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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sounds like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid meet
O Brother, Where Art Thou!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sam Putney</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 14, 2009 4:21
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> N&W in 1910--Mail
robbery</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tunga size=2>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 face=Script size=6>Gordon Hamilton</FONT></DIV>
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