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i Al-1inee-iink,thatowdtifulcon-jout■vedTHE' THREE TRAMPSGiven a Hearing at Evans' ville.Men Accused of Robbing the Cannet* burg^Postoffice Bound Over^to Federal Grand Jury.ightisrs.sly,lors 1 to 1 in?eneLFrank Jones, Richard Bones and Charley Gray, the three tramps charged with breaking into the- Cannelbtirg postoffice on New Year’s night, were given a preliminary hearing before United States Commissioner Wartmann in Evansville Wednesday.A number of witnesses from this city I and Cannelburg were at Evansville but a the most important witness, perhaps, the was a fourteeu-year-old boy of Cannel-ben burg, named Ellis Carrico, who testified son to seeing the men in Cannelbnrg on the nie-ht of the robbery near the postoffice se,i building.ach Postmaster L. P. Cahill was the first *a' witness to testify and said that he kept ,me the' postoffice at Cannelburg in a store building. The double front doors of the store were forced open on the night of Jan, 1. and the money drawer in the I postoffice broken open and the follow-ifty ing money taken from it: $3.40 in pennies, a $2 bill, and between $4 and $5 in r ” small change.oni Ellis Carrico told of being out on the lat streets on the night of Jan. 1 with hia itii father and of seeing the three men near is the postoffice building. He pointed Gray out as being the man who was a walking in front while the other two, ier Jones and Bones, were ‘‘sneaking along en behind. I was afraid of the men.” said -w the boy, “and told papa that they would he break in somewhere that night. The st, next morning we heard of the robbery be and I was called to Washington to describe the men.”A number of saloonkeepers and bartenders of Washington testified to the3 men coming into their places on Jan. and 8 and buying drinks and whisky for which they paid in nickels and pennies.William Borders, bartender at Lou Smith’s saloon, said that all the three men came into the saloon on Jan. 3.utUSin-heke
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Washington Daviess County Democrat
Washington, Indiana, US
Sat, Feb 01, 1902
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