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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>March 30,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>SUSPECTED OF ROBBERY OF MAIL CRANE</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Man Alleged to Have Been a Partner of Kentucky Joe is
Under Arrest At Keystone</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> 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.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>The names of these people sound like characters from a
Damon Runyon novel.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>