GREEN-BACK THEFT. - About ten days ago, a man named Briggs, who owns
a ranch near Marysville, went away from home for a few days, leaving a hired
man named N. H. McCann in charge of the premises. As soon as his employer was
gone, however, McCann broke open a trunk belonging to him, took from it eight
hundred and eighty dollars in green-backs, and decamped. Mr. Briggs' family
were very uneasy about the thief's absence and as each day passed without his
return, they grew more and more fearful that some dire misfortune had befallen
him. When Briggs came home and discovered his loss, their distress was materially
relieved, although it shortly began to flow in the other direction - they were
distressed because they were afraid some dire misfortune might not happen
to Mr. McCann. Briggs hurried down to San Francisco and gave information at
the Police Office, and a description of the robber, and last night Officer Rose
succeeded in hunting him down, and fastening his infallible claws upon him.
He had a twenty-dollar green-back with him and six hundred dollars more on deposit
at this hotel, where he had stopped as a new arrival from the States, under
the name of James Jones. McCann, alias Jones, will have his conduct examined
into before Judge Shepheard to-morrow morning.
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