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Sunday, February 19, 2023

Joe Bruns, Jack Matthewson, Sentenced to 4 Years at State Prison, Feb. 19, 1923

Two Alleged Yeggmen to Serve Four Years

Greensboro, March 16—(February 16?)—Joe Bruns and Jack Matthewson, two alleged yeggmen, arrested here during the Christmas holidays, and in whose room a kit of what police called burglar tools and quite a quantity of drugs was found, today were sentenced to four years at hard labor in the state prison by Judge A.M. Stack, in Superior court.

The men were convicted of picking a local man’s pocket and of having narcotics in their possession, the prison sentence coming in the larceny from person case. Two years on the county roads was the narcotic penalty, this being suspended in the event the men leave the state immediately after finishing their prison terms.

From the front page of The Reidsville Review, Monday, Feb. 19, 1923. Yeggmen were safecrackers.

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