{"id":954,"date":"2013-12-02T23:38:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T05:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/?p=954"},"modified":"2019-01-07T09:49:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T15:49:27","slug":"1867-06-01-express-office-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/1867-06-01-express-office-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"1867-06-01: Express Office Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>P. D. STRONG<\/strong>l, 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 <strong>KIRBY<\/strong>, brought back to Hardeman, and after preliminary examination before Esquire <strong>ANDERSON<\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>About twelve hundred dollars of the money was recovered. <strong>STRONG<\/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 &#8220;let him go,&#8221; and to their credit, be it said, they refused. <strong>STRONG<\/strong> had been in the employ of the company two months as a porter, and &#8220;confiscated&#8221; the money while the clerk was at his breakfast. Evidence is strong against him.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85033306\/1867-06-01\/ed-1\/seq-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 01 June 1867, Page 2<\/a>. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[235,68],"tags":[60,2064,2063],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-235","category-newsextract","tag-anderson","tag-kirby","tag-strong-p-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hardeman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}