Lexington, Nov. 12—It is understood that approximately $7,000 worth of stamps were secured here Friday night by yeggmen who entered the post office through a rear window, used blow torches to enter the two vaults and then blew the safe doors inside. Several hundred dollars in money, much of this being checks, was secured when the postal fund was rifled. The cash is said to have consisted largely of pennies, dimes, nickels and other small change in packages. The registered mail appears not to have been molested, several letters being trampled under foot by the band.
From the front page of The Reidsville Review, Nov. 12, 1923. Yeggmen were men who used dynamite to blow up safes.
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