Wilson, N.C., Jan. 11 (AP)—John Burgess, former postal clerk of the Rocky Mount post office, will go on trial at the Federal term of court here this week. The term will open Tuesday with Judge I.M. Meekins presiding. Burgess is charged with robbing the mails. The Rocky Mount post office was robbed of $35,000 on the night of September 15. Burgess, the only clerk on duty at the time, told a story that he was attacked by three men who, after wounding and binding him, rifled the registered mail sacks, obtaining three packages of currency which were being sent to a Richmond bank.
Post office inspectors investigated the case and on September 2, $20,000 of the missing money was found hidden in the cellar of the post office. Three days later the remaining $15,000 was located hidden to the rear of the post office building.
Burgess was taken into custody at the hospital where he was recuperating from the wound he alleged was given him by the robbers but which the government will contend was self-inflicted to cover up his alleged participation in the robbery. After his release from the hospital, a preliminary hearing was held on October 10 and probable cause was found, and he was bound over to the ?? of the Federal grand jury. Bond was fixed at $1,500, which was furnished.
From page 2 of The Goldsboro News, Tuesday morning, January 12, 1926. “Goldsboro Is the Gate City of Eastern North Carolina”
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