Multnomah County OR Archives News.....Thomas Is Not Guilty September 15, 1904
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Morning Oregonian September 15, 1904
His Innocence Proved After He Suffers Four Months' Imprisonment
Harry Thomas,a young colored man charged with robbng a gas machine in the 
restaurant of Ernest Sydeker,on Burnside street.between Third and Fourth,was 
tried and acquitted by a jury in Judge Frazer's court yesterday 
Thomas was neatly dressed and testified to aving worked as a Pullman car 
porter.
The gas machine is one which receives 25 cent pieces through a slot,and in 
return the machine furnishes gas to that amount to the consumer.The evidence 
adduced  showed that on the night of May 18 last Thomas and another 
man,described in the information as Richard Roe,entered the restuarant.Thomas 
sat down and read a newspaper and his companion,it is alleged,opened and 
robbed the machine of its contents in money and then left the place,and was 
arrested just as he was leaving the restaraunt,after paying for a meal he had 
eaten.
Albert Benson,the waiter on watch,noticed that the machine had been broken 
opem,and concluded that Thomas was concerned in the affair.
Thomas, who had been in jail about four months,testified that he knew nothing 
of the robbery and was not concerned in it. Witnesses who were present in the 
restaurant at the time tetified in his behalf.The jury was out but a short 
time.Richard Roe is still at large.

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