Sunday, August 16, 2020

Yeggman Steal Bank of Fairmont Money From Post Office, August 1920

From the front page of The Rockingham Post-Dispatch, Thursday, August 12, 1920. Yeggmen are people who can break open safes.

Yeggmen at Fairmont

Yeggmen on Tuesday night blew open the post office safe at Fairmont, Robeson county, and secured $20,000 in currency and several hundred dollars worth of stamps. The money belonged to the Bank of Fairmont, having been sent there by insured mail. The robbers escaped.


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