The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-06-09
THIEVES
WERE ORGANIZED
They Have Been Working
in Georgia, Alabama
and CarOlinaS
WAS A NOTORIOUS GANG
investigation by Inspectors and Pin,
kertons Disclose Fact That Many
Banks and Postoffiees were
Robbed.

I hQU1CQr
Raleigh, N. c., June S.-The work of
postofiice inspectors aud Pinkerton
detectives who have been engaged in
large numbers during the past year
in endeayoring to ferret out the perpe-
traitors Of postotiice and bank robber
les in the Carolinas, Georgia and Ala
bama. has disclosed some very sensa.
tional facts.
Two men, who the officers believe
to be members Of an organized band
have been convicted and jailed in Ala.
bama, and three others are in Jail in
South Carolina. one Of Inc men impli-
Gated in the trial Of Charles c. Jones
who was found guilty and fined $3,5QG
for receiving and selling stamps
.nown by him to have been stolen
is declared 10 be a notorious safe
blower and murderer VINO escaped
from Alabama A. number of small
postofice rob5eriea in Georgia have
also been given attention by the Off
1ers.
Inspector r. N Davis was at the
head Of the man hunt. They were
looking into both postoflce and bank
ro5beries Jones was charged with an
unlawful transaction in regard to re-
ceivug North Carolina bouds stolen
IRON a private safe at Jonesboro, but
was acquitted in the state court His
arrest by the federal authorities was
Immediately made.
The charge Of robbing The postonloe
at Apex. near Raleigh, last September
was made ana the postmaster there
swore Jones was in that office the
previous day; further thai the. post
master always tore off the mofgin
Of stamp sheets when he got chem.
Jones oa his trial here IA the fcder-
Al court swore he got a quantity OF
| stamps from James X Monroe, OIL
Cincinnati, al Ralcigb, IN October.
,J0Z, that monroe, whom he met atI
Raleigh for the drst time, said he had
oeen interested in a getrch quick
| scheme, but had been closed out by
the postonice authorities and had a
/ large quantity Of stamps on hand
Jones said he had been engaged in the
same sort OF scheme at Richmond
Va, but had no trouble in disposng
Of the stamps.
Jones attorney. horace Comfort, of
New York, now says Monroe is really
| Frank Duncan, an escaped safe blower
and murderer from Alabama. Jones
swore that Monroe brought lot Of
stamps TO Goi4sboro, which Jones sold
there TO hotel at a discount. The
TACT that the stamps stolen from the
Apex pOstOfIlce were without margin
as were those which Inspector Davis
got at Goldsboro from the hotel to
which Jones had sold them, was one
OF the features Of the case. A yet
more important fact was that the
stamps which Inspector Davis got
from thS1hotel were Of the series OF
1902, and were not issued until Decem-
Der of that year, as was proved by
Judge Kelley Of the United States
postohice department at Washington
Jone testimony was that he net Mon
roe in October, 1902, and then got
the stamps whereas it was impossible
hat Monroe could have had these
stamps at that date
In the course Of the trailing the in
5pector and detectives found that
there were a band at work in several
states, Of which two members were
Dricoll and Callahan, who are now
serving long terms in jaii in Alabama,
and that three others of the gang
are in jail in South Carolina. The
astonishing discovery was made that
Callahan and Drico4 were in a plot
l lOt lJHE UtiBlt ldDL Clt tAoAAInns W NO
up" five OK the richest men in North
Carolina TO rob them and if neces
sary kill They we're also in a plot
10 rob banks. Callahan was tracked
to Newport News, Va and to Green's
boro and another North Carolina town
At these places they blew safes, all in
one week, two nights apart. They
then found they were discovered, hur
ried to Mount Olive, a town near Colds
boro, blew the safes OF the postonice
and bank there the same night, and
made plan to blow the postofice
safe at Goldsboro on Christmas eve,
but We're pressed 50 closely that they
went soCta on the Atlantic Coast Line
from the vicinity Of Godsboro and
were picked up in Alabama, where
Dricoll had $500 hidden in wo
Iman's cloak.