N&W in 1910--Mail robbery

[NW Mailing List]

On the subject of movies, I'm surprised no one has made a crack about the involvement in this mail theft of the Keystone Cops.

Gordon Hamilton
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: NW Mailing List 
  To: NW Mailing List 
  Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 7:45 PM
  Subject: Re: N&W in 1910--Mail robbery


  Sounds like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid meet O Brother, Where Art Thou!

  Sam Putney

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: NW Mailing List 
    To: 3N&W Mailing List 
    Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 4:21 PM
    Subject: N&W in 1910--Mail robbery


    Bluefield Daily Telegraph
    March 30, 1910

    SUSPECTED OF ROBBERY OF MAIL CRANE
    ------
    Man Alleged to Have Been a Partner of Kentucky Joe is Under Arrest At Keystone
        The Keystone police have a man named Thurman Givens under arrest on suspicion of knowing something about the stealing of a mail sack from the mail crane at Eckman on the night of February 26th.  The man denies that he had anything to do with the robbery and rifling of the sack but admits that he was asleep in a coke oven nearby the night the robbery occurred.  When arrested he gave his name as Sam Spaulding, but since that time it has been found that he also goes under the name of Jack Perdue, although Givens is his correct name.  He is alleged to have been a partner of Kentucky Joe, who was arrested in the west end yards about a year ago and who was a notorious postoffice robber.  He also, it is said, was a pal of Fatty Dorn, who admitted robbing the postoffice at Tip Top.  Red Cunningham, who was also arrested at that time, has been seen in and around Keystone since the rifling of the mail sack, and on account of his former connections with the postoffice robberies it is believed that he had a hand in the matter.  Cunningham has also made several attempts to see Givens while he has been in jail.  Kentucky Joe, it will be remembered, was one of a gang which held out at Meg Lowe's at Tazewell, and Kentucky Joe was the only one of that bunch who got away.  He came to this city where he was picked up by Officer Howell and Special Officer A. M. Wade.  He is now serving time in the federal prison at Atlanta.  The mail sack which was robbed at Eckman was hanging on the crane where it was placed by the postmaster.  No. 16 was an hour and three-quarters late that night and while no one was around the sack was stolen, rifled and the letters and sack cut up and thrown in the Elkhorn creek.
    ------
    [The names of these people sound like characters from a Damon Runyon novel.]

    Gordon Hamilton


----------------------------------------------------------------------------


    ________________________________________
    NW-Mailing-List at nwhs.org
    To change your subscription go to
    http://list.nwhs.org/mailman/options/nw-mailing-list
    Browse the NW-Mailing-List archives at
    http://list.nwhs.org/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/


------------------------------------------------------------------------------


  ________________________________________
  NW-Mailing-List at nwhs.org
  To change your subscription go to
  http://list.nwhs.org/mailman/options/nw-mailing-list
  Browse the NW-Mailing-List archives at
  http://list.nwhs.org/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/


------------------------------------------------------------------------------



  No virus found in this incoming message.
  Checked by AVG - www.avg.com 
  Version: 8.5.421 / Virus Database: 270.14.16/2435 - Release Date: 10/14/09 06:33:00
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/nw-mailing-list/attachments/20091016/3765c54b/attachment.htm>