIRGINIAN in this correspondence, were acquitted at their trial in this county of the offence, owing to lack of evidence.