Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-05-14
WEDNESDAY, MAY 1t, 1913.
- THE FEDERAL ROUNDUP"

with this issue The Courier begins
the publication Of a most interesting
story-"UnClc Sans War on the
Yeggs"-sCction8 Of which, illustrate
ed, Will appear each week for some
time to come. We are at present in
position to the appearance
of the. following sections of this in
teresting story. which is local in
much Of its bearing, the famous gang
of "yeggs'' with whom the tale deals
having operated in the Southern
States, and in our own State, over a
lengthy period before they were
rounded up" by the slCuths OF the
Federal government and landed be-
hind the more or less strong prison
bars. The titles Of the stories for
the first six weeks are as follows:
May Il (to-day)-The first cap
ture Of Mccarthy. 1t will be re-
called hat Mccarthy turned States
evidence and was brought to Wal
halla, testifying in the case tried in
Oconee, out of which convictions
were had for the robbery Of the
Courtenay Manufacturing Company's
safe at Newry.
May 21-"Philadelphia Johnny"
Chat is Mccarthy turns his attcn-
ton to the banks in small cities and
towns, but is betrayed by a former
pal.
May 2S-James Johnson, alias
portland Ned" tho brains of the
yegg world east of the Mississippi.
Adding additional spice to this chap
ter is the fact that "Portland Ned"
was but recently paroled from the
South Carolina penitentiary, slipping
out OF the Governors private office
and eluding the Federal authorities
just as a United States marshal hoped
to nab him on a warrant under the
general government. Since his es-
cape n safe has been cracked not far
distant from u capital city, in such
n as. to indicate hat an expert
at the business was on tho job, and
no little speculation has arisen as to
the possibility of portland Ned's"
dropping from penal servitude into
his old business of making soup"
or, in other words, extracting nitro
gIycerine from dynamite, then blow
ing safes.
June 1.-THE story OF forty yeggs
who started out to "clean up" every
State south Of the Mason and Dixon
line. Three hundred robberies and
upward OF a dozen murders resulted
from this raid in Dixie"
June 11-"The Yeggman's Ha-
ven" This brings to the story ano-
Their decidedly local thrill, dealing
with the notorious cribs" in the city
OF Charleston, where the crooks EN-
d~ezvoused in time Of trouble, and
through which their loot in the shape
OF "stiCkerS" (stamps) and jewelry
was transformed into cash.
June lS-Tom Lees New York
~"clearing house" for the yeggs, por-
trayinE his wonderful system that not
only involved the underworld. but
hundreds OF office boys and clerks in
reputable establishments.
These six stories promise much
chat carries with it a streak Of local
history in the "wilds of yeggdom" in
this state in the but recent past.
While they read like fiction, each
story is based on TACT and is but the
connected reCounting of the round
ing mp Of the notorious band of rob-
hers hat infested this section but a
few short years ago.
The Courier has secured his SER
vice at considerable expense, and we
feel sure that 1t will furnish inter
esting reading to our subscribers.
There Is no fiction in it, and therein
lies the great Wonder Of the thing
that in this day and time a few ban
dts could so successfully terrorize a
whole section OF the country and so
long evade the inevitable conse-
quenCcs.
Watch for "Uncle Sans War on
the Icggs' each week, and if you are
not already a subscriber for The Cou-
rier, subscribe now and get the whole
story.