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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Lloyd, I've heard the same story about how "dead man's
cut" between North Fork and Keystone got its name. I heard the body count
would go after pay day at the mines when the poor miners would go in town get
drunk and get robbed. Kind of like the mugging gangs that preyed on tipsy
sailors in port cities.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Sam</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 14, 2009 10:26
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: N&W in 1910--Mail
robbery -- great names and movies -- PLUSDead Bodies on the N&W Main Line
In MAC Dowell County, WV!!</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV> Sam & Gordon, You are so right
about those below names, Gordon, and, Sam, about the "meeting" of the two
famous movies you cited, Sam!! <BR>
Say, Gordon, my ex-wife's Grandfather, a for-real circuit-riding
Methodist Minister in McDowell County around and about 1900-1910 told
me that at least one dead body -- usually male, I am sure -- was found in
the deep cut between Keystone and North Fork every Sunday or Monday morning
after the body was tossed there to be run over by any train
whatsoever.<BR> The poor man was probably the bad
loser of a poker game -- and since there was probably nothing
but a rutted wagon road between these two municipalities -- the railroad track
was the logical place to dispose of such a body. You ever come across
any such incidents in Our "Bluefield Daily Telegraph." Thanks again for
ALL YOU DO FOR US!!! BEST, Lloyd Lewis, Kenova, WV.<BR>To: <A
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Subject: Re: N&W in 1910--Mail robbery Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009
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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><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sam
Putney.</FONT></DIV>
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<B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 14, 2009 4:21 PM <B>Subject:</B> N&W
in 1910--Mail robbery</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tunga size=2>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>March 30,
1910</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT
face=Tunga>
</FONT><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 <A
href="mailto:Hamilton@nwhs.org">Hamilton</FONT></A></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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