A daring mail robbery was nipped in the bud at Pikeville, five miles north of Goldsboro, yesterday, and Elijah King, negro, is being held in the county jail here to await trial in federal court of robbing the mails.
A mail bag was stolen from the Coast Line mail car two weeks ago, but authorities failed to learn of it until last Wednesday when a looted mail bag was found under the station platform at Pikeville. W.S. Waters, sergeant of police for the Atlantic Coast Line, was assigned to the case and laid a trip that resulted in the culprit being caught red-handed in the act of taking a mail bag from a moving train yesterday.
Negro Is Shadowed
Shadowed from a nearby vantage point, a negro was seen to slip furtively along the outside of the train until he reached the mail car. Here he stopped and waited until the train started to move off, when he followed at a fast walk, always keeping near the door of the mail car.
Just before the train started to pick up speed, the man reached in the car and seized a mail bag. He was seen by the mail clerk, who promptly ordered him arrested. Sergeant Waters was on the scene shortly after and brought the negro to Goldsboro and lodged him in jail to await trial in federal court.
The negro gave his name as Elijah King. When arrested he lapsed into a stoical silence, and refused to make any statement.
From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, June 2, 1925
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