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Show ACCUSES STUDENT OF LARCENY AND ARSON CHARLOTTESVILLE, Vs., March 3. S, Dabney Crenshaw IV of Richmond, son of 8. Dabney Crenshaw, secretary of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical company, com-pany, was arrested here today charged with grand larceny and maliciously burning the chemical laboratory of the University of Virginia January 2ti. He was reelased iinder $1(J,000 bond furnished fur-nished by his father. It is charged young Crenshaw, a fourth year student, sold about $2000 worth o'f platinum from the laboratory and that be started the fire which destroyed de-stroyed the laboratory to cover up the theft. A portion of the platinum, it is alleged, was found in Crenshaw's room in a fraternity house. |