Hon. A. W. Harris Arrested in Petersburg

Petersburg police arrest A. W. Harris, “a well known colored lawyer,” on three charges of theft.

Petersburg, VA., Nov. 27- Hon. A. W. Harris, a well known colored lawyer, Republican politician, and farmer in Dinwiddie county, not at present employed in the internal revenue office in Richmond, in under arrest here on three warrants, two of which enhance him with stealing two bales of cotton brokers of this city, the third charging the theft of $42.18, the price received for part of the alleged stolen property from J. C. Robinson.

“Hon. A. W. Harris Arrested in Petersburg,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed October 9, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/1297.