Rocky Mount Postal Clerk Robbed, Shot Himself, Sept. 29, 1925

Postal Clerk Robbed Mail and Shot Himself

John Burges, postal clerk of Rocky Mount, is under arrest at the Rocky Mount Sanatorium, charged with robbing and embezzling the United States Mails in the amount of $35,000, as a result of the investigation of the theft of three packages of currency containing that sum from the Rocky Mount post office on the evening of September 15th. Fifteen thousand of that amount was found last night in the cellar of the post office building.

The trial and preliminary hearing has been set for tomorrow afternoon before United States Commissioner Arrington of Rocky Mount.

It will be remembered that Burges was shot when found and said that he had been attacked by someone he did not know. He was taken to the sanitorium but will be able to stand trial tomorrow afternoon.

From the front page of The Enterprise, Williamston, Martin County, N.C., Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1925

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