By the Associated Press
Salisbury, N.C., Feb. 6—J.H. Allman, former railway trainman, was arrested here yesterday afternoon and confessed, railroad detectives say, to the robbery of a mail pouch which he is alleged to have kicked off train No. 43 near Spencer on September 2 last.
J. Frank Miller, head of the Southern’s special officers, and J.H. Krider, who made the arrest in a Salisbury restaurant, had been looking for Allman for several weeks. The pouch was rifled near Spencer and then burned in a gondola freight car. A number of checks taken from the pouch were afterwards cashed. It was said also that the pouch contained a $20,000 government bond.
From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, Monday, Feb. 6, 1922
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