FUGITIVE THIEF CAUGHT
Submitted by:	Jan B. Strickland April 2005
Source:  	NEW ORLEANS TIMES DEMOCRAT - August 9, 1900 - Pg 8, C. 7

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    Yesterday afternoon Detectives Dal and Roche arrested Rolla Lee, a
colored man, at the head of the New Basin Canal, on the complaint of Deputy
Sheriff Eugene Smith of Covington, LA.  Lee is charged with petit larceny.
Tuesday morning he was employed by the sheriff to do some scrubbing.  While
at work he espied a double-case gold watch, which he pocketed and make off.
He boarded the schooner Rosa A., which left Covington Tuesday evening bound
for New Orleans.  The local detective office was informed of the theft, and
when the schooner landed yesterday morning the thief was arrested.  Lee
confessed that he stole the timepiece and said that he sold it to a man in
Covington for $1.50.  The Covington Authorities were notified of the capture.