The log cabin Democrat., 1921-10-31
FEDERAL OFFICERS
 ARREST BRANN0N FORMER CONWAY MAN
Held by Postoffce Authorities Fol- lowing Robbery of His Drug Store
 at Little Rock Saturday.
Arkansas Gazette, October 3O)

| (ArkanSaS Gazette, October 3U.) C. G. Brannon, proprietor of drug store at Markham and Cross streets,
 was arrested late yesterday after
 noon on federal charges brought by
 postal inspectors within few hours
 after Mir. Brannon had reported to l the police that two masked men, hid
 den ln the postoftice substation m his store, held him up, slashed his neck tie to obtain a $400 diamond, and l fled with $4,200 that he had on hand to cash monthly pay roll checks for Missouri Pacific railroad employees. Brannon reported the robbery shortly after o'clock yesterday morning. All available detectives and policemen, and postal inspectors went into the case, and after four hours of questioning by both city and federal officers yesterday afternoon, the charges forgery and uttering and making false claims against the government" were made. Brannon was released shortly afterward on S1,000 bond when his attorney, M. E. Dunaway, appearing with him before U. S. Commissioner Longstreth, ask ed for continuance of the prelimi- nary hearing. The continuance was granted and the case was set for 2 o'clock next Thursday afternoon.
 District Attorney Wooten said last night that postal authorities here al lege that Brannon had been "kiting" money orders over considerable period of time. His method, they al- lege, consisted in issuing a money order to some well known Little Rock man, endorsing it himself and pre- senting it for payment at a local bank. It usually requires about 10 days for money order to return to
 it's source of origin, or to be present ed to the issuer. In the meantime, according to inspectors, Brannon would issue another money order for an amount sufficient to cover the first one, and in this manner, they said, he kept between $2,500 and $3,000 floating continuously.
 Mr. Brannon firmly stuck to his original story throughout the day. After his release he returned to his store and was conducting it as usual last night.
 The police are not convinced that Brannon's story Is untrue and Police Chief Rotenberry last night said that 1 his department IS ignoring Brannon' S arrest and is hunting for the two men who Brannon says robbed him exact l lv as though no suspicion had beer cast on his story. The chief made a
 10-minute address to the members of his force when the watches were
 changed last night and he instruct
 ed his officers to make every possible effort to arrest the two robbers.
 Brannon's story is partially corrob-
 orated from two sources. Morrie
 Buckley, who is employed at the drug
 store as delivery boy, ran from the store after Brannon announced that
 he had been robbed. The boy said
 that he ran to Garland avenue and
 that on returning he saw two men who exactly answered Brannon's de-
 scription of the robbers. They were running east on Garland avenue
 Buckley said.
 | The other confirmation came from
 the proprietor of a rooming house
 located near the drug store. He said
 that two men who answered the de-
 scription of the bandits as given by
 Brannon, remained at his place Fri
 day nightt.