N&W in 1903 -- Robbers

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TWO MORE FREIGHT CAR ROBBERS CAUGHT
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    John Copenhaver, with the Baldwin Detective Agency, captured little Jim Prater and Mathias Murphy, making altogether eight out of a gang who have been working along the Norfolk and Western at Gray, Glen Alum, Sands, War Eagle, and other points in the vicinity of Gray.  These men belong to a gang who have been robbing freight cars for some time past.  This gang is composed of about twelve men and it is expected that the balance will be captured in a short time.  The men were given a hearing before a justice and are all in jail in Williamson.

Bluefield Daily Telegraph
December 18, 1903

[Gray on the Pocahontas Division main line is not to be confused with Gary on the Tug Fork Branch.]

Gordon Hamilton
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