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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>December 5,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>RUSHED INTO TRAIN FLEEING FROM
ARREST</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Not Known, However, That Officers Were After Man Who
Created Excitement on No. 17</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> Train No 17 furnished quite a little
excitement when it arrived in this city last night. As a general rule the
train steals in and unloads its passengers with less fuss than any other train
which arrives or departs in Bluefield. Not so last night.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> When No 17 pulled into Ingleside a man who
gave his name as Amazon* Lacey ran into the train, shouting that they were after
him. He slid into a seat and hid himself behind the cushions. Not
satisfied with that protection he pulled down the curtains, saying that they
were going to shoot him. The conductor on the train telegraphed Bluefield
for instructions and the police met the train and took the man off. At
first it was thought that he had been drinking, but investigations showed that
he was sober. He claims that he got into some trouble with a magistrate at
McDowell, W. Va., and that a felony warrant was issued for him there. In
his lucid moments at the jail last night he said that the police were after
him. Whether or not the man is guilty of any felony is not known
here. It is thought that he simply was acting under the impression that
someone was after him.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The case will be investigated by the local
police and if the man is in need of medical attention it will be secured.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> One of the passengers who was on the train
says that he heard a man crying murder just as the train pulled in, but thought
that it came from a little back of Ingleside. It is not thought that this
man's case was so bad as the man who was taken care of by the police, but it is
likely that both have good imaginations.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>*Microfilm blurred. Best interpretation shown.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>According to a 1915 Official Guide No. 17 was a local
that originated in Lynchburg at 1:15 p.m., arrived in Bluefield at 7:35 p.m. and
terminated at Welch at 9:50 p.m.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>