Salisbury, Sept. 18—Officers here are holding three young white men for safe robbing and the men’s car and pistols are being held at Statesville where they were arrested last night soon after they are alleged to have held up Boots Nesbitt at a filling station here and robbed the safe. One of the men, Glen Hayes, admitted the hold-up and robbery, according to the officers, and claimed that he did the job by himself.
The men with Hayes gave their names as William Morris and James Lee. They were traveling in a car with an Indiana tag. At the Cutting filling station where the Statesville road leaves town the men held up Nesbitt who clerks there and made him open the safe. To keep Nesbitt quiet one of the men struck him over the head but the wound inflicted was not very severe. The safe yielded $17 but the visitors missed quite a sum which Nesbitt had on his person.
Soon after the hold-up, city and county officers were in behind the bandits in a chase towards Statesville. News was sent ahead and Statesville officer nabbed the men. They will be given a hearing here next week. The men are about 20 years old and say they are from South Bend, Ind., and had been to Atlanta, coming from that place to Salisbury yesterday. Hayes says he is out on parole from an Indiana prison where he was doing time for another hold-up job.
From page 3 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Sept. 19, 1925
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