Aiken County ScArchives News.....Ticket Robber Caught January 10, 1878
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Aiken Courier-Journal January 10, 1878
Ticket Robber Caught.
A young man calling himself John Norman, but whose real name is F.C. Berry, was 
arrested, on January 3d, and confessed to the robbing of the ticket office of 
the South Carolina Railroad, at Graniteville, of seventy one accommodation train 
tickets, from Graniteville to Augusta. The arrest was brought through the 
vigilence of Major Huger and Capt. John Moore, the later being present, at the 
ticket office, in Augusta, when the young man presented a ticket marked 1.730, 
being the number of one of those that were stolen, and asked about the stopping 
of the trains at Graniteville. Suspecting that the ticket had not been rightly 
come by, he advised him to see Major Huger, and obtain the information desired 
from him. The young man, accompanied by Captain Moore, walked over to Majopr 
Huger's office. As soon as Major Huger saw the ticket he informed the holder 
that it was on of those recently stolen and said he had better go to 
Graniteville with Captain Moore and see the agent there about it. The young man 
declared he had purchased the ticket of the agent at Graniteville. They started 
for the train Captain Moore walking ahead; but when he had got a short distance 
from the officer, the young man slipped between some freight cars and made his 
way toward Bay street. Major Huger, who was watching him from the window, 
immediately jumped up, seized a pistol, and ran to the rear end of the depot to 
intercept the fugitive. He met the latter on the platform and arrested him. He 
was turned over to the police, and during the evening, confessed he had stolen 
the tickets and told where they could be found. All the tickets, with the 
exception of No 1,231, which the prisoner said he had destroyed, were recovered. 
Barry consented to go to South Carolina without waiting for requisition. He was 
accordingly escorted to the South Carolina end of the bridge and released, but 
was immediately rearrested by Constable Powell, of Graniteville, upon authority 
of a warrant issued by a Trial Justice of that place.

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