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City and state police Saturday said a tip supplied by a coal min ter led to the arrest of two men 72 hours after they had stolen two safes, one of them from a Charleston wholesaler. Police formally charged Ernest Wallace Robey, 27, of Manongah, Marian county and Gene Ray Tho mas, 25, of 606 Shrewsbury St. formerly of Fairmont with the ‘theft of a safe from the Wilson Radio Distributing Co., 2520 Wash ington St. East, and another from the Midway Texaco service station at Glasglow during the early hours of Wednesday morning. The miner, walking up Washing ton street to the Kanawha City bridge where he daily got a ride to his work, noticed two men and a black packard sedan near the radio firm's building and told Jel [Tow workers about his experience. The evening after reading about the sale robbery In the Daily Mail, one of the men informed police show the incident.The car's de seription provided the elite that led to the arrest of the men Friday morning. Meanwhile, state police Wednes day afternoon found the abandoned service station safe and cash reg ister along the banks of Hughes Creek, near Hintheston. The men took police to Witcher's Creek Fri day where the other battered vault, had been left, along a creek bank. Robey, who came to Charleston only Tuesday afternoon to visit his companion, is held without bond because he is a paralee from a Pennsylvania prison after serving 30 months of a prison sentence on *% break-in charge of a Uniontown, Pa, mercantile establishment, J Bond for Thomas was set at $1 000 each in municipal court and* before Justice of the Peace H. G. Thayer. From to Wilson safe, the men took $490 in cash and $1,070.22 in checks and money orders, and from the other, about $450. Lt. Dewey E. Williams said offi cers recovered $85.39 which in cluded a $50 bill found in their car. Detective Garland Weir and R. H. Rutherford arrested the pair near a Broad street hotel, where Robey had registered. Statements from the men were given to Li, Williams, Sgt. R. G.
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Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Sun, Feb 13, 1949
Page 25
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