NEWS: 2 Men Captured in Robbery, 1921, Bell Co. ------------------------------- Submitted by Mary Lou Husdon Date: 21 Oct 2003 ------------------------------- ************************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ************************************************************************** Middlesboro Daily News, Middlesboro, KY Feb. 9, 1921 2 Men Captured In Ball Bros. Robbery Henry Brown and Mark Malachi of Lynch To Be Taken To Pineville Henry Brown and Mark Malachi, both colored, are in the custody of the local police, awaiting their removal to Pineville, where they will be tried before Judge W.T.Davis of the Circuit Court, which convened Monday morning. Brown, who is 20 years old, and Malachi, 35, were captured by the local police yesterday after they had broken into and burglarized the restaurant owned by Ball Brothers, near the railroad station. they escaped with $34 in cash and a quantity of goods which they were able to carry off. The two men were captured by the police after a search which lasted an hour, in a little shanty occupied by negroes near the square known as McCay Block, on the other side of the tracks. All the stolen property, with the exception of a dollar or two in cash, was recovered. The two men had arrived from Lynch the early part of the week. It is reported that Brown, the younger of the two, is a deserter from the army, having escaped from Camp Upton in 1918.