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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>Gordon Hamilton</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 14, 2009 7:45
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: N&W in 1910--Mail
robbery</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Sounds like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
meet O Brother, Where Art Thou!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Sam Putney</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 14, 2009 4:21
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> N&W in 1910--Mail
robbery</DIV>
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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>
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