Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-03-09
ROBERT N. DlcKEasoa
Again In the Tolls This Time In the 0cones
County iali.

We clip the following interesting
article from The Angola (Indiana'
Magnet, Februry Goth, concerning
Richard M. Dawson:
Tuesday Sheriff Hayward receivet
from B. r. Moss, Sheriff of Ocones
county, South Carolina, letter
stating that a man giving his nam,
Las Richard M. Dawson, was in iai
there awaiting trial on a charge o
obtaining money by means of falls,
pretenses. From description ane
other evidence furnished, it is appa
rent that the prisoner is Robert M
Dickerson, of Angola, who was re
leased from the State prison il
Michigan City on parole about on,
year ago. Dickerson left Angel,
Saturday evening, November 81, ac
companied by his wife. They wen,
to Elwood, where Mrs. Dickersor
tarried to visit sister, and he went
to Indianapolis on insurance business
saying that he would soon be back,
but he did not return.
Mr.. Moss said "Dawson" claimed
to be from New York. When ar
rested he had in his pockets three
unused railroad tickets, which were
sent here to aid in disclosing the
mans identity. Two of them were
the unused parts of Lake Shore
d-trips, Angola to Ft. Wayne
and return, and the Angola station
agents stamp on the back Of them
showed they were issued November
81, the date of Dickerson's departure
from Angola. The third ticket was
the unused part of round-trip,
Angola to Pleasant Lake and
return, and was dated in August.
The description of "Dawson" sent by
Mr.. Moss, reads as follows:
cage, about thirty. five years light
hair reddish beard-trimmed to a
point; 5 feet or 8 inches high /; face
pitted with pock marks, and pits on
nose and center of forehead very
deep; weight about 14O or $50
pounds; has several gold teeth ;
smooth talker, and passes as an
insurance agent; claims to be from
New York, but speaks Southern
brogue."
Sheriff Moss writes that "Dawson''
was arrested December 81, (exactly
one month after he left Angola and
that he was captured in Columbus,
Georgia. Columbus is situated near
the line between Southern Georgia
and Alabama, and is $50 miles distant
by rail from Walhalla, the county
seat of Oconee county, where "Daw-
son" is in Jail. 1t may be inferred
that the offense was committed in
Oconee county, and that he was
followed, arrested and brought back
to answer for it. The amount of his
swindle and the manner of it's per-
petration are not stated, but re-
max in Mr.. Moss's letter indicates
that it was nearly or quite $3.50; and
it may be presumed that the "false
pretense" involved the selling of q
worthless piece of commercial paper,
as "Dawson" is an expert in that
line. Mr.. Moss also writes that his
case will come on for trial at term
of court to begin March ID.
In second letter, received by
Sheriff Hayward Wednesday, Sheriff
Moss sends hand bills offering $3.50
reward for the apprehension and con-
viction of three men who, on the
night of December Ia, exploded a
manufacturing company's safe and
stole $1,000 in money in Newry, q
little town about 13 miles east OF
Walhalla. The bill contains de-
scription of the burglars, who are
numbered l, 2 and 8, and that of No.
tallies exactly with that of "Daw-
son." already given. The name of
No. is stated in the bill as "Riohard
Dawson )" and it says he left Seneca
"a railroad town 4 miles from Newry
at 2 q. M, on the night of the bur-
glary, on a train going toward At
lanta. Six days later he was arrested
in Columbus, as already stated. 1t
also says that woman, who had
been staying in Seneca with Dawson,
left that town by the noon train the
same day, her trunk being checked
to Gainesville, Georgia. The dates
of the transactions narrated indicate
that "Dawson" got to doing business
soon after leaving Angola; and the
date of his arrest shows that his tour
of the South was of short duration.
Just before leaving Angola Dicker-
son perpetrated series of swindles
upon some of his bert friends-peo.
pie who were willing to lend a help
ing hand, if he was disposed to lead
correct life--from which he realized
quite sum of money. He victimized
DR.. @. a. Chadwick to the tune Of
about 800, r. e. Burt $50, III. e.
Kratz $40, e. d. Leas $40, A. L.
Hanselman $40, Loves cigar stoie g
$40, and several others of various
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