From: Sherri Hall [ldrbelties@earthlink.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 7:07 PM To: KY-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [KYF] NEWS: 2 Arrested in Ball Bros. Robery, 1921, Bell Co. Submitted by Mary Lou Husdon 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. ______________________________