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Heavy Robbery.

--The store-room of Dr. William S. Morris, on Franklin street, Linden Row, was forcibly entered on Monday night and robbed of three barrels of flour, twenty-nine pieces of bacon, and several other articles of provisions. Subsequently, three barrels of flour and twenty pieces of bacon were found, by officers Jenkins and Griffin, in the kitchen of Dr. James Bolton; whereupon those officers arrested the following negroes, found therein, on the charge of committing the theft: Noble, slave of Angelina Lawson; Primas, slave of Dr. Bolton, and John, slave of Jackson Sleet. They were committed to prison to await examination before the Mayor this morning.

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