P. D. STRONGl, who has been a resident of Grand Junction for twelve months past, has been committed to jail in this place upon a charge of stealing about $1,500 from the Express office at the Junction last Sunday morning. After the theft, he took the morning train for Memphis, where, upon receipt of a telegram, he was arrested by Conductor KIRBY, brought back to Hardeman, and after preliminary examination before Esquire ANDERSON, and pleading guilty of the charge, was confined in jail for safe keeping. He will be held to answer before Judge of the Circuit Court.

About twelve hundred dollars of the money was recovered. STRONG says that this is his first theft, but there is strong evidence to the contrary. The money stolen was sent in a package from Vicksburg to a party in New York. It is said that he offered the metropolitans in Memphis $500 if they would “let him go,” and to their credit, be it said, they refused. STRONG had been in the employ of the company two months as a porter, and “confiscated” the money while the clerk was at his breakfast. Evidence is strong against him.

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 01 June 1867, Page 2. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.