Title: Robbery

While Mr. Sam BETTS and family were looking at the circus parade yesterday morning, his house, at the corner of Lane and Dawson streets, was entered by thieves.  The house had been carefully locked up and the windows fastened, but the thieves forced one of the windows.  They found $40 in a cigar box in a bureau, and appropriated it, as well as a lot of silverware.  They threw clothing, etc., all over the floor in the rooms.  The police were notified of the robbery at once.

Source: Raleigh News and Observer. 14 Sep 1880. pg. 3.