What happened to A.M. Thompson, a tobacco farmer, last week is apt to happen to any farmer who has a roll of money in his pockets. The Orange County farmer had driven to Danville with a load of tobacco, and on his return was held up and robbed of $411 almost in sight of his own home by masked men.
Thompson said that all four men wore black cloths, with holes cut in them for vision, over their faces. Two of the men, he said were tall and slender, one was rather stocky and the fourth, he thought, was a negro. The man who secured his money wore a light overcoat.
No man is safe on the highways of our county after dark with a large roll of money in his pocket. The only sensible thing to do is to deposit the money in a bank.
From the front page of the Oxford Public Ledger, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 1923. $411 in 1923 would be worth $7,253 in 2023.
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