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Over Statements Sent Out About The Recent Escape of Depot Robbers. ink Park, N. UL, March 24.—The above report has appeared during the past owo or three days in several pa pers, and in the name at ample justice to the people of Elk Bark, 1 desire to make known the facts as T have them, and we know more about the affair than the people of other sections as a matter of course. The I, T. W.N. OR, R. Co. is rebuilding the depot which was burned on January 1th, and had the house just to a point where it could be used, and the east window in the office was simply ruined, the office entered, two screws removed from the lock on freight room door and one package of liquor containing that which coat the purchaser $5, was car ried away. This stealing occurred last Monday night, and Tuesday a Mr. Seabuck from Johnson City brought a couple of dogs up and made the great est failure imaginable. He got his hounds started off, “opening' as if on a fox chase, with about two dozen boys and a few men hot in pursuit scream ing like Indians, with just enough ex citement to make the chase a happy one. Of course, Ue boys soon got enough running fast enough to stay with bloodhounds, but Mr. Seabuck jontinued the chase for about one and a fourth miles (instead of ree tiles), when some shooting was heard, and in a few minutes Mr. Seabuck was at the residence of Mr. J. N. Pritchard, two holes in his hat and telephoning to Elk Park for ammunition, freams and sea, saying he had the guilty par ties “treed.’ Of course, this report moved out a number of the best men in town, merchants leaving heirstores, but after a careful Investigation at the point where the rogues were “treed, it was decided that Seabuck had + freed nobody, that he had done what shoot ing was done, that he had shot his own hat, and was told so to his face. We know nothing about Seabuck nor his dogs, but we do know that they [made a miserableailure on this occa sion. Yes, some of our boys got the]
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Johnson City, Tennessee, US
Thu, Mar 31, 1910
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