PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Police in Portsmouth, N.H., say a man kicked open the door and broke some items inside a house that once belonged to a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
The burglar alarm sounded at about 1 a.m. Monday at the Moffatt-Ladd House. Police later arrested Thistleton Robertson IV, 23, on one count of burglary.
The Portsmouth Herald reports during his arraignment, Robertson said he was intoxicated and broke into the home because he was running away from two people. He said he works as an engineer for New York’s Department of Environmental Protection and was visiting his girlfriend in Kittery, Maine.
The Moffatt-Ladd House, a Georgian mansion built in 1763, was the home of merchant William Whipple, one of the three New Hampshire signers of the Declaration.
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